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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) 10:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Seal New Amsterdam 1654.jpg was uncategorized on 16 May 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
- Image:DPM 00 06 PEER.PNG was uncategorized on 21 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
- Image:U.S. Government FW Clarke Public Domain.jpg was uncategorized on 21 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA Alumni Falkenau.jpg was uncategorized on 25 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA ALumni Schmidt.jpg was uncategorized on 31 July 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
- Image:South Cascadilla Hall.jpg was uncategorized on 1 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA Alumni Bruere Library Congress.jpg was uncategorized on 4 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Hugh O'Neill Engraving William Holl.jpg was uncategorized on 8 November 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Saint John's Hagerstown 2011.png was uncategorized on 27 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Arms Skull.png was uncategorized on 6 April 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Saint John's Church Hagerstown 2011 0410.png was uncategorized on 11 April 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA d'Autremont Picture.jpg was uncategorized on 12 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:52, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:John J Hanlon Albany New York.jpg was uncategorized on 15 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA ICON Aleph Samach Smallest.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA ICON Aleph Samach.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:CU NYA Alumni James 1.jpg was uncategorized on 10 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:John J. Cavanaugh 4.pdf.jpg was uncategorized on 26 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:John J. Cavanaugh 1.png was uncategorized on 26 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
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File:White Hall Cornell University Cut Down.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
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Copyright issued fixed edit
For future reference, if you are uploading a derivative work from Commons—like the crop you made from Cornell White Hall 1.jpg—you should always select the "a derivative work of a file from Commons" option from the upload menu. I submitted your posting for speedy deletion because it violated the terms of my photograph's licensing, but when no administrators took action, I pieced though it manually and did a major edit to bring it up to compliance with my license. Please be more mindful of copyright issues in the future. —Notyourbroom (talk) 23:47, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
- * Will try to use the derivative function again; couldn't get the software to engage when I tried it. Thanks for the assistance. --Cmagha (talk) 00:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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Denniss (talk) 22:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Moved from image talk page:
- Received a note that this may be a copyright violation; it was down loaded from the U.S. Department of Defense photos website; URL is with download file description.--Cmagha (talk) 22:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Official sites often host content from other sources. This image s clearly marked as "Photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works" --Denniss (talk) 00:06, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Received a note that this may be a copyright violation; it was down loaded from the U.S. Department of Defense photos website; URL is with download file description.--Cmagha (talk) 22:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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—/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 00:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Photo is incorrect Modugan (talk) 03:09, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Here is the correct photo:
[[1]] — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.49.56.109 (talk) 09:44, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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