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Thank you for offering to contribute an image or other media file for use on Wikipedia. This wizard will guide you through a questionnaire prompting you for the appropriate copyright and sourcing information for each file. Please ensure you understand copyright and the image use policy before proceeding.

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Use for non-free files

Step 1: Choose your file

File:

Choose a file from your computer. Maximum file size: 100 MB.
Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, xcf, pdf, mid, ogg, ogv, svg, djvu, tiff, tif, oga.

Step 2: Describe your file

Please provide a clear, descriptive name by which your file will be known on Wikipedia.

This name must be unique across the whole of Wikipedia, so please make it informative and easy to recognize.
It's no problem to use a fairly long name. It may also include spaces, commas and most other punctuation marks.
Please also note that file names are case sensitive (with the exception of the first letter).
Good: "City of London, skyline from London City Hall, Oct 2008.jpg". Bad: "Skyline.jpg", "DSC0001234.jpg".

Please provide a brief description of the contents of this file. This will be stored and displayed as part of the file description page. It is important that other editors be able to understand what this file is about.
	What does this file show? What is it a photo/diagram/recording of? It will be helpful if you also add a wikilink to the article where you want to use it.

Step 3: Provide source and copyright information

It is very important that you read through the following options and questions, and provide all required information truthfully and carefully.

This is a free work.
I can demonstrate that it is legally okay for anybody to use, in Wikipedia and elsewhere, for any purpose.

Copyright status:

This file is entirely my own work.
I am the copyright holder. I made this myself, from scratch, without copying or incorporating anybody else's creative work, and I am willing to release it under a free license.

This file was given to me by its owner.
The copyright owner of this file has given it to me for uploading on Wikipedia. I can provide evidence that they have agreed to release it under a free license, for free use by anybody and for any purpose.

This file is from a free published source.
I took it from a website or other published source, where its author has explicitly placed it under a free license, allowing free re-use by anybody.

This work is so old its copyright has expired
This is an old photograph, or a photographic reproduction of an old painting, drawing, etc. I can provide enough information about its author and provenance to prove that it is old enough for its copyright to have expired. It is now legally in the Public Domain.

This file is in the Public Domain for some other reason.
I can demonstrate that this work is legally in the Public Domain, i.e. nobody owns any copyrights on it. This may be for a variety of reasons, for instance because it was created by the US Federal Government, or because it is too simple to attract any copyright.

This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use.
I have read the Wikipedia rules on Non-Free Content, and I am prepared to explain how the use of this file will meet the criteria set out there.

Non-free use rationale

This image is the object of discussion in an article.
This is a copyrighted artwork or photograph, and the image itself is the topic of discussion in the article. The discussion is about the photograph or painting as such, as a creative work, not just about the thing or person it shows.

This is a depiction of a copyrighted three-dimensional work or building, which is the object of discussion in an article.
This is a photograph or other kind of depiction of a copyrighted, three-dimensional creative work, such as a statue or work of architecture. The article contains a discussion of that work which requires illustration. The photograph as such is free, or was provided by the creator of the sculpture.

This is an excerpt from a copyrighted work.
This is an excerpt from a copyrighted work, e.g. a screenshot from a movie or TV programme, a panel from a comic, or a sound sample from a song. Its presence is needed to support a piece of explicit critical discussion in an article related to that work or its creator(s).

This is the official cover art of a work.
This is the cover or dustjacket of a book, the cover of a CD or video, the official release poster of a movie, or a comparable item. It will be included as that work's primary means of visual identification, at the top of the article about the book, movie, etc. in question.
Note: If you plan to use it for any other purpose than this, please tick the box for "other non-free work" below.

This is a logo of an organization, company, brand, etc.
This is an official logo of an entity that is the subject of a Wikipedia article. It will be included as that entity's primary means of visual identification, at the top of the article in question.
Note: If you plan to use it for any other purpose than this, please tick the box for "other non-free work" below.

This is an historic portrait of a person no longer alive.
This is an historic photograph or other depiction of a person who is no longer alive. It will be used as the primary means of visual identification of that person in the article about them.

This is some other kind of non-free work that I believe is legitimate Fair Use.
This is a copyrighted work whose use does not fall into any of the classes above. I have read the Wikipedia rules on Non-free content, and I will explain how this file meets all of the criteria set out there.

Which of these options describes this item best?

Author:	(Who made this image?)
Original publication:	(Where, when and how was this image first published?)
Date of publication:
Source:	(where exactly did you get this file from?)
Please explain what exact purpose this file will serve in the article.
	Please be concrete and specific. Don't just copy boilerplate statements from elsewhere. State clearly, in your own words, what this particular file will be doing in this particular article. Your explanation must make it clear why the article would be significantly worse off without this file.
Please explain why this purpose could not be served by text alone.

Please explain why this purpose could not be served with an alternative, free illustration that could yet be found or created.
	For a file to be deemed replaceable, it is not necessary that a suitable replacement already exists. Even if it is merely possible that a replacement could be created, we will not use the non-free file.
Please explain why you are confident that our use of the file will not harm any commercial opportunities of its owner.
	We will typically not use a file if its owner has a potential commercial interest in its use, and if our use of it would compete with its original market role.

Remember that the use of non-free files must be minimal. This can mean several things: Don't use more files per article/topic than necessary Don't use the same file in more articles than necessary Don't use larger excerpts of a single work than necessary Don't use images of higher resolution than necessary In view of this, please explain how the use of this file will be minimal.

Special source and license conditions (optional)

Any further relevant information about this file?

Yes, I want this file to be immediately available in all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. I will upload it on the Wikimedia Commons.
Clicking this button will redirect you to a page on Commons. This will only work if you are already logged in there, which is likely the case if you have a unified account. Check here to see if you are logged in.

No, I want to upload this file locally.
This way it can be used only on the English Wikipedia. We urge you to upload it to the Commons unless there is a very good reason for it to stay local. Often such local files are copied to the Commons for use elsewhere and deleted locally, requiring extra work for other volunteers. If you do not want your file to be copied to Commons and deleted locally, consider adding the {{Keep local}} tag.

Reset this form and start over.

This file doesn't fit either of the categories above.
This file doesn't seem to fall into either of the classes above, or I am not certain what its status is. I found this file somewhere, but I don't really know who made it or who owns it.

File successfully uploaded

Your file has been uploaded successfully and can now be found here:

File:Example.jpg

Please follow the link and check that the image description page has all the information you meant to include.

If you want to change the description, just go to the image page, click the "edit" tab at the top of the page and edit just as you would edit any other page. Do not go through this upload form again, unless you want to replace the actual file with a new version.

To insert this file into an article, you may want to use code similar to the following:

[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|right|insert a caption here]]

If you wish to make a link to the file in text, without actually showing the image, for instance when discussing the image on a talk page, you can use the following (mark the ":" after the initial brackets!):

[[:File:Example.jpg]]

See Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more detailed help on how to insert and position images in pages.

Thank you for using the File Upload Wizard.
Please leave your feedback, comments, bug reports or suggestions on the talk page.

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