Images Meegs Hi Thanks for your message Now I ve calmed down a bit I suppose what really p d me most is that my image has been uploaded with a different name thus having someone else contributed with my image then my original put up for deletion without me even being consulted The fact it is used by other articles is some condolence Would I be right in thinking that if I create a wiki commons account I could re upload it with the correct name and then have the duplicate removed Would I also need to individually re upload each of my images already placed on the English Wiki Possibly with a new username If that s important to you then yes If you were to upload another copy to the Commons change the links on the Catalan and Spanish WPs and then tag the old version as a duplicate it will be deleted in favor of your upload I m not terribly familiar with Commons but I can track down the procedure for the last step if you like Perhaps it would be best to leave that one photo for the moment and first move your other images over You don t have to move them but if you don t someone else will one at a time By the way if you upload an image to Commons under the same filename as an image on Wikipedia the Commons version is obscured behind the local Wikipedia version The advantage of doing this though is that you won t need to change the links in the Wikipedia articles when the local copy is deleted the commons version will seamlessly take its place There s some info about the process at Wikipedia Moving images to the Commons One more thing would you mind posting another message to the IFD discussion withdrawing your objection to its deletion We can handle the possible reupload to Commons independently once the local version is deleted Okay lets get this going I have created an account on common with the same username I have created a list of my images in a gallery type page So can these now be moved to commons en mass with some of your admin skills or do I need to do them individually or what so that I get conributed with them I will sort the IfD out once all my images are moved over NB today is a busy day for me as I m due off at a Regimental Function just after Lunch or in other words a Regimental Reunion and p up with mates not seen for many years Wow those are some great photos I hadn t seen all of them before Beautiful green country Before I forget and sorry to nitpick with regard to copyright you didn t create Image Divemaster Card jpg and Image DWR Regimental Mag 01 Custom jpg and can not release them to the PD Commons will not host unfree images as I m sure the first one is and probably the second and WP can not host them unless they are used in an article Our fair use policy also says that they can not be used outside of the article space which does not include your new gallery sorry to say Back to the issue at hand No I have no special tools for this I d be willing to help you with some of them by hand but then of course they d show up in my contributions which I don t think you want As I said above you don t have to move them and there s certainly no rush If you do just give me a list of ones that you ve moved and their Commons names if they re different and I ll delete the local versions there s no mess further with IFD By the way if you re like me and aren t going to spend a lot of time on Commons it s not a bad idea to put up a message like this on your talk page to make sure that any messages find you quickly I have put up a message re not objecting to deletion it will save further time wasted on discussion from other users Perhaps you could expedite matters OK I ve deleted it I changed the links in the article and your gallery but of course we can change them again if the commons filename changes Hello Meegs thanks for the help you re providing for Richard By the way I ve tried to do some search to find if there are other images by him already moved to Commons I see that some of them are uploaded under a nc nd licence saying subject to no commercial use