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Tried to use my own images for Wikipedia but identified as copyright violation[edit]

Thanks a lot for all the timely help regarding my own artwork. Given the complexity involved, I decided to stop here and retract what I asked. Once again, thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bnurs (talk • contribs) 01:20, 16 July 2023‎ (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright help regarding File:TRAIN S USA SOUTHERN PACIFIC CAB FORWARD CLASS AC-05 4-8-8-2 ARTICULATED OIL BURNING LOCO DESIGN - BUILT BY BALDWIN LOCO WORKS - ENGINE NUMBER 4114.jpg[edit]

Hello. I found this image on Flickr that was listed as public domain by the uploader. I've noticed that other public domain images have been uploaded on here from flickr and I think I screwed up during the upload process. How I set this image to public domain on here so that it wont get deleted or have I messed up the upload for this image completely?

--LostplanetKD73 (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Flickr source has Public Domain Mark 1.0 on it, which would accept if the flickr user is the photographer. This looks like a historic photograph though so determining whether it actually is public domain is trickier. Abzeronow (talk) 21:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LostplanetKD73: I'd say there is absolutely no way to know the copyright status of that unless the account owner of the Flickr account is more forthcoming about why they believe that to be public domain. Their page gives no provenance for the photo. Unless we know more, we probably have to delete it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This file looks like an upscaled version of the image at railarchive, which looks like a well documented website. The non-free textual description is the same and it is probably the work of the railarchive website. It describes the photo as a builders photo, i.e. taken for the company after the locomotive is completed. This would then be a 1929 photo, probably anonymous. The flickr account should probably be avoided. It copies works from various publications and tags everything public domain although it is clear that many images are not in the public domain. -- Asclepias (talk) 00:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok thanks for the information. So I guess the bast course of action is just to wait and see what happens in the next few days since this image may not really be 100% in the public domain for at least another 5-6 years. I'll try to ascertain more info from an uploader in the future if I ever come across anymore old locomotive images that claim to be in public domain. LostplanetKD73 (talk) 04:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LostplanetKD73 if it was published in the U.S. in 1929, then it will definitely be in the public domain January 1, 1925. More likely, copyright was not renewed and it is already PD. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok so for future reference if the image is taken before 1925 it technically counts as public domain? LostplanetKD73 (talk) 17:10, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Published before 1928 or taken before 1903 and unpublished until after 2002. If a pre-1978 photograph (even very old ones) were published from 1978 to 2002, they wouldn't be public domain until at least 2048, see COM:Hirtle. Yes, U.S. copyright is complicated. Abzeronow (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Abzeronow: Lobbyists want it so, and congresscritters comply. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:29, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, Congress hasn't exactly made it more simple. In just over 1 month, U.S. copyright will expire for 1928 published works (except sound recordings), 1923 sound recordings, unpublished works of authors who died in 1953 and unpublished works with unknown authors created in 1903. Abzeronow (talk) 17:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright help regarding File:Rag Mayur.jpg[edit]

I tried uploading the pic, which was published in a news paper, I have mentioned it clearly. If you think if it is not appropriate you can delete it or you can guide me. Thank you.

--Herodyswaroop (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Herodyswaroop, hello! Rule of thumb: almost all pics you find online are under some sort of copyright and you can't upload them to Commons. If you check the link you gave it says "Copyright - newindianexpress.com 2023. All rights reserved." Case closed. This pic will get deleted fairly soon, you don't have to do anything.

You can upload a pic of Rag Mayur if you took it yourself with your own camera, and so can other people. Including him. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Herodyswaroop: See also COM:NETC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh okie, then you can delete the picture, Herodyswaroop (talk) 10:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

General question about deleting or moving files[edit]

Can I move files? How do I delete something? Just new here & wanted to know about deleting files? Can I use tools for it? I want to also focus on colorizing images. How? —The Industrial Me 1563 (talk) 21:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The Industrial Me 1563: Hi,

Only people with the file mover right can move files. Please use the {{Rename}} template.

Only admins can delete files. Please create a deletion request after having read COM:DR. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The Industrial Me 1563: In addition to what Yann wrote, you may colorize on your own device and then upload with a new filename per COM:OW, linking the two files in the other_versions section of {{Information}}. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deletion request[edit]

Buenas,como hacer deletion request a File:Nuevo emblema de Caracas.svg para ver si es una licencia libre o Dominio Público?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 09:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AbchyZa22: Para realizar una solicitud de eliminación de ese archivo, simplemente vaya a la página del archivo, mire el menú de la izquierda, en la sección "herramientas", presione "Nominar para eliminación". Después de todo, proporcione un motivo para nominar la imagen y todas las ediciones necesarias se generarán automáticamente con solo hacer clic en un botón. Si quieres saber si la imagen es gratuita o no, puedes buscar la imagen en línea o leer esta página para ver si es "trabajo propio". 20 upper 09:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Album Art[edit]

I am making wiki pages for bands, and I want to upload an image of the album art? Is this allowed? Metalbro (talk) 11:10, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Metalbro: On Commons, all files must be under a free license or in the public domain, so you are not allowed to upload album covers unless you have a formal written permission from the copyright holder. On some language Wikipedias (notably English), these can be uploaded under a fair use rationale. Yann (talk) 11:20, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Metalbro In short, on en-WP, you can upload a non-free album-cover in an article about the album, not an article about the band. en:Stay Hungry (album) etc. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Toki Pona book covers[edit]

I want to upload images of the two official Toki Pona books, avaialble on Sonja Lang's wesbite, but I'm unsure about copyright in the perspective on Commons. When asked about it, Lang, on the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server, has said "you can use the covers of my books for any purpose." (source). JnpoJuwan (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JnpoJuwan: Loginwall detected. Please see VRT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:54, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Subir archivo que tengo en word[edit]

Hola. por favor quiero publicar un contenido de un manual que explica cómo trabajar en la aplicación Global#. Ahora lo tengo en extensión docx, pero entiendo que no es aceptada por la plataforma. ¿Qué debo hacer? JC Gascon (talk) 22:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JC Gascon: No creo que un manual de ese tipo estaría en el alcance de Commons. Estoy seguro que no acemptamos archivos doc o docx, formatos proprietarios de Microsoft. - Jmabel ! talk 23:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JC Gascon: Estoy de acuerdo, por favor mira COM:FT/es#Formatos de archivos propietarios y COM:NOT/es.

I agree, please see COM:FT#Nonfree file formats and COM:NOT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:33, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How would I go about writing a script that affects video?[edit]

Hi, I'm still fairly new to Wikimedia commons, so let me know if this question should be moved to a better place, like a place for discussing scripts and stuff.

How would i go about writing a script that affects the video that appears when you click on a video to play it? Like make it so the time display at the bottom left corner also shows the milliseconds? insne (talk) 23:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Insnesnakos: This is a fine place to ask your question, but you might want to go to Commons:Village pump/Technical in future. A script to affect video playback sounds like something you could put in your common.js page, or put in another JavaScript subpage of your user page and then load at common.js if you think you might want to share it with other people. I'm not super experienced with JavaScript, but User:CalendulaAsteraceae/common.js does have some code that adds a link to the toolbar, and my JS page at Wikisource (s:en:User:CalendulaAsteraceae/common.js) has some more complicated code, including code that loads someone else's script. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:42, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@CalendulaAsteraceae Ok, thanks for the links, i'll check the links and ask the village pump:technical if I have any other questions. insne (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Caracas (2022).svg[edit]

Buenas administradores, por favor esta imagen debería ser removida (deleted) o quedarse (kept)?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:47, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Image file size limit on initial upload different from the limit on photo update[edit]

Hey, I uploaded a photograph to Wikimedia which is larger than 100MB, and then when trying to send an updated version, I got blocked by the 100MB limit. And at this point I cannot update the image or delete it -- all is left is to upload a completely new image, which is not great.

