G.lawrence96

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 22:50, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Further uploads

Kia ora. Are you doing any further uploads? If so, please respond (here's good). Schwede66 21:36, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, we are not doing any more uploads currently. You can find everything through the Photography and Art section through this link here: https://archives.govt.nz/search-the-archive/what-we-have/whats-been-digitised.

Thanks for your response. The reason I'm asking is that your approach to categorisation is unfortunately wrong. That's not uncommon for new users and if you do further uploads, please be in touch beforehand and I can either point you to some documentation, or give some guidance, or both. Schwede66 02:32, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Schwede66, would you be able to expand on how it is incorrect? Cheers.

Sure. Take your latest upload, for example: File:Horseshoe Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.jpg. You've added it to the category:New Zealand. When you look on that category page, though, you will find this note: "This is a main category requiring frequent diffusion and maybe maintenance. As many pictures and media files as possible should be moved into appropriate subcategories." The categorisation system is hierarchical and files should be in the most specific category (or categories) as possible. The top part of this page explains this in more detail.

One way to figure out where the item should go is to start on the category:New Zealand page and follow the category tree: → Geography of New Zealand → Bodies of water of New Zealand → Bays of New Zealand → Bays of New Zealand by region → Bays of Gisborne Region → Wharekahika / Hicks Bay. And yes, in order to find the right spot, you would have had to do a bit of research and looked up where Horseshoe Bay actually is (and you would have found that it's no longer called that but is now known as Onepoto). The region description in the NatLib file names can also be confusing because this does not refer to the current regional authorities, but to the survey region (and those have completely different boundaries to the regional councils or even the old provinces). If you'd just placed the file into "Bays of New Zealand" without doing the further research, that would have been hugely better than just "New Zealand". Often, files belong into more than one category, e.g. geographic items should say what they are (e.g. "bays of New Zealand") and where they are (in this case, "Gisborne Region", but "Wharekahika / Hicks Bay" is already a subcategory to that one).

The whole process isn't entirely straightforward and it doesn't matter if you make some mistakes. If something's not clear, please ask (now, or going forward). And by the way, you "sign" your posts on talk pages with four tildes (like so: ~~~~) and that will create a signature and time stamp. Schwede66 18:18, 12 October 2020 (UTC)