User talk:Austin512
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Tip: Categorizing images
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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.BotMultichillT 05:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:London broil.jpg is uncategorized since 18 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Ubuntu Software Store.png was uncategorized on 21 September 2009.
Critically evaluate Flickr licenses
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File:David Paterson and Joseph Bruno.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. You may have preserved the information shown on Flickr correctly when transferring the image here, but the Flickr uploader is not the copyright holder of this image. Either the image was created by someone else, or it is a derivative of someone else's work. As stated in Commons:Licensing, only the copyright holder may issue a license, so the one shown on Flickr is invalid.
Always remember to critically evaluate Flickr licenses. Photostreams with professional-looking photographs, album covers, posters, and images in a wide range of styles or quality taken by many different cameras often indicate that the Flickr uploader either does not understand or does not care about copyright matters. See Commons:Questionable Flickr images for a list of known bad Flickr users.
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Regretably the Flickr uploder is not the author or holder of copyrights as we can see with the same image on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/7762728@N03/2333935260/, and its EXIF data: Photo by Smith, Bryan, Freelance NY Daily News. --Martin H. (talk) 23:17, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I thought it looked it a bit sketchy, I searched Google images for it but didn't find it. It was his only CC image, so I thought this one was one that he took. Too bad. Austin512 (talk) 23:25, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
TUSC token 12381e6b0e604647a244440425e70e8a
[edit]I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!
File:Gary Cohen, April 2009.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |