User talk:TristramBrelstaff~commonswiki
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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Lydella-sp-Tachinid-fly-20100810a.JPG was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Eurithia-sp-Tachinid-fly-20100730a.JPG was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Dexiosoma-caninum-Tachinid-fly-20100718a.JPG was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Kretschmaria-deusta-Fungus-20100409a.JPG was uncategorized on 6 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Dromius-quadrimaculatus-Beetle-20100730a.jpg was uncategorized on 8 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 22:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mollisia-sp-Grey-disco-fungus-20110218a.jpg was uncategorized on 8 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 22:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Ormyrus sp-Chalcid-wasp-20100908b.jpg was uncategorized on 8 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 22:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Musca-autumnalis-Muscid-fly-20100718a.jpg was uncategorized on 9 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 23:12, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Conops-vesicularis-Conopid-fly-20100518.jpg was uncategorized on 10 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 23:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Waylands-smithy-2006-10-23.jpg was uncategorized on 11 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 20:10, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Melinda-sp-Calliphorid-fly-20100806a.jpg was uncategorized on 31 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Solva-marginata-Wood-soldierfly-20110620a.jpg was uncategorized on 31 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Polyporivora-picta-Platypezid-fly-20111015a.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Phaonia-pallida-Muscid-fly-20100619b.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Phaonia-pallida-Muscid-fly-20100615.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Chelonia-mydas-Green-sea-turtle-20070529a.jpg was uncategorized on 11 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 20:14, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Peniophora-quercina-Crust-fungus-20110225a.JPG was uncategorized on 21 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Very many thanks
[edit]Especially for the long absent Ormyridae and Xylomyidae images Hope to see many more of your very fine pics on Wiki Notafly (talk) 16:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Attribution of image
[edit]Dear Sir,
I would like to use your image of the cluster fly available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APollenia-sp-Cluster-fly-20100718a.jpg, in an extension-outreach publication related to pests in community environments. This publication is purely for educational purposes and has no commercial interests whatsoever.
However, the suggested attribution format, e.g., "By TristramBrelstaff (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons ", is very different from the style I will be following for other pictures in my publication, which will most likely be in the format:
"Photo by Abc Defghijk", or "Photo by Abc Defghijk, Lmnopqr.org".
Therefore for the sake of consistency, kindly let me know whether I may cite the images in the above formats, and if so, what name/affiliation should I use.
Thank you!
Sincerely, Shaku
Your account will be renamed
[edit]Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called TristramBrelstaff. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name TristramBrelstaff~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed
[edit]This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
05:56, 21 April 2015 (UTC)