User talk:RajeevRuparell~commonswiki

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, RajeevRuparell~commonswiki!

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

• Image:The Hotel Victoria.jpg was uncategorized on 27 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Image sources

Hello! Thank you for uploading some old photos of Toronto. However, it is absolutely essential that you provide the source of all of these images. If you got them online, indicate the website. If you scanned them from a book, indicate the name and date of the publication. It is an important principle around here that we properly source all media. Moreover, it helps eliminate any doubt whatsoever that the images are public domain. Cheers, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:18, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Could you please provide more details about "Construction Magazine" (place of publication, where you found it online/at library, etc.)? These 1909 images are public domain to the extent that they can be verified to be of this age. If there is any doubt (i.e. no source), they will probably get deleted at some point. That would be an incredibly dissapointing result, which I would like to avoid. That's why we need proper sources for all the images you have uploaded. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:05, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi - thanks again for your message, and appreciate the best practice guidance (I'm fairly new to the wiki universe). I've updated most of the images with a link to the Construction article, which I found at the Toronto Archives and was told by the archivist there that it was in the public domain and okay to use. Others were physical copies found at the hotel, and presumably have been here for a while (I am the current owner/manager of the hotel, and the previous manager had been here for over 20 years - he said that the prints and promotional matchbook go back much further). There are a few digital images from the Toronto Archive website - I'll update these once I can find them again. I'm leaving for vacation for two weeks this Friday, and things are quite busy here before I leave. I'll try to find them all again before then so that I can put in the correct URLs, but please provide us some time to do this before deleting. thanks.— Preceding unsigned comment added by RajeevRuparell (talk • contribs)

No worries. I can't imagine any of the images will be deleted while you are on holidays. My warnings were more of a pre-cautionary nature, as sometimes we do see deletion requests where there is no source and editors question whether the images are truly from the date provided. The Construction magazine is undoubtedly public domain. As for the physical objects from the hotel, we can deal with those. Since you are the current owner, you can give permission for their use. We'll deal with the details when you are back from holidays. Have a good time. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Great, thanks again for your help. I'll touch base when I get back in late April.

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called RajeevRuparell. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name RajeevRuparell~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

22:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

05:02, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

File tagging File:Howard Rees.jpg

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Praxidicae (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2019 (UTC)