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Shortcut: [[:]] This Help desk is a forum for questions and help on How to use the Commons Anyone, from newbie to experienced, can ask a question here. Questions will be replied to here as well. Please sign your question by typing four tildes (~~~~). In order to get quick answers consider the following points: For discussing current licenses, post at Commons talk:Licensing. For policy, proposals and technical information, post on Commons:Village pump For administrator attention, post here, Commons:Administrators' noticeboard or directly to an administrator For questions not related to this website, try Wikipedia:Reference desk Have you checked the Commons:FAQ and Help:Contents? You may also find what you are looking for in the Commons:Help desk/Archives. Sections with no discussion in seven days will be archived, and listed at the index. Click here to ask your question about using the Commons

i have a light that keeps blinking and i don't know what it is can you please tell me.

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Can I link my website on my watertower to yours? Thanks. www.watertowerutscheid.eu

Dear friends I hope that you are well my name is William gottke I live in ca I hope that all so day live in peace and that the people that are causeing us to to harm oneanother and that some how we can work together to help all the people live together with out thoose who would cause harm to the people us this world. I see that you have make great advances torwerds peace since we last spoke I hope that this brings greater peace to all people and that all good people of all nations will work together to stop those that are in our own ranks I am proud to say the the usa will always stand for peace and that together we can all live a better life. I my self am afraid of the bad guys but its not as bad as your great nation has it may I wish that you and yours will be safe I am just waiting for the day when I can feel safe in this world Please have a great day William gottke

Hi commoners! Could somebody extract the right ghost from the pic and put it in a upright position (ca. 93°), please? Thanks a lot! Mattes 14:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone please put this pic in an upright position?! Thanks a lot, -- Mattes 03:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply] I rotated and improved it a bit. Please do all your future cleanup requests using Commons:Images for cleanup. --Para 12:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow — that's great!!! Thanks a lot!

All the best, Mattes 16:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi commoners, would there be a problem uploading a combination of a small picture and a short text in a certain language? F.e. something like this, but as a whole image, and of course without any licence violation?

This User is against the use of Nuclear Plants

Thanks for answering. The most important thing is, whether such combinations would be deleted here. --88.73.228.79 10:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It should not be deleted, but why would you want to do that? Why not just use a table as you did in your example? It is much more flexible especially since including words means it will basically only be useful for projects that speak that language. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 02:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I'm wondering about this file here (http://www.un.org/icty/glance/ENGLISH.pdf). There is an uploaded file of it currently at the Norwegian WP. Would it be possible to upload this to Commons? It's a poster that I guess UN would want to be circulated as much as possible. But I'm unsure of the license. --Babaroga 19:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The UN may want it widely circulated, but they wouldn't necessarily want it used commercially or for derivative works to be made; unless these are allowed, it won't fit Commons' definition of "free" (libre). Copyright notices on other parts of the UN site (such as press photos) typically only allow non-commercial use. --Davepape 20:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to replace USGS_world_oil_endowment.png with a smaller version (better compression, same quality) but my account is too new. I uploaded the new image as USGS_world_oil_endowment2.png --GMPotato 19:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --EugeneZelenko 16:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have uploaded a few images to Commons and/or Wikipedia under a free licence. So far, all photos have been taken by me. As I had taken the photos myself, I was able to release them either as {{PD-self}} or {{GFDL-self}}.

Supposing my husband or brother-in-law or father takes a photo for me, with my camera, and is happy for me to release it into the public domain. The upload page suggests that I have to name the author of the file, and e-mail the permission to permissions@wikimedia.org. Not everyone in my family uses a computer or has e-mail, and I think I'm the only one with a Wikipedia or Commons account, so I can't attribute it to their "usernames". I really don't want to give my full name or theirs, and yet I know that if I took the photo myself, it would suffice just to say that it was taken by ElinorD.

There are a few examples of photos that I'd like to upload, but that I wouldn't be physically able to take myself. For example, if I am kneading and folding bread dough, someone in the family would have to take the photo of the position of my hands.

How do I licence a genuinely-free, non-professional photo taken by a close family member (with the intention of releasing it into the public domain), without revealing his or her (or my) personal details? Thanks. ElinorD 23:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well if the intent is to release it into the public domain, you might as well state that you took it. That may not be actually illegal (PD releases ALL rights including attribution) and I somehow doubt your relative will sue you for doing so. Alternatively you could argue that they were "working" for you and waived all their rights on the image to you; . That's a couple quick and dirty solutions, I'm sure more detailed and considered ones will follow. ;)--Nilfanion 00:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are being a little picky (better picky than violator tough!). If my girlfriend takes a picture of my left foot it'll be the same if I use a tripod. It'll be the same if during a trip one of the pictures were taken by her. So, if a close relative takes a picture you can upload it as your own, we just should use our "Common" sense. Dantadd✉ 00:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please could you delet this image for me http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Capa_05.gif! Thanks a lot

 Done. prefer use Category:Other speedy deletions for this sort of request. Oxam Hartog 02:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newbie here. I ran across the following: "It has been proposed that Category:Military people (U.S. Navy) be renamed and moved to Category:People of the United States Navy." I believe that this is a really bad idea and expressed my belief on a discussion page for the Category. But where did this proposal come from? How and where does one make such a proposal? Where do I find the proposal, and find who made the proposal, and find who is responsible for acting on the proposal? Why didn't the person who made the proposal initiate a discussion at the Category page; there is no information or prior discussion there, and I had to create the discussion page to express my point of view. So far it feels like I've undertaken a discussion with a phantom. I've looked everywhere in Commons I can think of, and have found nothing to enlighten me about any of this. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Oops, I just noticed "For policy, proposals and technical information, post on Commons:Village pump". I'll re-post this there.

