Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Ramaeschlimann

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Files uploaded by Ramaeschlimann (talk · contribs)

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Small files, no EXIF, all marked "own work" (i.e. claim that the uploader is the photographer), yet seemingly all findable elsewhere on the net (or at least the first six that I spot checked), so all appear copied off the net.

Carl Lindberg (talk) 11:40, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Please do not delete them yet. I only want to enrich the information of: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerza_Naval_de_Honduras". Maybe someone could help me to upload them right without delete them (it took me a lot of work to find those photos through the Internet). Please see that the information provided is correct. Do not delete them please.

Ramaeschlimann (talk) 21:42, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's understandable that we want illustrations for articles. However, we have to follow copyright. Just like we ask people to write their own words on Wikipedia articles and not copy them from elsewhere, we also need to have them take their own photographs -- copying them from the Internet is usually a copyright violation and always against Commons policy. See Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter#Internet images. When tagging a file "own work", you are claiming you actually took the photograph and own the copyright, not found someone else's photograph. To use someone else's photograph, either the copyright needs to have expired (usually an extremely long time, 70 to 120 years is common), or the photographer needs to license it under a "free" license. Sometimes those can be found on Flickr or other places, but it's rare, and we need to see those licenses on a website. While we do appreciate efforts to improve articles, Commons:Licensing means we also need to follow copyright fully (and Commons itself cannot use a fair use rationale). Making a "free encyclopedia" can sometimes be harder than just making an encyclopedia, unfortunately. The "free" is not really free of cost, but mainly free to be copied by others without needing to worry about copyright, so we need a very liberal license for the files, which unfortunately we do not have here. Carl Lindberg (talk) 05:56, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ramaeschlimann: It might be possible that you could upload them to es-wiki directly, but looking at es:Wikipedia:Uso legítimo, they only allow copyrighted illustrations in very limited circumstances. Carl Lindberg (talk) 06:03, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: . --Didym (talk) 12:34, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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