User talk:Barts1a
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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 10:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Stormcloud.jpg was uncategorized on 25 November 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
File:Snorting Panel.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.
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Sorry, but IMHO this image has potential encyclopedic value. I've therefore converted your speedy into a regular DR. Túrelio (talk) 22:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Dude
[edit]Barts1a, I appreciate your agreement (if you and I agree on something, it must be true! (lol)), but you might really consider undoing your last edit. These guys are... different than en.wiki, and I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if they block people for this kind of thing. Let me talk to someone and see if this is really how things work here, before you get involved. I'd hate to see you blocked for something. --Floquenbeam (talk) 02:49, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- No need... it was already undone with a rather rude edit summary... I left them a note after they reverted here. I do appreciate your concern. Barts1a | Talk to me | Yell at me 02:55, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- As per the shouting edit summary I have launched a proper DR here. Barts1a / Talk to me / Help me improve 03:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)