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I'm new and have a question. I uploaded one image ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scarlet_Bluet_damselfly.jpg ... I see someone (User:Majora) put something in there about "This file is a candidate to be copied to Wikimedia Commons."

I probably have this wrong but my understanding is that Wikipedia Commons is for images with absolutely no restrictions or copyright. But my image is "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0". It also says in that box the user added "If this file has problems with attribution, copyright, or is otherwise ineligible for Commons, then remove this tag and DO NOT transfer it, repeat violators may be blocked from editing.".

So question is ... since it has that license then shouldn't that tag be removed? I just don't get it. And, if that tag should be removed then will someone please do it so I don't mess it up? Thanks in advance!

Bluebluet (talk) 18:14, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Commons isn't just for images without any copyright restrictions whatsoever (which would effectively put them in the public domain), but also ones with an appropriately free license that allows others to re-use and modify the image for any purpose, including commercial purposes. The CC BY-SA 4.0 License is one such license. (It also requires Jim Bell to be credited and derivative works to be released under a comparable license, but those are restrictions the Commons is ok with.) So the "copy to Commons" tag is valid. Huon (talk) 20:25, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, thanks Huon. Bluebluet (talk) 20:33, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]