User talk:EGDJ

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, EGDJ!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, EGDJ!

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Egdj2.JPG was uncategorized on 20 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Rlds stone church environs.jpg was uncategorized on 29 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
• Image:SantaFeTrail GreatOsageTrail detail NPS map.JPG was uncategorized on 8 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Deleted content

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Hello EGDJ, the following content you uploaded violates one or more of our policies and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:

File:Osage Trail Independence Missouri.JPG

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files with a realistic educational purpose and that can be used for any purpose, including:

• use in any work, regardless of content
• creation of derivative works
• commercial use
• free distribution

See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.

Please make sure that you only upload educational content you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.

Martin H. (talk) 08:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikimapias satellite image is nothing different but google earth/maps, that source is not free. --Martin H. (talk) 08:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Isn't there some kind of licensing cross-use agreement between google and wikimedia commons? EGDJ (talk) 08:36, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

No. GoogleEarth is not free for commercial reuse and modification (Terms, 2b,c,f), Wikimedia Commons requires this. --Martin H. (talk) 08:39, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. I was learning as much, viewing the wikipedia article about google earth, that google's images are "free only for "fair use," etc. I also learned thereby about aerial (satellite) views which are in the public domain, I'll work on modifying and uploading a map/image which is in the public domain. EGDJ (talk) 08:46, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, satellite images from NASA are free including NASA Worldwind, a various number of astronauts photography is also available in http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/, to downlad a larger size from that source you have to wait a few minutes after requesting it. If you need the description text back you can ask me here. However, the description text was a little bit long, please keep image descriptions short and informative, articles go to Wikipedia. --Martin H. (talk) 11:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC)