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Finding out why a file was deleted

First, check the deletion log and find out why the file was deleted. Also use the What links here feature to see if there are any discussions linking to the deleted file. If you uploaded the file, see if there are any messages on your user talk page explaining the deletion. Secondly, please read the deletion policy, the project scope policy, and the licensing policy again to find out why the file might not be allowed on Commons.

If the reason given is not clear or you dispute it, you can contact the deleting administrator to ask them to explain or give them new evidence against the reason for deletion. You can also contact any other active administrator (perhaps one that speaks your native language)—most should be happy to help, and if a mistake had been made, rectify the situation.

Appealing a deletion

Deletions which are correct based on the current deletion, project scope and licensing policies will not be undone. Proposals to change the policies may be done on their talk pages.

If you believe the file in question was neither a copyright violation nor outside the current project scope:

• You may want to discuss with the administrator who deleted the file. You can ask the administrator for a detailed explanation or show evidence to support undeletion.
• If you do not wish to contact anyone directly, or if an individual administrator has declined undeletion, or if you want an opportunity for more people to participate in the discussion, you can request undeletion on this page.
• If the file was deleted for missing evidence of licensing permission from the copyright holder, please follow the procedure for submitting permission evidence. If you have already done that, there is no need to request undeletion here. If the submitted permission is in order, the file will be restored when the permission is processed. Please be patient, as this may take several weeks depending on the current workload and available volunteers.
• If some information is missing in the deleted image description, you may be asked some questions. It is generally expected that such questions are responded in the following 24 hours.

Temporary undeletion

Files may be temporarily undeleted either to assist an undeletion discussion of that file or to allow transfer to a project that permits fair use. Use the template {{Request temporary undeletion}} in the relevant undeletion request, and provide an explanation.

1. if the temporary undeletion is to assist discussion, explain why it would be useful for the discussion to undelete the file temporarily, or
2. if the temporary undeletion is to allow transfer to a fair use project, state which project you intend to transfer the file to and link to the project's fair use statement.

To assist discussion

Files may be temporarily undeleted to assist discussion if it is difficult for users to decide on whether an undeletion request should be granted without having access to the file. Where a description of the file or quotation from the file description page is sufficient, an administrator may provide this instead of granting the temporary undeletion request. Requests may be rejected if it is felt that the usefulness to the discussion is outweighed by other factors (such as restoring, even temporarily, files where there are substantial concerns relating to Commons:Photographs of identifiable people). Files temporarily undeleted to assist discussion will be deleted again after thirty days, or when the undeletion request is closed (whichever is sooner).

To allow transfer of fair use content to another project

Unlike English Wikipedia and a few other Wikimedia projects, Commons does not accept non-free content with reference to fair use provisions. If a deleted file meets the fair use requirements of another Wikimedia project, users can request temporary undeletion in order to transfer the file there. These requests can usually be handled speedily (without discussion). Files temporarily undeleted for transfer purposes will be deleted again after two days. When requesting temporary undeletion, please state which project you intend to transfer the file to and link to the project's fair use statement.

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Adding a request

First, ensure that you have attempted to find out why the file was deleted. Next, please read these instructions for how to write the request before proceeding to add it:

• Do not request undeletion of a file that has not been deleted.
• Do not post e-mail or telephone numbers to yourself or others.
• In the Subject: field, enter an appropriate subject. If you are requesting undeletion of a single file, a heading like [[:File:DeletedFile.jpg]] is advisable. (Remember the initial colon in the link.)
• Identify the file(s) for which you are requesting undeletion and provide image links (see above). If you don't know the exact name, give as much information as you can. Requests that fail to provide information about what is to be undeleted may be archived without further notice.
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Instructions for administrators

