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On this page, users can ask for a deleted page or file (hereafter, "file") to be restored. Users can comment on requests by leaving remarks such as keep deleted or undelete along with their reasoning.

This page is not part of Wikipedia. This page is about the content of Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free media files used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Commons does not host encyclopedia articles. To request undeletion of an article or other content which was deleted from the English Wikipedia edition, see the deletion review page on that project.

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Temporary undeletion

Files may be temporarily undeleted either to assist an undeletion discussion of that file or to allow transfer to a project that permits fair use. Use the template {{Request temporary undeletion}} in the relevant undeletion request, and provide an explanation.

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To assist discussion

Files may be temporarily undeleted to assist discussion if it is difficult for users to decide on whether an undeletion request should be granted without having access to the file. Where a description of the file or quotation from the file description page is sufficient, an administrator may provide this instead of granting the temporary undeletion request. Requests may be rejected if it is felt that the usefulness to the discussion is outweighed by other factors (such as restoring, even temporarily, files where there are substantial concerns relating to Commons:Photographs of identifiable people). Files temporarily undeleted to assist discussion will be deleted again after thirty days, or when the undeletion request is closed (whichever is sooner).

To allow transfer of fair use content to another project

Unlike English Wikipedia and a few other Wikimedia projects, Commons does not accept non-free content with reference to fair use provisions. If a deleted file meets the fair use requirements of another Wikimedia project, users can request temporary undeletion in order to transfer the file there. These requests can usually be handled speedily (without discussion). Files temporarily undeleted for transfer purposes will be deleted again after two days. When requesting temporary undeletion, please state which project you intend to transfer the file to and link to the project's fair use statement.

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Note: This list might be outdated. For a more complete list, see meta:Non-free content (this page was last updated: March 2014.) Note also: Multiple projects (such as the ml, sa, and si Wikipedias) are listed there as "yes" without policy links.

Adding a request

First, ensure that you have attempted to find out why the file was deleted. Next, please read these instructions for how to write the request before proceeding to add it:

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Closing discussions

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Archives

Closed undeletion debates are archived daily.

Current requests

File:Grubtheme sekiro.png File doesn't fulfil requirements for deletion

I believe that this file isn't eligible for deletion because it's author has released it on GitHub under a free license (MIT license) source and because this image doesn't contain any derivative work from the game Sekiro (also see: commons rule).

Thank you for participating in this discussion Kakučan (talk) 12:22, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose This is the only public repository of semimqmo on GitHub and they posted on Reddit that they just took this wallpaper from https://wallpapersden.com/sekiro-shadows-die-twice-art-wallpaper/2560x1440 where the author is not even credited. And maybe some people do not think of a software license applying to images  REAL 💬 ⬆   15:23, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose As noted in the deletion comment, there is no evidence that the creator of the image is the person who posted it with the {{Mit}} license at github. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:34, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see in this and this commit the final screenshot is composed of resources which automatically fulfill the commons rule of threshold of originality except this one (which is considered it to be not semimqmo's original work). I found this theory to be true but I couldn't find any license posted with this resource which leads me to think that John Devlin had given a permission to semimqmo to repost this resource under MIT license (otherwise semimqmo's repo on GitHub would've been taken down for copyright infringement). Thank you for your response Kakučan (talk) 18:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I say again -- there is no evidence that Devlin has given a free license. The fact that GitHub has not acted against this post proves nothing. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 19:17, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This is free software. It would be very contrary to current practice that a non-free image would be distributed with it. So I think that the license applies to the whole package, which includes the code and the image. Yann (talk) 18:07, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a logo for JS13K games. I am writing on behalf of the creators Andrzej and Ewa Mazur who wishes it to not be deleted. This image was being used on the wikipedia page for js13k also. Thank you for fixing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slackluster (talk • contribs)

 Support If this is the logo shown at the top of https://js13kgames.com Andrzej Mazur uploaded this file under CC0 in 2018  REAL 💬 ⬆   21:12, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose Although Ewa Mazur is mentioned on the web site, Andrzej is not. This logo was uploaded by USER:Mypoint13k in 2021. The web site has "©2024 js13kGames & authors". If the owners of the site actually want the logo freely licensed here, they must do it with a message to VRT. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:24, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

