User talk:MattGagnon
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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.
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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) 11:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Image:PaulLePage.jpg was uncategorized on 10 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Lepageumaine.jpg was uncategorized on 14 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection2010.png was uncategorized on 25 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection2002.png was uncategorized on 25 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection1994.png was uncategorized on 25 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection2006.png was uncategorized on 25 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection1998.png was uncategorized on 25 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection1986.png was uncategorized on 3 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:31, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mainegovelection1990.png was uncategorized on 3 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:31, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Hampden Academy.jpg was uncategorized on 4 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
File tagging File:PaulLePage.jpg
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Hekerui (talk) 21:02, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- Regarding the Paul LePage image you just wrote on my talk page about, an email was sent to OTRS immediately following its upload.
- Indeed, the image page itself says this precisely:
- "An email containing details of the permission for this file has been sent in accordance with Commons:OTRS."
- I have no idea why you would ask me to provide permission that was already provided and is already recorded on the image's page. If you need something ELSE to verify permission I'm happy to provide it, but I have already made sure permission was sent so it was usable. MattGagnon (talk) 23:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- That was July 6, maybe you should ask the campaign to send the permission again because it's not been processed so far. Hekerui (talk) 07:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Last I heard, the OTRS team had a backlog of about five weeks, so it will probably be processed within the next few days. Sending in duplicate permissions is probably not a good advice, as that will not reach the front of the queue until another five weeks (or whatever the backlog is up to) later, and will only serve to build up the backlog even further. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- It will have been seven weeks when the week is over. Anyway, I will remove the note until even more time has passed. Hekerui (talk) 15:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
- Last I heard, the OTRS team had a backlog of about five weeks, so it will probably be processed within the next few days. Sending in duplicate permissions is probably not a good advice, as that will not reach the front of the queue until another five weeks (or whatever the backlog is up to) later, and will only serve to build up the backlog even further. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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Dman41689 (talk) 08:00, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
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Dman41689 (talk) 08:00, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
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--Krdbot 11:00, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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.Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 09:37, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
File tagging File:Caplan2021.png
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