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BotMultichillT 06:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Rebel Redcoat~commonswiki!
Tip: Add categories to your files
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 06:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not downsize images

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Hi Rebel Redcoat, I appreciate your work enhancing File:John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (2).jpg, but wanted to remind you that Commons wants the highest-possible resolution version of images that can be found. Please do not downsize your images, but upload the original resolution version; if you must upload a reduced-resolution version, please upload it under a different name, and not over the original image. Thank you. Dcoetzee (talk) 00:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Colour changes to paintings

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I know you mean well, but, quite simply, traditional painting just doesn't use the kind of colours in the versions you're uploading as new ones - there's a tradition in painting of somewhat unsaturated colours. I can see why you're making the choices you are, but the majority of the "fade correction" and "contrast adjustment" make them cease to look like a painting to people familiar with originals, and that's bad. Can you upload your changes under a different file name than the originals for now?

I reverted some - though not all - of the changes to pre-existing files, and tried to note exactly why in the edit summary. Editing historic works is very difficult if you don't know the artist's work - or at least the conventions of that period - well. There's a temptation to up the contrast, for instance, which should almost always be avoided, or kept very slight, or it can make a painting look rather more like a lithograph. Oh, and make sure your monitor is set up correctly: a poorly calibrated monitor results in horrifyingly bad results.

The tradition is generally that paintings should be seen as they are now, not as they might have been when new. This doesn't mean that what's uploaded is always right, mind: In particular, the Yorck Project works can be ridiculously wrong at times, since said project apparently had no quality control. But, since these sorts of edits are a minefield, it's best to keep the original work available, so your work can be easily compared. =)

Also - though you may know this - it's a very bad idea to use autolevels. I mean, by all means look at the autolevels version if you like, but the actual adjustments are best done by hand, since Autolevels is... well, it's really meant for photographs of fairly standard types of things. People, buildings, that sort of thing. It's not set up for historic media.

Anyway, take care! Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:06, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Long Time - need your help

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Hi,

it's been a while since we were discussing article content of early odern european military history. Returning here, I am sad to see you have left. I have no idea why. I tried to mail you, but this is quite hard to do without a valid adress ... Anyway I need your help. You made a good map here which I would like to translate and work over. I would like to ask you für the SVG-file, which you might still have on you computer. It would be great, if you could mail me (memnon335bc@freenet.de) even if only to have a little talk about history and frustrating Wikipedia (I also retired for several month ...)

Cheers! --Memnon335bc 22:58, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
Your cartography is simply beautiful and you seem to have uploaded so much around the War of the Spanish Succession. Great work, dude! OwenBlacker | Discussion 22:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

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22:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Contact

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Hi,

I'd like to exchange with you through eMail. Could you please send me a message at Kronoskaf.com ( www.kronoskaf.com/syw ) (there is a link entitled "Contact Kronoskaf" in the left hand menu).

Thank you for your attention,

--CyberMonk (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed

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05:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Newdigate House, Castle Gate, plaque.png 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.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

bjh21 (talk) 20:04, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:North America 1713.png 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.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

ƏXPLICIT 01:29, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Europe c. 1700.png 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.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Teksjag (talk) 11:07, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]