User talk:Jasonlee9102

Photos for Korea Central Zoo

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your interest in uploading photos. If you do not have the right to release the photos under a free license, it will not allow you to upload unless you can demonstrate that the file qualifies for fair use (mostly only for logos and other such artwork which would have no other alternate source). If you can be more specific about the steps you took, I may be able to help. The easiest way to start is to use the Upload File form that you can access under the Toolbox entry to the left of article or talk pages. It walks you through the information you need to provide, and you can then tell me what step you got stuck on. If you post your answers right below this, I will have this page watched and we can keep the entire thread in a single location. Don Lammers (talk) 21:44, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have looked farther up my watchlist. I see you actually managed to upload the files, but from the message it looks like you must have picked "Fair use". Fair use does not mean that "it's fair for anyone to use the photo" (which it unfortunately sounds like). It means that someone else owns the copyright (you did not take the photo) and that you are declaring that the use on WikiPedia meets certain strict guidelines. Fair use is not allowed on Commons, where everything must be free, which is why you got the copyright message. If these are your own photos and you are releasing them for free use, you should be able to upload them again and this time pick "This is a free work" and answer the questions that appear and pick a license. Please make sure you put a description that actually says what the photo is about -- not just the name of the zoo. Don Lammers (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2012 (UTC)