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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:M734 Detonators.jpg was uncategorized on 10 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:M734 Amplifier and Oscillator .jpg was uncategorized on 11 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:MargoLucey.jpg was uncategorized on 31 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:11, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Vortex Ring Gun Test.jpg was uncategorized on 7 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Vortex Ring Gun Vectors.jpg was uncategorized on 7 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Vortex Ring Gun Schlierin.jpg was uncategorized on 8 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:20, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Categories were added as requested for the M734 Amplifier and Oscillator.jpg image in the M734 Fuze wiki and the photograph of luceyg56.jpg for Margo Lucey in the Miss District of Columbia Wiki. The image of MargoLucey.jpg was marked for speedy delete since luceyg56.jpg was used instead. The M734 Detonator.jpg image had previously been deleted, so no action was taken. Luceyg (talk) 16:35, 3 August 2011 (UTC)