User talk:CoolGuySlate

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, CoolGuySlate!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 02:43, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Please review policies on Commons categories and Wikipedia galleries

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I see you're not familiar with some of the rules yet. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with them.

For photos in Wikimedia Commons, please use the most specific categories possible. For example, most historic cemeteries will have a category for that cemetery; so don't use "Category:Cemeteries," instead use "Category:Ye Antientist Burial Ground (New London, Connecticut)". If there is no category for the cemetery, you could make one, or you could use "Category:Cemeteries in Connecticut". See: Commons:Categories

See also the Wikipedia policy on Galleries; galleries aren't meant to be an image repository: Wikipedia:Image use policy

Thanks for your contributions! - Kenneth C. Zirkel (talk) 19:55, 29 December 2020 (UTC)