User talk:Michael Hurben

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Michael Hurben!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 17:18, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Location?

Hi Michael - thanks for adding your photos to Commons! They would be a lot more useful if you could add details of the locations you took them please; ideally coordinates using the {{Location dec|latitude number in decimal degrees|longitude number in decimal degrees}} format, but place names help a lot too. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 11:17, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks! Next tip, for categories, the ones to add are the species (the scientific name, using IOC taxonomy), and Birds of Brazil or whichever of its subcategories is the most appropriate (there are bird categories for several of Brazil's states, but not all, and also for some bird orders in Brazil; take a look through what there is at Category:Birds of Brazil). For an example, you can see the category changes I've made on your Helmeted Manakin here. Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 18:31, 20 February 2021 (UTC)