User talk:Solsticedhiver
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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:
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 06:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Police de caractères L4.png was uncategorized on 22 September 2009.
- Image:Visualisation de fichier NOAA-GFS dans zyGrib pour la tempête Joachim du 15 décembre 2011.png was uncategorized on 15 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Samsung-YP-Q2.jpg 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. |
Dcoetzee (talk) 13:15, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Solsticedhiver - thanks for going to the work of retaking this photo, but unfortunately the Wikimedia Commons logo is also a non-free copyrighted image. The Wikimedia Foundation refuses to freely license its logos for brand management reasons (see the tag on File:Commons-logo.svg). I deleted it again and you're going to have to choose a different image - please check the license tag carefully. Dcoetzee (talk) 17:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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This message was added automatically by Nikbot, 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. --Nikbot 10:21, 16 April 2012 (UTC)