Topic on User talk:Jade Shauni

Uploading images

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Jade, please when uploading an image select a license. We are in the process of cleaning up all the images without licenses that we inherited from TV Tropes, and adding more without without license information makes our job harder and puts the wiki at legal risk.

If you have no idea what license to use, select "Fair Use".

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

So how do I select the "Fair Use" button, especially after I upload it?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Underneath the summary box and all the "boilerplate buttons" in the file description box there is a dropdown labeled "Licensing". Click that, and choose the "Fair Use" option. Or, you know, one of the others if you happen to know the licensing is different or you created the image yourself.

If you need to add it to an image you've already uploaded, just edit the image page and add {{fairuse}} to the description.

There should be no need for you to delete an image; and in fact, I'm not sure that anyone other than admins have the rights to do so.

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

I tried to get rid of the image and fix my mistake. Which one has fair use?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I don't understand your message. What image did you try to get rid of, and which one what has fair use?

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)
Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

On that page, click the link reading "Upload a new version of this file" underneath the "File History" table.

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

How come the licensing bar doesn't show up when I go to "Upload new image." I'm trying to backtrack a bit and do a bit of cleaning.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

If you mean "Upload new version", that's because it's only present on the new upload screen and you have to add the license template manually. Check the "diff" display for one of the files I changed earlier today to see what I did. But I already updated all the files you uploaded since you started doing so last June, so there's nothing you should need to change. Unless, of course, you uploaded more while I was working.

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

I haven't uploaded any new files while you were working and thanks.

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

Okay, sorry. I won't speed along at full blast like I was doing earlier.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Oh, no need to slow down. Just make sure all the info gets added.

Speaking of which, one other thing you should do, that I didn't notice you weren't doing -- add a category for any work, trope, creator, etc. page it appears on -- they'll be listed at the very bottom of the image page, as well as the source work if there is one. For instance, your image of the cast of Ouran High School Host Club appears on Border in Bloom, so it gets categories for Border in Bloom and Ouran High School Host Club. (Don't add a category for templates, userpages, or things like that. And if the category you think it should be comes up a redlink, that means we need to go clean up some categories somewhere; you can skip it in that case.)

I should reassure you -- these are guidelines that have only evolved in the last few weeks and months, and they're not yet written down anywhere so you haven't actually done anything wrong yet. I just wanted to catch you before you dumped a whole lot more files into the wiki that we'd need to fix later.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Also... there was no need to post three almost identical messages in three different places to ask me these questions. I'll be alerted just fine when you add a note to this thread; more messages doesn't make it happen faster. Consider yourself lucky that I'm skiving off a bit by actually doing stuff on the wiki right now; under proper conditions you'd've had to wait until I got home tonight before getting a reply.