Etan Doronne

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Etan Doronne!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Etan Doronne!

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) 10:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Nose double piercing Both women nostrils Desi Indian girl Tamilnadu Traditional village dress Jpg photo Tamil feature story Etan Doronne Myindiaexperience.jpg was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Tricycle Tamilnadu India - Market porter - Goods Carrier - commercial vehicle - Desi locally made three wheeler - Photo Image picture - Etan Doronne - www.myindiaexperience.com - IMG 2306.JPG was uncategorized on 29 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:11, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope

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Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content, User:Etan Doronne, was recently deleted, or will soon be deleted, in accordance with our process and policies, because it was not, or is not, within our scope. Please review our project scope, but in short, Commons is targeted at educational media files including photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text and video clips. The expression “educational” is to be understood according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge; instructional or informative”. Wikimedia Commons does not contain text articles like encyclopedia articles, textbooks, news, word definitions and such. Each of these other kinds of content have their own projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquote. If the content seems to fit the scope of one of those other projects, please consider contributing it there. Otherwise, consider an alternative outlet. If you think that the deletion was in error because the contribution really was in scope, you can appeal it at Commons:Undeletion requests, giving a reason why it fits our scope to help others evaluate the matter. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:33, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

You were advertising for people to visit your website I think? That is out of scope - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:04, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

BTW the watermarks are not really appreciated on here either - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:22, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

The text on your page (Now sharing my notebook, stories, photos and videos here, on my blog and also touring the USA with 'My India - Where every village is home', a no-charge public program. You all are welcome to enjoy and contact with any comments & questions.) is seeking to promote both your website and the tour website and that is the fundamental problem.

Commons is here to host educationally useful images, freely licensed, for use elsewhere. Your images are pretty small and watermarked and seem to be here to promote your tour rather than anything else.

Can you please sign your posts in future too - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)