User talk:Nathank2

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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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Categorization

I appreciate you transferring free images from iNaturalist. When you do so, please make sure to only add the most specific categories - for example, the category for the specific town or preserve rather than for California. See here for an example of me refining the categories on an image you uploaded. If you have any questions about how to do this, feel free to respond here or on my talk page. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

While I can see the point of not using the general category "Arctostaphylos", I'm not a plant expert and none of the other categories you chose show up on the wikipedia page for that plant? It's described as "endemic to the sandhills of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains in California's Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties". Hence my category choice of "Santa Cruz Mountains" to include both Santa Clara and Santa Cruz (I just looked up Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and it doesn't include Santa Clara County). I'll try to avoid duplicating general and specific, as I did with Arctostaphylos, but please feel free to keep improving on my uploads with more accurate categories. Nathank2 (talk) 01:11, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

The location categories for an image should reflect that specific image, not the species as a whole. In this case, the iNaturalist page specifies that the photo was taken in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:18, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, I understand now! Nathank2 (talk) 02:39, 8 August 2023 (UTC)