User talk:Lsstteam
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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) 10:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Camera AHM 1-sm.jpg was uncategorized on 15 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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File:Telescope_Render_4_Aug_no_back_copy.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Bulwersator (talk) 10:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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File:Camera_AHM_1-sm.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:51, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
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File:Camera_AHM_1-1_Page_04.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:53, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing Commons. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may add {{Unblock}} below this message explaining clearly why you should be unblocked. For more information, see Appealing a block. See the block log for the reason that you have been blocked and the name of the administrator who blocked you.
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I have blocked this account permanently because Commons consensus prohibits company or organizational usernames. Feel free to open a new account in a personal name, either your real name or a pseudonym.
This block does not affect this page -- your talk page -- so that if you have questions, you may ask them here.
Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:56, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear James, I am confused as to why two images and now this user name have been blocked or flagged for removal. I am a project manager with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We use a shared account "lsstteam" so several of us can update this site. The images in question were generated by the LSST project and I have authority to post them. I am obviously not an experienced wikipedia editor. Someone else started the page and we log in occasionally to update information or post a new image. Please advise. Thank you, Suzanne Jacoby (lsstteam)
- Suzanne -- sorry for the problem here. Our philosophy and rules are quite firm -- registered users are individuals, not organizations, companies, groups, or even families. You, yourself, are, as the note above says, encouraged to open a new personal account, which might be User:Suzanne Jacoby, or a pseudonym of your choosing. Each of your several users can have their own account.
- As for the images which have been uploaded, two of them came directly from your web site, which has a non-commercial restriction on use:
- "The images presented on these pages are provided through the facilities of the LSST Corporation. Permission is given for their non-commercial use for educational, academic, and research purposes."
- Since "non-commercial" prohibits almost any reuse of an image including:
- use in almost any book, magazine, newspaper or other print media unless it both is distributed free of charge and carries no advertising,
- use in any educational institution that charges tuition,
- use on any Web site that has advertising on it, and so forth,
- we do not allow non-commercial licenses on Commons. The two that came directly off your site were therefore deleted as not properly licensed. I put deletion requests on the other two, since they appear to have come from your site, but I can't prove it. Such a situation requires a DR rather than simply a speedy delete.
- If your company is willing to license these images -- and, perhaps all its images, as they are certainly striking -- under a free license such as CC-BY, then the easiest thing to do would be to change your web site accordingly. Alternately, if your company is willing to license the four images which have been previously uploaded here as CC-BY, then you can provide for that be sending an e-mail using the procedure described at Commons:OTRS. If your company is stuck on non-commercial, then I am sorry to say that we cannot use your images here.
- In any event, please do not upload the images again -- that would be a violation of our rules. If you change the license on your web site please let me know and I will restore them to view. If you provide a license via OTRS, the volunteer who processes the ticket will restore them. That may take more than a month as the OTRS backlog is large and growing.
- To be fair and complete, I should add that you may challenge the deletions at Commons:Undeletion requests, but they are clearly restricted to non-commercial use and therefore such a request will almost certainly not succeed. Feel free to ask more questions here or (with a new user name) at my talk page. We try hard to be helpful to new contributors, even when our rules require strong action. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 18:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Jim. I understand about the group login and the necessity for a non-commercial license; thank you for explaining things so carefully. I'll connect with my counterparts at other NSF-funded telescope projects and see what they are doing; seems we should update our license to CC-BY. Is it possible to have an image on the LSST wikipedia page that is not part of Wikimedia Commons? Is that a way to have a NC-use image on a Wikipedia page? Thanks again, Suzanne