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For questions about copyright , technical matters , or help that does not relate to the general Commons community as well as proposals , please see the other discussion boards linked in the blue panel at the top. Search archives: Start a new discussion In the last hour In the last day In the last week In the last month More than one month Policy update for AI content (23 June 2026) Policy update for Renaming of Pdf and DjVu files (14 August 2026) History maps of Europe Hi, I would like to discuss the description in all categories of the scheme "Maps of <country> in the <x>th century" (see for example Italy , Belgium , Spain , Poland ). There are three different points about the current system I would like to invite comments on: the wording of the definition in the first paragraph of the hatnote whether or not to include "you may also be looking for similar maps" (second and third paragraph) of the description whether or not to re-include a distinction between history maps (in this category group) vs. old maps ( not in this category group) I've put my own opinion in italics to explain why I think this requires debate, but I would like for people to check out the scheme examples for themselves, and judge on their own. Peace, -- Enyavar ( talk ) 08:11, 2 January 2026 (UTC) Reply Would there be no such thing as "maps of Germany" for any date before 1866? Or would we take "Germany" before that date to mean the German-speaking world (and, if so, would that include areas where the rulers spoke German, but most of their subject did not)? or what? (Similarly for Italy.) Similarly: would there be no such thing as maps of Poland or Lithuania between 1795 and 1918? If so, what would we call maps of that area in that period? In our Commons:WikiProject Postcards we have the similar problem. Is this a "old postcard of the German Empire" or a "Postcard of Germany". There we are mostly agree, that today people often search for postcards be the locations of today. So many former German towns are now Polnish towns and so we are categorized this postcards under the polnish name of the town. See also Commons:WikiProject_Postcards#Categories . Best regards -- sk ( talk ) 12:29, 12 February 2026 (UTC) Reply Maps from Our World in Data A suggestion in regards with the maps from Our World in Data: remove from each map the category <year> maps of the world . These maps weren't published in the years referenced. In addition, it could make the categories of <year> maps of the world more easy to browse. Thanks in advance. -- Universalis ( talk ) 19:15, 22 February 2026 (UTC) Reply The template would be used for categories like Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1947 data , right? Would we also have Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1940s data (decade) and Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 19th-century data (century) as parent and grandparent of the year category? I have now created: {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and century}} {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and decade}} {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 20th-century data Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1940s data Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1947 data Category:Our World in Data maps of the world showing 1947 data The usage of the templates is super easy, no need for any parameters specifying the continent or the year, they take everything they need to know from the name of the category they are used in. The names of the continents are automatically translated using Wikidata labels. The first part of the title and the text above and below the navigation blocks are just examples. These can be used as an explanation for the category which is centrally maintained and must only be changed once if something should be changed, and if the texts are final, we can also make them translatable. Please let me know what you think. -- Reinhard Müller ( talk ) 09:52, 6 March 2026 (UTC) Reply I fixed "the world" (ooh, it feels good to write this ;-)) It is generally true that the template works best when the categories are created top down (i.e. first the centuries, then the decades, then the years). Still the navigation ribbons should appear even if the parent category does not exist (yet), I will have to investigate why they don't. But for the addition of the correct parent categories for new categories, it is important anyway that the parents pre-exist. I have (years ago) thought a lot about the question of logical sort keys, currently they are used very inconsistently across commons. I've even made a page summarizing my thoughts which you may or may not agree with. About this specific case, I think the space is widely used for meta categories (Blah blah by xyz) and should be reserved for that, and that the @ has the advantage of being sorted after all the other special characters, so if for example the category key "*" is before the alphanumeric subcategories, it is also before the numeric subcategories if the numeric are sorted as @. In the end I don't think in our case it makes much of a difference as long as all the subcategories use the same key so they are sorted correctly - which is taken care of by the template. About the "Maps of Oceania in 1947", would you want to also create them right now? Should I create a {{Category description/Maps by continent and year}} (and decade and century), and adapt the OWiD templates to the new parents? I don't use a bot, and I think that the CategoryBatchManager can add parent categories, but not a template. But since you don't have to change a single letter when copying the template from one category to a similar one, it can be done very fast. -- Reinhard Müller ( talk ) 18:02, 8 March 2026 (UTC) Reply {{Category description/Maps by continent and century shown}} {{Category description/Maps by continent and decade shown}} {{Category description/Maps by continent and year shown}} for all files in [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] if " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} " occurs in the file: take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " ( else leave the file alone) if " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} " occurs in the file: take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " ( else leave the file alone) repeat the same with "Africa", "Europe", ["North America" or "NorthAmerica" would need to be mapped onto "North America"], "Oceania", and so on. Removing women from categories Hello, I noticed that Mary Louisa Gow was moved from Category:Painters from England to Category:Female painters from England. