User talk:Kerkyra22

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Kerkyra22!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Kerkyra22!

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) 11:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Petrus981150.png was uncategorized on 30 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Your uploads

Hello! I wanted to let you know that I've moved all the files you've uploaded to Wikipedia over here to Commons, which is a better place for them. They are now tagged for deletion and will probably be removed from Wikipedia over the next few days (with the links redirected to the files here at Commons.) I've taken the opportunity to improve the information on your images by adding the artwork template (and other templates), categories, and so forth. I also created a category for you, Category:Collection of James Stunt, but I don't know if the images you've uploaded from your account here (a Landseer and a Humphrey) are also part of his collection, so I didn't include them.

I read a little of the discussion you were involved in over on Wikipedia about private collections (at Anthony van Dyck), and I largely agree with your sentiments. I didn't know anything about Mr. Stunt, having never heard of him, but I did some minimal research and I think it's refreshing to find a young person buying Old Master art. He certainly seems notable enough for a WP article to me (if "having lots of money and being married to someone notable" isn't worth a WP article, then 80% of the articles on people born before 1900 should be deleted. But I digress). But I don't argue with those kinds of people anymore. Life's too short.

Over here on Commons, there's not nearly so much fussiness and people tend to leave you alone and not second-guess every edit you make. There's plenty of room using the artwork template to add lots of detail to image descriptions. You might take a look at what I've done with some of the images I moved for you, to see what's available. I love the Lady Mary Fane portrait (but I didn't convert the provenance data into the provenance event template, which is too complicated for me).

So I hope you'll come back to commons and upload some more images of great art. I'll be happy to help you learn the ropes because I love working on portraiture at commons. Have fun! Laura1822 (talk) 22:38, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Also, there seems to be a duplicate file that you uploaded, apparently due to some misunderstanding. It's the Ozias Humphrey portrait of Sestini. It looks like you had uploaded it originally to Wikipedia on 12 April 2013. Another user moved from Wikipedia it to Commons two days later as File:Lady Affleck Ozias Humphry.png. Eight days after that, you uploaded a second copy to commons under a different name as File:Signora Sestini.png. What's even more confusing is that it's general practice to upload a jpg copy of png files and to use the jpg in WP articles, with the png sort of as an archived copy. See {{JPEG version of PNG}}. The first image uploaded to commons should normally take precedence and the later duplicate should be deleted. But since all of the WP links are to the second image that you uploaded to commons, and also because the original image at WP was yours, I think the easiest solution would be for you to "Upload a new version of this file" to replace the later png image with a new jpg. Then we can link them with the jpg/png template. Problem is, I seem to recall something about the system blocking uploading a different file type over an existing file. You want to try it? Laura1822 (talk) 02:13, 11 July 2014 (UTC)