User talk:Old Guard

English: Welcome to the Commons, Old Guard!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki ‒ it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (direct access). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], which produces: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Old Guard!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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 (talk) 06:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

• Image:Megalopolis.jpg is uncategorized since 27 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Megalopolis.png is uncategorized since 27 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Youtubecompfull.png is uncategorized since 5 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Youtubecompfull.png

This media may be deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Youtubecompfull.png, is missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

I'm not sure about the screenshots used. No source for them is mentioned, so I'm assuming that they are copyrighted, which makes your image a derivative work of a copyrighted image, so: not ok. Please check the copyright status of the fragment you took screenshots of. NielsF ^{? (en, nl, fr, it)} 23:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Youtubecompfull.png

It isn't clear from the image which screenshots are from YouTube and which are the original grabs. Could you please relabel the image to make this obvious? Thanks. 80.192.120.114 11:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Population veryhigh hdi.png

Hi, there's a mistake in your picture: South Korea's abbreviation is KR, not SK. --85.162.158.4 21:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)