User talk:Dempsema

Welcome!
Hello, Dempsema, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Image copyright
Hi! I'm going to ping and  so they see this.

To summarize what has stated, image copyrights on Wikipedia are tricky. In order to upload something to Wikimedia Commons the image will have to be one of these things:


 * 1) Very old, such as a sculpture created over 150 years ago. This category is essentially images that fall within the public domain because they were either never copyrighted or the copyright for it has expired.
 * 2) The person who created the image, artwork, etc has released the image into the public domain or under a compatible Creative Commons license that would allow it to be posted on Wikipedia. This guide on Wikimedia Commons gives a good overview of what can or can't be uploaded. Although the guide concerns itself with Flickr, the license info is the same regardless of where the image came from. A creator can sometimes release an image under no copyright, but this is fairly rare.
 * 3) You took the photograph yourself. The catch here is that the photograph cannot be of something held under a copyright that would prohibit it from being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. You can't upload a picture of a recently created sculpture, for example. (Learned that one the hard way!) This image gives a quick overview of what you can't add.

Ultimately one of the most important things with images is to ensure the copyright is compatible. If you don't see the copyright, always assume that it can't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

I see that you've already uploaded a cover for the book to Wikipedia, so the main thing to be careful of with fair use images is that they can only be used in very specific ways, such as in infoboxes to identify something.

If you haven't taken the images and media training module, it may be good to review it again. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:22, 20 March 2018 (UTC)