User talk:Daytrivia
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-- Bryan (talk to me) 22:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
This is mostly correct, however I would change the following fields: Author should contain the original author; the person who took the photograph, or unknown if unknown. In the date field, please add the approximate date this image was published. Please also add a category to the image such that it can be easily found by people who want to also use the image. Good luck, and enjoy your stay at Commons! -- Bryan (talk to me) 14:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
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) 10:41, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison Vol. 1.djvu was uncategorized on 25 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Dorotheabealeofc00raikiala.djvu was uncategorized on 11 November 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions.djvu was uncategorized on 23 November 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Henry VIII and the English Monasteries.djvu was uncategorized on 19 December 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- Image:A Girl of the Limberlost.djvu was uncategorized on 15 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Page19-394px-A Girl of the Limberlost djvu.jpg was uncategorized on 8 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:13, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Girl of the Limberlost Title page.png was uncategorized on 17 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:00, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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