Use common sense. If, for example, a file was deleted for missing a source, and the requesting user is the photographer, the file can be undeleted without further discussion. If the user wishes to tag a file with a certain license, you can do that for them if you want to, or leave it to them to do it. However, it is important that you remove any speedy deletion templates from the file. In general, try to comply with the requests of well-intending users. Files can, for example, be undeleted for the requesting user to look at without the request itself having to be closed. The deleting administrator may undelete the file if compelled by the arguments or information provided. The deleting administrator may also participate in the discussion. The deleting administrator should, however, not close contentious requests as "Not done." When a debate is settled, close it with a remark such as "Not done" or "Undeleted" and add the template {{Udelh}} above the header and the template {{Udelf}} below your own comment. (The templates are short for "undelete header" and "footer.") Closed requests are automatically archived. When undeleting a file, reference the discussion (for example "Per https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests&oldid=nnnnnnnn#Heading"). Files temporarily undeleted for transfer purposes should be tagged with {{Temporarily undeleted|transfer=yes}}. This places them into Temporarily undeleted files, a subcategory of Candidates for deletion, and automatically nominates them for speedy deletion after two days. Files temporarily undeleted to assist discussion should be tagged with {{Temporarily undeleted}}. These are automatically nominated for speedy deletion after thirty days.

Archives

Closed undeletion debates are archived daily.

Current requests

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File:Le voyage pour profession.jpg

Please restore the following pages:

• File:Le voyage pour profession.jpg (edit · last · history · watch · unwatch · global usage · logs · purge · w · search · links · DR · del · undel · Delinker log)

Reason: Per OTRS 2020100710004579 kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 10:30, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose - This is in no way an adequate ticket. 1) The ticket, at best, would apply to the newsprint, not to the prominent image which is explicitly credited separately (there is no permission from the photographer) and 2) permission needs to come from a principle, executive, director ,etc. (however stylized at this organisation). Merely being an employee of an organization does not allow one to license its intellectual property; the multiple senders do not identify holding such authority and do not communicate in a manner suggesting the same. Эlcobbola _talk

This undeletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive.

File:Carlo Semenza, Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist.jpg

This is to request undeletion of the file whose title is in the header. I am the photographer who took this picture. I forgot to include the license (that will be CC 4.0 Share-Alike).

--Giorgio.arcara (talk) 15:05, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose - This was not deleted for having no license (it had a CC-by-SA license); it was deleted for lack of permission. This appears to be a selfie by a person (Carlo Semenza) who is not you (Giorgio.arcara) and thus we have no evidence that you have permission to license this image. Carlo Semenza will need to provide permission directly (i.e., not forwarded) using the process at COM:OTRS. Эlcobbola _talk 15:28, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Restore We now have an OTRS ticket Ticket:2020100710006559 for this file from the author. Please restore for verification. Thanks Ww2censor (talk) 21:56, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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 Done: @Ww2censor: FYI. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 22:24, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Request undeletion of File:Google_Tables_screenshot.png since it isn't under copyright

Hi there!

I'm the Product Manager at Google who works on Google Tables. We're trying to create a draft Google Tables article, and include a screenshot of the app just like you see in the Google Sheets article.

I believe that this particular image should be ok and would not be under copyright, since I created this using my own account, which any Google user in the U.S. can also do at this point in time (we are available in a public beta now).

Please let me know if this isn't the right way to do this, happy to try another route!

Carlinyuen (talk) 17:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Carlinyuen,

the entries in this table are real ones or fake/fantasy wrt to the address / job relation? WRT to authorization, please send an email from your official/business email address to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org repeating what you wrote above. Your email will not be made public, but can be accessed only by our OTRS-volunteers, who are obliged to treat all correspondence confidential. After their go, your image will be un-deleted. --Túrelio (talk) 18:50, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Images of the A. H. Tammsaare Memorial

Deletion request is here. Permission is in OTRS. Instead of closing the deletion request, files were deleted. The following discussion is here. Photographer published files under CC SA-BY 4.0. The sculptor agreed (there is no FoP in Estonia so this is why sculptors permission is required). The dispute is on how should that permission from the sculptor look like. Please help to solve that. Kruusamägi (talk) 19:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose ticket:2020071910004071 is not acceptable in its current form. 1) We do not accept forwarded permission; 2) the license must be explicit (i.e., for a CC variant, a version number is needed); and 3) permission must relate to explicit works. The sculptor, Jaak Soans, will need to contact us directly (not forwarded by other parties) and explicitly identify the license and works to which it is intended to apply. Эlcobbola _talk 20:07, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Elcobbola. My position on the matter was made clear in the linked discussion on my talk page. Regardless of whether one accepts forwarded permissions or not, Ticket:2020071910004071 is insufficient. In any country where there is no freedom of panorama, such as Estonia, the work depicted must be under an acceptable free licence and the copyright holder must specify, if a Creative Commons licence, the version of the licence in question -- especially so if there is a share-alike component. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 21:03, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm an OTRS agent. I did contact him directly.