Are we aware of this discrepancy between initial upload and update? podstawko ●talk 18:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Podstawko: Hi, and welcome. I suggest you try using User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js (doc at User talk:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js and help at Help:Chunked upload). — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:25, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you @Jeff G., I will read the docs and try this. podstawko ●talk 22:38, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Podstawko: You're welcome, and good luck! I like to narrow down the window size to one that will let me see something is still happening, yet not impede throughput too badly. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:54, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It worked very nicely for a 150M+ file, so I'll keep using the tool and, again, thank you @Jeff G. :) podstawko ●talk 03:17, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Podstawko: You're welcome. When uploading the 1.68 GB File:J Class World Championship - Newport Shipyard by D Ramey Logan.webm, with 'Chunk size: 20480 KiB with "use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)" dimly checked', the chunk size was a little large for my liking, YMMV. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:44, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I need my images that I did not upload to Wikipedia removed.[edit]

Wikimedia has my images that I didn't upload, and I need them removed. One of your volunteers, Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs) took photos off of my Flickr account that I have long since removed from Flickr upon request of the subject. I did not receive a message that this was occurring. The person in these images wants them off of the Internet. Can you remove them? They are a collection that includes 44753796905, 45668230991, 31795826948, 43850099670, 44753794225, 45668235631, 44753794725, 31795832538, 30726978607, 45668232681, 31795823418, 44753797315, 45668233201, 45668235631, 44753799625, and all similar images from that date and location. Thank you, Tracie Hall Tracie Hall (talk) 21:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tracie Hall and Ser Amantio di Nicolao: as you probably know, cc-by-sa 2.0 licenses are not revocable, so what you are asking for amounts to a courtesy deletion. You are not exactly making them easy to find by giving Flickr photo IDs rather than links here on Commons to what you would like deleted, though I assume we are talking about the photos of [NAME REDACTED]. I'll do my best to set up a deletion request, but I can't guarantee finding all of the images in question. - Jmabel ! talk 22:16, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks again Jmabel. I didn't see you had two entries here. I didn't give the pictures those long parenthetical numbers, so thought you all did, and that if you found a few, it would find the folder for you. Because this is published, I didn't want to mention the subject's name that would bring them all up at once. After finding a page in Wikipedia on how to delete, I made requests from each photo, and then finally read the linked note at the bottom about checking the conversation and it looked like you'd already found them all. Excuse the duplication, but yes, the subjects had not given permission for me to post, and the primary subject had requested they be removed a few years ago. She has asked again that I remove all of the photos. I hadn't realized they had been taken up by Wikimedia. I will now be going through all of my Flickr pages looking for images of strangers that might not appreciate being picked up by Wikimedia and changing the permissions, or perhaps the viewers, or deleting them. I hadn't realized so many of my images had been picked up when a year or so ago I created an account and uploaded a few for your contests. Thank you for recommending they be deleted. Tracie Hall (talk) 23:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deletion request created: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Los Angeles Harbor College. - Jmabel ! talk 22:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks Jmabel for creating my request. Tracie Hall (talk) 22:50, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tracie Hall: As you can imagine, setting up a separate discussion for each photo was probably not a good way to do this. I would like to close all of those nominations as being superseded by the one central discussion (which is going to be tedious to execute, but not nearly as tedious as carrying on 40 or so separate discussions). I will give at least 3 hours for Tracie or anyone else to object to that; I realize I am going "out of process" here. - Jmabel ! talk 23:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jmabel: Better to inconvenience one person than a whole lot of people. Thanks for volunteering. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Starting the cleanup. - Jmabel ! talk 03:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Cleanup done. My apologies if I may have slightly messed up an edit summary or two in this process: I was trying to go quickly through this. I believe everything is now acceptable in terms of the files, and that there is now a single place for this discussion: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Los Angeles Harbor College. Jmabel ! talk 03:55, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Apologies, I thought I was helping you find each one, but apparently I made it worse. Apparently your database system is completely different from the basic library databases I've worked with, combined with, perhaps, a different organization that involves needing multiple people to agree on the removal action.

I'm afraid I really have no understanding of how things work there, so this question is likely to be irritating as well, but am I right that all of the work you've done, so far, was to remove my individual requests, so as to be able to revert to this initial request and get the files into a group where one decision could be made for the entire "folder" of pictures (speaking in Google Drive terms, probably not yours)? So, we're at a recommended stage now? (Perhaps where we would have been before I was "helpful") Where the next stage would be multiple people decide whether to agree on the courtesy deletions? Tracie Hall (talk) 16:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tracie Hall: Hi, Deletion requests are usually closed after a week. There is no opposition to your request so far, so I expect it to be closed next week. Yann (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for the estimation!!! Apologies for my ignorance when loading those to Flickr. I had taken the photos for the young lady in question, but should have just handed her a card with all of the photos on it, rather than posting them. I didn't realize at the time that, first, she would later wish they were not on the Internet, or 2nd that an external entity might collect them. I wasn't aware of the existence of Wikimedia at the time, but I do think it's a wonderful service, and I appreciate that any of my images were deemed worthy of it. Tracie Hall (talk) 16:43, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tracie Hall: these have all now been deleted. There was a clear consensus to do so, and some danger of the Streisand effect, so I saw no point to leaving it open for a week. - Jmabel ! talk 20:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tracie Hall: FWIW, administrators on Commons have certain technical capabilities that other users don't have, but for the most part we are simply empowered to honestly carry out community decisions, not to make potentially controversial decisions ourselves. While there is a clear, standing community consensus to delete (for example) copyright violations, courtesy deletions of anything that is more than a week old is always subject to some discussion. Someone might say, "hey, that's legally licensed, and I'm using it in such-and-such place," and that is going to win out over granting a courtesy. Also, to be honest, when people claim (falsely) that they have a legal right to revoke a license they granted, someone else is likely to turn it into a matter of principle and stand by keeping the image so that we don't end up with a bad precedent of being bullied. In this case, it looks like there were no such issues, and that's great. - Jmabel ! talk 21:01, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

THANK YOU tremendously. Well, lesson learned! I hope I didn't traumatize Ser Amantio di Nicolao.

I don't see anything else in my files here likely to cause anyone panic, so no worries that you'll have to decline any future requests. I am going through my Flickr stream to prevent future issues. I don't consider myself a good portrait photographer so there are very few, but still worth the time to go through and delete. I get it that if they've been picked up by anyone already they had my permission- I just want to prevent future pickups of anything I might regret having shared for any reason. In general, I love sharing my pictures so will only be changing permissions on the rare image that I don't want to delete, but don't want used.

Thanks again to all involved.

Best,

Tracie Tracie Hall (talk) 18:45, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

EML file[edit]

I want to open EML fille Wilsont0463 (talk) 08:25, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Wilsont0463: Hi, and welcome. I've seen email programs like Outlook Express and Outlook create and open EML files. Try one of those or a text editor. Here, they are oos. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Uploading a new version of an image[edit]

Hi - I'm a long-time Commons user with 314 edits. I've been uploading new versions of images (generally cropping and changing levels) of other uploaders' files for years, but recently my new version uploads have been blocked with "File overwriting not allowed" because I "do not have sufficient permissions to do this."

