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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 15:03, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Categories / Project scope / Watermarks
editHi Daveyeblue, welcome to Wikimedia Commons! Please respect that Commons has a project scope what means that contributed images must be useful for an educational purpose. Therefore give useful and educational descriptions and categories to your images. Note that
- Category:Green for File:Greenethio.jpg is not anyhow useful and educational. Better categorize the plant species. Also categorize the location where the image was taken. I suggest to use an appropriate subcategory of Category:Flora of Ethiopia
- Category:Human for File:Love of the mother.jpg is not anyhow useful and educational. Better use Category:Transport of wood. Also categorize the location where the image was taken. I suggest to use an appropriate subcategory of Category:People at work like Category:Women at work in Ethiopia.
- Category:Nature for File:Lamp photo.jpg is not anyhow useful and educational. What has a lamp to do with nature? Why is this lamp photograph educational?
Moreover: Don't watermark your images! Greetings, -- Ies (talk) 16:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Wiki Science Competition 2019
editWiki Science Competition 2019
editDear uploader of European Science Photo Competition 2015 and Wiki Science Competition 2017, we would like to remind you that Wiki Science Competition 2019 has started in the whole world. It is now completed in Russia (active in May), Ukraine and France (active during November), but it's still open in all the other countries.
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Wiki Science Competition 2021 has started
editDear uploader of European Science Photo Competition 2015 and Wiki Science Competition 2017 and Wiki Science Competition 2019, we would like to remind you that Wiki Science Competition 2021 has started in the whole world. It is now completed in Russia (active in May), but it's still open in almost all the other countries.
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Wiki Science Competition 2023
editDear uploader of European Science Photo Competition 2015 and Wiki Science Competition 2017, Wiki Science Competition 2019 and Wiki Science Competition 2021, we would like to remind you that Wiki Science Competition 2023 has started in almost all the countries.
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