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First steps tutorial

Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content).

You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki.

Getting help

More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks

Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities.
You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads.
Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~.
To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg.
You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account.
There are several tools to upload files.
Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful.

Made a mistake?

Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it.
Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

File:Mary Anderson.jpg

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 16:37, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Please do not overwrite files

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form)‎ ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ italiano ∙ magyar ∙ Nederlands ∙ Nederlands (informeel)‎ ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ suomi ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ हिन्दी ∙ മലയാളം ∙ 日本語 ∙ 中文 ∙ עברית ∙ فارسی ∙ /−

I noticed that you uploaded a file using the name File:Sec. Robert Reich.jpg. A file by this name already existed on Commons. Overwriting an existing file should not be done except when making minor, uncontroversial corrections, so the file has been restored to its previous version. If the file that you attempted to upload is within our project scope and is in the public domain or published under a free license, please upload it again under a different name. Thank you. For more information, please see Commons:Overwriting files.

The versions you uploaded do not specify a source, and the source specified for the original file at this filename do not contain the image you uploaded. If you would like to re-upload this file, please make sure to specify a correct source (that has an acceptable license).DMacks (talk) 02:39, 7 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

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