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Uploads without licence
[edit]About 3/4 of the permissions we receive from France and Spain refer to images without licence tag. This means considerable extra work for VRT, because we need to remove the complaint from the User:AntiCompositeBot/NoLicense and add the appropriate licence each time after having checked and approved the permission.
This has been going on for months now. Is there really nothing that can be done about it? It should be prevented that files get uploaded without licence tag. Mussklprozz (talk) 10:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- The problem is that we have so many accepted licenses that having a filter to prevent this is not really possible. If we decide that new users are only allowed to use the regular cc licenses we could easily create a filter. GPSLeo (talk) 10:40, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- How about a filter that forbids to leave the licence empty? This would eliminite 80% of the problem cases, since most users decide for cc-by-sa anyway. Mussklprozz (talk) 12:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'd suggest not to solve this by edit filter but by changing the upload interface. But it has to be found out at first which of the dozen ways for uploading creates this problem. Krd 12:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems to be the upload wizard. See e.g. File:Laura Urbina.jpg and File:Jorge León Gustà.jpg. --Mussklprozz (talk) 18:48, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the issue comes from the Upload Wizard. I mentioned that a few months back, and I am surprised that it has not been fixed yet. Yann (talk) 19:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the bug that selecting the permission option removes the license is still present. Just tested here File:Testfile2.png. @Sannita (WMF) could you have a look why this is still not resolved? GPSLeo (talk) 20:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- FWIW, on April 13 of this year, I edited Commons:Uploading works by a third party to describe the necessary workaround for this on uploads, because Sannita let me know he did not expect the fix to occur promptly. I still have no idea why a fix to this would be difficult. - Jmabel ! talk 21:50, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo Unfortunately, the Structured Content team is no longer active, and it is still unclear who owns UploadWizard in the latest re-organization. I'll keep pushing for a solution, if you would be so kind to send me the Phab ticket, I can try to find someone to work on it. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:39, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- The ticket should be phab:T391600. And the WMF did drop the maintenance of a core tool again? Is there an official statement why this happened? This is exactly what was the main criticism by the community in the open letters and also in the community call series. GPSLeo (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo AFAIK an announcement on Commons is in the making, but I have no news on when it will be published. About the ticket, I reached out to the devs, and they have it on their rader, but it's going to take at least another couple of weeks before it gets addressed, due to other priorities at the moment. I'll keep you posted, but please feel free to ping me here or in private about it, just to be sure it doesn't slip off my mind. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- is there any update on the announcement, can be more public than here Gnangarra 10:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Gnangarra no update, I pinged already in private the people behind it Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:21, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- is there any update on the announcement, can be more public than here Gnangarra 10:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo AFAIK an announcement on Commons is in the making, but I have no news on when it will be published. About the ticket, I reached out to the devs, and they have it on their rader, but it's going to take at least another couple of weeks before it gets addressed, due to other priorities at the moment. I'll keep you posted, but please feel free to ping me here or in private about it, just to be sure it doesn't slip off my mind. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- The ticket should be phab:T391600. And the WMF did drop the maintenance of a core tool again? Is there an official statement why this happened? This is exactly what was the main criticism by the community in the open letters and also in the community call series. GPSLeo (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the bug that selecting the permission option removes the license is still present. Just tested here File:Testfile2.png. @Sannita (WMF) could you have a look why this is still not resolved? GPSLeo (talk) 20:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the issue comes from the Upload Wizard. I mentioned that a few months back, and I am surprised that it has not been fixed yet. Yann (talk) 19:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems to be the upload wizard. See e.g. File:Laura Urbina.jpg and File:Jorge León Gustà.jpg. --Mussklprozz (talk) 18:48, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'd suggest not to solve this by edit filter but by changing the upload interface. But it has to be found out at first which of the dozen ways for uploading creates this problem. Krd 12:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- How about a filter that forbids to leave the licence empty? This would eliminite 80% of the problem cases, since most users decide for cc-by-sa anyway. Mussklprozz (talk) 12:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
Need a French-speaking agent to reach out to a rights holder
[edit]Hi. Can a French-speaking agent please reach out to the rights holder in ticket:2021032110004214 and ask them to confirm that they intend to release the rights to the images in Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Copyright violations under a free license? The IP that commented there claims to be said rights holder, but we need a VRT confirmation.
If they do confirm, please let me know so I can get those files undeleted and restored to their articles. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- @The Squirrel Conspiracy: and VRT people, Hi,
- For the present situation, please see also the authorization at File:Droits d'auteur de Nicolas Théobald.pdf, by the rights holder Mireille Théobald, by which she confirms that she authorizes her helper Philippe Rogez to upload the works of her father Nicolas Théobald, from whom she inherited the rights. This authorization is published here by her account User:Mireille Théobald. I don't know if a copy of it is also archived at VRT. It seems clear that her intention is to authorize Philippe Rogez to upload the files, although the wording may or may not be considered sufficient by VRT. If it is already sufficient for VRT, good. If not, please suggest to her what wording would work for VRT and would not require her to go through the process again for future uploads. Please take into consideration that she is an octogenarian, so, VRT people, if possible, please try to be understanding and helpful and not too rude.
- Previous episodes: Mireille Théobald herself uploaded files in 2021, 2022, 2023. After trying to obtain help from Commons with various degrees of success or insuccess (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), her first uploads from February and March 2021 were validated by VRT member Mussklprozz with tickets #2021032110004214 (3 files) and #2021032810003659 (1 file). Most of her other files, from April 2021 and later, do not have ticket information attached to them, but they do not seem to have been challenged either. Hopefully, the confirmation of her identity in the existing tickets (she even sent to VRT a copy of her birth certificate) was sufficient to consider all her uploads as validated. If so, it might be useful to add something to that effect either on the description pages or on her user page. But if the information in possession of VRT is not sufficient for that, now may be a good time to settle that also, at the same time as the auhorization for Philippe Rogez, so that deletion requests on her uploads will not be started in some years when she might not be available to reply.
