Commons:Policies and guidelines

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

Policies

General policy

Regarding content

Regarding behaviour

Guidelines

Regarding content

Regarding behaviour

Wikimedia Commons policies and guidelines

Project	General disclaimer Project scope Allowable file types Evidence Neutral point of view Precautionary principle Pages, galleries and categories Use of gender neutral language
Content	Licensing policy De minimis Fair use When to use the PD-Art tag Deletion policy Criteria for speedy deletion Revision deletion Language policy Category policy
Behaviour	Blocking policy Page protection De-adminship Paid contribution disclosure Translation administrators Signatures Username policy Civility No personal attacks Harassment

Content	What Commons is not Non-copyright restrictions Fan art Nudity Photographs of identifiable people Derivative works When to use the PD-scan tag Galleries Using ImageAnnotator File naming File renaming Overwriting existing files Grandfathered old files AI-generated media
Behaviour	Assume good faith Copyleft trolling Ownership of pages and files Talk page guidelines User-specific galleries, templates and categories Administrators Vandalism Rollback Patrol

Licensing help
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Choosing a license	Copyright rules Copyright rules by subject matter Copyright rules by territory Copyright tags PD files
Copyright principles	Threshold of originality Derivative works 2D copying Screenshots Freedom of panorama URAA-restored copyrights
Using files	Reusing content outside Wikimedia Credit line Reuse of PD-Art photographs
How to detect copyright violations	License laundering Problematic sources Flickr Bad sources License review

WMF policies

Community portal
Help contents

See also

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

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