User talk:Philpottm
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--SieBot 04:55, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Please link images
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Hello Philpottm!
Thank you for providing images to the Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to the 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 the Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!
Thank you. EugeneZelenko 15:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing out that I should get my uploaded photos into categories. One question, though. How do I do that? I've opened them in Common Sense, and see the recommended categories that appear near the bottom of the page- but how do I then actually get my photo into one of those recommended categories? Thanks for any help/advice you might be able to offer!
- To add image into category, you just need to add next text to image description: [[Category:<name here>]]. See Image:Welch Clock Tower.jpg as example.
- You could also enable Hot Cat gadget in Special:Preferences which simplify process.
- I also recommend to create category for Whitecaps. Sorry, I'm not baseball fan, so I don't know details about this team (league).
- EugeneZelenko 14:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)