User talk:Jmturner

Welcome to Mark Turner's Wikimedia Commons page!

English: Welcome to the Commons, Jmturner!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki ‒ it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (direct access). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], which produces: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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Sz-iwbot 20:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Great work...

...on all of these pix. Don't worry about these Commons bots. I think you added the information so they won't be deleted. This site is insanely weird and difficult. AgnosticPreachersKid 03:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Appreciate the pictures!

Thanks for uploading your pictures of North Carolina! I'm going to geocode some of them in the near future. --Specious (talk) 03:40, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Description of and link to category

I have seen your photo File:Artspace-20080429.jpeg. Could you please mention something more in the description about where the photo was taken such as country and city. Further could you please add a link to a category otherwise it is very difficult for others to find your photo. In your gallery http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Jmturner I have seen more photos without a link to a category. Could you please add these links. Info about that you can find on page Commons:Category. Thanks Wouter (talk) 22:14, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the tip. I haven't thought of adding categories to my photo but its a great idea. I'll work to get those updated. Jmturner (talk) 02:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Dodd-Hinsdale House image request

Would you consider taking a photo of the Dodd-Hinsdale House (330 Hillsborough Street)? The current photo has a copyright violation (may be removed soon) and is not very large. I directed this request to you because you are from the area, and I appreciate the quality of your other Raleigh images.

Thank you --Fox69 (talk) 14:24, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Sure! I'll swing by this week to capture a new, public domain image. Thanks for asking (I love assignments)! Jmturner (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, Mr. Fox. What do you think of my pic? Jmturner (talk) 00:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Jmturner!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

CategorizationBot (talk) 11:07, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Historic Mordecai House-Raleigh-NC-13 Sept 2010.jpeg was uncategorized on 23 September 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:07, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Jim, Good to hear from you. Got your note about the USS Truxtun. If you could dig up that pic, that would be great! thanks, chris