Lorentzo 10:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm a long time user of wikipedia and I noticed the G20 image didnt have Saudi Arabia on it. I uploaded the file on to here as G20A.png, as my wikimedia commons account is too new to overwrite G20.png. Could someone please move G20A.png to G20.png please? Jamie C 15:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can somebody who understands public domain licensing by the Australian Government better than I take a look at the following page and give an opinion: w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve#West Leeming Primary School Logo? Nmajdan 18:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with them. I have never seen any suggestion that public school logos are public domain in Australia. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 02:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello all. I'm sure this is a basic SVG question, but I'm having a problem with the labels on my first SVG upload. When I created Image:Icosian_grid_labelled.svg and Image:Icosian_grid_labelled2.svg in InkScape 0.45, the 20 vertex labels looked just fine (in 20-point Times New Roman and Verdana, respectively). When I upload the graphics, there's just a blob in place of the first label, and nothing for the other 19. Any ideas?

Rupert Clayton 18:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The text is "flowed" text. It should just be ordinary text. I'm looking to see if there's anything I can do to fix it. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 18:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the "2" version. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 19:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's great! Thanks for the fix, and I'll try to fix it in future images. Rupert Clayton 08:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sarja de la Robanesti ramine magnificul act de curaj pe care escadronul condus de capitanul Alexandru Filitti l-a savirsit in luna noiembrie a anului 1916. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.137.194.9 (talk • contribs) at 5 mars 2007 à 20:34 (UTC)

1. Is there a general redirect from all http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: pages to the English Wikipedia? I've absentmindedly typed in: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hilfe (German for "help"), which took me to some non-existing page of the English Wikipedia. It took me a while to understand what actually happened. Wouldn't it make more sense to limit redirects to actually existing pages??

2. Is there a way of finding out whether someone has sent an e-mail to permissions@wikimedia.org? I've asked at a website whether they would allow us to use two pictures (explaining all the license stuff and all); they responded we could, so I asked them (on Feb 27) to send you a permission e-mail. Now I haven't heard back anymore and wonder whether they've just changed their mind, or whether they've already sent it. (Next time I'll ask third parties to cc me in their "permission e-mail"... sorry.) Thanks,--Ibn Battuta 03:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For 1: That is a MediaWiki software setting using interwikis. If you type in that *URL*, you'll get that behaviour. That doesn't happen when you type 'Wikipedia:Hilfe' in the search box, right??

For 2: Yes - ask someone with OTRS access to check what has happened. A partial list of people with access is at Template_talk:PermissionOTRS#Commons_people_with_access_to_OTRS.If you provide some more details, I or someone else can search and check. Probably we could do with a page like Commons:Requests to check an OTRS ticket. --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 08:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried to upload a new entry, but I keep getting rejected that a .doc file can't be uploaded. How else do I do it?

You can't. Documents should be uploaded in the PDF format, if at all. Why do you want to upload a .doc?? --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, consider the way this [[1]] behaves, since he just spends time blocking users' capabilities to upload files, deleting them without warning and not answering the kind questions of users like myself. In his discussion area, he deletes all my questions just leaving the "positive" postings. I thougth Wikipedia was free and responsible, but it seems so far just another niche for mean people to destroy somebody else's will to help providing information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.144.134.95 (talk • contribs) at 13:27, 6 Mar 2007 (UTC)

I tried to look through Yann's talk page but could find out who we're supposed to help. Who are you? / Fred Chess 13:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I came to the same conclusion - someone blocked maybe (CU?) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

During the past weeks I have been uploading images on Wiki Commons. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rein_ergo

Obviously I'm doing something wrong here. All the image are mine and I have the artists' agreement to publish the images (and his work) on Wiki commons. Can someone give me a good example how I should upload these images ?

Thanks,

Rein

It's looks like deletion request was closed and images must be kept. Just remove {{Delete}} tags from images you uploaded. Please add reference to deletion request in edit comments. --EugeneZelenko 15:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this article in a Wikipedia article, and thought it looked terribly familiar. In fact, it is very familiar to me, as it is on page 10 of the very old instructions for a lab I teach. I also believe I've seen it somewhere else (perhaps Knoll or Leo), so I am rather confused by HPaul's assertion that it is his own work. I'm not an active editor here, so I don't know the proper process for dealing with this sort of issue, and would greatly appreciate some guidance (I expect there is a tag to put on the page). --Constantine 22:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]