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Please use sub-categories
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For instance you added the category "Living people", "South African actresses", "Actresses of Greek descent" to Angelique Rockas (Victorian).jpg when the parent category "Angelique Rockas" already has this information. --Ruthven (msg) 12:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
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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.Categories that are red do not exist and the image is still uncategorized (check File:"Mother Courage" with Renyu Setna as the Chaplin, Margaret Robertson as Mother Courage and Josephine Welcome as Kattrin (1982).jpg for instance). Please use categories that exist (or create new ones) or the images will not be found by readers. Thank you. --Ruthven (msg) 12:26, 30 June 2016 (UTC)