Has something changed? Lestocq (talk) 14:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Lestocq: Hi. You have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/290 by trying to overwrite files that you did not originally upload. Please read MediaWiki:abusefilter-warning-file-overwriting and Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2023/08#Limit file overwriting to users with autopatrol rights again. Please request Autopatrol group membership at COM:RFR when you think you are ready (once you have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits); having that should allow you to overwrite. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jeff G. Thanks for that. It seems odd that clicking the "Upload a new version of this file" button which is available on file pages is rated as Abuse. It hadn't happened to me before last month. And I'm confused by the term "overwriting" - I'm trying to add a new, revertable, version of a file, not overwrite it. Lestocq (talk) 17:10, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Overwriting is essentially a new version of the file under the same name. Since too many people were ignoring the overwriting guidelines, it was changed so only people with the autopatrol right (and those who have rights that include autopatrol) can overwrite other people's files. You can make a request to overwrite a specific file at COM:OWR Abzeronow (talk) 17:16, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Abzeronow Thanks for that.Lestocq (talk) 18:15, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Track usage of all my uploaded files[edit]

I know there is this answer in the FAQ about a single file, but how can I track usage of multiple files (all my files)? I'd imagine a table with the list of files and the number of resources which use them, or types of resources, etc. Is there an internal or external tool for that? Is there a notification service ("hey your image is now used in this or that Wikipedia article" for example). podstawko ●talk 18:26, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not aware of anything that does this (but please correct me if I'm wrong). This would be a great tool; I'll add it to my list of things to do soon^TM. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Podstawko: glamorous? -- Asclepias (talk) 19:39, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Asclepias, I tried the tool, and I think this is what I've been looking for :). Thank you! podstawko ●talk 16:06, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for this reply. I had heard of Glamorous but assumed it had something to do with museums and such. So, I gave it a whirl and learned that I had 11,000 pix uploaded, slightly more than my estimate. 6,000 are in use which is a 'way bigger percentage than I expected. So, a smaller look found an even more glaring discrepancyː

Category "2009_Manhattan_photos_by_Jim.henderson" has 375 files.

Jump to details

Site	Images used
en.wikipedia	384

Umm, ENWP alone uses more of these pix than actually exist? It cannot be. So, I saw that some of them are used in dozens of articles, which means the report is of how many articles have links to pictures in this category, and not how many of the pix are in use. Is there a way to find how many of them are in use? ̴̴ Jim.henderson (talk) 18:18, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jim.henderson At the bottom of the results of the full URL https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=2009_Manhattan_photos_by_Jim.henderson&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&projects[wikipedia]=1 (which Chrome mangles after "projects"), I see "Distinct images used", indicating that 259 distinct pix are in use. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:52, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh! I ought to keep my eyes open to the bottom. Thanks! Jim.henderson (talk) 20:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Is there a way to sort based from newest to oldest? Trade (talk) 01:58, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Trade: Not in that tool (which is sorted by number of times used). Even the details don't have dates. But you could ask Magnus Manske. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright status regarding U.S. Ambassador's Photos on Twitter[edit]

Hello, I am wondering whether these photographs by David L. Cohen, American Ambassador to Canada would qualify under a work of a United States Department of State employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain per 17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105 and the Department Copyright Information. Other photographs on the consulate's Flickr are already on Wikipedia, but them being on Twitter (and me not finding any photos from the consulate's Twitter yet) complicates matters. I would lean towards yes, since this is taken as part of that person's official duties, but I am unsure. Ornithoptera (talk) 04:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

These photos are almost certainly not by Cohen, though they are on his Twitter feed. The question seems to be whether we can presume them to be the work of an official U.S. government photographer. - Jmabel ! talk 05:26, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oops, I meant posted by. Semantics aside, I would assume that it would be "made as part of that person's official duties" right? This is a diplomatic visit between Cohen and Wab Kinew. Ornithoptera (talk) 05:56, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Those photos do appear from the context to be part of Cohen's diplomatic visit so I'd also lean towards those being taken by diplomatic staff as part of their official duties. Abzeronow (talk) 16:48, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for the response! I'll try and upload some of the photographs there then, they cover some figures that don't have photographs on Wiki yet so this might be fruitful! Ornithoptera (talk) 00:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

copyright status[edit]

How can I prove that the above uploaded work is 100% my own creation KAYINGA ROBERT BURLY (talk) 12:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@KAYINGA ROBERT BURLY: Which "above uploaded work"? All of your uploaded works and their associated file description pages are promoting you and your movie, and are therefore oos. Your movie poster, furthermore, is a DW without evidence of the sources of all the photos it contains. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:13, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Heraldry. Tincture systematization for a country[edit]

I made an alysis of tincture colours of heraldic symbols for modern settlements in Georgia. I want to publish my gathered statistics and try to make a convention for wikipedians, so there will be no random colourization. For example, compare File:Flag of Chiatura Municipality.svg and File:Flag of Vani Municipality.svg – these must have identical colours for azure, vert and gold. Also I need to notice, that colour codes for different tinctures have their differences and special aspects in every country, so I don't think this is good idea to take colours directly from some, e.g. German land's flag. Plaga med (talk) 14:44, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Plaga med: In short, in a controversial area, you are trying to impose your view as policy, and consensus be damned. That's not how this works. - Jmabel ! talk 18:41, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's not that I want to impose only my view, I don't see any conflict with the principle of consensus. Somebody must start to talk, to have a consensus. Some things can be strinct rules if there are RS, if there is not, we can just have some list of recomendations. So if I'll try to unify colours of those flags and Coats of Arms, there will be a central place to discuss changes.

It is my main idea – to have a single place to discuss such topic and to write down my argumentation for my edits. Plaga med (talk) 08:44, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Plaga med: Ah, sorry, this read as if you were trying to impose your view, rather than start discussion there. Are you at all involved with en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology or Commons:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology? I'm not sure how active they are, but even if they are moribund, reactivating them would probably be the best way to do this.

Do keep in mind, though, that on the same principle we apply to maps, we are very unlikely to say to anyone "you can't upload your version." We might be able to mark it with {{Fact disputed}} or something more specific; we might allow a process whereby a WikiProject could actually endorse some coats of arms and deprecate others; but it will almost certainly be a matter of templates, etc., not of deleting things that the main group thinks are inaccurate. - Jmabel ! talk 19:49, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks, I'll leave my question there! Plaga med (talk) 22:45, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright issue in very old familiy pictures[edit]

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitanova_del_Sannio#Monumenti_e_luoghi_d'interesse

Hello! I recently modified some text and uploaded some pics about old personalities from my little city. They are personalities died about 100 years ago, i found their old family pictures around the web.

I just received an alert from wikipedia about copiright issues.

PIcs are not mine but neither from the websites they published. They are just very old pictures without owner.

What can i do to solve?

Thanks, Mauro Mauro Lisanti (talk) 15:11, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mauro Lisanti: Hi,

It depends how old are these pictures. Pictures older than 120 years are OK whatever the country of origin (so from before 1904 next month). For Italian pictures, they are in the public domain in Italy 20 years after creation (see {{PD-Italy}}), and public domain in USA if before 1976. You need to indicate the date. Yann (talk) 16:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Which can be an approximate date, if you state it confidently. E.g. {{other date|before|1930}} which shows as "before 1930", or {{other date|between|1900|1940}} which shows as "between 1900 and 1940". - Jmabel ! talk 18:45, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello

Thanks for your kind answer

So I'm trying before 1930 as suggested by "jmabel" user reply...

