Dengmothy
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About images on Commons or on en.Wikipedia.
editHi there. I noticed your second image question after you removed it (it's still visible, like almost everything else, in the page history). You may possibly have some confusion about our goals. When you put one of your own images on Commons, you are required to license its copyright under the CC-BY-SA license or one that is compatible with it. That makes it available for anyone to use it, modified or unmodified, for any purpose, as long as they attribute it. If you are willing to license it that way it's pretty hard to "steal" it, because you are basically giving it away anyway. If you do not wish to do this, then you cannot place the image on Commons, and en.Wikipedia mostly uses Commons images. We can also accept "free use" images under rigidly restricted circumstances. This does not apply to images for which you own the copyright: those have the same rules here as at Commons (and you should always use Commons for them).
Why do we have these rules? Because the fundamental goal of Wikipedia is to provide content that anyone can use for any purpose.
If you are trying to make sure you could easily detect an unattributed copy (which I agree is a form of "stealing") then a watermark does not add a lot of value. To "out" the thief and demand that they either attribute to remove the "stolen" work, just send a DMCA takedown notice to the site that is hosting the work, together with a link to the picture at Commons. A watermark would not be necessary: the web host admin would just exercise common sense. Since the copyright belongs to you, you take this action, not Wikipedia. -Arch dude (talk) 19:45, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
- oh, i now know why i got confused. Whenever i use Wikipedia and im in a community portal, i get confused and nervous, just to let you know. <- [🔥] Dengmothy (talk) 23:28, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
- Please don't get nervous if you can avoid it. We want contributions from everybody, and one of our big problems is that new editors are too timid. Instead, please be bold: see WP:BOLD. The idea is that it's trivially easy for you or another editor us to fix any mistake you make, often by simply reverting it. If someone reverts a good-faith edit of yours, that's OK, its just part of our process. See WP:BRD. If you do run afoul of one of our policies or guidelines, someone will revert you or maybe even warn you, but that's OK as long as you do not continue to repeat the same behavior after the warning: that's how we learn -Arch dude (talk) 20:48, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
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editNew section 💀 DMothy. TALK 18:22, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
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