User talk:DavidStern~commonswiki
Thank you for providing images to the commons. Please keep in mind that images and other files on the commons must be under a free license and should be useful to the Wikimedia projects. To allow others to use your files, some additional information must be given on the description page. Most importantly:
- Describe what it is about in a short sentence. (What does the image show?)
- State the author and the date of creation. If you made it yourself, say so explicitly. If it is from another Wikipedia user, link to the person's local user page.
- If you did not create the file yourself, state the source you got it from.
- Add a copyright tag - images without an appropriate license tag will be deleted.
- Add the image to one or more gallery pages and/or appropriate categories, so it can be found by others. To find out where an image belongs, you can use CommonsSense.
If you copied the file from another wiki, please copy all information given there and say who uploaded it to that wiki.
It is recommended to use Template:Information to put that information on the description page. Have a look at Template talk:Information for details of the use of this template.
Please add as much information as possible. If there is not sufficient information, the file may have to be deleted. For more information, have a look at Commons:Licensing, Commons:Criteria for inclusion and the Community Portal. If you need help or have questions, please ask at the Village pump. Thank you. --- gildemax 10:10, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to upload an image description but don't know how[edit]
I do not know where to place the information. Your page of instructions is very confusing. (OK, I am not a computer maven and just turned 74.) Here is what I would like to upload:
| Description | Diffuse aurora observed by DE-1 satellite from low Earth orbit |
| Date | about 1983 |
| Source | NASA image (US Govt) |
| Author | NASA |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
US public domain |
| Other versions | - |
Could someone PLEASE write in plain language, what EXACTLY one is supposed to do? I have more images, and would like to contribute to Wikipedia, but you are making it darn difficult!
Sincerely
David P Stern http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sstern.htm
Hello, as my Englisch is not so good I can only ask you to have a look at First steps. If this is not clear enough I kindly ask you to ask your questions at the Village pump.
- PS: I have inserted the above informations to the image page.
- PS: I'm also not so young (50 +).
- Thank you very much for your cooperation. —gildemax 10:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- PS: I'm also not so young (50 +).
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 DavidStern. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name DavidStern~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
20:28, 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)
02:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)