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Restriction of POTD to Featured Images is nonsense and against the scope of Commons, Valued Images should also be eligible
Discussion moved to Commons talk:Picture of the day. --Podzemnik (talk) 18:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Editing the foto of a tortured in 1973
In the German Wikipedia of Torture, there is a chapter about Chile. There are quotations,no pictures. I would like to upload a picture of a person – before and after being tortured and assasinated. Generally there will be few fotos to show what is left after torture. So this foto could be unique and could be included in any language.
The question is, whether I am allowed to upload fotos of the death person. In December 1973 I was in Chile in an UNESCO function weeks before a military putsch against Salvadore Allende. After the putsch all foreigners were considered communists and UNHCR was responsible for them. So I accompanied the Chilean party including the wife of the tortured to fetch the body. In Chile dead persons are burried in zinc coffins. We choose on with a big window.
Therefore we could make fotos of the tortured. I possess the originals so I suppose they were made by me. I have copies of all declarations and denouncements. The death person was buried by the protestant church.
I would like to upload the foto – where ?– to be used on any page. The details of the tortured: He was vietnames, his father a North vietnamese general, grown up in Paris where he studied chemistry, with a doctorate in Canada. He later met Chilean president Allende in his home in Canada and once Kissinger. For working illegaly in Canada he was to be deported to South Vietnam and choose to find asylum in Chile. He worked in a fishing project in Chile.
I am told he had a black belt, so he could have tried to defend himself on arrestation. Visiting the Chilenian military police SIM, it seemed that everybody knew the case. --Cuauti (talk) 19:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Here are my thoughts: If you have taken the photo, then I believe that this would be a great photo to have uploaded. Now, you say two things: 1) You were taking photographs, 2) You have the original of this photograph. For me this is sufficient evidence that you are the one who took this photo. However, please keep in mind that anybody can still nominate the photo for deletion after it is uploaded, it would not be a personal attack on you, but rather a way that this community calls discussions of legality of keeping the photograph. If you want to make sure that there is less of a chance of that happening, you may want to follow the COM:OTRS procedure after uploading and placing {{OTRS pending}} template in the file description to show that you did so. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 10:37, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
@Cuauti: We do not have restrictions based on the subject, as long as there are no laws prohibiting it, like with child pornography. And we do have Category:Dead people with photographs of corpses. However the photographs still have to meet our copyright restrictions, so it has to be a photo you took or a photograph for which you can determine that it is in public domain. --Jarekt (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Image of Rodolfo Guevara Dato not shown in page
Comment by Stephentalla moved to COM:VP (Special:Diff/421138580). Storkk (talk) 12:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
download public domain images
Hello, I would like to know if you can download the photographs from wikimedia, just like you can do with wikipedia and your kiwix project, in order to have the most beautiful images of the world offline.
thanks
--Makebos (talk) 19:13, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Makebos. Whenever you open anything labelled "File:" there will be a section below the image/video/audio explaining the license agreement. There are a few licenses: some will be fully public domain, some will be Creative Commons (which means you have to cite the original author), and some will be a limited use of a private domain work. In short, most things on Wikimedia Commons will need you to attribute the author. If you want a more detailed understanding of licenses, have a look at the Commons:Licensing page for more information, and at any license that is connected to the media you want to use. Hope thish helps! Bibeyjj (talk) 12:41, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
POTD captions
POTD captions are hidden behind a dozen of templates and the template system itself is an absolute nightmare. It's no wonder we constantly get horrible and plain wrong captions because there probably are just a couple of users that know or bother to discover where the captions are stored. I'm not even going to try to trace where that is. I've seen and commented on wrong species ID and other inaccuracies. And here again, we have a subspecies of a bird (Ceryle rudis leucomelanurus) under a photo of a flower! What the hell?! I'm talking about the POTD of 12 June 2020. --Exonie (talk) 19:19, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Redirect
The "content" box on the main page advertises Category:Marine life, however that category appears to be a redirect to Category:Marine organisms. The link should probably be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Majavah (talk • contribs) 08:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
- This is under "Contents" on protected Template:Main Page Template. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:58, 17 August 2020 (UTC)