User talk:Nealmcb
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CategorizationBot (talk) 12:11, 7 June 2011 (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.CategorizationBot (talk) 12:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mt Gox exchange, Bitcoin vs USD for 2010-10-01 to 2011-06-06.png was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Suggested rename of World population increase history.svg
[edit]I've had to replace your file-rename suggestion on the page File:World population increase history.svg, because I disagreed with it slightly, so I wanted to point people to the discussion on the talk page. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way of adding another instance of {{Rename}}, or altering the original (or, indeed, making any edit to the page), without losing the attribution to the original editor (you). (In other words, the template is not implemented well, so I made the change in as unobtrusive a way as I could, given the limitations of the template.) - dcljr (talk) 20:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for all your help tagging maps in the Mechanical Curator collection - after ten days, we've now done half the books and found 10,600 images! Andrew Gray (talk) 01:03, 11 November 2014 (UTC) |
Deviation of day length
[edit]Many thanks for your work with the "File:Deviation of day length from SI day.svg" in "Leap Seconds". It would be interesting to see an updated version? Is Earth's spin-rate continuing to speed up? Thanks in anticipation, --DLMcN (talk) 18:31, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
- My pleasure! And thanks for the reminder. I just did so. Nealmcb (talk) 22:03, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
- Great ! --DLMcN (talk) 10:06, 24 August 2023 (UTC)