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Mary_Louisa_Gow&diff=prev&oldid=420189141 Is this correct? There have been some other women moved the same way, at least one a politician. I am seeing that https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zohran_Mamdani_in_2025 is in a "politicians" type category and not in a "male politicians" category or "Asian politicians" category. I don't see any help files about this. Thank you. Caffeinated Chihuahua ( talk ) 02:10, 13 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Category:Zohran Mamdani is under Category:21st-century male politicians of New York City which is somewhere under Category:Male politicians of the United States . Category:Politicians of the United States in 2025 has no male or female subcats, and contains women like Category:Pam Bondi in 2025 Category:Kristi Noem in 2025 . [This could either be an addition to COM:OVERCAT or a separate project page; either way, it effectively modifies OVERCAT.] Nutshell: As a general rule, categories that intersect individuals' gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality with some other category should be non-diffusing categories. There are some exceptions to this, which are addressed below. Rationale: Regardless of intentions, the introduction of categories such as Category:Female guitarists or Category:Jewish classical musicians can lead to ghettoization. Fundamentally, a female guitarist or a Jewish cellist does exactly the same thing as a male guitarist or Russian Orthodox cellist, but when they are sectioned out like this they are separated from their peers based on a characteristic that is irrelevant to the matter at hand. Some of the unwelcome results are: One ethnicity is singled out this way, separating them from basically everyone else in their field. Because they are somewhat separated out, they are overlooked for other diffusions of the main category, so they are never categorized by nationality, genre of music, etc. In an overwhelmingly male (or overwhelmingly female) field women (or men) are ghettoized with similar effect. Diffusing a category by sexual orientation can be particularly pernicious, because it requires you to know something not necessarily obvious about a person to find them in the categorization system, and because there are likely to be very large numbers of people of no publicly declared sexuality. There are valid reasons to have categories such as Category:Female guitarists or Category:Jewish classical musicians , but they should be implemented as non-diffusing categories. What does non-diffusing mean? We will need a paraphrase of text from en:WP:Categorization#Non-diffusing subcategories , including our policy on tagging these. Note that we already have {{Non-diffusing subcategory}} , but it is not heavily used. The following may be diffused by gender:

The following may be diffused by religion: saints or other venerated individuals, diffused to the religion or religions that venerate them other exceptions? Jmabel ! talk 04:10, 15 August 2026 (UTC) Reply there's no "overloading". it's perfectly fine if a cat contains millions of files. there's no "more general cats". all should be "general cats" that deal with exactly only 1 aspect. categorise files to answer five Ws (Q368722) : questions whose answers are considered basic in information-gathering , but dont combine those answers to create cats like Category:France photographs taken on 2026-05-01 . this one mixes where, what, when. problems of this specific one have been raised in 2016 Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/10/Category:September 2007 Finland photographs . On the exchange above between User:Gone_Postal and GPSLeo : I don't really think this particular discussion is the place to make an entirely different proposal that would completely redefine how Commons uses categories. Feel more than free to make a distinct proposal of your own, but it seems you are arguing "don't refine the current approach because I'd like to do everything almost completely differently," and that just really isn't fair, it's a derailing. In case you do plan to make a proposal along those lines, though, I want to point out a use case you may not be considering, where I think the current category approach performs particularly well: when a user starts, not from a rationally formed query, but from one of our files, and thinks "this isn't exactly what I want, but it's close." Right now, they can navigate from the file to a category that seems like it might be promising, and possibly from that to parent and child categories. I would hope that any proposed replacement for the current approach to categories takes that use case into consideration. @ RoyZuo : yes, there are some small number of cases where even for these types of performers, their gender is irrelevant, but I hope you would agree that these are relatively rare cases. Even some of your examples could as easily be seen as counterexamples: the Takarazuka Revue is an all-female troupe, which is pretty much a defining factor for it. Yes, many of their performers play male roles, but that doesn't change the fact that the members of the troupe actually being women is a defining factor in these performances. Imbalance in gender ratio may be a reason to have a gender-specific subcat for those who are the exception to the rule, but it is absolutely not a reason to make that a diffusing