Wikipedia:File upload wizard: Difference between revisions

Step 1: Choose your file

*File:	Choose a file from your computer. Maximum file size: 100 MB. Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, xcf, pdf, mid, ogg, ogv, svg, djvu, tiff, tif, oga.
Please provide a clear, descriptive name by which your file will be known on Wikipedia.
*	This name must be unique across the whole of Wikipedia, so please make it informative and easy to recognize. It's no problem to use a fairly long name. It may also include spaces, commas or other punctuation marks. Good: "City of London, skyline from London City Hall, Oct 2008.jpg". Bad: "Skyline.jpg", "DSC0001234.jpg".

The filename you chose seems to be very short, or overly generic, or it includes characters that aren't permitted. Please don't use:

• Titles that consist only of very generic descriptive words (e.g. "Sunset.jpg", "Townhall.jpg")
• Titles that consist only of a person's first or last name, when that name is likely to be shared by many others (e.g. "John.jpg", "Miller.jpg")
• Titles that consist of mere numbers, of the kind often produced by digital cameras ("DSC_001234", "IMGP0345"), or random strings like those sometimes found on the web ("30996951316264l.jpg")
• Titles that contain any of the characters # < > [ ] | : { } . Please refer to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions for more details about technical restrictions.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Example.jpg" width="120"/></a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example.jpg">Existing file</a>.
Last uploaded by Example user.

A file of this name already exists on Commons!

If you upload your file with this name, you will be masking the existing file and make it inaccessible. Your new file will be displayed everywhere the existing file was previously used.

This should not be done, except in very rare exceptional cases.

Please don't upload your file under this name, unless you seriously know what you are doing. Choose a different name for your new file instead.

If you want to replace the existing file with an uncontroversial, improved version of the same work, please go to Commons and upload it there, not here on the English Wikipedia's local wiki.

A file of this name already exists.

If you upload your file with this name, you will be overwriting the existing file. Your new file will be displayed everywhere the existing file was previously used. Please don't do this, unless you have a good reason to:

	No, I don't want to overwrite the existing file. I will choose a different name for my new file instead.
	Yes, I want to overwrite the existing file. My file is merely a new, improved and uncontentious version of the same work. The old description page, including the source and copyright information, will still be correct for the new version and can remain the same.
	Yes, I want to overwrite the existing file, and I will use this wizard to add a new description and new source information for it. The previous version was my own, or else I have made sure the previous uploader(s) don't object to this replacement.

Step 2: Describe your file

Please fill in the information for Step 1 first.

Please provide a brief description of the contents of this file. This will be stored and displayed as part of the file description page. It is important that other editors be able to understand what this file is about.
*	What does this file show? What is it a photo/diagram/recording of? It will be helpful if you also add a wikilink to the article where you want to use it.

Step 3: Provide source and copyright information

Please fill in the information for Steps 1 and 2 first.

*It is very important that you read through the following options and questions, and provide all required information truthfully and carefully.