Let's see... Mauro Lisanti (talk) 21:31, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Biography[edit]

How do I upload someone's biography on wikipedia? NwanyiB (talk) 20:29, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@NwanyiB: If you talk about the English-language Wiipedia, to write (not upload) a biography, you can have a look at the policies at en:Wikipedia:Biographies. For help about Wikipedia, you can ask at the Wikipedia:Help desk. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Image Upload[edit]

I want to make a Wikipedia page for Vijay Dewan. His images are available on internet, specifically those are mentioned in News Articles and Online news platform. So how can I use that picture in the Wiki page? What will be the attributes or tags I have to mention?! Subhamsr24 (talk) 04:17, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Subhamsr24: Are the images available under a free license? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:33, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Subhamsr24: Most images on the internet are not free. If you can't find the image license, then it's probably copyrighted. 20 upper 07:38, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@20 upper, @Subhamsr24, What we are interested in is the onward licence. An item which is copyright may also be licenced for onward use. It is the lack of onward licence that dictates whether it is legitimate to upload the file here. If that licence is not present or is not obvious then there is no permission (licence) for onward use. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 15:33, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Right, see COM:NETC. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:15, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Question. Need advice[edit]

there are some letters I have obtained from some press members. which has very historical value and importance. I was thinking to put them on commons to publish. which was also about same personality I wrote an article about but I'm not sure if it's acceptable SaneFlint (talk) 10:21, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Letter is from 1923. SaneFlint (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@SaneFlint While the letter is 100 years old, I think, though I am no expert on copyright matters, that giving you correct correct advice will require the country in which the letters were written, and the (approximate) date of death of the writer, since the writer is, generally, the copyright owner. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 10:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Perfect ill do that. Thanks SaneFlint (talk) 15:46, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

100 years is not actually quite enough to be safe. In most countries, death date of author will matter. For example, 70 years after the author's death is a common (but by no means universal) threshold. Someone can easily have written something in 1923 and lived into the 1990s.

Most of this information is pretty easy to find online (including Commons' pages on various countries' copyright laws). - Jmabel ! talk 19:53, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi it is known as Qasida which was recited on a historical conference which took place over 100 year ago. I have taken picture of that letter. Just curious how do i make it work. AS PICTURE WILL BE TAKEN BY ME SO I THINK there wont be any copy right issue. And i have details about a person who wrote this in 1923./1342H . HOPE IT HELPS SaneFlint (talk) 15:21, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@SaneFlint That the picture is taken by you is not material if the item you have photographed is under copyright. The advice about the death date of the author of the letter is important, perhaps vital. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 15:27, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How we can know the material is under copy right already? Or there will be as i will be posting SaneFlint (talk) 15:34, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@SaneFlint It may be allowed on enWiki to upload the letter under the doctrine of "Fair Use" which is not available on Commons. That is a separate conversation to be had, probably on w:en:WP:TEAHOUSE.

You will be able to research the copyright status from the answer given to you by Jmabel, above. Most of this information is pretty easy to find online (including Commons' pages on various countries' copyright laws). Commons:Copyright rules by territory is the key place to start. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 15:38, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think I was able to upload it. Thank you. I'll follow up that link to learn more about copy right stuffs:) SaneFlint (talk) 15:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi the person who wrote the Qasida died earlier in 1923.[ few weeks earlier] Than the Conference happened..

letter / Qasida was presented by Abdul Khaliq Kandyarwi,close aide of Maulana Muhammad from Sind. SaneFlint (talk) 16:38, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That leads me to a technical question. I have determined from that information that the files are {{PD-Pakistan}}. Should an upload of photographs of the PD document also have a licence for the photograph itself, or is the PD sufficient. @Jmabel Is this something you are familiar with, please? If not please will you point me to the correct place to ask the question? 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 19:13, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Certainly a faithful photograph of a PD photo creates no new copyright. Presumably the shadow of the photographer's hand is accidental, but I suppose in theory it could be copyrightable. I gather from the initial upload that they were claiming a copyright and offering a license, and it's probably cleaner if we acknowledge that, and indicate that the photo might have (licensed) rights independent of the document. The source should then be given as "original document photographed by [whatever credit might be desired]."

There are a lot of ways to do a split credit + split licensing like this. I know what I did at File:Asahel Curtis panoramic view of Galbraith, Bacon & Co Wall Street Dock and warehouse, Seattle, with sailing ships in background.jpeg is considered acceptable; I think there may be a template to do this more cleanly. - Jmabel ! talk 21:22, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jmabel Thank you. I will set to work on that 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 23:28, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jmabel following your advice I have done what I believe makes sense. If you (or anyone) feels I am incorrect, the files are in Category:Sayyid Ihsanullah Shah Rashdi. The intention to get it right is manifestly there. My implementation of that intention differs from yours, but is reflected jn the file history tab, and I think makes both elements clear, and agrees with the uploader's wishes as expressed during the upload process.

You make an interesting point about the shadow! 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 23:43, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

🙏🏻 SaneFlint (talk) 07:25, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Copyright help regarding File:RARE ALBUM COVER.JPG[edit]

I need help with resolving the copyright issue on this file

--Isheek (talk) 21:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Isheek: Hi, and welcome. You need permission from the copyright holder sent via VRT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:08, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

okay i will do so. Thank you Isheek (talk) 22:19, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If, at some point, there is an article about this album on English Wikipedia, then you can upload it to English Wikipedia for use in that particular article under "fair use". Commons does not accept fair use and English Wikipedia is very restrictive about it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WIKIPEDIA KEEPS DECLINING UPLOAD[edit]

I have followed the process to upload an image that I took so own the rights to. Every time it goes to upload, I get a message saying that they cannot determine whether it is suitable. Can someone please help me with this error message. DONALDRSPENCER (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You don't say what tool you were using, but -- if you haven't already -- try Special:UploadWizard here on Commons (as against trying to upload cross-wiki from Wikipedia) and see if that solves your problem. - Jmabel ! talk 06:42, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@DONALDRSPENCER: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg image as a new user. The image you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller image, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you made the image yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not make the image, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the image photographer / designer license it on their official website or social media, or send the image and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid filter 153. You have also triggered Special:AbuseFilter/156 by trying to upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes) jpg image as a new user. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:59, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Корпоративные аккаунты / Corporate Accounts[edit]

Допустимы ли на Commons не личные, а корпоративные аккаунты для загрузки фотографий, принадлежащих не индивидуальным фотографам, а компаниям?

Does Commons allow creating corporate accounts for the purpose of uploading the photos being in corporate possession?

Englishrussia (talk) 05:28, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Englishrussia: There's been some disagreement about how best to do this, but as far as I know the following approach is entirely acceptable:

Create a separate account for each individual who will be authorized by the corporation to do this. Make the account name of the form User:NORMAL USER NAME (COMPANY NAME). (If they already have another account here, NORMAL USER NAME should match their other account.) Any account should be operated by a single person; if more than one person is involved, each should have a separate account along these same lines.
User should declare on the user page that this account will be used in their capacity representing that particular company.
Either (1) the company should post on its own website or public social media indicating that this account (or these accounts) are authorized to act on behalf of the company, and then the user pages can link to a URL that displays that authorization or (2) some representative of the company (it can be the same person, if they are in a position of authority at the company) should send email (preferably from an email account on the company domain) to the address described at COM:VRT (or COM:VRT/ru) indicating that the account is authorized, and someone at VRT can mark that on the user page once it is established to their satisfaction.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you need that translated and I can probably snag a Russian-speaker to make it clear in Russian. - Jmabel ! talk 06:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you, Jmabel. Your answer is perfectly clear and complete. Englishrussia (talk) 14:30, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Registreren[edit]

IK mag doen wat ik wil, altijd komt de boodschap onjuiste gebruikersnaam od wachtwoord. De eerste maal heb ik een bij vergissing mijn e-mail adres ingevuld bij het INLOGGEN. Dank u. Jienke (talk) 08:50, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Register

I can do what I want, but the message always appears: incorrect username or password. The first time I accidentally entered my email address when LOGIN. Thank you.

translator: Google Translate via — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:10, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jienke: Hallo, en welkom. Je bent geregistreerd en ingelogd als "Jienke".

