Template:Unidentified header

This category contains unidentified, unclassified, unknown or mislabelled media. We would value your expertise to identify these media and find their rightful places in the appropriate category structure. Thank you very much. Click here to show hints on how to identify content Enable the GoogleImages tab gadget in your preferences and use it to check for images that have been previously published elsewhere. Use {{No permission since}} or {{Copyvio}} where applicable. Look at the file name and description. Many files marked as unidentified are actually identified and just need appropriate categories. Google Translate may be useful if the description is written in a language that you don't understand. Check for usage in galleries or on other projects. If the file is used, there will be File usage on Commons and File usage on other wikis headings on the file description page. Look for clues among the uploader's contributions and upload logs, particularly around the time the file was uploaded, date and time from the metadata of the previous and next photo etc. A link to the uploader's contributions can be found in the File history section on the file description page. A link to the user's logs is at the top of the contributions page. A link to contributions on other projects can be found at the bottom of the contributions page. If the file was transferred from another project, look at the original uploader's contributions and upload logs. Look for street signs, house numbers, shop shields, company names or similar clues in the image itself. Any of the popular webmaps (OSM, Google, Bing) in conjunction with street level imagery providers (Mapillary, OpenStreetCam, Street View) can often be used to pinpoint a more exact location once a general location has been established. If you are able to identify the subject, edit the description to better explain what the subject is. Remove the file from this category and place it in the most specific applicable categories. If you have figured out exactly where a photo was taken, add {{Location}} to the file description. If you are not able to fully identify the subject, consider the possibility of moving it to a more specific category for unidentified content. For example, a photo of an unidentified building is more likely to be identified if the country it was taken in is known.

 

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Fills a 'Unidentified XXX' category with the category purpose. It also asks expert readers to help wikipedia identify the content of the category.

Usage

{{Unidentified header |subject= |category= }}

Examples

{{Unidentified header|subject=Alaudidae}} →

This category contains unidentified, unclassified, unknown or mislabelled Alaudidae. We would value your expertise to identify these media and find their rightful places in the appropriate category structure. Thank you very much. Click here to show hints on how to identify content Enable the GoogleImages tab gadget in your preferences and use it to check for images that have been previously published elsewhere. Use {{No permission since}} or {{Copyvio}} where applicable. Look at the file name and description. Many files marked as unidentified are actually identified and just need appropriate categories. Google Translate may be useful if the description is written in a language that you don't understand. Check for usage in galleries or on other projects. If the file is used, there will be File usage on Commons and File usage on other wikis headings on the file description page. Look for clues among the uploader's contributions and upload logs, particularly around the time the file was uploaded, date and time from the metadata of the previous and next photo etc. A link to the uploader's contributions can be found in the File history section on the file description page. A link to the user's logs is at the top of the contributions page. A link to contributions on other projects can be found at the bottom of the contributions page. If the file was transferred from another project, look at the original uploader's contributions and upload logs. Look for street signs, house numbers, shop shields, company names or similar clues in the image itself. Any of the popular webmaps (OSM, Google, Bing) in conjunction with street level imagery providers (Mapillary, OpenStreetCam, Street View) can often be used to pinpoint a more exact location once a general location has been established. If you are able to identify the subject, edit the description to better explain what the subject is. Remove the file from this category and place it in the most specific applicable categories. If you have figured out exactly where a photo was taken, add {{Location}} to the file description. If you are not able to fully identify the subject, consider the possibility of moving it to a more specific category for unidentified content. For example, a photo of an unidentified building is more likely to be identified if the country it was taken in is known.

 

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

{{Unidentified header|subject=Alaudidae|category=Alaudidae}} →

This category contains unidentified, unclassified, unknown or mislabelled Alaudidae. We would value your expertise to identify these media and find their rightful places in the appropriate category structure. The images should probably be placed in subcategories of Category:Alaudidae. Thank you very much. Click here to show hints on how to identify content Enable the GoogleImages tab gadget in your preferences and use it to check for images that have been previously published elsewhere. Use {{No permission since}} or {{Copyvio}} where applicable. Look at the file name and description. Many files marked as unidentified are actually identified and just need appropriate categories. Google Translate may be useful if the description is written in a language that you don't understand. Check for usage in galleries or on other projects. If the file is used, there will be File usage on Commons and File usage on other wikis headings on the file description page. Look for clues among the uploader's contributions and upload logs, particularly around the time the file was uploaded, date and time from the metadata of the previous and next photo etc. A link to the uploader's contributions can be found in the File history section on the file description page. A link to the user's logs is at the top of the contributions page. A link to contributions on other projects can be found at the bottom of the contributions page. If the file was transferred from another project, look at the original uploader's contributions and upload logs. Look for street signs, house numbers, shop shields, company names or similar clues in the image itself. Any of the popular webmaps (OSM, Google, Bing) in conjunction with street level imagery providers (Mapillary, OpenStreetCam, Street View) can often be used to pinpoint a more exact location once a general location has been established. If you are able to identify the subject, edit the description to better explain what the subject is. Remove the file from this category and place it in the most specific applicable categories. If you have figured out exactly where a photo was taken, add {{Location}} to the file description. If you are not able to fully identify the subject, consider the possibility of moving it to a more specific category for unidentified content. For example, a photo of an unidentified building is more likely to be identified if the country it was taken in is known.

 

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
subject	A common description of all the content of the category. In biology, it should be the name of a taxon (the same taxon as in the unidentified category name). The taxon should be the most precise possible. For example for a bird picture use "bird", but if the bird looks like a Passerine, it should be Passeriformes. In other cases, it can be a type of media, like "images" or "sounds".		images	optional
category	The name of the category in which subcategories the media should be moved once more precisely identified		empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Category namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified

Placement:

Top of the category

See also

• Category:Unidentified Stylommatophora - for a biology usage sample. Remark that capital letter is used for the scientific name "Stylommatophora"
• Category:Unidentified flowers - for a biology usage sample. Remark that lowercase letter is used for the english common name "flower"
• Category:Unidentified clouds - for a general sample
• Category:Unidentified automobiles - for a general sample

Localization

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:Unidentified header/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:Unidentified header/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.