MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed-pdf-new-user-upload

Automated filter Special:AbuseFilter/281: Commons no longer allows new users to upload PDF files.

This decision was reached because by far most attempted uploads of PDFs by new users turned out to be either copyright violations or out of scope. If you were not the original file designer or photographer, that original creator may need to provide an appropriate license on their official website or public-facing social media, or may send the file and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you.

If you cannot get a compliant license, it is possible that the file may still be uploaded to the relevant wiki in compliance with their local rules. If this upload is your own work, or is someone else's appropriately licensed work, and is within Commons' scope, please go to the page Commons:Abuse filter and click the report an issue with an abuse filter button near the top of the page.

To discuss PDFs, and their relevance to WikiCommons, please start a new thread at Commons:Village pump.