subcat, quite the opposite. The latter is precisely the "ghettoization" problem this proposal is intended to address. It is possible that the now mostly historical role of a governess might be another case that would call for an exception. Category:Waitresses , however, is simply a gendered subcat of Category:Waiters (with no corresponding specifically male subcat) and with possibly a few edge-case exceptions, waiters and waitresses do the same work. We could arbitrarily make it an exception here, but it would only be because in this case the English language is not our friend. - Jmabel ! talk 23:31, 15 August 2026 (UTC) Reply In general, this is a very good proposal, but I do not agree with any of the "exceptions". If you are going to say that male vocalists are not vocalists because they are hired for a particular vocal range, you might as well go straight to "bass, tenor, soprano" etc. categories. Likewise they say that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels, so how could you say that Ginger Rogers was not a legitimate dancer. And how could you categorize someone like Augustine by denomination, or some of the missionaries who were primarily notable as linguists. Categories help editors find images. Removing already marginalized groups from broad categories will make them even less discoverable. I would support implementing the "non-diffusing" parts now. It seems like the "exceptions" need more work before they can be agreed on. Caffeinated Chihuahua ( talk ) 05:37, 16 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Support Jmabel 's draft proposal. I don't see any reason why w:wp:ALLINCLUDED shouldn't also apply to Commons. Currently, subcategories based on gender etc are incredibly inconsistent and sometimes confusing. Better to keep things simple: its harder to miscategorise with this proposal, and less likely to lead to othering . LetmeEditit ( talk ) 18:45, 22 August 2026 (UTC) Reply I Support the adoption of w:en:WP:ALLINCLUDED on Commons. I Oppose trying to explicitly list all the exceptions (see my comments further up). Nosferattus ( talk ) 10:34, 23 August 2026 (UTC) Reply @ Nosferattus : I'm fine with not attempting to explicitly list exceptions, but I would at least like to include examples: that diffusing by gender makes sense for vocalists, but not instrumentalists, and for actors, but not for directors; that diffusing by religion make sense for clergy, but not for politicians? - Jmabel ! talk 04:51, 25 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Sure, listing some examples is fine, IMO. Nosferattus ( talk ) 05:41, 25 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Support proposal by Jmabel to include the given examples as well as per Nosferattus and if possible, adopt or adapt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WP:ALLINCLUDED to avoid othering per LetmeEditit -- Ooligan ( talk ) 02:06, 8 September 2026 (UTC) Reply If I want to see images of vocalists, why should I have to choose between looking at male vocalists or female vocalists? It does not make any sense to make the person looking for images jump through more hoops and more layers of subcategories. If they want to refine their search, let them do it themselves instead of creating artificial barriers and hiding them in layers of subcategories. Likewise with religion, it does not make any sense to me that, say missionaries, are hired on the basis of appearance so should be hidden under more categories. This opens up a can of worms for other occupations as well, and does not help with discoverability. I would rather encourage people to add more categories, than take them away. Caffeinated Chihuahua ( talk ) 06:59, 1 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/02/Category:SVG by subject Colombian judicial decisions: Article 41 of Law 23/1982 and JEP court rulings I would appreciate some guidance regarding the copyright status on Commons of official judicial decisions issued in Colombia. The specific case concerns judicial rulings ( autos and potentially judgments) issued by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) , Colombia's transitional justice jurisdiction. These are official judicial decisions issued by its judicial chambers and Tribunal for Peace and published by the JEP itself. We are exploring the long-term preservation of this corpus and would like to determine whether faithful copies of the official PDFs may be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Article 41 of Colombia's Law 23 of 1982 states: In English, approximately: The Colombian National Copyright Directorate (Dirección Nacional de Derecho de Autor) describes Article 41 as a limitation allowing any person to reproduce these materials. This seems different from the general regime for works created by Colombian public employees. Government works in Colombia are not automatically in the public domain; Article 41 creates a specific rule for legislation, administrative acts and judicial decisions. The Andean Community's Decision 351 does not appear to contain an identical exemption for judicial decisions, although Article 21 permits Member States to establish copyright limitations and exceptions subject to the three-step test. Article 22 also contains specific permitted uses. Article 2(4) of the Berne Convention additionally provides that it is a matter for national legislation to determine the protection granted to official texts of a legislative, administrative and legal nature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply The U.S. side appears clearer. Section 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices states that government edicts include judicial decisions and further states that the Copyright Office will not register a government edict issued by a foreign government. Commons already reflects this in {{PD-EdictGov}} , which states that an edict of a local or foreign government is in the public domain in the United States and explicitly includes judicial decisions. Therefore, it appears that {{PD-EdictGov}} could cover the U.S. copyright status