User talk:Theoffice89
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Please tag your images
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Thank you.Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 18:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
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 06:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Image:GoaChurch1.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:FortAquada5.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:FortAquada3.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:GoaChurch5.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:FortAquada6.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:FortAquada4.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:FortAquada2.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:GoaChurch4.jpg was uncategorized on 22 August 2009.
- Image:Vasco 1.jpg was uncategorized on 23 August 2009.
- Image:Vasco 3.jpg was uncategorized on 23 August 2009.
- Image:Vasco 2.jpg was uncategorized on 23 August 2009.
- Image:National Aviation Museum.jpg was uncategorized on 24 August 2009.
- Image:Iron Ore Train.jpg was uncategorized on 24 August 2009.
- Image:Motorcycle Taxi.jpg was uncategorized on 24 August 2009.
- Image:Iron Ore Train 1.jpg was uncategorized on 24 August 2009.
Your current uploads: Categorizing - "bad" and "good" example
[edit]Hi, please DO NOT categorize your pictures (an example of your a.m. uploads):
Please spare time - yours and ours - by categorizing:
- Category:Panaji (and/or for example Category:Education in Goa)
Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding city/town/village ;-)
Thank you for your assistance, Roland 13:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Help
[edit]Please tell me if I am doing this correctly, I am new to this. In the images information box, I put
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Description | Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Goa, India |
Date | May, 2008 |
Source | self-made photograph |
Author |
Aaron C --> (Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaron-photoalbum/) (Theoffice89 (talk)) |
Category:Panaji
Category: Churches in Goa
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and i added this outside the }} brackets
- Category:Panaji
- Category:Churches in Goa -> correct is: Category:Churches and convents of Goa 84.75.170.106 14:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this correct?,
Also under author, it says my name, but I want my name to be link to my Flickr page, not like how it is shown with an extra long link like http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaron-photoalbum/.
How do you do this
Thanks --Theoffice89 (talk) 16:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
- I replied over here User_talk:Jan_Arkesteijn#Need_Help. Regards, Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 21:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
- Hi, if you would like to link to a category, it's absolutetly ok to use Category:xxx (i.e. ":Category:xxxx" ) inside the image description brackets, but don't forget to categorize images as (Goa) mentioned before. 84.75.170.106 14:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
File:Key_Figures_in_Goa_Independence_Kunhiraman_Palat_Candeth.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. |
Kiran Gopi (talk) 10:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
File:Instrument_of_Surrender_Manuel_António_Vassalo_e_Silva_to_Kunhiraman_Palat_Candeth.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. |
Kiran Gopi (talk) 10:35, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
File:Emaar Billboard.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. |