User talk:Ancientnz

English: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Ancientnz!

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--SieBot (talk) 08:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome and a request

Hello Ancientnz,

Weclome to Commons, and thank you for uploading images!

Can we please ask you to sort images into the appropriate categories when you upload them? Images without categories can get a bit lost, even if somebody later on finds and sorts them. Have a look at how I changed your images. As a general sorting guideline, please sort them only into the most appropriate, most specific categories - for example a river cave in Wellington (just kidding) would go into:

• "Category:Caves of New Zealand" (the obvious choice)
• "Category:Wellington" or "Category:Region of Wellington" (because there is no category "Caves of Wellington" at this time - if there was, then you would put it in there, and NOT put it in "Caves of New Zealand" / "Region of Wellington" because "Caves of Wellington would already be a subcategory of both top categories)
• "Category:River caves"

Hope that spelled out the bare bones. Hope you will upload lots more useful photos on caving or other subjects. Any questions, ask me on my own talk page. Cheers, Ingolfson (talk) 06:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)