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Tip: Categorizing images edit

Latest comment: 15 years ago8 comments1 person in discussion

Afrikaans ∙ العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ íslenska ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ქართული ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体）‎ ∙ 中文（繁體）‎ ∙ +/−

Hello, Bwami!

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.

BotMultichillT 05:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Image:Prince Kibego Njangamwita4.jpg is uncategorized since 4 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Prince Kibego Njangamwita.jpg is uncategorized since 4 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Prince Kibego Njangamwita3.jpg is uncategorized since 9 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Prince Kibego Njangamwita Nabuvira2.jpg is uncategorized since 9 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Le Prince Kibego Njangamwita Nabuvira.jpg is uncategorized since 9 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Ebauche Réquisitoire destiné aux parlementaires Occidentaux.pdf is uncategorized since 15 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Princesse MkLeza Njangamwita.jpg is uncategorized since 15 March 2009. BotMultichillT 05:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Mwami Lenghe Rugaza (petit format).jpg is uncategorized since 13 April 2009.
Image:Prince Kibego.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Princesse MkLeza Njangamwita(pt format).jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Princesse Bayo MkLeza Njangamwita (pt format).jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Prince Kibego avec Ed Broadbent.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Prince Njangamwita.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Mwami Lwegeleza III roi des Bavira.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Prince Njangamwita2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Princesse Bayo MkLeza Njangamwita (gd format).jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Prince Njangamwita1.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Image:Prince Kibego Nabuvira (pt format).jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content was recently deleted, or will soon be deleted, in accordance with our process and policies, because it was not, or is not, within our scope. Please review our project scope, but in short, Commons is targeted at educational media files including photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text and video clips. The expression “educational” is to be understood according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge; instructional or informative”. Wikimedia Commons does not contain text articles like encyclopedia articles, textbooks, news, word definitions and such. Each of these other kinds of content have their own projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquote. If the content seems to fit the scope of one of those other projects, please consider contributing it there. Otherwise, consider an alternative outlet. If you think that the deletion was in error because the contribution really was in scope, you can appeal it at Commons:Undeletion requests, giving a reason why it fits our scope to help others evaluate the matter. Thank you for your understanding.

Martin H. (talk) 22:08, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Commons is not a repository for personal letters, articles, biographies or diary. --Martin H. (talk) 22:11, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

fr Commons n'est pas une lieu de stockage pour des lettres, des articles, des biographes ou des journaux --Bastique ^demandez 22:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Stop edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Please stop, uploading all those letters, they are out of the scope. - Zil (d) 22:19, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ton compte risque d'être bloqué si tu persistes à vouloir télécharger ces lettres. Ce n'est pas leur place. - Zil (d) 22:31, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Copyright status: File:Dance des peuples sur les rives du Tanganyika des années 1870.jpg edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

bahasa melayu ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ deutsch ∙ english ∙ español ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ hrvatski ∙ italiano ∙ magyar ∙ nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ português ∙ polski ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ suomi ∙ svenska ∙ türkçe ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ ಕನ್ನಡ ∙ ತುಳು ∙ മലയാളം ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ עברית ∙ العربيَّة ∙ فارسی ∙ +/−

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Dance des peuples sur les rives du Tanganyika des années 1870.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.

If you created this file yourself, then you must provide a valid copyright tag. For example, you can tag it with {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multi-license GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or you can tag it with {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. (See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of license tags that you can use.)

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Note that any unsourced or improperly licensed files will be deleted one week after they have been marked as lacking proper information, as described in criteria for deletion. If you have uploaded other files, please confirm that you have provided the proper information for those files, too. If you have any questions about licenses please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright or see our help pages. Thank you.

No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 05:32, 1 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

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