of an official JEP judicial decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Question about Colombia / Commons policy The point on which I would particularly appreciate community input is the Colombian side. Article 41 gives everyone an express statutory right to reproduce judicial decisions, but it also requires the reproduction to conform exactly to the official edition. Would this statutory status be sufficient for an official Colombian judicial decision to meet Commons' requirement that a work be free in its country of origin? More specifically: Should Article 41 be interpreted for Commons purposes as making official Colombian judicial decisions sufficiently free for hosting on Commons, when combined with {{PD-EdictGov}} for the United States? Or is Article 41 only a copyright exception permitting faithful reproduction, while leaving other exclusive rights — particularly adaptation/derivative works — intact, making the documents incompatible with Commons unless the relevant rights holder provides an additional free licence? If Article 41 is sufficient, would it make sense to create a specific template such as a Colombian government-edict / judicial-decision tag rather than using {{PD-Colombia}} , which appears to concern expiration of copyright terms? Would the answer differ between the judicial text itself and additional material embedded in a PDF (for example photographs, maps, illustrations, or other third-party material)? Our intention would initially be to upload only faithful copies of the official judicial decisions published by the JEP, together with their original source URLs and provenance information. Before uploading anything at scale, we would like to establish the correct copyright analysis and template combination. Relevant legal provisions: Colombia, Law 23 of 1982, Article 41. Andean Community, Decision 351 of 1993, Articles 21–22. Berne Convention, Article 2(4). U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium , §313.6(C)(2), Government Edicts. Commons: {{PD-EdictGov}} . Thank you for any guidance, particularly from editors familiar with Colombian/Andean copyright law or the treatment of foreign judicial decisions on Commons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Help in Category:Falcon 9 by flight I want to kindly request everyone interested to help in categorising the images present on Category:Falcon 9 Starlink by flights and Category:Launches of Falcon 9 . Abdullah1099 ( talk ) Template:Countries of Asia Hello everyone, In the template {{Countries of Asia}} , the entry for Israel has been removed and replaced with Palestine. I wasn’t able to find the edit that caused this change. Could someone help locate the source of this edit? -- Geagea ( talk ) 07:06, 3 September 2026 (UTC) Reply The recognition of Israel is limited too. I certainly do not want to open the can of worms of defining what is limited and what not, but if someone says the template "Countries of Asia" is taking a political stance they may have a point. See: Regards. Strakhov ( talk ) 16:40, 7 September 2026 (UTC) Reply PIP removal requests on "embarrassment" Recently, I have seen several instances of individuals nominating photos of themselves (no explicit evidence they actually are the person in question) for deletion on the allegation that it causes embarrassment. Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Removal_requests does state that embarrassment may be a reason for deletion, but does not guarantee this. Now, the claim that a photo causes embarrassment is difficult to assess when looking at these photos, as it is somewhat subjective. However, many such requests concern photos in which there is basically no element of degrading or insulting content. This includes many neutral portrait photos or screenshots taken from videos. We should obviously not cave to every allegation that a photo is embarrassing, as this could quickly become a tool of censorship for individuals wishing to promote a particular image of themselves. Since COM:PIP does not elaborate on what constitutes embarrassment, can we come up with some guidelines for future deletion discussions? – Howardcorn33 ( 💬 ) 09:57, 3 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Just a few recent ones: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Silvia Leal.jpg Commons:Deletion requests/File:Shana Pearson dehors Casa Del Popolo.png (BullDoser !) Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fa-مجتبی عیسی پور.ogg Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anne C, Agungsn, Aesthetic of Me 5-5-2026.png Commons:Deletion requests/File:Abendrot Rittersgrün.jpg Wikimedia Commons turned 22 Some ice-cream for the Occasion! EugeneZelenko ( talk ) 12:35, 7 September 2026 (UTC) Reply commons-nominator, nominations without leaving the page you are in I comment here a script I maintain since some time, commons-nominator , because I just added a thing that maybe is useful for more people. In a file page it puts a row of links that nominate the file to FP , QI and VI , each one with its dialog and one single edit per click, and next to them it also schedules a featured picture as Picture of the day in the next free date, sets the picture as the image of its Wikidata item when that item still has none, and searches which English Wikipedia articles the picture could illustrate, which is what a Commons FP needs before it can be a featured picture over there. What I added now is that all this arrives to the category pages too, written over the thumbnails themselves, so you can go through a whole category deciding while you look at the pictures instead of opening them one by one. Every picture that is still not a Quality Image gets a small QI button, in green when the file is already a Featured Picture, because a FP without QI is almost always an oversight and not a decision, on my own files 84 of my 212 featured pictures were missing it. Pressing it opens the normal dialog with the short description already filled from the file, and when you finish you stay in the category. In the FP nomination pages it also adds rename buttons and it warns you about the two open nominations rule before you edit instead of after. It only offers what each process could accept, so it stays quiet on videos, on small images or when your five QI nominations of the day are already used, and it never writes anything without a click. Documentation and installation in User:Wilfredor/commons-nominator , and I read everything that you tell me is wrong with it. Wilfredor ( talk ) 17:58, 7 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Images and files not loading properly on Commons Hi, I have noticed that when I am uploading pictures and PDFs to Commons recently, they are sometimes not rendering properly when I open the file page. Examples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phylloscopus_forresti_-_James_Eaton_-_338161400.