He is in https://github.com/orgs/js13kGames/people. He uploaded the logo on the website in a GitHub repository under CC0 in 2018  REAL 💬 ⬆   14:36, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This is free software. It would be very contrary to current practice that a non-free image would be distributed with it. So I think that the license applies to the whole package, which includes the code and the image. Yann (talk) 15:19, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yann I don't think so. Aside from the explicit copyright notice which I cited above, the legal section of the web site has
"As a condition of submission, Entrant grants the Competition Organizer, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display the Submission."
That is a free license only in the sense that no money changes hands. It does not include the right to freely license anything. Also, please remember that even in the case where the software may be freely licensed, the logo for it is often not. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is an agreement for entrants who submit games to the competition, not anything to do with the website itself, which in fact has no license on GitHub at all. However, one of the staff of js13kGames uploaded this logo in a different repository under CC0. The license in a GitHub repository applies to all the files in it unless otherwise noted, which has not been done so there  REAL 💬 ⬆   15:50, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The license in a GitHub repository applies to all the files in it unless otherwise noted. Yes, I agree with that. Yann (talk) 16:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Old Sepahan Logo.png

با سلام لوگوی بارگذاری شده باز طراحی اینجانب میباشد و بنده لوگو را از روی یک ویدئو طراحی نمودم و کاملا اثر شخصی بنده میباشد.

 Oppose Complex logo, no permission. Yann (talk) 14:11, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If this is the same logo https://www.instagram.com/wearesepahan/p/DHI2zQEIFnj, that post says it is from the 70s, is Template:PD-Iran 30 years after publication of a work by a "legal person" mean government only or business entities?  REAL 💬 ⬆   14:37, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is the same logo. The logo might be from the 1970s, but is the blazon from the 1970s or more recent? Abzeronow (talk) 19:02, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand what you are talking about.. @Hanooz do you know anything about this?  REAL 💬 ⬆   20:52, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Edited "from there" to "from the 1970s" to make my meaning more clear. (And I mean to ask if the interpretation of the logo is from the 1970s or more recent) Abzeronow (talk) 21:16, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see now (I didnt know what "the blazon" was referring to). Now that I look more closely, I can't find this logo by reverse image search anywhere else than the Instagram account, so we definitely need to learn more from someone who knows about Iranian football clubs back then  REAL 💬 ⬆   22:01, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Muselk vs Ali-A (cropped).jpg

The file was speedily deleted for the reason "per COM:Speedy" without mentioning a specific reason as to why it was speedily deleted.

Presuming the reason being F1, the original source of the image was a thumbnail from a YouTube video that was listed under a CC license. The thumbnail does contain copyrighted Fortnite imagery, but was cropped to exclude any of it. There isn't a COM:NET issue as far as I'm aware because Ali-A does actually talk in that video. In other words, the subject of the file is affiliated with the uploader in that specific video. This isn't just some random upload of gameplay that put his face in the thumbnail for clickbait. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TansoShoshen (talk • contribs) 08:58, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Pinging @Yann: as the deleting admin. Ankry (talk) 10:48, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose without more information. Image included in a game video. Where does this image come from? Also what's the educational purpose of this? Yann (talk) 14:35, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Given that this was 2010-era YouTube, and that after scrolling across the videos of YouTube channel and checking with both Tineye and Google Reverse Image Search, this seems to be just a unique instance of Ali-A doing the "stereotypical clickbait face". The educational value is that the subject depicted, Ali-A is a notable subject with his own article on Wikipedia. TansoShoshen (talk) 19:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Portret van een prostituee met een glas whiskey, RP-F-F00149.jpg

