Template:Copy to Wikimedia Commons/sandbox

Copy to CommonsThis is a candidate to be copied to Wikimedia Commons. Freely licensed or public domain media are more accessible to other Wikimedia projects if placed on Commons. Any user may perform this move—please see Moving files to the Commons for more information.

Please thoroughly review the copyright status of this file and ensure that it is actually eligible for transfer to Commons. If you are concerned that this file could have problems with its attribution information and/or copyright status, then remove this notice and DO NOT transfer it to Commons. By transferring this file to Commons, you acknowledge you have read this message and are willing to accept any and all consequences for inappropriate transfers. Repeat violators will be blocked from editing.

If you have checked the file and it is OK to move to Commons add "|human=username" to the template so other users can see it has been checked and can help you copy the file to Commons.

If the file has already been moved to Commons, then consider nominating the file for deletion or changing the template to {{Now Commons}}

If the file can't be moved to Commons because it doesn't fit Commons' scope, then use {{Do not move to Commons|reason=Why it can't be moved to Commons}}

If you think that a local copy of this file should be kept, then use {{Keep local}}. Consider using {{Keep local|reason=Why the English Wikipedia needs a local copy}}

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Copy to Commons: via CommonsHelper

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Deletion tools
Policy (log)
{{copyvio}}Copyvios (howto⧼dot-separator⧽ log) {{subst:ffd}}Files (log) {{subst:rfd}}Redirects (howto⧼dot-separator⧽ log) {{subst:mfd}}Miscellany (howto⧼dot-separator⧽ log) {{delrev}}Deletion review
Articles (howto⧼dot-separator⧽ log)
{{subst:relist}}⧼dot-separator⧽ {{subst:prod|why}} {{subst:afd}}⧼dot-separator⧽ {{subst:prod blp}}
Mergers
{{merge}} {{merge to}}⧼dot-separator⧽ {{merge from}} {{merging}}⧼dot-separator⧽ {{afd-mergeto}} {{afd-mergefrom}}
Page moves
{{subst:requested move|Newname}}
Transwiki (howto⧼dot-separator⧽log)
{{Copy to Meta}} {{Copy to Wikibooks}} {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} {{Copy to Wikiquote}} {{Copy to Wikisource}} {{Copy to Wikiversity}} {{Copy to Wikivoyage}} {{Copy to Wiktionary}} All transwiki templates

Usage

Further information: Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons

The style this template has above is meant for image pages. This template automatically detects if it is used on an article page (main space) and then it looks like this:

This template will categorise tagged pages into Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons.

Please do not subst: this template. Please do not insert {{...}} characters into the edit summary of the target pages, as this causes formatting problems after the edit history is transwikied. This template contains a self-reference (it refers to the encyclopaedia in its contents).

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Copy to Wikimedia Commons

A template to indicate that the file should be copied to Commons

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Mark date	date	The date the file has been suggested for transfer to Commons	Date	optional
Bot name	bot	Name of the tagging bot if it was mass-tagged by one	User	optional
Reviewing user	human	Name of human reviewer	User	optional
inline-identified	inline	Puts the file into Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons (inline-identified) instead of Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	Line	optional

Redirects

• {{Commons ok}}
• {{Copy to commons}}
• {{Copy to Commons}}
• {{CtC}}
• {{Movetocommons}}
• {{MoveToCommons}}
• {{Move to commons}}
• {{Move to Commons}}
• {{MTC}}
• {{To Commons}}

See also

• {{Now Commons}}, for tagging files for deletion after being moved to Commons
• {{Do not move to Commons}}, for tagging files that should not be moved
• {{Deleted on Commons}}, for tagging files that were deleted on Commons
• {{Incomplete move to Commons}}
• {{Esoteric file}}, for files that are Wikipedia-specific and should not be moved to Commons

• Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons, for usage description.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/File namespace.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Moving#Copying to other projects, for more template examples.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons.