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-- 01:09, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

Latest comment: 13 years ago4 comments1 person in discussion

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Hello, Cordphaeton!

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) 10:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Image:A portion of the Downtown Dallas skyline as seen from the Trinity River Greenbelt Park at sunset.jpg was uncategorized on 14 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:Dallas Medical District, 10-12-10.jpg was uncategorized on 14 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:Stone Street Gardens in Downtown Dallas, 04-01-11.jpg was uncategorized on 17 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 18 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

File:American Airlines Center in Victory Park, Downtown Dallas, 06-05-11.jpg

Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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A file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Flickr, File:American Airlines Center in Victory Park, Downtown Dallas, 06-05-11.jpg, was found available on Flickr by an administrator or reviewer under the license Noncommercial (

), No derivative works (

), which isn't compatible with Wikimedia Commons, per the licensing policy. The file has been deleted. Commons:Flickr files/Appeal for license change has information about sending the Flickr user an appeal asking for the license to be changed. Only Flickr images tagged as

(CC BY),

(CC BY-SA),

(CC0) and

(PDM) are allowed on Wikimedia Commons. If the Flickr user has changed the license of the Flickr image, feel free to ask an administrator to restore the file, or start an undeletion request.

. Lymantria (talk) 05:53, 17 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

	Hello, Cordphaeton. You have new messages at Lymantria's talk page. You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. asturianu ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ English ∙ español ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ हिन्दी ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ქართული ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ Tagalog ∙ Türkçe ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

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