User talk:JBW

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, JBW!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, JBW!

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) 11:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Ellipse axis2.png was uncategorized on 24 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Own file deletion proposal

File:Allantoin Molecule.png nominated for deletion: see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Allantoin Molecule.png. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:57, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Copyrighted image deletion request

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Toyota Agya in Indonesia 2014-04-25 12-21.jpg

Can I have a second opinion on this? Thanks. Areaseven (talk) 14:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Norden1990's unblock on en.wp

I'd like to inform you, User:JamesBWatson, that Norden1990 has not refrained from sockpuppetry on the English Wikipedia for a period of six months. His latest IP sock was active just 2 days before his unblock request.

I am talking about the IP 178.164.243.83 which belongs to the typical range 178.164.128.0/17 which was twice blocked by admin Tiptoety in the past because of Norden1990's block evasions. The IP edited on 30 June 2015 exclusively articles where Norden1900 contributed in the past. At the article József Antall‎ he added a file uploaded by himself on Wikimedia Commons. The same picture had been added on the corresponding article from the Hungarian Wikipedia by Norden1990 on 26 June.

You may think to reconsider your position regarding Norden1990's unblock after reading the unsiputable evidence above. Iaaasi (talk) 15:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

actioned

thanks for the email. I actioned that late last week.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:57, 31 July 2023 (UTC)