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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 05:37, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Johnsoncitycondos.jpg is uncategorized since 2 July 2009.
- Image:Johnsoncityroanstreet.jpg is uncategorized since 2 July 2009.
- Image:Jct.jpg is uncategorized since 4 July 2009.
File tagging File:City of Soldotna Collage.jpg edit
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Thanks for uploading File:City of Soldotna Collage.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. |
LGA talkedits 00:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- As you took these images in the cause of your employment, we would need a release from the City of Soldotna, this is not hard to do, just follow the instructions at COM:OTRS, you may also wish to upload the individual images that make up the Collage and likewise submit permissions for them. Thank you for your contributions. LGA talkedits 00:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
File:University District Seattle Skyline 2023.webp 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. |
File:12 Avenue NE in Seattle's University District.webp 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. |
Adeletron 3030 (talk) 15:31, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- For both this and the one above, you need to ask the original photographer if they'd release the photographs under a Creative Commons license that allows commercial and derivative use. If the photographer is good with that, they can contact COM:VRT (the directions are in the link). Or they can post on Skyscraper City with the specific license they want for the photo and you could provide the link to that post. I'm guessing File:Safeway Redevelopment in Seattle's University District.webp is also from there? Adeletron 3030 (talk) 15:33, 6 March 2023 (UTC)