	This is a free work. I can demonstrate that it is legally okay for anybody to use, in Wikipedia and elsewhere, for any purpose. Thank you for offering to upload a free work. Wikipedia loves free files. However, we love them even more if you upload them not here, but on our sister project, the commons:Wikimedia Commons. Uploading files on Commons works just the same as here. You don't need to register a new account. Files uploaded on Commons can be used immediately here on Wikipedia as well as on all its sister projects. Please consider uploading your file on Commons. However, if you prefer to do it here instead, you may go ahead below. *Type of work: This is a screenshot, photograph, sound sample or other type of capture from an audio or audio-visual work, such as a TV programme, video, song or movie. Please remember that the copyright (if any) is owned by the creator of the video etc. in question, not by you or whoever created the excerpt! Most likely, the original work will be copyrighted. Go ahead below only if you are certain the original work itself is free! Answer all questions as referring to the original work. If it is not free, continue in the section for "copyrighted, non-free works" at the bottom. This is a photograph or other reproduction of a painting, drawing, poster, manuscript, print or other 2-dimensional creative work, or a modified version of one or more existing photograph(s). Please remember that the copyright (if any) is owned by the creator of the original work in question, not by you or whoever created the reproduction! Go ahead below only if you are certain the original work itself is free of copyright! Answer all questions as referring to the original work. If it is not free, continue in the section for "non-free works" at the bottom. This is a photograph of some other copyrightable, three-dimensional creative work, such as a modern sculpture, relief or work of architecture. If the sculpture etc. is obviously old (mid-19th century and older), you can safely ignore it and continue with the next option ("none of the above"). If it is modern, you may need to account for two copyrights: that of the artist who made the sculpture, and that of the photographer who made the photograph. Please continue below, providing information on both. If the original work is non-free, continue in the section for "non-free works" at the bottom. *Please describe the status of the original three-dimensional work first. It is old enough to be in the Public Domain.   Name the artist, his/her date of birth and death, the year of creation of this work, and the country of origin: * It is situated in a place where the creator's intellectual rights do not restrict the publication of photographs ("Freedom of Panorama"), according to local law.   These rules differ a lot from country to country. Refer to commons:COM:FOP for details. Please name the location and country where this work is situated: * Now go on in the box below, choosing the correct option describing the copyright status of the photograph. This is none of the above. It is an original photograph, drawing, diagram or other medium. *Copyright status: This file is entirely my own work. I am the copyright holder. I made this myself, from scratch, without copying or incorporating anybody else's creative work, and I am willing to release it under a free license. Please describe how and when you created this item. How?   (e.g.: Where and on what kind of occasion did you take this photo? How did you make this diagram? etc.) *Date   (please use YYYY-MM-DD format if possible). Publication: Please indicate here if you have previously published this item elsewhere, e.g. on your own website, your Flickr or Facebook account, etc., providing a link. It is important that you place this work under a free license, which will allow everybody else to use it for any purpose, including both commercial and non-commercial purposes, and to modify it. * This file was given to me by its owner. The owner of this file has given it to me for uploading on Wikipedia. I can provide evidence that they have agreed to release it under a free license, for free use by anybody and for any purpose. Please describe who owns this work and how you got it from them. *Owner/author: Date of creation: *Source: Where did you get the file from? (e.g. available online; was sent to me personally …) *Permission: How did you receive the permission? (e.g.: by e-mail, personally, I work for the owner …) The copyright owner has chosen the following license: *License: Other: *Evidence: The license statement can be found online at: The license agreement has been forwarded to Wikimedia's copyright service at "permissions-en@wikimedia.org". OTRS ticket received: The license hasn't yet been forwarded, but I will do so shortly or ask the owner to send it himself. I haven't got the evidence right now, but I will provide some if requested to do so. This file is from a free published source. I took it from a website or other published source, where its author has explicitly placed it under a free license, allowing free re-use by anybody. *Author/owner: Date of creation: *Source: For web sources: please provide a link to the html web page where the file can be found ("http://... .html"), not a direct link to the image file itself ("http://... .jpg"). For print sources: provide full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year, page etc.) The copyright owner has chosen the following license for this file: *License: Other: *Evidence: Provide a link to where the author has given the license (if not visible on the source page itself). This work is so old its copyright has expired This is a very old photograph, or a photographic reproduction of an old painting, drawing etc. I can provide enough information about its author and provenance to prove that it is old enough for its copyright to have expired. It is now legally in the Public Domain. *Original author: Please name the original author of this work. *Life time: Specify date of death, if applicable to public domain status. In many cases, we need to be certain the author died before a certain year, in many cases before 1926. *Original publication: Provide as much information as possible about the original time and place of publication of this work. For print publications: provide full bibliographic information. *Date of publication: Provide date of first publication, and date of creation if different. *Immediate source: State exactly where you found this file. For web sources: please provide a link to the html web page where the file can be found ("http://... .html"), not a direct link to the image file itself ("http://... .jpg"). For print sources: provide full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year, page etc.) *Public Domain status: This work is free of all copyrights because: It was created and first published before 1923 and is therefore in the Public Domain in the USA. It was first published outside the USA, and it was in the Public Domain in its country of origin by the "URAA date". The "URAA date" is 1 January 1996 for most countries, and in many countries copyrights last for 70 years after the death of the author; thus, many works are in the PD if the author died before 1926. But please look up the copyright rules for the