Hi, and welcome. You are registered and logged in as "Jienke". — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:10, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File Name for Photo Upload[edit]

It will not let me save the photo file name for my picture upload and I have tried multiple times. NicholeJ97 (talk) 17:33, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@NicholeJ97: Hi, and welcome. What file name did you try to use, exactly? What was the exact response to that? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

and what upload tool (URL or name of app) are you using? - Jmabel ! talk 21:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Weird wikidata infobox[edit]

Can anyone work out why an inappropriate Wikidata Infobox is showing up for Category:Biographical-drama films of Italy? - Jmabel ! talk 21:01, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

At wikidata:Q8300509, wikidata:Q116974375 was listed as the category's main topic; removing that property fixed the infobox. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Thanks! That was impressively wrong. - Jmabel ! talk

It's still strange, though. The Commons category is about Italy. The Wikidata infobox is about philosophers. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:53, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Asclepias: Category:Biographical-drama films of Italy is modeled on Wikidata as a category intersection, so it picked up an image from the item for a parent category's main topic. Normally that works well, but not here, because the "main topic" was bogus. - Jmabel ! talk 18:31, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not sure if my comment was clear or if I just don't understand how Wikidata works. What I mean is shouldn't that Commons category "Biographical-drama films of Italy" be associated with something like Wikidata:Q75611862, which seems the same topic, instead of being associated with Wikidata:Q8300509, which seems a different topic? -- Asclepias (talk) 19:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Asclepias: I think it should. It looks like Pi bot added the connection to Category:Biographical-drama films of Italia to Category:Biographical films about philosophers (Q8300509) in d:Special:Diff/1836343275. It claimed to be copying from Commons category (P373), but Category:Biographical films about philosophers (Q8300509) didn't have a Commons category (P373) before that. That seems a bit weird: maybe Mike Peel has some idea what it did. Anyway, I've fixed the problem as you suggested and the (empty) category now links to the correct item. --bjh21 (talk) 19:14, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There were a bunch of films with erroneous topic's main category (P910) links to Category:Biographical films about philosophers (Q8300509), it probably came through one of them (e.g., Socrates (Q3963888)), now cleaned up, e.g. [1]. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:50, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Locked out of my profile![edit]

Locked out of my profile, can’t reset, I want to submit photos and valid info! Thank you! -noah Williams, Dec 4 2023

phone is [redacted] 2600:1700:2EC7:6640:DD04:60C2:B84D:9A7A 22:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've redacted your phone number.

There is nothing we can do with this information. We can't phone an effectively anonymous user and give them control of an account they claim is theirs!

If you provided an email when you created your account, it should be straightforward to regain control of the account. If not, them I'm afraid there is nothing we can do for you. Start a new account, link the two user pages to one another to be clear that you are the same person. This time, provide an email address so this doesn't happen again. - Jmabel ! talk 23:42, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

how can I add picture in png I created for my article to be published in wikipedia[edit]

how can I add picture in png I created for my article to be published in wikipedia Šrámková Lucie (talk) 08:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Šrámková Lucie: Hi,

Why do you want it in PNG? Could you please give more details? Which picture? Which article? Yann (talk) 09:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In any case, you upload a PNG to Commons just like any other file that we accept. See Commons:First steps and (assuming you are talking about the English-language Wikipedia) en:Help:Pictures (or use the language links there if it is for Wikipedia in a different language). - Jmabel ! talk 18:34, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload foto[edit]

Wat ik ook probeer, telkens ik een foto wil uploaden krijgen ik volgende nietszeggende foutmelding: "We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons." De foto heb ik zelf genomen en ik heb zelfs de metadata zo goed mogelijk ingevuld en op mijn naam gezet. Hoe is dit mogelijk? Hans.Nuyttens (talk) 11:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Hans.Nuyttens: You tried to upload File:Spiere1.jpg three times and File:Spiere2023.jpg three times, always from a website outside Commons and with a new Commons account. You can try to upload the files when you are logged in directly to the Commons website and see if it works. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:06, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Meaning that you should try Special:UploadWizard. - Jmabel ! talk 18:34, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Шукаю[edit]

Розбийголова Кароліна Прокопівна 1894 року народження село Гармаки Барського району Вінницької області ЮЛІЯ 84 (talk) 16:11, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

доброго дня. Шукаю Розбийголова Кароліна Прокопівна 1894 року народження в шлюбі (Гумена) проживала в с.Гармаки Вінницької області. Підкажіть де можна знайти відомості , свідоцтво про народження, шлюб. Бабуля була полька. ЮЛІЯ 84 (talk) 16:17, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As far as I can tell, this question has nothing to do with this website. This is a page for getting help in using Wikimedia Commons (this website). - Jmabel ! talk 18:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

re load my picture[edit]

I am trying to re-load my picture on the ladies side saddle page that was taken off for some reason? please help. Promeo1014 (talk) 19:03, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is not Wikipedia. You should discuss removal on the talk page of the article. Ruslik (talk) 20:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Volunteering[edit]

How to volonteer and add tags to images ? Vilahh (talk) 19:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vilahh: we don't really have anything here that we normally call "tags" (other than license tags, and you can't add those to someone else's image). Could you be more specific about what you have in mind? - Jmabel ! talk 20:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vilahh: If you want to categorize images, take a look at Commons:Categories. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Actually I want to volonteer on wikicommons but I don't know what I can do to get started. Vilahh (talk) 06:06, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vilahh: well, none of us can guess what you know something about! Is there anything where you'd say you have more knowledge than an average person? E.g. are you from somewhere that we might not already have very well covered, or study something or do something for a living that means you know something about something? Do you happen to be able to read and write a language that not so many people know, and could translate into that language either from English or from some other major world language? Happen to be more than routinely knowledgeable about cars, or some sport, or about the clothing of a particular region, etc.? If you can say what you know something about, then I can almost certainly give you a good place to start. - Jmabel ! talk 06:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm knowledgeable about religions. Vilahh (talk) 07:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vilahh: you could help categorize currently uncategorized images. For example searching churches without categories finds File:Church of St. Flannan, Killaloe - altar.jpg which should most likely be in Category:St. Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe. It could also be included in Category:Interiors of cathedrals in Ireland, Category:Altars in Ireland and Category:Crucifixes in the Republic of Ireland. You can find plenty of similar examples. Other religions have similar categories. MKFI (talk) 15:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vilahh: Also, if you take photographs at all (or are inclined to, and photos taken with a phone are fine): are you willing to say where in the world you are? There are a lot of things we need photos of almost anywhere. - Jmabel ! talk 20:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Derechos del autor fallecido[edit]

Buenas, que pasa si el Logo (generalmente) creado por el derecho del autor fallecido, el logo estará en el "Dominio Público"?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AbchyZa22: No, o no inmediatemente. En la mayoría de los países, los derechos del autor duran por un período después del muerto del autor. Baja la Convención Berne tambíen (ahora casi universal) existe una duración mínima de 50 años p.m.a. para los derechos del autor. Más común es un duración de 70 años p.m.a., pero cada país puede legislar un período mayor. (La situación más complicada es en los EEUU, que era muy tarde en adoptar la Convención Berne. En los EEUU, para muchas obras publicada antes de 1989, los derechos duran 95 años, y el muerto del autor no afecta la duración.) - Jmabel ! talk 00:42, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

can i upload a image of a person?[edit]

ccan i? BouncinBaby (talk) 03:54, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If you have an "image of a person": Yes, technically you can upload it. But actually your question is so very unspecific, that no one will be able to give you the answer you expect. Is it a question about copyright or is it a question about personality rights or something else. If you would tell what person or if the image is online elsewhere and you name the link, then someone may be able to answer you question. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 04:08, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

oh i wanted to add a picture of cliffton newman that wasnt really mine but i wanted to slap it onto the Judge Cliffton Newman page BouncinBaby (talk) 04:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If you don't own the copyright to the photo, and it is neither free-licensed nor in the public domain then no, you cannot upload it. - Jmabel ! talk 05:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Inserimento file audio video su wikipedia[edit]

