Template talk:Copy to Wikimedia Commons in/Archive 1

Change to categorize as not eligible for Commons

If someone adds a {{Do not move to Commons}} the file ends up in Category:Media not suitable for Commons. I suggest that this templates add the files in the same category or in a sub category to make it easier to locate all files that is not ok for Commons (yet). We could either add {{Do not move to Commons}} or just the category. --MGA73 (talk) 21:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Just adding [[Category:Media not suitable for Commons]] on line 7 (in between the }} and | lines) would work perfectly. Facing the Sky (talk) 11:21, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done, as categories should be added to the documentation page, unless you can provide a convincing reason to add it here. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:45, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

It's a property of the file that it's added on—not the template itself—which are not suitable for transfer to Commons because they're not out of copyright in their source countries. It's also not the case that every file this template is transcluded on is unsuitable for Commons, since the copyright may have already expired or expired between the present and when the template was added. This is useful specifically for tooling (in particular, category intersection with catscan). Facing the Sky (talk) 08:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Done Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:50, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

PD where?

The documentation here talks about PD, unspecified, while the template text talks about "home country". Which is it supposed to mean? Should both PD year of home country and PD year of USA be noted? URAA restored images are often out of copyright in the home country, as are works published late in the authors life (for countries with 70 years pma). --LPfi (talk) 07:30, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Suppress Commons message.

Can someone check the sandbox code, to allow the Commons suggestions to be suppressed? and if the logic is acceptable, swap into the main template. 17:25, 20 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfan00 IMG (talk • contribs)

@Sfan00 IMG: I've disabled this editprotected request for the moment, pending further discussion and correction. You can test changes to a template's /sandbox page at its /testcases page. I've done so here, Template:Out of copyright in/testcases, and it's throwing an error. Even aside from that, the conditional you've used does not seem to be the desirable approach to me. The default behavior of the template is to show the Commons material, so we would expect |suppress=y (or any other value of |suppress=) to suppress that, not for "unsuppression" to have to be specified with (and only with) the exact construction |suppress=no. The approach to take would appear to be: {{#if:{{{suppress|}}}|<!-- nothing -->|[the current Commons output here]}}, unless I'm missing something, like a consensus discussion somewhere concluding to suppress the Commons material by default.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  18:44, 20 December 2016 (UTC)