- -- Asclepias (talk) 22:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll work to get the files undeleted and restored to their articles. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Asclepias and @The Squirrel Conspiracy: Won't this present case be an archetypical example of following Commons:Username policy#Well-known names and names of organizations and using {{Verified account}}? The PDF "Droits d'auteur", the birth certificate(!!) and the account name in combination would IMHO amount to ample evidence for that. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:08, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- Bonjour @Asclepias and @The Squirrel Conspiracy: 1) j'ai mis à jour les tags images des photos de 1937 (et 1935-1940) du dernier paquet non encore supprimé avec un pointeur vers le fichier d'autorisation de User:Mireille Théobald : File:Droits d'auteur de Nicolas Théobald.pdf. 2) Pouvez vous validez cette autorisation (enregistrer sous VRT avec ticket) ? ou NOUS dire ce qu'il manque dans cette autorisation qu'elle devrait réécrire ? 3) En attendant, est-ce que tous ces efforts de mise en conformité, sont suffisants ?a) pour que ce dernier paquet reste non supprimé ? b) et que les paquets précédents soient restaurés, pour pouvoir aussi mettre à jour les tags (et si possible restaurer les liens divers wikispecies, wikidata, fr.wiki et autres) ? En vous remerciant encore de votre disponibilité et de vos égards envers nous (débutants maladroits en scan d'archives ! PS : NOUS sommes néanmoins aussi créateurs nets d'images !...) --Philippe rogez (talk) 14:49, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Asclepias and @The Squirrel Conspiracy: Won't this present case be an archetypical example of following Commons:Username policy#Well-known names and names of organizations and using {{Verified account}}? The PDF "Droits d'auteur", the birth certificate(!!) and the account name in combination would IMHO amount to ample evidence for that. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 02:08, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll work to get the files undeleted and restored to their articles. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
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Comment I undeleted some files. Please fix the author, etc. Yann (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2025 (UTC)- @Philippe rogez: J'ai restauré les fichiers. Pourriez-vous corriger l'auteur, la date, la source, etc. Yann (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
- bonjour Merci pour tout ce travail.
- 1) J'ai normalement mis à jour les tags dans les deux gallery : Category:User:Philippe rogez/galerie/2023 Category:User:Philippe rogez/galerie/2022.
- 2) Bizarremment, il me manque 26 planches sur les 29 de la galerie User:Philippe rogez/galerie/1937/thèse Nicolas Théobald sans que je vois l'avertissement de suppression ?!
- 3) il manque aussi dans User talk:Philippe rogez
- File:Cydnus archaicus F. Meunier 1937 N. Théobald éch R909 x3 p.250 Pl III Insectes du Sannoisien de Kleinkembs.jpg et ses quatre autres fichiers.
- 4) Qui doit remettre les category commons, les liens wikidata, wikispecies, fr.wiki ?
- 5) quelle est la suite prévue ?
- en vous remerciant d'avance de votre retour Philippe rogez (⧼Tcalkpagelinktext⧽) 07:15, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Yann (talk) 07:48, 26 October 2025 (UTC) 以下檔案的授權信已於 2025-10-22 寄出，並收到 VRT 團隊回覆確認授權有效。 請協助解除授權標籤，感謝！
[edit]- File:Fist of Faith 官方拳擊手套 Official Boxing Glove.jpg - File:Fist of Faith 官方格鬥手套 4oz Official MMA Glove.jpg - File:FOF拳願明星格鬥賽.jpg - File:拳願明星格鬥賽的比賽現場.jpg - File:第21屆拳願明星格鬥賽.jpg - File:第22屆拳願明星格鬥賽-主賽.jpg - File:第22屆拳願明星格鬥賽-副主賽.jpg - File:創辦人-秋偉.jpg EditorB2025Oct (talk) 11:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
Is there any issues with the ticket that need to be adressed? Trade (talk) 00:01, 25 October 2025 (UTC)
Done File:My Little Pony-inspired erotic clop fan art.png Nemoralis (talk) 03:59, 25 October 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 06:16, 26 October 2025 (UTC) 2025072310008792
[edit]File:Wind und Wellen auf dem Rottauensee.jpg has VRT template but no license. Can someone look it up and add to the file? Jarekt (talk) 03:01, 25 October 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 06:16, 26 October 2025 (UTC) The Big Blue - main film poster was uploaded to Commons with CC 4.0, is the artist rights owner in this case and not film company?
[edit]Hey revieving polish article (eng. version here en:Andrzej Malinowski) I noticed usage of file File:WIELKI BŁĘKIT.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIELKI_B%C5%81%C4%98KIT.jpg). According to Talk pages and article history it seems that article author contacted that artist and that artist sent VRT permission #2023062910004003 to keep this image on Commins with CC 4.0 permission. I highly doubt that artist who created main poster for that film en:The Big Blue is the legal owner of this poster. Probably the legal owner of this image/poster is one of the successors of this company en:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weintraub_Entertainment_Group
In my opinion it looked like that - editor (whom I suspect of being asked/paid to create article, that is how I found this case) wanted to finish that article and could mislead (by misunderstanding I hope) Andrzej Malinowski to provide that VRT with CC permissions, when he did not have rights to do it. Can it be verified? If possible please do not contact en:Columbia Pictures, so you will not push that artist into legal trouble :) KontekstowyTechniczny (talk) 22:53, 27 October 2025 (UTC)