User talk:Dave.geog

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Dave.geog!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 08:52, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to Commons (and a few hints)

Welcome to Commons! I'm pleased to see someone uploading more pictures from Geograph Britain and Ireland. I have a couple of suggestions:

• You've uploaded a bunch of pictures with the default filename from Geograph, like "File:Geograph-5359203-by-David-Martin.jpg". On Commons we generally prefer files to have names that describe their contents, so it would be better if you could upload them with such names. I've renamed all your recent uploads based on their Geograph titles. If you use Geograph2Commons (linked from the Wikipedia section on the Geograph "reuse" page) it generally picks pretty good filenames.
• The combination of {{Geograph}} with {{self|cc-by-sa-4.0}} is a bit confusing. I think that {{Geograph}} is best used where Commons' right to use the picture comes from its CC BY-SA 2.0 licence on Geograph. If you want to dual-licence, I think you should use {{Also geograph}} and list all the licences explicitly. This makes it clear that the licences are alternatives.
• If you're planning to dual-licence, best practice would be for your Geograph profile page to somehow indicate that Dave.geog is the same person (e.g. by a like to your user page. That would make it clear that Dave.geog has the right to relicense these images. This of course assumes that you are David Martin on Geograph. If you're not, there's a different problem.

Thanks again for your contributions. Please don't allow my suggestions to dissuade you from contributing further: if you carry on as you have been, nothing bad will come of it. --bjh21 (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2018 (UTC)