specific country. It was first published in the USA before 1989, and its copyright expired because it was published without a copyright notice and/or without the necessary copyright registration.Please look up the exact rules at ... Its copyright expired for some other reason. [Please explain below]. Explanation: Please provide any evidence necessary to verify the public domain status. This file is in the Public Domain for some other reason. I can demonstrate that this work is legally in the Public Domain, i.e. nobody owns any copyrights on it. This may be for a variety of reasons, for instance because it was created by the US Federal Government, or because it is too simple to attract any copyright. *Author: Please name the original author of this work. *Source: State exactly where you found this file. For web sources: please provide a link to the html web page where the file can be found ("http://... .html"), not a direct link to the image file itself ("http://... .jpg"). For print sources: provide full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year, page etc.) *Public Domain status: This work is free of all copyrights because: It was created by an agency of the US Federal Government. This does not apply to most US state and local agencies, nor to governments of other countries! It is an official governmental item, such as a flag, state emblem, banknote or postage stamp, from a country where such items are exempt from copyright according to local law. This does not apply to all countries, nor does it usually apply to all publications! (For instance, it usually doesn't apply to simple publicity photographs published on a governmental website.) Please look up the copyright rules for the specific country in question. If the country does not have an exemption rule that applies to this item, go on with the section for "non-free copyrighted works" below. *Explanation: Add any explanation or evidence necessary to substantiate your statement above. Cite and provide a link to the relevant law if possible. It is too simple to be eligible for copyright. This typically applies only to graphics that consist solely of simple geometric shapes and/or a few letters or words, or to items such as mathematical or chemical formulae. It may apply to some very simple logos that do not contain complex pictorial elements. It never applies to photographs! * It is in the Public Domain for some other reason. *Explanation:
	This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use. I have read the Wikipedia rules on Non-Free Content, and I am prepared to explain how the use of this file will meet the criteria set out there. Please remember that you will need to demonstrate that: The file will serve an important function in an article; It cannot be replaced by any other, free illustration that might yet be created; Its use does not negatively affect the commercial interests of its owner There will not be more non-free material used than necessary. The explanation below refers to the use of this file in the following article: * Enter the name of exactly one Wikipedia article, without the [[...]] brackets. It has to be an actual article, not a talkpage, template, user page etc. If you need to use this file in more than one article, please fill in the form referring only to the first of them. Then, after uploading, open the image description page for editing and add your separate explanations for each additional article manually. This article doesn't exist! The article <a href="" class="">Example</a> could not be found. Please check the spelling, and make sure you enter the name of an existing article in which you will include this file. If this is an article you are only planning to write, please write it first and upload the file afterwards. This is not an actual encyclopedia article! A non-free file can only be used on a mainspace page, i.e. not on a user page, talk page, template etc. Please upload this file only if it is going to be used in an actual article. If this page is an article draft in your user space, we're sorry, but we must ask you to wait until the page is ready and has been moved into mainspace, and only upload the file after that. This is a disambiguation page! This title is not a real article, but a disambiguation page pointing to a number of other pages. Please check and enter the exact title of the actual target article you meant. *Non-free use rationale This work is itself the object of discussion in an article. This is a copyrighted artwork or photograph, and we need it to illustrate an article in which this work is being explicitly discussed. The discussion is about this work itself, as such, not merely about the thing or person depicted in it. Which of these options describes this item best? * Who created this work? *Author/owner: Date: *Source: State exactly where you found this file. For web sources: please provide a link to the html web page where the file can be found ("http://... .html"), not a direct link to the image file itself ("http://... .jpg"). For print sources: provide full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year, page etc.) *Usage: The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to this work. There is a substantial amount of encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point: This is a depiction of a copyrighted three-dimensional work or building, which is the object of discussion in an article. This is a photograph or other kind of depiction of a copyrighted, three-dimensional creative work, such as a statue or work of architecture. The article contains a discussion of that work which requires illustration. The photograph as such is free, or was provided by the creator of the sculpture. Which of these options describes this item best? * First describe who created the original work depicted: *Creator: Date: *Usage: The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to this work. There is a substantial amount of encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point: * Now describe who created the image: *Author: Date: *Source: State exactly where you found this file. For web sources: please provide a link to the html web page where the file can be found ("http://... .html"), not a direct link to the image file itself ("http://... .jpg"). For print sources: provide full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year, page etc.) *Image status The image was created and published by the same author who also holds the rights to the original object, and no alternative depiction could be suitably created. The author of the image has released the photographic work under a free license, or it is in the public domain: * Name the license or describe the public domain status, adding any necessary evidence to make the licensing status verifiable. This is an excerpt from a copyrighted work. This is an excerpt from a copyrighted work, e.g. a screenshot from a movie or TV programme, a panel from a comic, or a sound sample from a song. Its presence is needed to support a piece of explicit critical discussion in an article related to that work or its creator(s). Which of these options describes this item best? * *Author: (author / copyright owner of the original work) *Source: (where exactly did you get this file from?) Please explain what exactly in the article it is that you want to illustrate with this. * Typically, the illustration must be used to support some specific issue of discussion in the article. Please be concrete and specific. Don't just copy boilerplate statements from elsewhere. State clearly, in your own words, what this particular image will be doing in this particular article. If necessary, please explain why this purpose cannot be achieved through text alone.   