Commons:Permission requests
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- A hyperlink or citation to the work
- The name of the author, along with their contact information (such as their email address, social media account, etc.)
- Why the work is useful to include on Commons
Media request (07 September 2025 19:15:02)
[edit]Link to the work: West Indies Cricket pictures in Flickr
Name or alias of the author: Windies Cricket (West Indies Cricket Board)
Contact information:
• West Indies cricket in Flickr
• West Indies cricket official website contact page
• West Indies cricket official Youtube page
• West Indies cricket official Twitter/X page
• West Indies cricket official Facebook page
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Many photos relating to West Indies cricket are available in their Flickr account, which will be useful to be uploaded in Commons
Gpkp (talk) 19:17, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
File:Mezquita-MarDelPlata -Argentina.jpg VTR request
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link of work:- File:Mezquita-MarDelPlata -Argentina.jpg
Author:- Clay KSB
Contact:- Clay KSB Instagram page
I have a permission on the post's comment. Another user inform me that I should go through the permission vtr option. 獅眠洞 (talk) 13:36, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:21:10)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.artstation.com/
Name or alias of the author: (Many artists)
Contact information: https://help.artstation.com/s/?language=en_US
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Please make it possible for artists to specify a creative commons license in the upload's settings – such could be used to for example illustrate art genres & styles, topics & objects etc of fiction, and art techniques among other things
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:21, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- What are the chances that the artists will use the Creative Commons license on files they do not own the rights to? Trade (talk) 17:43, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Trade: Then the license is invalid. Only the copyright holder can issue a valid license. Yann (talk) 17:48, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I asked how big the issue would be Trade (talk) 17:49, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I don't understand what you mean. Yann (talk) 18:06, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- They're asking whether there would be a high incidence of invalidly-claimed ownership and licensure. I don't know if it's a relevant question, as we allow licenses declared on any platform and assess invalid and fraudulent claims case-by-case, not based on the platform of issuance. Zanahary (talk) 18:26, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I don't understand what you mean. Yann (talk) 18:06, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I asked how big the issue would be Trade (talk) 17:49, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I think very low because artstation is nearly only artists posting art files they made themselves, not for posting art made by any other artists. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:13, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Trade: Then the license is invalid. Only the copyright holder can issue a valid license. Yann (talk) 17:48, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Stipulation 17a in their TOS may complicate this:
You hereby grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right and license to Epic to use, reproduce, publicly display, adapt, modify, reformat, and distribute Your Content, and to use the name that you provide in association with Your Content, as necessary to provide, improve and promote the Services.
This right and license is compatible with the CC0 deed, but not with CC-BY or any more restrictive licenses, as they would add a term to this automatically-granted right and license to Epic—namely, that of attribution in the case of republication, which the TOS does not make explicit as being part of the automatic license's terms. Zanahary (talk) 18:30, 13 October 2025 (UTC)- I think this just means that the file is CCBY with additional permissions for Epic. It doesn't mean the file can't be licensed under CCBY. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:25:06)
[edit]Link to the work: https://klimadashboard.org
Name or alias of the author: klimadashboard team
Contact information: team at klimadashboard.org
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Up-to-date good-quality charts about climate change are useful. Permission for free use is given but no specific license is named/set. From the site's FAQ (translated) Can graphics and data be reused?
All graphics may be reused, whether for teaching, reporting, or other purposes. Each graphic can be exported as an image or interactive iFrame in the top right corner. Furthermore, we link to the raw dataset for almost all graphics. These datasets may be used to create your own graphics, provided you acknowledge the original source (and comply with the respective regulations of the source).
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:25, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- Working on this one now. Zanahary (talk) 14:49, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:28:06)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219564120
Name or alias of the author: See authors of the study (and study infos?)
Contact information: Retrieve contact info from the study authors online
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Those are CC BY-NC-ND data graphics from the study "The global human day". They are super interesting and would be useful in lots of articles in lots of context. They are charts on the global average day in terms of contemporary human time use. Maybe and hopefully some of these can be licensed under CCBY/CCBYSA.
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:28, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- For reference, the authors' emails are:
William Fajzel: william.fajzel@mail.mcgill.ca
Eric D. Galbraith: eric.galbraith@mcgill.ca
Christopher Barrington-Leigh: chris.barrington-leigh@mcgill.ca
Jacques Charmes: jacques.charmes@ird.fr
Elena Frie: LinkedIn
Ian Hatton: Can't find, but he works at a laboratory whose contact email is Gakbraith's.
Priscilla Le Mézo: priscilla.le-mezo@lmd.ens.fr
Ron Milo: ron.milo@weizmann.ac.il
Kelton Minor: kmi@sodas.ku.dk
Xinbei Wan: LinkedIn
Veronica Xia: LinkedIn
Shirley Xu: LinkedInThe article's copyright notice says that the copyright for the article belongs to the authors, so contacting them should work. I would advise anyone tackling this one to ask the principal authors (Fajzel and Galbraith) who exactly made the graphics, so that we can ask them directly instead of trying to extract permission from twelve separate researchers. I find it unlikely that the creator of the graphics transferred copyright to the collective of paper authors. Zanahary (talk) 19:14, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (12 October 2025 20:12:15)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0cic2cqkao3a4fpoowuhr/AMcgZf3tS48ItOuA2iaAkHA?rlkey=7qaf7mgmv5ge7cdsecnxvukp5&e=1&st=kzfk677v&dl=0
Name or alias of the author: RetroFighters
Contact information: support@retrofighters.com
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: There are bunch of items about their controllers which are on Wikidata that could use images.
