User talk:Dottiewest1fan

Welcome to the Commons, Dottiewest1fan!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ 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. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki ‒ it is really easy. 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. You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page, write this: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], it makes this: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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File:Trisha Yearwood - Hollywood Bowl 2.jpg

Critically evaluate Flickr licenses

File:Trisha Yearwood - Hollywood Bowl 2.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.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/currentnews/ is not eligible to license photos from AFP/AP/GettyImages under a Creative Commons license. --Martin H. (talk) 15:25, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Remember that free images are gifts. The holder of copyrights must waive away his economic interests to the public. You can try to contact photographers and ask them to release one image with Commons:Email templates. If no one is willings to make a gift to the public - not only to Wikipedia but to everyone for every purpose including commercial use - we must simply accept this. Wikipedia is not written in one day, images will become free sooner or later and can still be included to Wikipedia. --Martin H. (talk) 20:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Dottiewest1fan!

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.

BotMultichillT 05:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Tanya Tucker-CMA Festival.jpg is uncategorized since 1 July 2009.

File:Dottie West.jpg

If there's a file on Wikipedia with this name, it should be renamed rather than this one. See Commons:File renaming#Which files should not be renamed? (#3). INeverCry 18:50, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

File:Janie Fricke promotional photo.JPG

File:Janie Fricke promotional photo.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

75.133.35.100 20:17, 31 March 2022 (UTC)