This is the official cover art of a work. This is the titlepage of a book, the cover of a CD or video, the official release poster of a movie, or a comparable item. It will be included as that work's primary means of visual identification, at the top of the article about the book, movie etc. in question. Note: If you plan to use it for any other purpose than this, please tick the box for "other non-free work" below. Which of these options describes this item best? * *Author: (author / copyright owner of the original work) *Source: (where exactly did you get this file from?) *This image will be shown as a primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question. A standard fair use rationale will be added that matches this type of use. If you plan to use the file for any purpose other than this, please do not use this section, but the one labelled "other type of non-free work" below. This is a logo of an organization, company, brand etc. This is an official logo of an entity that is the subject of a Wikipedia article. It will be included as that entity's primary means of visual identification, at the top of the article in question. Note: If you plan to use it for any other purpose than this, please tick the box for "other non-free work" below. Which of these options describes this item best? * *Source: (where exactly did you get this file from?) * This image will be shown as a primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question. A standard fair use rationale will be added that matches this type of use. If you plan to use the file for any purpose other than this, please do not use this section, but the one labelled "other type of non-free work" below. This is an historic portrait of a person no longer alive. This is an historic photograph or other depiction of a person who is no longer alive. It will be used as the primary means of visual identification of that person in the article about them. *Deceased since: (This type of file can typically only be used with people who are no longer alive.) *Author: (Who made this image?) *Original Publication: (Where, when and how was this image first published?) *Source: (where exactly did you get this file from?) *This image will be shown as a primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the person in question. A standard fair use rationale will be added that matches this type of use. If you plan to use the file for any purpose other than this, please do not use this section, but the one labelled "other type of non-free work" below. Please explain why a free alternative to this image cannot be found. * For subjects who died recently: have you made a reasonable effort to find people who might possess photographs of this person and might be willing to release one? For subjects who lived in the early-to-mid 20th century: have you considered if there might be an older photograph that has fallen in the public domain? Please explain why you are confident that our use of the file will not harm any commercial opportunities of its owner. * We will typically not use a file if its owner has a potential commercial interest in its use, and if our use of it would compete with its original market role. This is some other kind of non-free work that I believe is legitimate Fair Use. This is a copyrighted work whose use does not fall into any of the classes above. I have read the Wikipedia rules on Non-free content, and I will explain how this file meets all of the Non-Free Content Criteria. Which of these options describes this item best? * *Author: (Who made this image?) *Original Publication: (Where, when and how was this image first published?) *Source: (where exactly did you get this file from?) Please explain what exact purpose this file will serve in the article. * Please be concrete and specific. Don't just copy boilerplate statements from elsewhere. State clearly, in your own words, what this particular image will be doing in this particular article. Your explanation must make it clear why the article would be significantly worse off without this file. Please explain why this purpose could not be served by text alone. * Please explain why this purpose could not be served with an alternative, free illustration that could yet be found or created. * For a file to be deemed replaceable, it is not necessary that a suitable replacement already exists. Even if it is merely possible that a replacement could be created, we will not use the non-free file. Please explain why you are confident that our use of the file will not harm any commercial opportunities of its owner. * We will typically not use a file if its owner has a potential commercial interest in its use, and if our use of it would compete with its original market role. Remember that the use of non-free files must be minimal. This can mean several things: Don't use more files per article/topic than necessary Don't use the same file in more articles than necessary Don't use larger excerpts of a single work than necessary Don't use images of higher resolution than necessary Please explain how the intended use of this file meets this criterion. * Special source and license conditions (optional)   Any further relevant information about this file?   Note: This is only a testing version. It won't actually upload anything, but merely show a text field below, displaying the wikitext that you would be submitting. Hopefully, in the future, this will go live and actually do stuff!
	This file doesn't fit any of the categories above. This file doesn't seem to fall into any of the classes of use above, or I am not certain what its status is. I found this file somewhere, but I don't really know who made it or who owns it. Well, we're very sorry, but if you're not sure about this file's copyright status, or if it doesn't fit into any of the groups above, then: Please don't upload it. Really, please don't. Even if you think it would make for a great addition to an article. We really take these copyright rules very seriously on Wikipedia. In particular, please don't upload: any file you simply found on some website, without knowing who its author or copyright owner is. any file you found somewhere, when you simply assume its owner would probably not mind us using it, but you don't have an explicit licensing statement from them. any file that was released for publicity purposes by its owners but doesn't have a fully free license for free re-use for all purposes. any file credited to a commercial image agency, such as Reuters, AP or Getty Images. Such files normally cannot be used even under the "Fair Use" rules, except in rare cases. If you are in any doubt, please ask some experienced editors for advice before uploading. People will be happy to assist you at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you.

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