EricS
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Hi Eric,
unfortunately I have to nominate this image as a possible copyright violation. It looks like a direct copy of http://www.salewa.com/index2.html.
If you have permission for its unrestricted use from the company and its author, please state so at the image description.
Teun Spaans 20:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi. I would like to licence it under "Threshold of originality". The German Helpfile explains, that company logos can be licend under T.o.o. Example: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:BMW_logo.png Can you help me? --EricS 20:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Got it. "Threshold of originality" is only allowed in the German Wikipedia.--EricS 21:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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.BotMultichillT 12:29, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Eberl1.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
Your account will be renamed
editHello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called EricS. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name EricS~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
20:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!
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