User:Pdebee/Uploading photos

General guidelines on photos
To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it.


 * If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload.
 * If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways;
 * A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr)
 * B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like:
 * "Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached."
 * -Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out)


 * -And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, please refer to Help:Files and to Help:Contents/Images and media for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links.

Rob's guidelines for uploading photos
Hi Patrick, here's a quick overview of what it takes to load pics. First for commons, the pics need to be "free", which ideally means that you took them, or otherwise it means that somebody published them under a free CC license. A good place to look is Flickr where you can specifically search for pics with the right license. Non-free pics should be loaded here to English wiki, but you have to pass the fair use test. If it's reasonable that someone could take a free pic, it does not qualify, which is why you don't see such pics of living people, but if someone has deceased it is no longer possible to take a free pic, so you can load them. Likewise, if a band has broken up, the same argument can be made. The thing to do is, look at other pics that have been loaded and review the justification that was used, as that might give you some idea as to what will work and what won't. Hope that helps, Rob. Robman94 (talk) 03:20, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Rob,
 * Thank you so much for taking the time to read this section, and also for offering your guidance above, on the subtleties attached to the rules governing photos in Wikipedia. Your input is immensely helpful and I feel encouraged to make the effort of learning more by studying existing examples, as you suggest. I had begun to do this for album covers and will probably start there, as it appears a simple enough process to get started with. If that works well, I'll test the waters with the one photo I have, which I took myself in 1985 and had digitized. I'll also follow your advice and look on Flickr and proceed from there. It all seems a bit daunting from here because of my ignorance and lack of experience, but also because I'd hate to do the wrong thing, especially in risking copyright violations.
 * In any case, very many thanks once again for your patient and helpful guidance, Rob.
 * With kind regards;
 * Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 15:32, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Album covers are easy, you obviously can't find a free version, so they qualify under "fair use" and should be loaded here rather than at Commons. I have loaded many album covers (example), so look at the rationale that I used so you can use something similar.  You need to keep the size small for fair use pics, usually 300x300 pixels works.  For any pic that you took yourself, there is no problem, you can load those to Commons, and load the full size pic..  Again, I have loaded many of my own pics (example), so follow my lead if it helps.  When you're searching Flickr for pics, you should first look for pics released under a Creative Commons license WITHOUT commercial or derivative restrictions. Here's an example of a Flickr pic with the right license.  If you click on the "Some rights reserved" link, you'll see that this is released under a CC 2.0 Generic license.  Here's an example of a Flickr pic with the wrong license as this one says "All rights reserved".  Here's another bad one because, even though this is released under a CC license, it has the NonCommercial-NoDerivs tag, which makes it invalid for wiki use.  Another thing to be aware of is, just because someone has posted a pic with the right license doesn't mean they had the right to do so, for example this pic has the right license but it's a photo of a record, which is a copyrighted piece of work, so the photographer didn't have the right to release it under a free CC license.


 * If you do a search for an artist that you are working on and don't find any free pics, try searching next for pics released under a restrictive CC license and then write to the photographer and see if you can convince him or her to release them under a free license. I have done this successfully many times, like here.  Also, if you're writing about older artists, it's possible that there are free pics available due to them being released without the right copyright, and ebay is a good place to find these.  Here's an example. Robman94 (talk) 17:33, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Seth's guidelines for uploading photos of album covers
It is quite simple to upload (non-free images) album covers onto Wikipedia. All you need to do is upload an image off of say Amazon/AllMusic e.g. then go "Upload file" (to the left of this page, under "tools". Then click on "Old guided form", then click on "It is the cover of an album or a single", then click on "In an infobox that is written about the release". Then click on "Choose file". Complete....

"album cover fur


 * Article=


 * Use=Infobox


 * Source=


 * Name=


 * Artist=


 * Label=


 * Graphic Artist=


 * Item=


 * Type=


 * Website=


 * Owner=


 * Commentary=


 * Description=


 * Portion=


 * Low_resolution=


 * Purpose=


 * Replaceability=


 * other_information=

I only complete "|Article=" with no square brackets and |Source= with 1 square brack at the start and finish.

In "Licensing:" I click on "Album cover"...then that is it.

For free images, it is best to go onto WikiCommons.

