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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Emw!

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:

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For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

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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.

BotMultichillT 05:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Michael Graham 2-17-2009.jpg is uncategorized since 23 February 2009. BotMultichillT 05:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
• Image:PBB Protein FOXP2 image 2.png was uncategorized on 15 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein ACD PDB 2i46.png was uncategorized on 23 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein HSD11B1 PDB 1xu7.png was uncategorized on 23 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein ITK PDB 1lui no fog.png was uncategorized on 27 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein FOXP2 PDB 2a07 3.png was uncategorized on 27 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein random4 PDB 2a07.png was uncategorized on 27 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein FOXP2 PDB 2a07.png was uncategorized on 27 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Protein HSD11B1 PDB 1xu7 no fog.png was uncategorized on 27 November 2009 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Log cabin damaged by 2011 tornado; Brimfield, MA.jpg was uncategorized on 10 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:52, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Quincy High School; Quincy, MA; main entrance; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Quincy High School; Quincy, MA; north side; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Quincy High School; Quincy, MA; west (back) side.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Quincy High School Automotive Technology Shop; Quincy, MA; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:The Fours Bar and Grille; Quincy, MA; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Quincy High School; Quincy, MA; viewed from Newcomb Street; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Mount Wollaston Cemetary; Quincy, MA; east side; 2011-06-05.JPG was uncategorized on 14 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Dedication plaque of Lowell Memorial Auditorium; Lowell, MA; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 29 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Smith Baker Center (formerly, First Congregational Church); Lowell, MA; north (front) and west sides; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 29 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Dedication plaque of 1984 renovation of Lowell Memorial Auditorium; Lowell, MA; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 29 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Smith Baker Center (formerly, First Congregational Church); Lowell, MA; east and north (front) sides; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 29 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:23, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Lowell Fire Department, JFK Civic Center fire station; Lowell, MA; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 30 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:30, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Rogers Cannon between City Hall and Memorial Library; Lowell MA; west side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Anne's Episcopal Church; Lowell, MA; south (front) side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Rogers Cannon between City Hall and Memorial Library; Lowell MA; south side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Anne's Episcopal Church; Lowell, MA; west side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Anne's Episcopal Church; Lowell, MA; east side of chapel; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Lowell Police Department station in JFK Civic Center; Lowell, MA.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Rogers Cannon between City Hall and Memorial Library; Lowell MA; east side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Anne's Episcopal Church; Lowell, MA; east side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Rogers Cannon between City Hall and Memorial Library; Lowell MA; north side; 2011-08-20.JPG was uncategorized on 1 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Replica of Merrimack Street depot front arches; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-03.JPG was uncategorized on 23 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:48, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Concord River Greenway Park trail southern terminus; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 4 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Margaret's School; east (back) and north sides; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Margaret's School; south and west (front) side; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Saint Margaret's School main entrance; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Shaw Stocking Company north mill; west and south sides; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Shaw Stocking Company north mill; north and west sides; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Shaw Stocking Company south and north mill; looking from east; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Security Station No. 3; Lowell, MA; 2011-12-08.JPG was uncategorized on 1 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:55, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Your votes for POTY

Hi Emw2012. You could vote only for one image in the final round. Could you please select this one and strike out your votes from the others. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Source of File:Hiv-timecourse.png

The image was found in the article HIV first uploaded by en:User:Guanaco. Jurema Oliveira (talk) 20:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

PDB files

Hi Emw,

I greatly appreciate your contributions on the HSP90 isoform images :)

I was wondering if it would be possible for me to acquire these .pdb files.

Would be greatly appreciated,

Bioinformatisist

Could you please email them to me on gmkiller188@gmail.com if possible.

Please see here for my reply. Emw (talk) 15:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Preparing for library day!

