User talk:Dotrecords

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Dotrecords!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Dotrecords!

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) 10:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Original Tarantulas small.jpg was uncategorized on 8 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

File tagging File:Tarantulas.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Tarantulas.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you.

 

Martin H. (talk) 05:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

File tagging File:Don't_Murder_Anyone_Listen_to_the_Lovebeats.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Don't_Murder_Anyone_Listen_to_the_Lovebeats.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:Don't_Murder_Anyone_Listen_to_the_Lovebeats.jpg]]) and the above demanded information in your request.

 

Martin H. (talk) 05:40, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:The_Tarantulas_2000.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:The_Tarantulas_2000.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:The_Tarantulas_2000.jpg]]). If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. 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!

EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Dotrecords. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Dotrecords~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

20:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

messages on my talk page

Nothing is really very clear, pictures removed, reasons are vague, editing is difficult because it usually gets rejected, but the reasons are vague or written in an ever changing language of stuff. So not really understanding the following:

"A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:The_Tarantulas_2000.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:The_Tarantulas_2000.jpg). If you created the content yourself, enter Own work as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work."

Ok, so "where it comes from". Not sure what this means. It came from my computer, before that it came from a camera, before that it came from a place where the picture was taken. "Who created it". Not sure what that means. Who took the photo? Who edited it? Who owns it? I've seen thousands of photos on wikipedia that fit all kinds of descriptions. Not really sure what the process is. It seems like its just a crapshoot most of the time because wikipedia articles such as "Coldplay" display many pictures and photos with incorrect information such as a "Coldplay" logo which states "public domain". Obviously the logo and reproductions of the logo are not public domain, so why was that picture not removed? Tons of pictures on wikipedia that cannot be verified yet are still on wikipedia. So i'm not at all clear why photos that I created and I said i created were removed and marked unverifiable and stuff. Really weird. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dotrecords (talk • contribs)

Hi,

I moved your message here. A better place for your questions would be on the Commons:Help desk‎.

Yes, the image was deleted because there is some doubt about its copyright, which is usually owned by the photographer.

"Where it comes from" means did you take the picture, or did you copy it from the Internet, or did you scan it from another source?

"Who created it" means who is the photographer, and who is the copyright owner (usually the same, except in case of work for hire)?

Yes, there are thousands of pictures under different descriptions, including some copyright violations which have not been yet found and deleted.

Regards, Yann (talk) 12:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)