User talk:Bsimmons666
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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, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
- Image:OvermanCommitteeMembers.jpg is uncategorized since 21 June 2009.
- Image:Close the gate - First Red Scare political cartoon.jpg is uncategorized since 27 July 2009.
- Image:STS-128 launch time lapse.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
- Image:Vladimir Arutyunian.jpg was uncategorized on 18 October 2009.
File source is not properly indicated: File:Ericgreff.jpg
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A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Ericgreff.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file (
[[:File:Ericgreff.jpg]] ).
If you created the content yourself, enter If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you! |
Martin H. (talk) 21:07, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
FBI
[edit]Three minutes after you left:
<Viper550> I guess he should have noted http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov-FBI
Platonides (talk) 22:34, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for telling me. Bsimmons666 (talk) 23:07, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
- Cool, would this mean that anything the FBI does with Sanger will end up being public domain so long as it isn't classified or something? Ty (talk) 01:13, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Please correct the map you made (done)
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Hello and Salaam, please would you correct your AMU-map, see here. --Roxanna (talk) 21:56, 29 November 2011 (UTC) OK Done! --Roxanna (talk) 22:14, 30 November 2011 (UTC)