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Tip: Categorizing images edit
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 (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Capture3q.jpg is uncategorized since 9 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Capture45.JPG is uncategorized since 9 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:MariaLopezMira.JPG is uncategorized since 9 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Capture6.JPG is uncategorized since 9 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Pay attention to copyright | Image:Capture45.JPG has been marked as a copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. For images, you may find Commons:Image casebook useful. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk.
The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.
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Herby talk thyme 16:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Pay attention to copyright | Image:Capture3q.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. For images, you may find Commons:Image casebook useful. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk.
The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.
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Herby talk thyme 16:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Pay attention to copyright | Image:Capture6.JPG has been marked as a copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. For images, you may find Commons:Image casebook useful. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk.
The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.
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Herby talk thyme 16:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Pay attention to copyright | Image:MariaLopezMira.JPG has been marked as a copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. For images, you may find Commons:Image casebook useful. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk.
The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.
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Copyright issues edit
Hi - I deleted File:MariaLopezMira.JPG because it was
- An exceptionally poor copy
- Says that it is a "scan" not the original
- Appears on that basis to be a clear violation of someone's copyright.
Your other uploads were also "scans" & from the naming ("capture") rather obviously so. If you are the copyright holder of the original material then it would be great if you would freely license them to be held on Commons. To do so you would have to supply permission via OTRS and the information on that is there.
Thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)