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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Ørestad, Copenhagen skyline .jpg was uncategorized on 22 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Nicolas Anelka, Copenhagen against Chelsea.jpg was uncategorized on 25 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Quay Bridge.jpg was uncategorized on 26 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Part of the waterfront of Copenhagen .jpg was uncategorized on 26 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Tycho Brahe Planetarium Copenhagen.jpg was uncategorized on 26 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Christiansborg Palace.jpg was uncategorized on 3 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:DR Byen.jpg was uncategorized on 3 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Critically evaluate Flickr licenses
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File:Nicolas Anelka, Copenhagen against Chelsea.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. You may have preserved the information shown on Flickr correctly when transferring the image here, but the Flickr uploader is not the copyright holder of this image. Either the image was created by someone else, or it is a derivative of someone else's work. As stated in Commons:Licensing, only the copyright holder may issue a license, so the one shown on Flickr is invalid.
Always remember to critically evaluate Flickr licenses. Photostreams with professional-looking photographs, album covers, posters, and images in a wide range of styles or quality taken by many different cameras often indicate that the Flickr uploader either does not understand or does not care about copyright matters. See Commons:Questionable Flickr images for a list of known bad Flickr users.
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Martin H. (talk) 18:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
This americanistadechiapas guy from flickr is not a photographer but someone uploading other peoples work under own name. This image in question belongs to AFP, see e.g. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/photo/138/706/9/picture.html#1387069. --Martin H. (talk) 18:43, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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File:Helle_Thorning-Schmidt_at_congress.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.
The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Courcelles (talk) 20:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
- Commons cannot accept images that are tagged not to allow derivative works in their licences. Courcelles (talk) 20:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
File:Tog-og-metro-i-hovedstadsomraadet.png 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. |