User talk:Mockingbird0
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Hello Mockingbird0!
Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to Commons should be useful to all users of Wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.
To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate topic pages, categories, optionally galleries, or both of them (see Commons:Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.
You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files in this gallery.
The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!
Thank you. Multichill (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
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.BotMultichillT 06:08, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Bede slide 00 aa.jpg is uncategorized since 9 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:08, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Flower cross 20060416 3.jpg is uncategorized since 11 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Flower cross 20060416.jpg is uncategorized since 11 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Flower cross 20060416 4.jpg is uncategorized since 11 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:13, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Air on 4 chords 1.MID is uncategorized since 24 July 2009.
- Image:The new tiger of corruption 3.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
- Image:Nottingham castle mel.jpg was uncategorized on 19 September 2009.
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File:Bede_slide_00_aa.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. |