Acferrad

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 03:16, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Please properly use the "source" field

Hi Acferrad, Thank you for your contributions to Commons! It looks like a file you uploaded to Commons has an invalid entry indicated for its "Source" on File:Doris02.jpg. It is important that the |Source= field, which is the record of where a file came from, be accurate and as machine-readable as possible so that others can verify its license and be able to reuse the file under the correct terms. For example, sources such as "Me", "Self" or "My camera" should be replaced with the template {{Own}}; sources such as "Google", "The Internet", etc. are not considered valid and may result in deletion of the file. If you did not generate the file yourself, then you may want to revisit the file and be as specific as you can in identifying your source: ideally, this might be a stable link to the exact webpage that the image or file came from, or perhaps the title, year, and page number of the book where you found it (a link to a website in general is not usually considered specific enough, nor is simply restating the name of the author). For guidance on indicating your source please visit the page COM:SOURCE.

----Animalparty (talk) 06:47, 24 December 2019 (UTC) I tried adding source=Own work, but I get: Warning: Page using Template:Infobox pageant titleholder with unknown parameter "source" Acferrad (talk) 19:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC) And I have seen your comment regarding Citations, however I am unsure which of these you have issues with, so looking in the Citation help page doesn't really help me. Acferrad (talk) 19:26, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Are you really the legal copyright holder of all the historic photos you've uploaded? Did you take the original photographs? Or did you merely scan/photograph the images from a book, magazine, museum, etc. More evidence on the source of the images is needed to verify the license (see COM:EVIDENCE). Simple reproduction of an existing image doesn't grant new copyright. I doubt you are old enough to be the photographer, but the images may well be in the public domain depending on the photographer, date, and country of first publication, for instance {{PD-South-Africa}}. If they are in public domain, your claim to copyright/CC license is moot, but the actual source is still necessary. If you are truly the legal copyright holder (e.g. an heir of the creator(s), or legal representative of photographer's estate) of images that are not in the public domain for some reason, you should submit assertions and permission following the procedure at COM:OTRS, to prevent future deletion attempts. Cheers, --Animalparty (talk) 23:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Well I have the originals of all these photographs, they have been in the family for over 100 years. Clearly I am not the photographer, however these photographs were given to my grandfather, and have stayed in the family ever since. I'm not sure how wiki would classify this.Acferrad (talk) 23:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)