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Off they go! For the drives, please go to /Drives. Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere. Therefore, uploaded free images should all be transferred to Commons, and those that are currently on Wikipedia should be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:All free media, including Category:GFDL files, Category:Public domain files and many others, should now be transferred to Commons, this WikiProject has been created to organize efforts and expand awareness of this massive waste of server space. Please apply an extremely critical eye to allegedly "free" images here before uploading them at the Commons. This project is a good chance to catch many of the dodgily sourced and licensed images here. If you have any doubts please don't upload to the Commons, and send to FfD or PUF. Otherwise, you are creating a mess which Commons admins will have to mop up later. Categories to clear out Category Files Type Comments Category:All User-created public domain files 82,632 Public domain Category:Australian public domain photographs 449 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Author died more than 100 years ago public domain files 8,859 Public domain Category:Author died more than 70 years ago public domain files 912 Public domain Category:BSD files 13 Other Category:Canadian public domain photographs 551 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Chinese public domain photographs 73 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Conditional use files 98 Conditional use Please ensure that the {{Copyrighted free use provided that}} tag on the image has an acceptable requirement before moving Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons 31,119 Varies Category:Copyright holder released public domain files 8,632 Public domain Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 files 1,201 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 files 7,737 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 files 18,961 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution files 291 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 files 610 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 files 0 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 files 5,787 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 files 122,398 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike files 1,089 Creative Commons Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike files 0 Creative Commons Category:Executive Office of the President images 0 Public domain Category:FAL files 88 Other Category:Files requiring attribution 1,816 Conditional use Category:Free screenshots 152 Varies Category:GFDL files 84,548 Other Category:GPL files 179 Other Category:Images in the public domain in the United States 22,891 Public domain Commons does not accept most files which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be extra careful when moving these! Category:LGPL files 38 Other Category:MIT files 6 Other Category:MPL files 12 Mozilla Public License Category:PD-AR-Photo 33 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:PD Coa Germany 1 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Pakistani public domain photographs 55 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Polish government symbols 24 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:Pre-1994 Poland images 0 Public domain For the file to be accepted on commons the file has to be a photograph published in Poland prior to 1994. Publication citation is needed in the source section. Author has to be Polish or the work has to be first published in Poland. Majority of photographs published in that time in Poland did not have author information, so unknown authors are OK unless there are reasons to believe that author was not Polish (Photos of US actors might have been published in Poland but they were likely taken by non-Polish photographers). All files meeting those requirements were moved to Commons several years ago, so all that is left does not meet them (usually no publication citation). Category:Public domain art 5,655 Public domain Commons does not accept most files which are public domain in the United States but not in the country of the image's origin. Be careful when moving these if the image wasn't first published in the US! Category:Public domain files 65 Public domain These tags should be updated to use a more specific license before being moved to Commons. Category:Public domain files ineligible for copyright 1,289 Public domain Category:UK Government images 451 Public domain For Commons to accept an image, it must be public domain in both its country of origin and in the United States. Category:United States government images 3,290 Public domain Category:World Coin Gallery images 0 Other Templates {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{un-commons}} - User talk page notice for newish users who upload free files here. Code Result  {{Template:User MFIC}} This user supports the migration of free images to the Commons. Transclusions Tools See Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Tools for a full list of tools to help you transfer media to Commons. You can also check out commons:Category:Commons resources.