Any problems or if I haven't explained things very well...please let me know. Seth Whales  talk    12:42, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Seth's guidelines for uploading photos of film posters from IMDb
[L]ook at WP:FUR then go down to "Necessary components", before you start.

The answer is that yes you can use screenshots/posters of films, exactly the same way as albums covers.


 * Begin by downloading the poster that you want.
 * Then select "Upload file" (under "Tools" on left hand side of the Home page), then click on "Old guided form" under "Wikipedia".
 * Then select "It is a screenshot taken of a movie, TV program, computer game, web site, computer program, music video, or similar source" (for a screenshot) or "It is a promotional photo from an advertisement, press kit, or similar source" (for a poster).
 * Browse and find the poster that you have downloaded previously.
 * Complete:


 * in "Licensing:" select "Movie screenshot" (if you selected "It is a screenshot...") or "Any kind of poster" (if you selected "It is a promotional photo..."

Guidelines for uploading photos of book covers

 * Search Google for the title of the book (e.g. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway) and go to "Images"
 * Locate the required book cover and select the image with the smallest file size (check file "Properties")
 * Upload a suitable book cover image (e.g. from Amazon/Abebboks, etc.)
 * Go to "Upload file" (on the left of the main Wikipedia page, under "tools").
 * Click on "Old guided form"
 * Click on "It is a cover or other page from a book, DVD, newspaper, magazine, or similar source"
 * Click on "Choose file" to open your computer's file structure
 * Complete "File name": (e.g. File:By-Line Ernest Hemingway 1967.jpg)
 * Complete "File description":
 * Complete "Destination filename:" will be the same file name as entered in "Source filename"
 * Complete "Article=" By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (the name of the article destined to display the book cover file)
 * Complete "Summary:" (i.e. the " " template):
 * Description: Book cover
 * Source: Abebooks
 * Article: By-Line: Ernest Hemingway
 * Portion used: Front cover
 * Low resolution?: Yes
 * Purpose of use: Infobox
 * Replaceable? (leave blank)
 * Click "Upload file" button at the bottom of the page
 * Add File:By-Line Ernest Hemingway 1967.jpg in the "|image =" parameter of the template.

Rob's instructions for archiving an image file displayed at an auction website
An alternative to uploading a new image file into Wikipedia is to point to an archived copy of an existing image displayed at an auction website (e.g. eBay or Abebooks). For example, the photograph of a theatre programme's cast list page can be used to prove that an actor played a specific role, if none of the other sources provided that evidence. But since the auctioned booklet will eventually be sold and the image removed, a good solution is to upload the image at the Wayback Machine and then link the citation to that archived image, as follows:
 * Create a cite book template, with the "|url=" parameter linking to the auction site item and image to be used in the citation
 * Go to web.archive.org and enter the URL in the Save Page Now box (or search for the URL and it will offer to save it if it hasn't been done so already). If an error occurs when trying to save the abebooks.co.uk URL, for example, then save the URL of the image instead:
 * right-click on the image displayed at the auction website
 * select 'Copy image address'
 * enter the image address in the Save Page Now box
 * Click on SAVE PAGE
 * Add the '|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/....jpg' and '|archivedate =' parameters in the cite book template.
 * Click on Publish changes.

Rob's instructions for re-using existing NFCC image files
To re-use an existing Non-free content criteria image in another article, you need to add a subsequent rationale, as follows:
 * Go to the image file: [Jean Gillie]
 * Click on the Edit button
 * Copy/paste a 2nd occurrence of the existing Non-free use rationale template
 * Update the Article name field with that of the other article: John R. Buckmaster (without square brackets/delimiter)
 * Modify the text in the Purpose of use field with your justification as to why you think the use of the photo benefits your article; e.g.:
 * "To identify a notable person, since a source (Gladys Cooper : A Biography by Sheridan Morley, 1979, page 178) states that Gillie and Buckmaster were in a relationship during the mid-1930s."
 * Update the edit summary: "Added 2nd entry of Non-free use rationale template, for re-use of the image in John R. Buckmaster, with whom Gillie was in a relationship (see Sheridan Morley, 1979, page 178)."
 * Click on Publish changes; a second "Non-free media information and use rationale for John R. Buckmaster" template has been added.