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-MBisanz talk 05:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Better move it to :en. --Túrelio (talk) 07:45, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
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--CarbonCaribou (talk) 20:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Extra: To cut a long story short, this doesn't seem to be free (by Wikimedia Commons' rules). Your tag saying that it was so old the copyright had expired was obviously misleading since you yourself gave the date as 1983. Your permissions ("Historical, public, available") aren't valid reasons for assuming it's public domain either.
Yeah, it's an old image, the company is long gone and no-one probably cares about it being used (assuming they even know who owns the "copyright"). That probably makes it "fair use" and you can upload it to the Wikipedias under that justification- but you can't upload it here unless it's clearly free. CarbonCaribou (talk) 20:35, 3 November 2008 (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.
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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) 10:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Jupiter ACE (restored).JPG was uncategorized on 18 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)