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do not use this form for images found somewhere on the internet or created by someone else. If you are prepared to do this, and are logged in to your Wikipedia account, click here Before you can upload images you will need to register an account .
The vast majority of images on the Internet are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia. We can only use images submitted by the copyright holder. If you are prepared to do this, and are logged in to your Wikipedia account, click here
If the image is on the English Wikipedia and it has been confirmed to be a free image, you should add the template {{Move to Commons}} to the image description page, so the image can be made available to other projects. This will not affect its use on the English Wikipedia.
There are basically two type of pictures (images, files, pics, etc.) that are used here on Wikipedia: Free images; Non-free images; A free image is an image that can be freely used anywhere on Wikipedia. A free image may be either public domain, or released under a free license, such as CC-BY-SA. Free images can be used in any article where ...
To view or search images previously uploaded directly to English Wikipedia, go to the list of uploaded images. Uploads and deletions are logged on the upload log. Many images can be categorized in one of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia images by subject or its parent category Category:Wikipedia images. You may want to check there to see ...
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See the pages Wikipedia:Free image resources (shortcut: WP:FIR) and Wikipedia:Public domain image resources (shortcut: WP:PDIR). Place a request for an image in the article itself. For details, see the page Wikipedia:Image placeholders (shortcut WP:UPPI). This method adds a generic image of a male or female person to the article.
You should not upload a non-free image if there is a reasonable expectation that a free image does or ever could exist. Please instead find a free image, persuade the owner of the copyright on the non-free image to license it under a free copyright licence, or even create an image that is entirely your own work and license it as free content.