Dormskirk

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CategorizationBot (talk) 12:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Dormskirk!

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) 12:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

• Image:HawkinsWhitshed.jpg was uncategorized on 9 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.jpg

File:Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.jpg 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Stefan4 (talk) 22:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

response made. Dormskirk (talk) 18:12, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Kilvrough Manor.jpg

Yours sincerely, -mattbuck (Talk) 09:10, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Now sorted. Dormskirk (talk) 10:23, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

en:James Francis Doyle

Well, I don't know what to think. I've just had one of my students on the phone in tears because you have undone a lot of work she put in this afternoon to improve this somewhat sorry, stubby article. If instead of applying IMGDD, which is in its own words "not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community", you had applied common sense or even IAR, that article would now be in a state where the galleries could be split off to en:List of buildings by James Francis Doyle, once someone interested enough has expanded the article in relation to the man himself. And you chose to keep as an image a work of Doyle's that is a mere addition to one by Waterhouse, instead of using a Valued Image from Commons, also to remove some "non-notable" buildings which are actually Grade II listed. You also removed the link to the Commons Category I created for her to use. Lack of coherent thinking is just one reason for Wikipedia's extremely poor reputation in this University. Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:08, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

I am sorry and apologise if I have caused offense to your student by applying wikipedia's guidelines. I have restored the images accordingly. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should be written in good prose. As for your comments accusing me of failure "to apply common sense" and "lack of coherent thinking" that is a breach of NPA which I really find rather offensive. Dormskirk (talk) 23:30, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply but I suffer from the en:Curse of knowledge and say it as I see it. There's too much "rock thinking" as opposed to "water thinking" going on in Wikpedia, but thanks for reverting yourself. But IMGDD isn't a guideline, it's an opinion. I take your point that Wikpedia should be written in good prose, and I will invite my student to research Doyle with a view to making that article more than a stub. She's good, and will undoubtedly gain her Master's degree, if not more. Rodhullandemu (talk) 00:41, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks for your thoughtful reply and best wishes to your student for a successful research career. Dormskirk (talk) 11:18, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Edgar Purnell Hooley

Drawing your attention to Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Hooley.jpg as (unless I've misread things) this is an image you originally uploaded to Wikipedia in 2007, which someone else transferred here in 2015. Can you confirm the photo was created by the UK Government? No actual source is currently listed for it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:31, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I cannot remember where I got this one from. He was a local government official at the time. Dormskirk (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Wicklow Market Square 2016 09 16 (cropped).jpg

Hi Dormskirk, you've uploaded this badly made crop which is derived from File:Wicklow Market Square 2016 09 16.jpg and you are claiming that this has been released in the public domain by using the {{PD-user}} license template. You are thereby violating my rights as photographer of the original. What were you thinking? Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 17:51, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Sincere apologies. Entirely my mistake. I have adjusted the licence. Please feel free to adjust it further. I was looking for a good photo to illustrate the Wicklow article. Dormskirk (talk) 17:58, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dormskirk, thanks for fixing the license. I've now uploaded a better crop. You should never downsize the images when cropping. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 06:06, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi - That's great. The new crop looks much better - it includes the statue as well. Many thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 09:44, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

@Dormskirk: This seems to be a long-standing issue: it seems that whatever script you’re using to populate the info of the cropped images is automatically setting the licence of the cropped version to PD-user. There must be hundreds/thousands of instances of this -- going all the way back to File:57 High West Street, Dorchester.jpg in 2017 and still ongoing as of 30th November with File:Rafter Street, Enniscorthy - geograph.org.uk - 3645888 (cropped).jpg. This is going to be too much of a job to fix manually: are you able to set up a script to fix this issue on all your uploads please? Dogfennydd (talk) 15:10, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for alerting me to this. I will probably have to make the changes manually. Dormskirk (talk) 15:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks -- though that sounds like a lot of work! You may be able to get some scripting help or other ideas to speed up the process from COM:VPT? Dogfennydd (talk) 15:44, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

I am on the case - I can see the issue - it will take some time but I will sort it out. Dormskirk (talk) 16:38, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

OK, no worries -- thanks. Dogfennydd (talk) 17:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi - I have gone through my uploads and found 135 images where I needed to change the licence; please let me know if you come across any that I have missed. Apologies for getting it wrong in the first place. Dormskirk (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

OK, that’s much fewer than I thought there would be! Thanks for going through all that. Dogfennydd (talk) 20:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

No problem. It has been a useful learning exercise from my perspective. Thanks, Dormskirk (talk) 20:09, 4 December 2023 (UTC)