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Usage
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 page is a candidate to be copied to Wikimedia Commons. If the page can be re-written into an encyclopedic article, please do so and remove this message. |
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
TemplateData for Copy to Wikimedia Commons
A template to indicate that the file should be copied to Commons
| 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
- {{Nominated for deletion on Commons}}
- Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons, for usage description.
- Wikipedia:Template index/File namespace.
- Wikipedia:Template index/Moving#Copying to other projects, for more template examples.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons.