User talk:Rollingcontributor

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Rollingcontributor!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:19, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Cropping images

By way of information for the future, when you want to crop an image I suggest you use the CropTool that can be activated in your commons Preferences, under Gadgets. The CropTool will then appears in the left side of your screen. It saves everyone a lot of time because it transfers all the correct and appropriate information into the cropped image, such as source, licence, author, etc. It even leaves a backlink to the original and visa versa. That way all the proper information is there and does not need to be manually reviewed by volunteers. If you are just cropping a small bit of the image like a frame you can decide to overwrite the image but for more major crops you should upload the copped version as a separate new image, but you do have a choice. I hope you can see how everyone can save time and frustration by using CropTool. Good luck. Ww2censor (talk) 15:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

@Ww2censor: I have enabled the tool as suggested by you. I mainly edit on the English Wikipedia, and use commons only rarely, when I need to deal with images. As a result, I did not know such a tool existed until now. Thank you, and good luck! Rollingcontributor (talk) 15:35, 15 April 2017 (UTC)rep

Unfortunately I have been unable to get it to work on the enwiki but if the images are freely licensed they should be on the commons anyway, so you may get more use out of it if you move the images to the commons first; that way more editors can use them. Cheers Ww2censor (talk) 15:39, 15 April 2017 (UTC)