User talk:JamesDoss

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, JamesDoss!

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) 10:46, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Korean Ulchi Medal with Silver Star.jpg was uncategorized on 24 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Aviation Cadet Edwin A. Doss.jpg was uncategorized on 29 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Col. Doss.JPG was uncategorized on 30 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Lt Col Edwin A. Doss.jpg was uncategorized on 30 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Col. E. A. Doss.JPG was uncategorized on 30 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

South Korean decoration

G'day James, you have added the image File:Korean Ulchi Medal with Silver Star.jpg calling it the Ulchi Medal. This appears odd as the Ulchi (also transliterated Eulji) Medal's ribbon is Ulchi Medal.png (or in a faded/earlier? representation Eulji Cordon Medal.png) (see also here. There are four stripes in the ribbon of the Eulji Medal representing its position as the second class of the Order of Military Merit. The ribbon device is also that of an ancient Korean helmet. In the image you have supplied, there are three stripes which indicates the third class of an order and the underlying ribbon device is that of the Korean Yin-Yang symbol. This device is used in the medals (but not ribbons) for the Order of Merit for National Foundation (see here) and in the medals and ribbons of the Order for National Security Merit (see here). Thus the Cheon-Su Medal (Order for National Security Merit, Third Class) appears to be a close match for the ribbon, however the medal design is different. I have been unable to identify any medals that match the design in the image that you supplied. This indicates to me one of four possibilities for the medal in your picture,

1. it is the Eulji/Ulchi Medal but the design of the medal and of the ribbon has subsequently changed;
2. it is not the Eulji/Ulchi Medal but is the third class of the same order (ie the Chungmu Medal) and the design of the medal and of the ribbon has subsequently changed;
3. it is not the Eulji/Ulchi Medal but is the third class of the Order of National Security Merit (ie the Cheonsu Medal) and the design of the medal has subsequently changed; or
4. it is not the Eulji/Ulchi Medal and is the third class (most likely) of an as yet unidentified order.

In order to better categorise the file (and rename if appropriate), I would like to resolve what is actually going on. Can you provide any advise as to your sources for the description of the medal in the picture and how confident you are that it has been accurately identified? Cheers, AusTerrapin (talk) 07:57, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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JuTa 16:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)