Commons:Policies and guidelines

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Wikimedia Commons has several policies that help its users pursue the goal of creating a freely licensed media file repository.

Policies

Guidelines

General Wikimedia policy Commons:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (for text) GNU Free Documentation License (for text) General disclaimer Privacy policy Regarding content Project scope Licensing policy Deletion policy Revision deletion Language policy When to use the PD-Art tag Regarding usage and behaviour Blocking policy Protection policy De-adminship

Regarding content Non-copyright restrictions Fan art Image guidelines Nudity Photographs of identifiable people Derivative works File renaming When to use the PD-scan tag Galleries Using ImageAnnotator Overwriting existing files Grandfathered old files Regarding behaviour Ownership of pages and files Talk page guidelines User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy Vandalism Rollback Patrol Signatures

See also

• Category:Commons policies
• Commons:Community portal
• Commons:Welcome — About Wikimedia Commons
• Help:Contents