Buonasera, Ho caricato dei file audio video su Wikimedia commons. Vorrei inserirli su un testo. dove trovo il nome del file da inserire su testo Wikipedia? Grazie Riccardo Prosperi Riccardo Ottanta (talk) 18:35, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Riccardo Ottanta: This is the filename, as given in bold at the top of the relevant file page, e.g. "File:Pendolo di Newton a 5 sferette rallentato.webm". Depending on context, you may or may not need "File:". - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I need to move or copy images from Wikimedia Commons to a Wiki Page that I recently edited/expanded. The images were mine, and accepted in Wikimedia Commons.[edit]

I can find the image in Commons. I see the "use this file for wiki page". When I click on it, it just shows a pop up with file names (thumbnail or image). Nothing else happens. How do I get my own photos put into the wiki page? I tried to upload directly from my laptop to the wiki edit page and it says it's a duplicate already in existence. It won't let me advance further in the steps. Brooksy64 (talk) 20:15, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The code in the popup is what you use to insert the image (usually the thumbnail one). Just insert it in the place where you want to have that image in your article. That's the point of Commons - the files uploaded here are available in all the different language Wikipedias. --rimshot^talk 20:38, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Brooksy64: See en:Help:Pictures at the English-language Wikipedia, or equivalent pages at other websites. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:41, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Reverting deletion nominations[edit]

Hello,

Over the past few months I have been nominating PNG files (uploaded by myself) for deletion, as they have been replaced by SVG files (also uploaded by myself). Examples of such files nominated for deletion can be found at Category:Diagrams of additional road signs of Ireland and Category:Diagrams of information road signs of Ireland. However, I've only recently become aware of the mass deletion request option. Many of my deletion nominations have not yet been acted upon, so I would like to ask if it is possible to withdraw the deletion requests I have made, and instead create a mass deletion request with all the applicable files included? Or would it be better to simply wait it out?

Thanks in advance. EthanL13 (talk) 21:08, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@EthanL13: COM:DR implies that it's OK to close deletion requests (DRs) that you opened as long as no-one has commented on them yet. The instructions for doing so are on COM:DR. Then you can open a new mass DR for the same files.

An alternative approach is to create the mass DR and then turn all the existing DRs into redirects to it. That's something I've done before for groups of DRs submitted on the same day, but I'm not sure it's appropriate when they're spread out over months. --bjh21 (talk) 22:21, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think that redirect approach would be fine, given that Ethan is the uploader (so there is no issue about notifying the uploader). Just make sure that if there have been any comments on any of these DRs they get copy-pasted to the new mass DR. - Jmabel ! talk 03:25, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks @Bjh21 and @Jmabel. I have created the mass DR now, hoping I have done so correctly. EthanL13 (talk) 14:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

DEMON[edit]

Dear Sir/Madam, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Shaik Nagur Pasha, and I am a student who engages in small research projects and translates scripts into Telugu. I am reaching out to request your permission to translate an article on demons, which is currently unavailable in Telugu. This translation would greatly contribute to my education and may benefit others interested in the subject. I kindly seek your approval to translate and subsequently upload it online. Best regards, Shaik Nagur Pasha. Shaik Jennu (talk) 10:32, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, is this about translating the existing Wikipedia article? Wikipedia has a page for translators, which should be a good starting point. As a first step, you should make yourself familiar with editing Wikipedia articles - in particular, that these aren't usually uploaded but edited right in Wikipedia. --rimshot^talk 15:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Shaik Jennu: also, just to be clear: you have asked this question on Wikimedia Commons, not on Wikipedia. Here is the Telegu-language Wikipedia. - Jmabel ! talk 20:44, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

George Smart (Skater)[edit]

Hello, I have found an image that was published in The Boy's Own Annual, Volume 11, in 1882; I am a novice to Wikipedia, so I would like to know what you think of the image and its rights, seeing as it is 141 years old. Here is a link to the page in question: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=18U5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=fish+smart+fen+skating&source=bl&ots=yE33RnzT5S&sig=ACfU3U3cSjsbbHIQACmUmhCfpIHfoPWmpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqu5ncsemCAxWEVEEAHX3HCic4HhDoAXoECAIQA#v=onepage&q=fish%20smart%20fen%20skating&f=false Fenlander88 (talk) 11:03, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Fenlander88: There is a general consensus on Commons that works published more than 120 years ago can be treated as being in the public domain even if we don't know when their authors died. So you can tag the files with {{PD-old-assumed-expired}}. Alternatively, you might use {{PD-UK-unknown}} if the author can't be determined. In either case, if you're uploading using the Upload Wizard you'll need to choose "Another reason not mentioned above" and enter the corresponding template (with the curly brackets). --bjh21 (talk) 11:23, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you Fenlander88 (talk) 12:00, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Agregar fotos a Wikidata[edit]

Buenas, que pasa si el Logo y/o imagen agregara a Wikidata, los administradores de Wikimedia no removerá esta imagen?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 14:10, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Usando una ficha en Wikidata indica que es en el alcance de Commons, pero no dice nada sobre derechos del autor. Si viola los derechos del autor, necesitamos borrarla, útil o no. - Jmabel ! talk 21:12, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jmabel:Osea usando el "Deletion Request"?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 22:00, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No estoy seguro de entender. Si es probable que sea violación de los derechos del autor, pero no cierto, un DR sería normal. - Jmabel ! talk 22:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Carmiel Flag[edit]

Semel Karmiel was made by Mr. Ladislau Kohn, 11.3.1925, emigrated to Israel 27.4.1970, was in Carmiel about 8 month, after he moved to Tel-Aviv. In the archive from Carmiel you can find the newspaper report about the raising of the flag. I would be happy if my father's name appeared and didn't say "unknown". Sincerely, Judith Jackstadt-Kohn 84.66.49.118 15:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm guessing this is about one of the hundred million files on this site. Could you please say which? - Jmabel ! talk 21:13, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I just created a new account.[edit]

Is my user name the title that shows up on the page when people search? Why can't I find my new page I created? Ceds351 (talk) 16:03, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You username is "Ceds351". Your home page here on Commons is User:Ceds351, which it looks like you have not edited. Your only edit here prior to asking this question was to upload File:Church of the Epiphany Day School.jpg, which looks fine. - Jmabel ! talk 21:17, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

While we're on the subject, where is this specific "Church of the Epiphany Day School?" ----DanTD (talk) 00:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I wish to add a photo[edit]

I wish to add a photo to the John Burke, former Mayor of Porirua page. The photo has been made public many times Aardean (talk) 01:09, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Aardean: "made public many times" has nothing to do with whether we can host it on Commons. Is it either in the public domain or free-licensed? If so, great. If not, then it doesn't belong here. - Jmabel ! talk 03:09, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Upload photo[edit]

How to upload photo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yahaya24 (talk • contribs) 09:49, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Yahaya24: Hi, and welcome. Please see COM:FS. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:01, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How do I check an image's copyright license that I found on the internet?[edit]

I am trying to expand this page and I found an image for the town here. How do I check if the image (and other images) is under a useable copyright license? Straxman12 (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Straxman12: Hi,

Unless there is a mention of a free license, which I don't see there, you have to suppose that the pictures are not acceptable for Commons. You can search for pictures under a free license on Commons, Flickr, etc. Yann (talk) 16:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok. Do you know where are the place where I can search for images? Straxman12 (talk) 16:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

btw im referring to like a link to the place where i can search Straxman12 (talk) 16:28, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Straxman12: Within a site, there is normally a search box. Beyond that, most people search with Google or Bing. Google, in particular, has some nice ways of restricting a search to a particular domain (e.g. "site:wikimedia.org" or "site:.gov", quotes not in actual search strings). If your question meant something other than that, you'll need to be clearer.

