User talk:Coolbean2009

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helpme I am very confused with image copyrighting; I have a photo taken by a friend, they are allowing me to have copyright, and i chose an option I found suitable when uploading - I think it allows it to be used in WikiCommons but with my permission. I have uploaded several times but none of the photos appeared in the information box on the page I wanted it to. Help???
 * The commons is a separate website that you have to navigate to and upload there. You have never made an edit to the commons, at least under your present username. This is a link to the commons main page. If the image you are talking about is File:ALEXI.jpg, you uploaded that here, and whether you think you chose a license or not, no license appears in the image page. You say she has donated the copyright to you. Well, you will need to release it under a free license, and that image should be on commons and not here. Image uploading here is for copyrighted images claimed as fair use and, generally speaking, there is no such thing as fair use for an image of a living person. So you should: 1) tag the image page with db-g7 so it is deleted here; 2) go to the Commons, and upload it there under a free license, if you have the copyright rights to do so. Once uploaded there, it can be immediately used here.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

helpme Thank you for the welcome and your previous help. How do I tag the image to delete it, when it hasn't appeared on a Wikipedia page? I don't understand the Help with Tags page, it is too long to read. I will try uploading to Wikicommons, but then how do I get that across to my desired Wikipedia page? Also, I am not sure of the copyright.....it's only a photo taken one evening, no one is going to sue anyone.
 * To request the deletion of an image, you have to go to Files for deletion. However, you might want to move it to commons using . This will save you time. If it has a free license, your image can stay on wikipedia: no need to delete it. Note that you'll need to send a permission to commons:Commons:OTRS in order to release this file under a free license. This is to make sure that you really have the permissions over this image. Calimo (talk) 17:02, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * A couple of things. As I noted, you only need to go to the file and tag it with db-g7; you do not need to go to Files for Deletion. To do that, go to the file page, which is here, click "edit this page" at the top, add to the top of the page, click save. It should be deleted shortly thereafter. Second, free files do no belong on Wikipedia, and leaving it here means someone else will have to handle the issue of moving it to the Commons eventually. It's easier to simply upload it there than go through the process of transfer, which is a pain. As for placing it in an article, simply go to the article, and use normal image markup with the name of the file you have given it at Commons, i.e.,  . Note that if there is a file here and at Commons at the same time and by the same name, the local image overrides the Commons, meaning that you won't be able to use the Commons image if the image is not deleted from here. Calimo is correct that you will need to go through OTRS permissions. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:ALEXI.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:ALEXI.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation.  F ASTILY  (T ALK ) 23:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)