User talk:JohanWolfaardt
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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 11:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Marthinus Wessel Pretorius photographed a week before his death 1901.jpg was uncategorized on 19 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Andries Hendrik Potgieter,Voortrekker leader and his second wife,the widow Van Emmenis.jpg was uncategorized on 19 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Commandant General Piet Joubert 1896.JPG was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:General Piet Joubert.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Marthinus Wessel Pretorius 1855.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Thomas Francois Burgers.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Marthinus Wessel Pretorius photographed a week before his death 1901.jpg
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A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Marthinus Wessel Pretorius photographed a week before his death 1901.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 (
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Túrelio (talk) 21:24, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Andries Hendrik Potgieter,Voortrekker leader and his second wife,the widow Van Emmenis.jpg
[edit]This media was probably deleted. |
A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Andries Hendrik Potgieter,Voortrekker leader and his second wife,the widow Van Emmenis.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:Andries Hendrik Potgieter,Voortrekker leader and his second wife,the widow Van Emmenis.jpg]] ).
If you created the content yourself, enter 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! |
Túrelio (talk) 21:24, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Commandant General Piet Joubert 1896.JPG
[edit]This media was probably deleted. |
A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Commandant General Piet Joubert 1896.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:Commandant General Piet Joubert 1896.JPG]] ).
If you created the content yourself, enter 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! |
Túrelio (talk) 21:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:General Piet Joubert.jpg
[edit]This media was probably deleted. |
A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:General Piet Joubert.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:General Piet Joubert.jpg]] ).
If you created the content yourself, enter 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! |
Túrelio (talk) 21:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger 1877.jpg
[edit]This media was probably deleted. |
A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger 1877.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:Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger 1877.jpg]] ).
If you created the content yourself, enter 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! |
Túrelio (talk) 21:30, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi JohanWolfaardt, when you make a reproduction of an existing photography, you do not become its author and the copyright remains with the original photographer, if the image is not already in the public domain. --Túrelio (talk) 21:32, 27 January 2014 (UTC)