Speaking of clearer: probably 95% of what is on the Internet is neither public-domain nor free-licensed. One of the many reasons Commons is valuable is that we host about a hundred million files that are public-domain or free-licensed. Except for user-created content, these are mostly not easy to come by. - Jmabel ! talk 19:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Straxman12: See also en:Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:52, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you very much! I was trying to find a guide with a tutorial to find images. AaronNinetyTwo (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AaronNinetyTwo: You're welcome. You forgot to ping me. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:44, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How can I save wiki pages as pdf file in mobile??[edit]

... 2405:201:680D:8A65:A425:2E4C:904E:8F9F 16:35, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, and welcome. Can you save them as bookmarks, or as HMTL that you can then open in Photoshop Express or something like that? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've never done this, but I suspect that you can (1) using the link at the bottom of the wiki page, navigate to the regular (not mobile) version of the page. (2) Click "Download as PDF" on the menu, the same way you would on a PC. - Jmabel ! talk 19:41, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Maneskin[edit]

[2] - this image is uploaded from YouTube, but couldn't find it in the provided link and doesn't seem YT uses such CC license. Please check if is a candidate for deletion or is alright and can be used on Wikipedia etc. Miki Filigranski (talk) 20:26, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Miki Filigranski: Hi, and welcome. I tagged File:Måneskin, Damiano David, Victoria de Angelis, Thomas Raggi, et Ethan Torchio.jpg for deletion for two reasons. Please use internal links. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 20:40, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks.--Miki Filigranski (talk) 03:10, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

फोटो कैसे अपलोड करें प्रोफ़ाइल पर[edit]

प्रोफ़ाइल की जानकारी कमल जीत सिंह (talk) 20:41, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@कमल जीत सिंह: Hi,

Wikimedia Commons is not a social media, and we don't host profiles unless you are already active to the project. Please read COM:SCOPE. Sorry, no Hindi yet, but you can help translate it.

नमस्ते,

विकिमीडिया कॉमन्स एक सोशल मीडिया नहीं है, और हम तब तक प्रोफाइल होस्ट नहीं करते जब तक कि आप पहले से ही इस परियोजना के लिए सक्रिय न हों। कृपया COM:SCOPE पढ़ें। क्षमा करें, अभी तक कोई हिंदी नहीं है, लेकिन आप इसका अनुवाद करने में सहायता कर सकते हैं। Yann (talk) 20:47, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mislabeled and Misrepresented Photo[edit]

File:Yakan.jpg#globalusage

Hello, the photo here is listed as a photo of a "Yakan couple," with the implication in that description and in the use by the various pages that this is a couple from the Yakan tribe of people in the Philippines. However these are not Yakan people, as these are two dancers from the Filipino-American dance group I am a part of called LIKHA Pilipino Folk Ensemble during a performance. Here is an image of the male person in the Yakan photo from 2023: second man from the left in black. Although the original Yakan photo in question was apparently taken in 2008, you can likely see they are the same person, but of course more confirmation can be provided if need be. They are both American, and are representing a Yakan couple in a performed dance in the photo. We don't necessarily need the photo to be removed from all these pages, as the representation of the Yakan culture to my understanding is fairly accurate, as it is based on research trips to the Yakan people. However we would like that the photo somehow be clarified as not of a Yakan tribesperson, but specifically a representation of Yakan people during a performance or by Filipino-Americans.

How can we go about 1) confirming that they (the two dancers indicated in this photo) are not of the Yakan tribe, and 2) editing the description on the wikimedia page and the uses on various wikipedia pages to more accurately reflect the nature of the photo, considering we are not the copyright holder and do not seem to know the original taker of the photo as indicated on the wikimedia page? SamuelMinioza (talk) 22:58, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Chequea la imagen[edit]

Buenas, necesito que un administrador chequea la imagen File:Logo Laser Airlines (2018).jpg esa imagen fue publicado en Flickr y tiene licencia AbchyZa22 (talk) 23:24, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why can't I not up load this[edit]

I would like to up load the following but after I upload this as a pdf file, in the description bar it will not let me? What can I do to upload this information?

Michael

Stuart Bender (born April 24, 1953), and Angelo Funicelli (born Sept 23, 1957) are a Los Angeles-based, collaborative artist team, best known for their work in video art, installation, and performance, with a heavy emphasis on the use of electronic and vocal music. They played a central role in the video art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Their work has been exhibited widely, including at the New York and San Francisco Film Festivals, the American Film Institute, the Directors Guild of America, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and is archived at the Getty Center in Brentwood, California. Early life, education, and meeting[edit] Bender was born in New Britain, Connecticut. His family moved to New York where he attended a number of universities, studying fine art. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 1993. Funicelli was born in Mt. Vernon, New York, where he studied music privately and,,for a short time, at the Manhattan School of Music. The pair met in 1975 when they were both attending Buffalo State College. From there, they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they learned radio production.Relocating to Long Beach, California, in 1978, they quickly became established in the world of video art, of which the Long Beach Museum of Artwas a major international center at the time. Work[edit] Since the early 1980s, Bender and Funicelli have made videos, installations and performances that examine the nature of memory, history and identity as they are shaped by personal desires and societal pressures. Their early videos tended to be brief, darkly humorousexaminations of aspects of American culture and society, such as the grasping for fame, the cult of celebrity, and violence. Later works evolved to be more lyrical, contrapuntal ruminations on history, memory, and identity. Social activism[edit] Active in gay rights efforts since college, Bender and Funicelli helped found the first LGBT center in Albuquerque, and produced a number of gay rights radio programs, including a weekly newscast focused on issues affecting the gay community. Artworks and critical reception[edit] As MTV grew in popularity and influence in the 1980s, Bender and Funicelli started to create music videos, performances, and installations that explored the possibilities of the music video medium as a new type of experimental multimedia. Their first music video, Spider Love Lullaby(1986), was described by Helen Harrison in the New York Times as “amusing yet cautionary… in which a grotesque mother figure, half human, half graphic, croons reassuring platitudes to her anxious offspring, while contradictory visual information flashes on the screen.” Seven Prophecies (1990) was commissioned by Michael Nash, then video curator of the Long Beach Museum of Art. A seven-part work based on fragmentary prophecies spanning a millennium, it was the museum’s first interactive installation. Writing in Artweek, Robert Payne noted that, “Seven Prophecies defiantly collapses past and future, memory and augury,” while in the LA Weekly, Peter Frankcalled it a “piéce de resistance… a riveting stretch of multimedia whose scope as well as content is nothing short of operatic.” Visitations (1991) is an ambitious video-oratorio for choir and video projection, examining the role of vision and hallucination in effecting social revolution. Writing in Visions Art Quarterly, Kay Whitney describes the work as “an enormous bricolage and a Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk,” while John Henken in the Los Angeles Times describes the music as “deft, programmatic, historically allusive… In harmonic density, lyric grace, and formal assurance there is much for the analytical ear,” The next installation, The Earlier Known (1994) uses four channels of video and three channels of sound to sort through personal memories of events and objects. The piece was described by Cathy Curtis in the Los Angeles Times as “combatting the myth of a single-track narrative cleanly yieldinga single ‘truth’.” Created on a commission from the Santa Monica Museum of Art,the video installation Inductionemploys eleven channels of video and four channels of sound to examine notions of male identity. On selecting Induction as an Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank described it in the LA Weekly as, “hypnotizing, multi-image surroundings reminiscent of, (if darker spirited and more narrative than) a ‘60s media-bath, including single-monitor and multimonitor video components and projections on wall and floor.” Other Work[edit] In addition to their collaborations, Bender and Funicelli have worked with other artists and in other media as well. Bender’s graphic work has been exhibited widely, including a solo show at the gallery Par Ci, Par La in Lyon, France. He has also collaborated as videographer and editor with artists Nancy Buchanan, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, and Ulysses Jenkins, among many others. Funicelli has composed music for other video and performance artists, most notably Nancy Buchanan for whom he scored the performance Freedom Suites (1984) and the videotapes Sightlines, Mouthpiece, California Stories, The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction, and Windows and Mirrors. Selected Awards and Commissions[edit] • Open Channels Artist Access Award, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1987 • Visiting Composer grant, California Institute for the Arts, Electronic Music Studios, 1988 • Public Corporation for the Arts Grant, 1990 • Commission – Long Beach Museum of Art (Seven Prophecies), 1990 • Commission – Long Beach Museum of Art (Visitations), 1991 • National Endowment for the Arts; 1993 • Commission – Santa Barbara Institute for Contemporary Art (The Earlier Known), 1994 • California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, 1996 • Commission – Santa Monica Museum of Art (Induction), 1996 Selected works and exhibitions Seven Prophecies (interactive video/music installation, and single channel video) Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Dallas Film and Video Festival, Dallas, Texas Denver Film Festival, Denver, Colorado Filmforum Media Festival, Los Angeles, California Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Videonale 4, Bonn, Germany Deutscher Videokunstpreis,Karlsruhe, Germany

