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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) 12:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Nun-ATOMIC.jpg was uncategorized on 20 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Galaxy-hands1.tif was uncategorized on 23 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:55, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done. -- Presearch (talk) 19:28, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --Nikbot 02:01, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Note to self re speedy deletion edit
This is the text I used for requesting speedy deletion of image of George Fox masquerading as image of John Woolman: {{speedydelete|This is a duplicate of an image elsewhere in commons for [[George Fox]] (also, like Woolman, a Quaker), and searches elsewhere on the web suggest (such as [http://www.georgefox.edu/about/history/namesake.html HERE]) indicate that this image is indeed Fox rather than Woolman. Thus this image only sows confusion}} --Presearch (talk) 04:48, 7 May 2013 (UTC)