Pinkpasty

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Pinkpasty!

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Thank you

Thank you for your contributions. I helped a bit for proper categorisation; please take care for COM:OVERCAT. In the future I will remove redundant or plain wrong categories. Please note that we don't need the large borders of the images, so some people will insert a {{Crop}} template to get those borders removed. Enjoy. --Foroa (talk) 11:09, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope

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Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content, Malcolm lidbury, 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.

 

Trijnstel (talk) 09:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Pinkpasty, are you Malcolm Lidbury? As I assume, you are not, you need to provide written permission from the artist as all his works are still copyrighted (which includes any images of his works, except if covered by FOP). --Túrelio (talk) 10:33, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

I think you are wrong. See User_talk:Foroa#User:Pinkpasty. --Foroa (talk) 11:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

File tagging File:Thinking Watercolor by Lidbury.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Thinking Watercolor by Lidbury.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you.

 

  ■ MMXX  ^talk  15:39, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

"Folklore"

I'm not sure I understand how things based on files first uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2008 and 2009 -- files containing symbols which did not exist in that precise visual realization until that time (though of course in some cases the basic overall designs date back much earlier) -- can really be too "folkloric". AnonMoos (talk) 12:33, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Pinkpasty!

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 11:16, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Delete this.jpg was uncategorized on 11 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:16, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

HELP ADMIN!

Admin help please!

I really...and I mean really do not understand the incredibly complicated system used by wikimedia. Is it deliberately designed to discourage contribution from the amateur?

I have uploaded successfully images to what I would categorise them as ie: witchcraft tools (ie: tools/artefacts used in witchcraft). I think I managed to create a category 'Witchcraft tools', however I am receiving bizare & complete gobbledegock msg's about re-categorizing???

Alas, I am not computer literate & therefore unable to speak html. The instructions received make no sense to me! Does this mean I have wasted my time up loading several hundred images to wkimedia...it would seem so?

...I'm at a total loss! -- 15:33, 12 July 2011 User:Pinkpasty

I think you're actually doing moderately well -- if you think you have images which could be usefully put into a new category, upload them with that category and create the new category. Some problems can occur when all images are indiscriminately put into the same category, regardless of whether the specific details of each particular image are appropriate to the category, or when images are put into a very vague catch-all category such as Category:Folklore (when in most cases images should be in a more specific sub-category). The place to ask for help is Commons:Help_desk... AnonMoos (talk) 23:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Witchcraft_tools&action=history to see how Foroa fixed the category... AnonMoos (talk) 23:26, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

You are doing quite well. Please read COM:OVERCAT and try to be more specific with the categories. Commons does not has a tagging system but categories that form some sort of presorted collections. Uploading a picture such as File:Delete this.jpg with such a name, no description and no categories is just asking for problems. --Foroa (talk) 05:46, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Tarot Cards and Shark Skin Box.jpg

Unfortunately, the designs on the cards are very probably copyrighted. P.S. For some of your other files, the spelling should be "Altar"... AnonMoos (talk) 23:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia LGBT+

Hi @Pinkpasty:

A while back I read your note on the LGBT free media collective page, but never got back to you there; sorry, there's always piles of backlogged stuff to think about and other volunteers are normally better at helping newcomers . If you feel that Commons is overly complicated and want to upload more material, I would be happy to lend a hand. Images with a CC-BY license on Flickr can be easily uploaded to Commons, and if you are more comfortable releasing drawings and photographs there, I can do this for you so long as the copyright/license is verifiable and the content can be justified as educational - which can include most LGBT+ history and illustrative cultural related content. As a small hint, adding photographs or scans to your own specific Flickr album makes this easier.

I support the global Wikimedia LGBT+ user group, being very active in uploading large collections of images, and we have regular general drives to increase the LGBT+ related content of Wikimedia Commons. There are a number of ways to contact LGBT+ volunteers, see the list at meta:LGBT+ which includes twitter and facebook. Feel free to drop me a note on my user talk page, or email me by clicking here.

By the way, I'm familiar with some of the strangeness of growing up gay in Cornwall, having spent my teenage years there, and I'm back visiting relatives in Redruth a couple of times a year. So if you have future projects in mind, it may even be possible for me to have a friendly chat about how Wikimedia works with anyone involved if doing more to improve LGBT+ Wikipedia content or increase Wikimedia Commons content is an ambition. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 13:10, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

File:Pagan Altar Goat Skull.jpg

File:Pagan Altar Goat Skull.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 06:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

File:Pagan Alter Skull.jpg

File:Pagan Alter Skull.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 06:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

File:Triangle of Art.jpg

File:Triangle of Art.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

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