Pizza1512

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I'm glad you joined! Commons is a free media repository, rather than an encyclopedia. We don't have articles here; we host images that can be used across other wikimedia projects and we have galleries instead of articles. On Wikipedia, if you upload an image it can only be used on the English wikipedia: however, an image uploaded here can be used by any-language wikipedia or other project (such as Wikispecies, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, etc.). Any images you want to upload that are under a free license belong here so they can be used on other projects as well. However, Commons is not for fair use images; those should only be uploaded to the specific project they are used on. For info on what licenses we accept you can look at Commons:Licensing. If you have any more questions feel free to ask! -- Editor at Large • talk 13:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Any image saying "For educational use only" or "fair use" or "for use on wikipedia only" are not permitted on Commons. Images like this are clearly "fair use" per the license tag, and images taged with licenses such as this are not allowed because they are not entirely "free" in the sense that they do not allow modification. For full details take a look at Commons:Licensing; it has comprehensive info. -- Editor at Large • talk 14:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

File:Chemical_Laboratory,_Academy_of_Science_Munich_(1893)_.JPG

Hi Pizza1512, due to a discussion on German Wikipedia, I came across this picture which seems to be uploaded by you without permission of the photographer. Unfortunately, the license tag public domain is in my opinion not applicable.

Would you please check the book that you refer to as the source, what the citation in the book says about the photographer? We need his name and year of death to make sure that the picture is indeed in the public domain. If he has died less than 70 years ago, we would need permission from his heirs to publish the picture under a free license, it is only in the public domain if the photographer has died more than 70 years ago.

Here you will find further information concerning licensing.

--Schwäbin (talk) 11:40, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Bristol Grammar School Crest.svg

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Bob Re-born (talk) 14:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Dimitri Schostakovich.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

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Liliana-60 (talk) 21:56, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

File:Clare College Crest.svg

File:Clare College Crest.svg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Phyllopteryx (talk) 08:31, 12 February 2022 (UTC)