User talk:SunKing2

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, SunKing2!

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) 14:20, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

• Image:William Commanda.jpg was uncategorized on 5 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:20, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Ottawa Victoria Island.jpg was uncategorized on 5 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:20, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Ottawa Russell Hotel.jpg was uncategorized on 23 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Ottawa Russell House Drawing Room 1884.jpg was uncategorized on 23 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Timber slide Chaudiere Falls.jpg was uncategorized on 27 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:09, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Rideau Street 01.jpg was uncategorized on 31 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company Ottawa c1871.jpg was uncategorized on 7 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:51, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

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Well done. Thanks. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 10:59, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions

Hello. Thanks for all your recent uploads. Just a few helpful suggestions:

1. For images from the Library and Archives Canada, please use {{LAC}} in the source field. It automatically links the image in the LAC category, and it provides a link back to the LAC website. It also saves someone else the trouble of adding it later. There are similar templates for other image sources in Canada - see the relevant subcats in Category:Image sources of Canada for information.
2. One shouldn't be using {{PD-US}}, and preferably not {{PD-old}}, for Canadian historic images. Please use the more specific {{PD-Canada}}, typically paired with {{PD-1923}} if the image was clearly published before 1923 or {{PD-1996}} if the image was PD in Canada prior to 1996 (Commons requires that media be public domain in both the source country and the U.S.). Usage for PD-1996 is as follows: {{PD-1996|Canada|January 1, 1996|Image was public domain in Canada prior to the URAA date}}
3. Please try to use date categories when uploading historic images (and a date is available). If you have a precise or approximate year, use [[:Category:[year] in Ottawa]]; if you only have a decade or a wide year range [[:Category:Ottawa in the [decade]s]] is usually a good option.
4. Major photographers like Topley typically have their own categories, so try to include images in the relevant subcats (e.g. Category:Photographs by William James Topley from the 1890s). Similarly, one can use {{William James Topley}} in the author field.

I hope that helps. Sorry to be a nag. Cheers, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:05, 5 September 2011 (UTC)