User talk:Roy Bateman
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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:
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[[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 06:11, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Ulvmast1.JPG is uncategorized since 9 August 2009.
- Image:WHO compression sprayer test.jpg was uncategorized on 18 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 20:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Copyright status: File:Koppen World Map Am Aw1.png
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Thanks for uploading File:Koppen World Map Am Aw1.png. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.
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Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Image without license
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This message was added automatically by MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner), if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 10:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- Prof Graham Matthews of Imperial College London (email can be supplied), asked me to upload these images on his behalf - what should I have done? Roy Bateman (talk) 10:21, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
This message was added automatically by MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner), if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 10:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
This message was added automatically by MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner), if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 10:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- Prof Graham Matthews of Imperial College London (email can be supplied), asked me to upload these on his behalf - what should I have done? Roy Bateman (talk) 10:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Respect of the sources
[edit]Hello,
I reverted your change to Category:Hadeninae: here.
Without sources, everyone complains about wikipedia quality.
But having sources is not enough, we must ensure that we quote the sources correctly.
Here you did the contrary.
Please be careful.
Regards Liné1 (talk) 09:06, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Liné1: mea culpa - apologies: not familiar with the syntax ... source is at Butterflies and moths (just updated at Taxonconflict) ... this is also a NHM page so v. strange - will investigate when they are back at work. Happy New Year. Roy Bateman (talk) 15:23, 31 December 2018 (UTC)