User talk:Botanist45

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Botanist45!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions 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 (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. 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 (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads. Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~. To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg. You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account. There are several tools to upload files. Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful. Made a mistake? Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it. Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

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File:Orbeaschweinf.jpg

Critically evaluate Flickr licenses

File:Orbeaschweinf.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.

Daniel Case (talk) 16:52, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Author's response

This file is mine apologies I didn't set the licensing correctly on flickr. But I am the owner of the images.

File:Cymbidiumfinlaysonianum.jpg

This image is copyrighted acc. to watermark. The copyright holder is obviously the same as in File:Orbeaschweinf.jpg. -- Ies (talk) 17:16, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Phalaenopsisamboinensis.jpg

This is another copyrighted image you are not allowed to upload here. -- Ies (talk) 17:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Response

All the licenses have been set to creatives commons can you please re-enable the photos?

Hi Botanist45, as discussed in chat: First of all: thank you very much for contributing your really nice close-up photos of plants! I appreciate it! :-) Please do not be scared - the deletion was a misunderstanding. It was not clear that you are the photographer (and owner of the flickr account).

Is it possible that you use this in the author field to link your name "Djovani" to your user page here? [[User:Botanist45|Djovani]] This would make it more clear that you are "Djovani".

And try to set the license in flickr to the CC licenses you use here - if possible. :) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 00:01, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

By the way: here is an example of a big, big, big image that is displayed as usual - fast because it is scaled down automatically. Be careful if you have an older PC and do not use the full resolution ;-) File:113_-_Cuzco_-_Juillet_2009.1.jpg To view in detail you can use the Zoom Viewer links below the image in the red box - I recommend: "without flash". Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 02:18, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Botanist45!

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) 10:41, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Jatrophapodgarica.jpg was uncategorized on 13 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 14 July 2011 (UTC)