Hi, This was certainly published at the time, so the reason for deletion is not valid: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Portret van een prostituee met een glas whiskey, RP-F-F00149.jpg. Yann (talk) 09:43, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, we already have a copy: File:StoryvilleRaleighRyeGal.JPG. Yann (talk) 09:46, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you think it was "certainly published" in 1912? Per the MOMA book, Bellocq took these photographs for himself (he apparently was friendly with the prostitutes, don't know if he was a customer there) and kept the glass negatives at home, where they were found in some piece of furniture after his death. His main occupation as a photographer was apparently working for a shipbuilding company, photographing ship parts and machinery. --Rosenzweig τ 10:05, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging @Nosferattus: as the nominator. --Rosenzweig τ 10:07, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Oversimplification - Many of the now best known Bellocq nudes are from the chest of glass negatives rediscovered in the 1960s but Bellocq also printed some at the time, both for the prostitutes themselves and their customers. As a professional photographer during his life he was better publicly known for his industrial photography, photographs of Mardi Gras floats (seasonal but extensive work, was official photographer for some krewes), photographer for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and also did portrait photography. While the "Storyville" red-light district was quasi-legal, association with it was not something which would publicized by someone doing respectable work outside of the demi-monde (even if it was an open secret in some circles). IMO there may be a case that Bellocq images known only from prints produced by Lee Friedlander, may still be under copyright, this is not one, being one of the long better known Storyville portraits. Some Storyville historians have even questioned the attribution of this one to Bellocq. (This is mostly off the top of my head as a long-time researcher in early New Orleans jazz, which is an adjacent topic to Storyville history with some crossover, knowing and interacting with some working in the latter field, but some details are likely covered in the late Al Rose's "Storyville" book.) -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:59, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Infrogmation and Yann: Do you have any evidence that this specific photo was published before 1970? Nosferattus (talk) 20:07, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is not much reason to doubt publication, as Infrogmation explains above. Speculations are not a valid reason deletion, and are much beyond significant doubt, which is required for deletion. Yann (talk) 18:54, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is definitely good reason to doubt publication. (1) I wasn't able to find any evidence that it was published prior to 1970 when I nominated the image for deletion. (2) The MOMA book about Bellocq's nudes doesn't mention any previous publications and seems to imply that Lee Friedlander was the first to publish them. But I don't know why I'm arguing with you anyway. You're just going to undelete it regardless of what I say. Nosferattus (talk) 04:48, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The MOMA book is not a holy publication. It is not surprising that it doesn't mention distribution of these portraits to the subjects and their customers, which counts as publication. Association with prostitutes was not something people publicized. Yann (talk) 09:05, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.png

Hello!
This file was errantly deleted.
This file is public domain in Iraq, and public domain in America, as Iraq is a non-signatory to the Berne convention. The organization that this flag belongs to, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba is a militia that's apart of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which is a branch of the Iraqi Armed Forces.
Article 6 of the Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright[1] states that "official documents such as texts of laws and regulations, international agreements, judicial rulings and other official documents" are not protected by copyright law. The phrase "other official documents" is intentionally open-ended and follows a legal construction called ejusdem generis, meaning "of the same kind." Courts interpreting similar laws read the list not as exhaustive but as illustrative. If laws and regulations are included, so too are government-issued orders, decrees, and public symbols created by or for state institutions, such as logos and flags representing military units. Law No. 40 of 2016 formally incorporates the PMF into the Iraqi Armed Forces. Therefore, insignia and flags of PMF brigades are official symbols of a branch of the Iraqi state. These emblems are used in state functions, military ceremonies, recruitment efforts, and internal publications, which unambiguously makes them, by definition and function, "official documents." This is not speculative, the insignia is state-issued, used in a government capacity, and falls within the legal exemptions of Iraq’s copyright law. The emblems and flags of PMF brigades are official state imagery, created under the authority of Iraq’s armed forces, and publicly disseminated as part of their official identity. As such, they meet the definition of "official documents."
--Castroonthemoon (talk) 19:50, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose Per Commons:Undeletion requests/Archive/2025-05#File:Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.png dated May 26, 2025. Thuresson (talk) 15:22, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't able to respond to that comment, thus the re-list, but I believe that there is a linguistic issue and a function issue with that argument. Given that Arabic is a language with a Semetic origin, and English is a language with an Indo-European origin, it's much harder to find words that directly comport with one another. "collections" is a translation from either مجموعة (majmūʿa) or مجموعات (majmūʿāt), which does not necessarily imply plurality in the Western legal sense[2]. Furthermore, "collections" as used in this sense is referring to the ملحق (mulḥaq)[3], translated as "annex" or "appendix," for which symbols, graphics, etc. promogulated through law are included in, as is common in Arab legal systems. These annexes are legally inseparable from the main text. Therefore, even if the annex contains only one image (such as a flag or emblem), it still forms a "collection" with the main legal text under Iraqi publication practice. Annexes are not optional, they're part of the law or administrative order and carry full legal authority. it is the official visual identifier of a state institution and must be followed., which in turn, and in this context, makes emblems in an “official document.” The fact that it is compiled with the decree as part of an official state publication satisfies the definition of a “collection of official documents” in Article 6. Castroonthemoon (talk) 22:41, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:玉環新村.jpg

