Wikipedia talk:Upload

Note: This is the talk page for the overall Wikipedia upload page: Wikipedia:Upload.

See also the talk pages for the various Wikipedia upload forms:
It is entirely my own work.	Talk
It is the work of someone else, who has given permission to use it on Wikipedia.	Talk
It is from a US federal government source.	Talk
It is from Flickr.	Talk
It is a promotional photo from an advertisement, press kit, or other promotional source.	Talk
It is the cover of an album or single.	Talk
It is a cover or other page from a book, DVD, newspaper, magazine, or other such source.	Talk
It is a screenshot taken of a movie, TV program, computer game, web site, computer program, music video, or other such source.	Talk
It is the logo of an organization, brand, product, public facility, or other item.	Talk
It is a picture of a postage stamp, or of currency.	Talk
It is an image from a website.	Talk
It is from somewhere else.	Talk

Note: Most of the links in the left side of the above table are to the transcluded introductory instruction text for the various upload forms linked from Wikipedia:Upload. For the full range of such transcluded text see Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Uploadtext.

The flickr uploader assumes it is a free image

I'm currently trying to help somebody who I imagine followed the upload link and tried to upload from Flickr, but because it was a screenshot of a movie it wasn't suitable for commons, which the flickr uploader links to, and so although he provided fair use stuff it's getting deleted there. It's unlikely to come up often, but it could be confusing. --Tombomp (talk) 16:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

As a start, I've copied over the explanation from the Commons. I changed Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr's protection from full to semi so that others can work on the wording etc. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 20:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki

{{editprotected}} Please add the interwiki for vi:Wikipedia:Tải tập tin lên. Thank you. Vinhtantran (talk) 06:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

 Done. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not the United States

Why are materials produced by governments outside of the United States not addressed? —Largo Plazo (talk) 07:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear they are adressed, you have to request some body. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Farazbs20 (talk • contribs) 11:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

No they aren't. There's "It is from a U.S. federal government source (NOT state or local government)" to cover the United States and its subdivisions, and no link or explanation for material from any non-U.S. government. —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:48, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Material not from the US federal government is most likely not in the public domain and so another form should be used. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 19:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Is that true? Is the United States unique among the world's nations in not asserting copyright protection over the materials it produces? —Largo Plazo (talk) 22:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Probably not. And we do have specific templates for certain government works. But for the purposes of the upload page, we only use the most likely licenses, and I suspect of all government works being uploaded, the US-federal sourced works represent the overwhelming majority. MBisanz ^talk 22:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Information template used in upload form

In the upload form, when it provides Template:Information, it gives a "Location=" field, but this is not a valid field in the template, causing information to be provided here to be hidden from displaying. The field should be removed immediately from the "Summary" box provided. MECU≈talk 15:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Weird, I wonder how that extra field got in there...anyway, it's gone now. Thanks for the report! —Remember the dot ^(talk) 02:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Info on how to add a license if not in the dropdown box

After seeing several comments like [1], would it be possible to include information near the dropdown box on how to add a license tag if the dropdown box doesn't have it? Something like "If the license you wish to select does not exist here, you may wish to try another upload form, or just add the license tag to the Summary box above." Editors don't seem to realize they can just put the license tag in the summary box and it will be fine. Also, in researching this, I noticed the US Government dropdown box only has 1 selection "US Government Source", but it should have many (Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force, NASA, USGS, NIH, USCG, FBI, CIA... and so on). Can someone please add all the valid options here so they get categorized better? Thanks. MECU≈talk 13:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

What if we just changed the US government form to be a soft redirect to the Commons' US government form? Almost all US government images should go there anyway and they have a nicer form. Plus, with single-user login on its way, it wouldn't be too much hassle to send users to another Wikimedia project. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 16:07, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The same argument could be said for all free images here, but when I proposed that back April 2007, Commons balked saying it would overwhelm them and they're not really prepared to handle such a large influx of images and don't have the admins or other users to watch and process and keep bad images out. With that said, I see the Flickr upload page here now just points to Commons, but they have a bot to auto-verify all Flickr images, so that may be why (and the whole license change issue on Flickr). But a year later, maybe Commons is better equipped (or could be with some notice, like another bot to check all "US Gov" images and their source url, similar to a Flickr review program) to handle such things. Perhaps slowly weening and not dump at once would be a better plan. The "own work" should stay as is until Commons is throughly equipped to handle all the "I saved it on my computer, it's mine now." types as well. I would say the "permission" one should redirect to Commons before the US Gov one, since OTRS is well established and handles images here and Commons quite routinely and wouldn't really involve Commons users/admins in doing more work (more images aside). There still isn't a good educational system for images (I'm working on it, you can help!) so "US Gov" is still a little vague to some people (that is, some people don't understand what "federal government" really is and isn't). MECU≈talk 17:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki

Please add interwiki to sl: (sl:Wikipedija:Naloži datoteko). --Smihael (talk) 12:41, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

yo

hey wsup —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiisdabomb (talk • contribs) 22:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

This Page is Worthless

Even though it talks to you like you're 3 years old, it still manages to confuse. I just uploaded a screenshot, taken by me, but from a "GFDL" program. So, I click on the own work link, but there's not the right template available. So, I go back and click on the screenshot link. Still no luck. When I click on Linux software, it says that it's copyrighted, meaning I can't use it for all purposes? It's fucking GFDL software available to everyone. Man, you wannabe lawyers really need to stop trolling new users whenever they try to upload an image on your site. You're a bunch of hypocrites, pretending like you're defending a "free" encyclopedia, but really pushing your own political beliefs on people. You make yourselves feel important by deleting other people's images. I'm sure you'll delete mine, too, because you're such big assholes. Only paranoid Stallman fanboys are welcome on this site, it seems.--Knowhands enjoykeep (talk) 02:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

The "It is entirely my own work" specifies "I created it, own all the rights to it, and have not used anyone else's work in making it" and clearly you did use someone else's work (OpenSUSE) so that link wasn't appropriate. That's why there was no appropriate template. On the Linux template that you eventually found you should have noticed that it says "If this is a screenshot of free software (GPL, BSD, etc.) do not use this template! Use the license tag that correspond to the license instead, optionally alongside {{Free screenshot}} to categorize as a free screenshot. If you look at the image that you replaced (Image:Opensuse 10.3 first-boot.png)[2] you can see how it is used. --AussieLegend (talk) 07:10, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Hello AussieLegend. I didn't know that you had this page on your watch list. I'm sure you're not just checking my contribution log every few hours so you can follow me around, are you?

{{Free screenshot}}! I should have known! Maybe you people should have just put that in the drop-down list like the old days instead of making us go through a trap? Don't think I don't know why this page is here.--Knowhands enjoykeep (talk) 07:24, 3 May 2008 (UTC)