Notice many comments above are all crap and his allegations were rejected by another user administrator and the case was speedy closed See Wikipedia Media copyright questions Copyrighted images and copyright notice not allowed on the English Wikipedia Will somebody please have a look at this I added a picture to an article but it was removed by the user with the reason that No copyrighted images allowed no images with requirement for copyright notice Is this true I think has misunderstood something Many images on Wikipedia are not in the public domain but are copyrighted and can be used under a license If one think that copyright means do never use this image then one have misunderstood the situation Does the English Wikipedia have a policy saying something like No copyrighted images allowed no images with requirement for copyright notice We do allow copyright images but the case here is that being a picture of a real world object that is not a piece of artist work we can reasonably expect a free replacement can be taken particularly since its used around the world per WP NFCC 1 I suspect he misused copyrighted to mean non free Free licensed image are acceptable equally with PD Some of the helpers on this forum make the same mistake Oh I see the root of the misunderstanding You added a photo with a copyright notice in the caption We put copyright notices on file description pages not in captions See WP CREDITS The other user removed the whole image not just the copyright notice The guideline at WP CREDITS says that no copyright notice should be placed in the article The larger issue with the image in question is that it is part of a promotional campaign by JAL78 to replace B sendorfer Bechstein and other competitor piano images with an image of a Steinway Sons piano I reverted all of the images thus placed because of conflict of interest issues Yes the credit does not necessarily need to be on the article page itself that can not be required by the copyright holder having it on the image page is enough by most Wikipedia projects standards said that copyrighted images are not allowed on Wikipedia which is false deleted the image not only the optional byline and he wrote that No copyrighted images allowed no images with requirement for copyright notice accuse of my