Interpretation that "the work depicted must be under an acceptable free licence" is way more strict that our official policies. As such I can not be considered standard or normal.

Specific license is clearly there. Photographer chose the version and sculptor agreed. Kruusamägi (talk) 21:12, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Nat and I are also both OTRS agents. Looking at your OTRS work, it appears that you routinely process your own tickets (!!!), which are often (always?) forwarded and often not from the indicated author. This is not "standard or normal" and suggests your status needs review. That the system has a built-in "rejection" template for forwarded emails (otrswiki:Response:en-Forwarded Statement (Direct)) has already been pointed out to you. Эlcobbola _talk 21:32, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm the only Estonian speaking OTRS agent. Who else should process them? You?

Non-forwarded permissions are preferred, but it doesn't make them illegal, does it? Not to mention, that this sort of a newer development, it is rather vague (to put it softly) and I haven't noticed, that it is shared by that many people. As on legal matter that has close to 0 difference so that reasoning seems ridiculous.

Spreading ideas such as the sculptor should give his sculptures under free licenses etc are so far off from the normal, that I have the same questions regarding some other OTRS agents here. Not understanding how FoP works is kind of a problem.

As for the tickets I process (and I only do the Estonian ones) I know a significant % of people I change e-mails or have actually shared a lot more e-mails/messages with them prior to that correspondence. Including helping to upload the images or explaining why some stuff can't be uploaded in the first place (so almost everything that ends up at OTRS in Estonian is actually suitable, as presorting has already occurred). So with the ones who even got to OTRS I have often communicated via other means of communication. The reason is pretty simple: most people don't have a clue, that there is an OTRS system or how it works, so if they start to look about it, they will soon be in communication with me anyway (there is no-one else in Estonia, remember). And if I already exchange emails with them under my own email account, then it is utter nonsense to talk about how bad the forwarded emails are. In addition I am far better aware of where are the images coming from and if the person is who he says he is. But trusting OTRS agents is that difficult, then just say the system is broken. Kruusamägi (talk) 00:39, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

File:Roobha .jpg

Hi,

The image is of the official poster of the film, and I hold the licence and copyright to the film, poster and all publicity material. The logos on the poster have been used with the express permission of the companies and the festival authorities.

The second image was taken by me on my camera and it is of a billboard of the film in downtown Toronto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetmangotree (talk • contribs) 23:25, 7 October 2020‎ (UTC)

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•  Info File:Roobha .jpg uploaded by Sweetmangotree (deleted as a copyvio; source) is a recreation of another deleted file, File:Roobha.jpg uploaded by Veerapathiran (deleted as missing permission). --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 23:48, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose @Sweetmangotree: No evidence that work is under an acceptable free licence. For the possibility of undeletion, the copyright holder must send permission and a specific release under a acceptable free licence using OTRS. Thank you for your understanding. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 23:51, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

File:DragonGateLogo2020.jpg

At no point did I claim that logo as my own. I just thought I'd update the page with the current logo. It is my belief that this take down is unfair. --WildMIKE123 (talk) 00:46, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose @WildMIKE123: No evidence of acceptable free licence on Dragon Gate website or on the listed source (twitter). As it stands, this is a case of unambiguous netcopyvio. For the possibility of undeletion, the copyright holder must send permission and a specific release under a acceptable free licence using OTRS. Thank you for your understanding. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 01:44, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
• @Nat:"Thank you for understanding". But I don't understand. I must reiterate. This is unfair. --WildMIKE123 (talk) 03:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)