Wikipedia talk:Finding images tutorial

message: I recommend:
*Use Altavista Image Search instead of Google Image Search. The former will give you better results.
*When asking the copyright owner permission to use their work, don't say you want to use it; say Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, wants to use it for its article on x. You may want to provide a url to the article and mention the proposed caption. 205.217.105.2 17:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recommendations

message: I fear this link now responds with a 404 notice. Apwoolrich 19:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort Hood stetson image link now dead 

message: The section "Do I need to know the copyright and licensing status of the image?" needs to be rewritten; it confuses "published pre-1923" with "created pre-1923" (and the Buffalo Bill example doesn't work for me - no Buffalo Bill image in sight). Also, the "foreign country" advice is patently false: not everything in the PD in some other country is also in the PD in the U.S. See Wikipedia:Public domain for some of the subtleties involved. Lupo 09:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading information 

message: It says to up load the image but doesn't say how. Otterman 21:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Yeah! I Got an image, what's next?

message: The copyright section has a sentence that is only a fragment, and seems unintelligible to me. Perhaps User:Chris 73 or someone else could fix it? The sentence, which is in a blue box, reads:
*Limiting the search to grayscale, and say hello to Buffalo Bill.
Thanks, --rich<Rich Janis 07:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence fragment 

message: There is an image of the Nova Scotia Provincial Flag on the page Nova_Scotia, but it does not appear in the list of flags in the Wikimedia Commons site :Category:Flags_of_Canada, nor in several places where lists of provincial flag images are displayed. Can the existing image be used directly, or must it be obtained (or copied) again and then uploaded to the Commons page? 
--Tito-gil 05:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If the image is already on here, just put it in the article. It's really easy. See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for a step by step how-to. MECU≈talk 19:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How about if the image is in another language wikipedia? How do I link to an image already uploaded to the Japanese site?--Timtak (talk) 06:46, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot use an image that is on any other project on Wikipedia (and vice versa). The only exception is for images on Commons. Any image on Commons can be used on any project (this is why free (and only free) images should be put on Commons!). Images that are free can be moved to Commons by humans with some bot assistance  but it's very time consuming and waste of resources, so starting with the image on Commons is best. If you don't want to move the image yourself, you can mark it as a candidate to be moved to Commons by putting  on the image page, but it may take some time so if you can do it (it's fairly easy!) you should. If the image is free (see the power of free?) on another project, you could move it from the other project to Commons and then use it here. MECU≈talk 19:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to Use an existing Wikipedia Image that is NOT in Commons 

message: I'm trying to get a picture for the Skeletal Eroding Band article and found one at http://www.aims.gov.au but their copyright notice states:"This work is copyright. Permission is given for non-profit electronic viewing, via the Internet. Apart from this, and any use as permitted under the Australian  Copyright Act 1968 no part may be reproduced or copied by any process, without written permission. A person who breaches copyright may be subject to penalties. Requests in the first instance should be addressed to The Director, Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3 Townsville MC, Townsville QLD 4810, or email to director@aims.gov.au"
Would this be considered a use for a non-profit electronic viewing? It says this on the main page "Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which has created an entire family of free-content projects." so I think it would be, but I just want to be sure. Esoxid (talk) 21:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No. While Wikipedia (WikiMedia Foundation) is a non-profit organization, we are creating an encyclopedia for everyone to use which includes commercial users. Images that are uploaded and marked "for Wikipedia use" or "for Non-profit use" or "for education use only" will be quickly deleted, perhaps without warning. However, if someone is already granting non-commercial or non-profit usage, then they may be willing to license the image freely to us and you should contact them and request a free license. The worst that happens is they never respond. It only takes 5 minutes to compose the email and the possible reward is huge. MECU≈talk 19:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright use question 

message: One of the more common sources for images are going to be Flickr images with Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic rights, there should be an example of how to use such images correctly Litch (talk) 00:58, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flickr images 

message: The instructions say "Check foreign language links for the article and related articles, as they may have a photo already."  I did so, and found an image I want to use.  What does the wiki markup look like for using an interwiki image...?  (Those instructions should be on this article).
If the answer is, "copy the image to wikipedia yourself", there's a problem - I can't read the page it's from, so I have no idea how it's licensed, so how do I know what license to put it under?  
FWIW, the image in question is the one discussed in Talk:Spree -- stillnotelf is invisible 05:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: you are correct it is not possible to link directly to an image on another language wikipedia. The recommend method is to upload it to Wikimedia Commons by first downloading to your machine. As you say the problem is understanding the copyright text in a foreign language but in many cases there are icons next to the text that are the same as the English. In the case of the image your are talking about you are lucky. Under the image there is a text block with links and the Commons icon. This shows the file is on Wikimedia commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_des_Flusses_Spree.gif. You can therefore simply type in the file name as if the image is on English Wikipedia, it will be automatically transferred. --Traveler100 (talk) 06:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I edited the tutorial to explain this.  -- stillnotelf is invisible 02:06, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to actually USE interwiki images? 

message: Can this white space be deleted?  There's code in it, not just line returns.74.190.18.95 (talk) 00:57, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big white space in  ==Create your own== 

message: Wikipedia:No_original_research says
* Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source.
If you take a photo yourself, as suggested at Wikipedia:Finding_images_tutorial#Create_your_own, then that is not using a reliable, published source. -- Occultations (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The first sentence of the policy defines what it means by "material": "material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—" so images are not in scope. In the far future when we have enough images for everything the policy may be changed to include images, but we are very far from it :-) Cheers! Syced (talk) 04:44, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does this tie up with the "No original research" policy?