Commons:Translation administrators/Policy

This page is considered an official policy on Wikimedia Commons.

It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone must follow. Except for minor edits (such as fixing typos, or bringing information up to date), please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy.

Commons administrators are able to add (and remove) themselves to the group if they are willing to help.
Bureaucrats can assign this right upon request on COM:BN. The request should remain open for at least two days to allow community input. The Bureaucrat determines whether there are no severe objections to the candidate, if there are not, the 'crat will close the request and add the candidate to the group of translation admins.
The right will be removed if the user does not use this tool for one year.

Wikimedia Commons policies and guidelines

Policies

Project	General disclaimer Project scope Allowable file types Evidence Neutral point of view Precautionary principle Pages, galleries and categories Use of gender neutral language
Content	Licensing policy De minimis Fair use When to use the PD-Art tag Deletion policy Criteria for speedy deletion Revision deletion Language policy Category policy
Behaviour	Blocking policy Page protection De-adminship Paid contribution disclosure Translation administrators Signatures Username policy

Guidelines

Content	What Commons is not Non-copyright restrictions Fan art Nudity Photographs of identifiable people Derivative works When to use the PD-scan tag Galleries Using ImageAnnotator File renaming Overwriting existing files Grandfathered old files
Behaviour	Assume good faith Ownership of pages and files Talk page guidelines User-specific galleries, templates and categories Administrators Vandalism Rollback Patrol

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Choosing a license	Copyright rules Copyright rules by subject matter Copyright rules by territory Copyright tags PD files
Copyright principles	Threshold of originality Derivative works 2D copying Screenshots Freedom of panorama URAA-restored copyrights
Using files	Reusing content outside Wikimedia Credit line Reuse of PD-Art photographs
How to detect copyright violations	License laundering Problematic sources Flickr Picasa Web Bad sources License review

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