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I have tried to upload a file with name:
Screenshot 2025-11-08 at 22-17-16 Liste von Burgen und Schlössern im Kanton Solothurn – Wikipedia

For me this is a perfect name, but the UW rejected it. I then tried

Screenshot 2025-11-08 at 22-17-16 Liste von Burgen und Schlössern im Kanton Solothurn – Wikipedia (und wenn ich 'Bitte verfasse einen aussagekräftigeren Titel' anhänge, gilt das dann?)
also rejected

only when I tried

(und wenn ich 'Bitte verfasse einen aussagekräftigeren Titel' vorhänge, gilt das dann?) Screenshot 2025-11-08 at 22-17-16 Liste von Burgen und Schlössern im Kanton Solothurn – Wikipedia

UW accepted the name.

Please don't be too restrictive on naming conventions. When an upload fails, we might loose a file, or even a new user. When a file is misnamed, it can be renamed, not that bad.
And if a name is rejected, please give a reason why it was rejected.

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Hi @Herzi.Pinki; to my understanding, these restrictions on file names are defined by the Wikimedia Commons community itself, rather than by the UploadWizard developers. To my understanding, the Upload Wizard just checks whether a proposed filename matches an entry on the Wikimedia Commons title-blacklist, and displays an error message (hopefully with some information [0]) alongside the 'title' field if it does.


[0] In the case of the title you tried to use, I believe UploadWizard should have shown the message "Please write a more informative title" (or similar); see screenshot below:

screenshot.png (228×1 px, 35 KB)

Hi @Herzi.Pinki; to my understanding, these restrictions on file names are defined by the Wikimedia Commons community itself, rather than by the UploadWizard developers. To my understanding, the Upload Wizard just checks whether a proposed filename matches an entry on the Wikimedia Commons title-blacklist, and displays an error message (hopefully with some information [0]) alongside the 'title' field if it does.


[0] In the case of the title you tried to use, I believe UploadWizard should have shown the message "Please write a more informative title" (or similar); see screenshot below:

screenshot.png (228×1 px, 35 KB)

Thanks for the hint, didn't know
(and yes, I got a similar message, but did not understand what more informative title could mean.)

Thanks for the hint, didn't know

No problem :)

(and yes, I got a similar message, but did not understand what more informative title could mean.)

If I'm correct, the filename you entered matched an entry on the title-blacklist for the word 'screenshot' & a date appearing at the start of a title. My assumption would be that this might be because those sorts of filenames might usually not describe the contents of the file itself (e.g., the title Screenshot 2025-11-08.png wouldn't describe what was contained within that screenshot). So in this case, if I understand correctly, the phrase 'more informative title' is referring to describing what's within the file being uploaded.
(For what it's worth, it seems at a glance like your filename did describe what was inside the screenshot, but - as it matched an entry for 'common/uninformative filenames' on the Commons title-blacklist, the Upload Wizard wouldn't have known this.)