Please restore the following pages:

Reason: pd in taiwan (expired). pd in usa (calligraphy). RoyZuo (talk) 06:35, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Support I am surprised that this was not discussed in the DR. The calligraphy cannot have a copyright in the US, so it is PD in both places. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:28, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jameslwoodward You may wanna read Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bank of Taiwan Logo.svg, another PD-Taiwan calligraphy case deleted due to URAA concern, for this particular one, wait for 2052 might be more fair per COM:PCP. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:52, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you read the abovementioned DR carefully, you will see that the deletion was due to Taiwanese copyright, not URAA. Abzeronow's comment may be misleading: URAA has nothing to do there as caligraphy is not copyrighted in US. Ankry (talk) 08:02, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So @Taivo: 's USA demands 95 years from publication. is also misleading now? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:16, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I corrected the undeletion date on that to 2049 since the calligraphy doesn't have a US copyright. Abzeronow (talk) 00:27, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Ankry: Do we have ideas who wrote those texts? I searched some sources that eventually I'm not sure whether these indicate the writter(s):
  1. [4] Suggests Li Liangmei, probably still alive;
  2. [5] vaguely said Sheng... Liao... Li/Lee... Z(J)hang... Wu(u)/Ng..., lack of idea who they a(we)re
  3. [6] referred it to be a Catholic missionary Elmar Bohmann, nothing else about him
  4. [7] mentioned two men Zheng Chuanshou and Zheng Jiashou built a Matsu palace

Somewhat confused,  Oppose at the moment unless actual author is disclosed. The relationships between requestor RoyZuo and another user Roy17 may be interested by me per this UCoC case. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:11, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liuxinyu970226: Please, do not introduce new topics here, especially being out of scope of this page. We are discussing about one file. Ankry (talk) 07:52, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah okay, I've partially striked. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:14, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All these links are just throwing a bunch of random irrelevant things, preying on most sysops and users who frequent this page because they dont have knowledge of Chinese language.
If the user has native knowledge of Chinese, he knows full well that 3/4 links are not about the stone stela, and 4/4 make no mention about the creator, sculptor or calligrapher of the stone.
Therefore, he should know his comments are unhelpful and actually misleading. RoyZuo (talk) 10:20, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@RoyZuo And how that statue is calligraphy and without otherwise artworks? There might be other artistic develops which is just why PCP exists to hold up several DRV requestors. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:24, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So now, you marked two of your sentences with underline, which strengthened me that you're likely still IDHTing as what you did on enwiki (2 years ago, when you were called RZuo). We all are discussing the matters around that deleted file, but you don't know How to Win Friends and Influence People, you just disagreed with a claim by another user, even though that claim is really reflecting the relevant policy, and I can see that everybody's efforts to help by commenting above might have been upsetting because whether the file is PD and/or elsewhere free-licensed. In the future, I plan to investigate more informations on authorships to avoid problems like above. I understand that such researches are more important for our works, together than for me, to get a way for best win-win environments right away. I tried to consider you as my influence friend, but opposite? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Guns & Moses Theatrical Release Poster.jpg

I am the copyright owner. Can I please undelete this file? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yourpalsal (talk • contribs) 21:03, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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