Dies Irae (excerpt from Seven Prophecies) San Francisco International Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, California Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio Northwest Film and Video Center, Portland, Oregon Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts The Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois USA Film and Video Festival, Dallas, Texas Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, California The Earlier Known (4 channel video/music installation) University of California, Riverside SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, California Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California Saddleback College Fine Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, California Details from The Earlier Known (single-channel music video) Worldwide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California 6th International Video Week, Geneva, Switzerland Fundacao Athos Bulcao, Brasilia; Brazil Instituto Municipal de Arte & Cultura-Rio Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Armed Man (single-channel music video) New York Film and Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City, NY American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA Worldwide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA Visitations (performance for mixed choir and video) Long Beach Museum of Art, California Anza Borrego (single-channel excerpt from Visitations) National Satellite Telecast: Creative Time, New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Worldwide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands 7th Australian International Video Festival,Sydney, Australia Muu Media, Helsinki, Finland

The Castle: A Fairytale (performance for singers, narrator, video, shadow puppets, audiotape)

Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, California

Spider Love Lullabye(single-channel music video) New Music America Festival, Miami, Florida Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia Videonale 2, Bonn, Germany Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museude Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fine Art Museum of Long Island, New York GeoffreyTaber Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio California State University, Northridge, California L.A. Center for Photographic Studies Annual, Glendale, California

Induction (11 channel video/music installation) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Breath of Venus (four channel video/music installation) Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA Selected works (single-channel music videos) European Media Arts Festival,Osnobruck, West Germany Aarhus Video Festival, Aarhus, Denmark Pepsi Co SummerFare, State University of N.Y., Purchase, New York L.A. Electric II, MVC, Los Angeles, CA Pasadena Video Festival, Pasadena, CA So. California Resources for Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Los Angeles, CA The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA Saddleback College Fine Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Canterbury Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA Claremont College, Claremont, CA

References[edit] Barrie, Lita. “Why History Repeats Itself—Visitations at the Long Beach Museum of Art,” Artweek, 26 September 1991 ---. “The Semiotic Virus and Narcissism Anonymous.” In Action, Realities, Transformations: Race and Representations in the Visual Arts—A Curriculum Guide, edited by Joseph Lewis. Community Arts Press, California Institute of the Arts, 1994 Bender, Stuart and Funicelli, Angelo. “Memory and Time: Artists’s Statements,” Artweek, 7 April 1994 Bender, Stuart; Funicelli, Angelo; and Klonarides, Carole Ann. “Artist Page,” Felix-A Journal of Media Arts and Communications, Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 1993 Brown, Betty Ann. "Gatekeepers," Visions Art Quarterly, Fall, 1994 Chalavalon, Janine, “Premiere Exposition de Stuart Bender,” Le Progres, October, 2006 Coyne, Eric. “The Times of Your Life,” The Fresno Bee, April 3, 1994 Curtis, Cathy. " 'Shooting at Ghosts' Targets Memories Lost and Known,"Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1994 Darling, Michael. “Coming to terms with ‘Time’,” Santa Barbara News-Press, January 21, 1994 Fallon, D’Arcy. “Godparents to Video Artists,” Long Beach Press-Telegram, June 9, 1981 Frank, Peter. “Arts Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, June 29, 1995 Frank, Peter. “Arts Pick ofthe Week,”L.A. Weekly, February 29, 1996 Frank, Peter. “Arts Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, January 15, 1998” Funicelli, Angelo. “A Dream of Life and Death,” High Performance Magazine #26, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1984 Guardiola, Juan. “Lost and Found: A Tribute to the Long Beach Museum of Art,” Scratching the Belly of the Beast; Cutting Edge Media in Los Angeles 1972-1994, Filmforum, Los Angeles, 1994 Harrison, Helen A. “Computer Imaging On Display,”New York Times, January 3, 1988 Henken, John. “A Solemn, Multimedia Visitations,”Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1991 Horner, Brett. “Artist Project Page,” Vernacular Magazine, Volume 1 number 1, December 1994 Korten, Noel; Weisberg, Ruth. “Allegorical Re/Visions, “Exhibition Catalogue, December, 1997 Leopoldseder, Hannes. Der Prix Ars Electronica: International Compendium of Computer Arts, Edition 90, 1990 Nash, Michael. “The Art of Music Video,” Exhibition Catalogue, August, 1989 Nash, Michael. “Vision vs. Television,” L.A. Style Magazine, Volume 6 number 1, June 1990 Nolan, Timothy. “Breathing Spaces,” Artweek, August , 1995 Payne, Robert. “We, the Oracle,” Artweek, April 4, 1990 Skiöld, Ann. “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis,” The Independent, February 3, 1994 Snowden, Don, “A Painter Finds Extra Dimensions,”Los Angeles Times, Oct. 22, 1987 Tanney, Kathy. “For the Record,” High Performance Magazine #35, Vol. IX, No. 3, 1986 Wager, Greg. “ExIndigo! Performs,”Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1991 Whitney, Kay. “Millenarialism as Zeitgeist in Los Angeles,” Visions Art Quarterly, Fall, 1992 Woodard, Joseph. “Shadowy Images,”Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1999

Notes[edit] 1. Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive 1964-2003 2. Induction by Stuart Bender and Angelo Funicelliin ArtFacts 3. New Trends from the World Wide VideoFestival 4. Decision at Prix Ars Electronica 5. Stuart Bender in the Getty Archive 6. ArtFacts - Stuart Bender and Angelo Funicelli: Induction 7. For the Record byStuart Bender, Getty Archive 8. New Trends from the Worldwide Video Festival, 1993-1994 9. Bonn Videonale 4 archived catalogue 10. Deutscher Videokunstpreis, 1992, archive catalogue, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 11. The Castle by Angelo Funicelli in the Getty Research Collections 12. The Day of Judgement by Stuart Bender and Angelo Funicelli in the Archive Grid 13. The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. A videotape by Nancy Buchanan with music by Angelo Funicelli. In TVMedia archive

Michael Bretten MBMMedia.USA (talk) 01:16, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]