User talk:Euthman
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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) 10:40, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Paul-barret-library-rhodes-college.jpg was uncategorized on 26 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Dr. Billie V. Ellis House (HDR).jpg was uncategorized on 23 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:16, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:House at 201 W. 15th St. Houston Heights.jpg was uncategorized on 24 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:04, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
File:Barnett Newman Broken Obelisk Rothko Chapel (HDR).jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
The file you added may soon be deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please replace the copyvio tag with {{subst:OP}} and have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you disagree that the file is a copyright violation for any other reason, please replace the copyvio tag with a regular deletion request. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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— Cheers, JackLee –talk– 21:24, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Photographer's Barnstar | |
I noticed you've illustrated many of the National Register of Historic Places sites in Houston. Thank you for your many wonderful contributions to the Wikimedia projects and keep up the great work! Another Believer (talk) 22:32, 28 December 2014 (UTC) |