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Feel free to update the page as needed, but please use the <a href="/wiki/Commons_talk:Grandfathered_old_files" title="Commons talk:Grandfathered old files">discussion page</a> to propose major changes. </p> </div> </div> <div class="notice metadata" id="nutshell" style="border-top:2px solid #ddd; border-bottom:2px solid #ddd; margin:10px; padding:7px;"> <table style="width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/40px-Walnut.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/60px-Walnut.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/80px-Walnut.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></span></span> </td> <td style="width:100%;"><b>This page in a nutshell:</b> Files uploaded prior to 1 January 2007 may have different requirements regarding evidence of permission. </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>It is a general practice on Wikimedia Commons to prove that permission was given to release files created by third parties under a free license by getting that party to send an e-mail to the <a href="/wiki/Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team" title="Commons:Volunteer Response Team">Volunteer Response Team</a> (formerly OTRS team). 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An <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1526687#Upload_of_files" title="Special:PermanentLink/1526687">earlier revision</a> of Commons:First Steps mentions that the permission field of the <a href="/wiki/Template:Information" title="Template:Information"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;">{{Information}}</span></a> template should contain: <i>"Short quote of the permission of the copyright owner of this image in case of a individual permission."</i> </p><p>Prior to 8 January 2006, it was only required that the file be properly licensed and attributed, with no specific statement of permission being required on the image page. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#How_to_deal_with_old_files"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">How to deal with old files</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Help"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Help</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Other_policies_and_guidelines"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Other policies and guidelines</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="How_to_deal_with_old_files" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_deal_with_old_files"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_deal_with_old_files"></span>How to deal with old files<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_deal_with_old_files"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commons:Grandfathered_old_files&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: How to deal with old files"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been a custom on Wikimedia Commons to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause" class="extiw" title="en:Grandfather clause">grandfather</a> in these files, rather than to delete them. See for example <a href="/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive_21#OTRS_permissions_required_for_old_cases?" title="Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 21">this discussion</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard" title="Commons:Administrators' noticeboard">Administrators' noticeboard</a>. </p><p>If there are reasons to doubt the authorship or permission of the author of one of these files, attempts should be made to communicate with the named author, to better establish the situation (and preferably obtain <a href="/wiki/Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team" title="Commons:Volunteer Response Team">VRT</a> evidence). 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