User talk:Elvert Xavier Barnes

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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Elvert Xavier Barnes!

Tip: Categorizing images[edit]

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Hello, Elvert Xavier Barnes!
Tip: Add categories to your files
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.

BotMultichillT 05:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't re-add redundant categories[edit]

[[1]]: please don't re-add redundant categories to an image. All of the categories you've added either are already supercategories of Category:Robert C. Weaver Federal Building or should be supercategories of Category:Robert C. Weaver Federal Building (so if they are missing, add them there), or are supercategories at a further remove (e.g. Category:Architecture is a very general category that should almost never go on an individual photo, or even on a category like Category:Buildings in Washington, D.C., which should be considerably down the hierarchy from such a category. - Jmabel ! talk 05:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:LiftOff.DavidBlack.CityVistaDC.5thStreet.NW.WDC.27March2010.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.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Wknight94 talk 04:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pay attention to copyright
Wikimedia Commons does not accept fair use content.

We do this because Commons is a shared media repository. Downstream wikis have different policies based on local laws. Uses that are acceptable under US law, for example, may not be acceptable in many other countries with more restrictive rules.

In addition, fair use is not compatible with our aim as a collection of freely distributable media files.

Therefore, Commons cannot legally rely on fair use provisions.

Non-free content that may be used with reference to fair use may be uploaded locally if your project allows this.

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--Motopark (talk) 12:10, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Category discussion warning

Category:Virginia_Railway_Express_(VRE) has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category.

In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!


Mackensen (talk) 20:45, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]