Wikipedia talk:Upload/Uploadtext/en-usgov

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This message includes Image:Exquisite-khelpcenter.png. That image is tagged as being superseded and more importantly is not protected, while the image that supersedes it, Image:Information icon.svg, is protected. Please replace Image:Exquisite-khelpcenter.png with Image:Information icon.svg. Thanks – Gurch 20:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done.--Commander Keane 00:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor fixes

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Please replace the contents of this template with:

{| width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" style="font-size:95%; line-height: 15px; background: #f1fcf5; border: 1px solid #d1ecd5;"
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#d7f2e1"|<big>'''Uploading a work of the United States federal government that is in the public domain'''</big> 
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| width="50%" valign="top" style="background:#f1fcf5;"|

<big>This page is for uploading works from the United States ''federal'' government.  To upload a file from a different source, please return to the '''[[Wikipedia:Upload|upload wizard]]'''</big>.
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#d7f2e1"|<big>Please read this important message first</big> 
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{| width="100%" cellspacing="5" style="background:#f1fcf5;"
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| [[Image:Information icon.svg|50px|left]]
| align="left" | This form should be used to upload an image that is a [[Work of the United States Government|creation of the United States federal government]] that is in the public domain.  Note that this does ''not'' apply to works of ''state'' or ''local'' governments.  State government have other, different, laws applying to their works.  Also note that images on government or government agency websites are not necessarily public domain and not necessarily works of the government itself; always look for copyright notices.
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{| style="border: 1px solid grey; background: #EAF0F8;" width="100%"
| align="center" width="60px"| [[Image:Commons-logo.svg|40px]]
| align="center" | Please consider <span class="plainlinks">[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=fromgov uploading]</span> U.S. federal government images to [[commons:Main page|Wikimedia Commons]].  Commons is an archive of [[commons:Commons:Licensing|freely licensed]] (not [[fair use]]) images that are automatically available to all projects.</div>
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#d7f2e1"|<big>'''Step 1.''' Choose an appropriate filename.</big> 
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[[Image:Searchtool.svg|50px|right|]]
Change the '''destination filename''' to something descriptive. ''Don't'' use default filenames! 
*:<span style="color:green">'''Good''':</span> John Doe in 1997.jpg
*:<span style="color:red">'''   Bad''':</span> IMG0592.JPG
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#d7f2e1"|<big>'''Step 2.''' Enter a description.</big> 
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Write a clear description for the image you are uploading in the "edit summary" box.
*Indicate what the picture is of, who took it, and when it was taken as accurately as possible.
*Include the name of the article it should be in
*Link to the source webpage or explain how you found and identified the work. 

'''If works cannot be confirmed as created by the U.S. federal government, they will be deleted.'''
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#d7f2e1"|<big>'''Step 3.''' Note the U.S. federal government source and public domain status in the licence selector.</big> 
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| colspan="2" |[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|60px|right|]]
The license that you should choose is "Work of a U.S. government agency".
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This will:

Fix the capitalization of the word "federal"
Change the "uploading" link to point directly to the Commons page for uploading U.S. government works, rather than having the user be asked again what kind of work it is
Change the fair use wikilink to point to Fair use instead of Wikipedia:Non-free content (this should be significantly less confusing) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Remember the dot (talk • contribs) 04:28, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
Correct the spelling of "license"

—Remember the dot ^(talk) 04:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Also, please be careful about source-code copying techniques. Copying the source code from the talk page would have screwed up a couple   because they don't generate correctly inside a <pre> tag. Cheers. --MZMcBride 05:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I didn't notice the nbsp problem before. Thanks for pointing it out – I'll keep that in mind in the future! —Remember the dot ^(talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Remember the dot (talk • contribs) 16:25, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

U.S. image copyright tags

In Step 3 of the U.S federal government upload page can a link be added to one of these tag pages:

Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/USA (preferable since it is specifically for U.S tags only)
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/All#United States government

so that people can choose from a greater selection of copyright tags than are listed in the pulldown menu.

Also, in Step 3 can a note be added to copy and paste one of those tags to the bottom of the summary window if a tag can't be found in the pulldown selector menu.

Please see commons:MediaWiki talk:Uploadtext/fromgov#Copyright tags where this idea has already been discussed and implemented on the U.S. government upload form on the commons. --Timeshifter (talk) 13:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Look good? --- RockMFR 23:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Looks great. Might add something like this to the end of Step 3: Don't forget the {{double curly brackets}} around each end of the license tag! --Timeshifter (talk) 01:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CDC photos

Could someone add the CDC public domain template {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}} to the "License" selection dropdown? -- Jrtayloriv (talk) 01:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]