Trade (talk) 20:12, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (13 October 2025 17:04:47)
[edit]Link to the work: https://kareprints.com/cdn/shop/files/SK_portrait_for_book_1080x.jpg
Name or alias of the author: Photographer is probably Ann Rhoney (see photo credit here)
Contact information: https://kareprints.com/pages/contact or info@nailyaalexandergallery.com
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Poor quality image of subject (profile, out of focus) currently used in w:Susan Kare enwiki article.
Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:04, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Reached out to her gallery. Zanahary (talk) 18:55, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Oh, that's terrific! Thank you. I wasn't actually sure if this project was live, or still a prototype/concept of some sort. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:37, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- I am excited to say it is live! Tell your friends ;)Her gallery has directed the inquiry to her. Zanahary (talk) 19:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- (Not sure exactly why, but somehow the following reply was misplaced here and didn't end up in this thread.)
- Brilliant! Good to know the project is now active. I'll certainly drop a few curtesy links around in places where folks might be inclined to participate. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 07:47, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
- PS: One obvious place is Wikipedia:A picture of you (I just put a curtesy link on the Talk page). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 07:47, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
- It might also be worth trying to reach Kare herself (or an assistant). Perhaps if the Ann Rhoney shot is a no, there's another image that would be a go? Frankly, the Rhoney photograph would be great, but anything (well, nearly anything, I should say) would be an improvement over what we're currently using. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 06:50, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
- If Rhoney doesn’t get back to me, I will reach out to Susan. Zanahary (talk) 15:07, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
- I am excited to say it is live! Tell your friends ;)Her gallery has directed the inquiry to her. Zanahary (talk) 19:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Oh, that's terrific! Thank you. I wasn't actually sure if this project was live, or still a prototype/concept of some sort. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:37, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (13 October 2025 20:01:00)
[edit]Link to the work: https://x.com/Hideki_Naganuma/status/1356599029463830535
Name or alias of the author: Hideki Naganuma
Contact information: Twitter: https://x.com/Hideki_Naganuma Bandcamp: https://hidekinaganuma.bandcamp.com/
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: He has a Wikipedia article but there is no free photo available of him on the internet. If he sends a selfie then that will illustrate his article.
Howardcorn33 (talk) 20:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- He also has a LinkedIn, but Idk if that's necessary. Howardcorn33 (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (13 October 2025 20:26:51)
[edit]Link to the work: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7OV4Gm3AxdQ
Name or alias of the author: Tony Gonzales (KidsVO)
Contact information: Email: info@kidsvo.com or facebook@kidsvo.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/KidsVo Instagram: @tonykidsvo
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Footage/stills of Zach Callison, Justin Felbinger, Laya Hayes, Kristen Li, Sean Ryan Petersen and Haley Tju, only two of whom (Callison and Hayes) currently have media on Commons. I would also like to add excerpts from parts 1, 2 and 3 of the main panel.
JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 20:26, 13 October 2025 (UTC) (edited 21:29, 13 October 2025 (UTC))
Media request (17 October 2025 17:43:37)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.rit.edu/vignellicenter/sites/rit.edu.vignellicenter/files/documents/Designed%20by%20Lella.pdf
Name or alias of the author: photographs by various authors
Contact information: jennifer.whitlock@rit.edu or https://www.rit.edu/vignellicenter/
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Images needed of both Lella and Massimo Vignelli (and their work) for Wikipedia articles about the designers (and related subjects).
Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:43, 17 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (17 October 2025 20:08:10)
[edit]Link to the work: http://instagram.com/radrappy/p/CdeKCUVPuFa
Name or alias of the author: Matt Braly
Contact information: Instagram: @radrappy
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Pictures of various voice cast and crew members from Amphibia. If the images are not works for hire, he should be asked whom is the proper copyright holder and contact them instead.
JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 20:08, 17 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (17 October 2025 20:16:10)
[edit]Link to the work: http://instagram.com/p/CddrMm1rSq3
Name or alias of the author: TJ Hill
Contact information: Official website's contact form
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Pictures of Matt Braly, Justin Felbinger and TJ Hill, none of whom currently have free media on Commons. If the images are not works for hire, Hill should be asked whom is the proper copyright holder; and, we should contact them instead.
JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 20:16, 17 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (18 October 2025 10:43:58)
[edit]Link to the work: https://sabinemarcelis.com/projects/candy-cubes
Name or alias of the author: Sabine Marcelis (various photographers indicated at source)
Contact information: https://sabinemarcelis.com/about or studio@sabinemarcelis.com
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Photo of the piece "Candy Cubes" needed to illustrate Wikipedia article about the subject (as well as possibly other related articles). Any image found at source would be fine, but preferably the pink one that is in the Museum of Modern Art. Additional photos of works by the designer would also be appreciated.