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelargopsis_melanorhyncha_-_James_Eaton_-_435252346.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_Guide_to_the_Lycaenidae_of_Bolivia.pdf Mitsingh ( talk ) 08:28, 8 September 2026 (UTC) Reply A script for the wikitext and structured data coordinates that disagree A file can carry its position twice, as {{Location}} in the wikitext and as P1259 in structured data, and nothing keeps the two honest. Category:Pages with local camera coordinates and mismatching SDC coordinates has about 19,000 files where they do not match. User:Wilfredor/commons-sdc-coords shows both sides on a file page with the distance between them and a button to fix whichever one is wrong. On a category page it reads the whole category and lists only the files where the camera EXIF settles which side is right, and then writes them in one run with pause and stop. It carries on from where the last run stopped, or you can ask it for a random sample instead, because a category that size never gets read in one sitting. In a batch it only ever writes structured data, never wikitext, because the structured data was often copied from the EXIF by a bot and rewriting somebody's corrected wikitext on that evidence would undo human work at scale. And it will not touch a file where the camera is as far from one side as from the other. I ran it over 670 files and 654 were written. It also purges the pages it corrects so they leave the tracking category, which does not happen on its own because the statement lives in a different slot from the wikitext. Source and documentation at User:Wilfredor/commons-sdc-coords . Reports and complaints welcome. Wilfredor ( talk ) 13:01, 8 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/05/Category:Threshold of originality-related deletion requests in Albania This discussion which I started needs attention. Kindly go to this discussion page. JWilz12345 ( Talk | Contributions ) 07:56, 11 September 2026 (UTC) Reply The photographer of the POTD of 20260917 and 20261127 and some other dates removed his pictures because he wants to give the honours to other photographers. Is someone busy to choose other pictures? Hobbema ( talk ) 08:13, 11 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Commons as the host of Global Gadgets Have been using Commons to host this code: MediaWiki:Gadget-owidslider.js Followed by using this code on EN Wikipedia among other wikis. Are folks here good with being a central code repository for gadgets? Or should we push for another wiki to be the central repository for this sort of material? Also thinking ahead to a central repository for templates, as hopefully global templates eventually roll out. May need a separate wiki for these... Doc James ( talk · contribs · email ) 01:46, 12 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Announcing Wiki Loves Peace ! Hello everyone, I would like to invite the Commons community to participate in Wiki Loves Peace 2026 , an international photography campaign organized in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) under the Wiki4Disarmament project. The campaign runs from 21 September 2026 (International Day of Peace) until 30 October 2026 (conclusion of United Nations Disarmament Week) and aims to document peace-related heritage, memorials, museums, educational institutions, public art, and peacebuilding initiatives through freely licensed media on Wikimedia Commons. The winning photographs will be featured on UNODA's official social media platforms with appropriate attribution to the author(s). Examples of eligible subjects include: Peace memorials and monuments Peace museums and exhibitions Anti-war memorials Sites associated with reconciliation and coexistence Public art promoting peace Peace education and disarmament initiatives Hiroshima and Nagasaki heritage sites Remembrance and commemorative sites The project page, participation guidelines, jury process, and campaign details can be found here: Meta page: Wiki Loves Peace , Commons: Campaign:Wiki Loves Peace Feedback, endorsements, questions, and participation are all welcome. We would also be grateful for help with outreach, translations, and community engagement. Best, ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) Listed building In my family archive I found this 1951 picture. On the back was written 'Priory court Hold'. I found a link to File:Antique Exports at Pevensey - geograph.org.uk - 5196866.jpg and it seems to build a listed building. However the template (Geograph from structured data) does not allow me to link back to the 1951 picture. Smiley.toerist ( talk ) 13:35, 13 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Editor's identification marks on images As per Commons:Advert , is it appropriate for a Wikimedia COmmons editor/photographer to add their own personal/trade mark (trade mark,name etc) to an image that they both created and uploaded onto Commons. User:KaasterMDK has been marking all of the files that he has uploaded with his own insignia for example, in this file , his mark appears at the bottom of the info box in the top left corner. Martinvl ( talk ) 16:14, 14 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Commons community Commons maintenance