Let's plan what sorts of images we expect to have, and let some relevant commons and wp projects know so that they can keep an eye out for our uploads as they come in... --SJ+ 07:33, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure File:Protein CREBBP PDB 1f81.png is disputed

Dispute notification

The chemical structure File:Protein CREBBP PDB 1f81.png you uploaded has been tagged as disputed and is now listed in Category:Disputed chemical diagrams. Files in this category are deleted after one month if there is no upload of a corrected version and if there is no objection from the uploader or other users. Please discuss on the file talk page if you feel that the dispute is inappropriate. If you agree with the dispute, you can either upload a corrected version or simply allow the file to be deleted. In all cases, please do not take the dispute personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! --Ayacop (talk) 19:15, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

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Hello, there is a de-flag proposal at Commons:Bots/Requests/de-flag which affects your bot. Regards --Steinsplitter (talk) 22:42, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

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JuTa 20:47, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added licenses. Emw (talk) 23:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

File:Grant plaque for Jackson Street and Canal Street Bridge Improvements; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-09.JPG

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File:Iglesia Arca de Refugio sign; Lowell, MA; 2012-05-19.JPG

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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]

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Lawrence station

Hey, I just saw that you created Category:McGovern Transportation Center. Would you mind if I merged it with Category:Lawrence (MBTA station)? Since the 'Transportation Center' is essentially nothing more than a parking garage for the train stations - only two MVRTA routes stop there - it doesn't seem worthwhile to have two separate categories. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Pi.1415926535, I created the category because McGovern Center is one of several historical Lawrence stations, and has features not shared with those other stations. Categorizing particular entities like the former enables more efficient management and use of properties ("Built in Massachusetts in 2005", "Parking garages in Massachusetts", etc.) than doing so on an image-by-image basis.

On the other hand, that approach makes discovery of images when coming in from Wikipedia slightly more difficult: users must expend more effort in navigating to images they might expect to find in the broader category. I'll leave the decision to you. If you remove Category:McGovern Transportation Center, please be sure all the categories applied on that page are moved to each of the images. Cheers, Emw (talk) 01:21, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

My tack for MBTA stations, and this has precedent for other stations in Commons, is that the currently operating station should be the top-level category, with older stations in subcategories with their own dates &c. The categories you mentioned will both go on there. I'd previously left the older stations in that same category because there weren't many images of them, but I think I have some photos I took of the previous station that would make it worthy of its own subcategory. That solves both the categorization and the finding-images problems. Unless you have objections, I'll implement that scheme. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:10, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good to me! Emw (talk) 01:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, and done. I've uploaded a few of my personal shots; more shall come later. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

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The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear Emw,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

• In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
• In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

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File:Homologous recombination 3cmt.png

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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!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Real Life Barnstar
	Hey I found your picture of the MVHA, I'm guessing you're a bit younger than me. I remember when the new building was built and how exciting it was that in Nursery 4 we got to move into a nice bigger room. Saxophonemn (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Saxophonemn! A major goal in my photographic surveys is to preserve memory of local places like the Merrimack Valley Hebrew Academy. I've uploaded and annotated over 700 of my photographs of Lowell. Although many require zooming to see due to density, those 700+ photos of Lowell are viewable on a map. Emw (talk) 03:07, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Permission to use images

Hello there! I am a student working on a short presentation about the protein ferritin. I would like to ask your permission to use the images you contributed to the "Ferritin Light Chain" and "Ferritin Heavy Chain" pages.

If you agree, is there any specific way you would like me to cite the images in my references section?

Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pill359 (talk • contribs) 06:15, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Pill359, yes, feel free, just mention my username, Emw, and the license, CC BY-SA 3.0. Although images licensed under CC BY-SA require attributing the author and sharing under the same or similar license, you don't need to ask permission to use such images. Details: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protein_FTH1_PDB_1fha.png#Licensing. That said, it's good to know the images are useful! Cheers, Emw (talk) 23:55, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

File:Wikipedia takes boston.svg

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Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

File:ChimericMouseWithPups.jpg

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80.138.17.109 10:08, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Probably, this is not an image of a single beta-chain. What would be the right name? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2003:E4:D3D8:1200:9062:55BC:7F36:1E2F (talk) 09:20, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2017 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2017 Picture of the Year contest, but not yet in R2.

Dear Emw,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2017 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the twelfth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2017) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1475 candidate images. There are 58 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top 2 from each sub-category.

In the final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2017.

Round 2 will end on 22 July 2018, 23:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now!

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the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee 11:32, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

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A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

• To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
• To perform file name swaps.
• When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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Dear Wikimedian,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2022 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the seventeenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2022) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the two most popular images in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just three images to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 1 will end on 1 May 2023, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now!

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the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you voted in Round 1 of the 2022 Picture of the Year contest, but not yet in the second round. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2022) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2022.

Round 2 will end at 18 May 2023, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now!

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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File:Lincoln Elementary School; west side; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.JPG

File:Lincoln Elementary School; west side; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.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!

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