User talk:Iamg
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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 05:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Between eruvatty and thalavil 2.JPG was uncategorized on 6 October 2009.
- Image:Between eruvatty and thalavil 3.JPG was uncategorized on 6 October 2009.
- Image:Between eruvatty and thalavil 1.JPG was uncategorized on 6 October 2009.
- Image:River kuppam at eruvatty.JPG was uncategorized on 18 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Entering river kuppam at eruvatty.JPG was uncategorized on 18 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Places in western ghat karntataka between subramanya and sakleshpur.jpg was uncategorized on 28 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Your uploads respectively "re-categorisation", referring to Category:Eruvatty : Categorisation
[edit]Hi xxx, please use useful categories and don't over-categorize your images, i.e. please do not categorize your uploads (an example of your recent activity):
You'll help to save time and capacity on commons by categorizing:
- Category:Eruvatty (and please avoid in future p.e. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Between_eruvatty_and_thalavil_1.JPG&diff=prev&oldid=48526094 such wrongly misleading re-categorisation!)
Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding city/town/village or district (if there's no category) etc., or, a localized better 'fitting' i.e. the 'most fitting"' category(ies). Do not add - in addition - the categories of the "parent category", among them cities, states and countries etc.
For further information on categories please read Commons:Categories referring to an accurate categorisation, simplifying your further uploads and categorisation in general. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the commons:help desk.
Thank you for your assistance, Roland 84.75.160.122 18:18, 21 January 2011 (UTC)