i've uploaded a photo to update a wikipedia page, but it seems that i've selected the wrong license, from the one you can choose from the menu of those that are NOT content of your own, it's the common 4.0 I'm not sure if i can use it, even thoug i've described and linked the real author. Help!!!!
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You can fix the wrong licensing information by editing the image page. Just change it to the correct license.
How do i put the right license, i mean i'm noob on this website, can you paste here the corret phrase to edit it? I mean, the phrase of the last license , ''the one you took from the internet'', between the parenthesis.
Since you mentioned "Commons 4.0", the correct template for the Creative Commons 4.0 license is {{cc-by-sa-4.0}}.
If you select "I found the image on Google or a random website", then there will not be a license template inserted. Instead, there will be a note that the image is missing information on its license.
You need to know the name of the license to use! Which one is it? Without an appropriate license, the image cannot be used on Wikimedia Commons.
I have no license, and not asked for any. I've just put the image on the commons, describing the real author.
I don't know what my situation is right now :(
When the author of the image published it, he most likely did in some way provide the license under which he does that. That does not mean that he has to grant you the right to use the file; he only needs to tell under which license he provides the image. If he is a commercial photographer, he will most likely use a license, which does not allow others to use his work free of charge.
If the license can be determined, it either allows using the image on Commons or it does not.
Anyway, if the license cannot be determined, the image cannot be used on Commons and will sooner or later be deleted from there again. That is the situation.
He is a photographer that works for a small journal, he published the image there, and this image has been used almost anywhere, on all socials (posted by important and relevant pages), and on other journals or in tv services. So my guess is that it does use the license creative commons 4.0
I'm aware that in my last post I kind of guessed myself. However, guessing does not help. Maybe he had contracts with photo agencies, which again had contracts with major newspaper allowing them to use the image. Others however might just have used it without ever having been allowed to do so. Even if that should have been the case, it does not make others' illegal actions any better. It all boils down to this: If the license is unknown, the image cannot be used and will be - or at least: should be - deleted from commons.
How do i delete the image?
You cannot delete it yourself, but you can request deletion by adding a delete template on the image page, e.g. like so:
{{delete|1=License unknown, image possibly not usable here}}Many thanks to you, you've helped me in many ways, and with much kindness.