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-- Bryan (talk to me) 17:03, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:Orange_flower0002.JPG edit

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Hello, and thank your for sharing your files with Commons. There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. Please remember that all uploads require source, author and license information. Could you please resolve these problems, which are described on the page linked in above? Thank you. Siebrand 14:28, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
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Image:Jasmine_0003.JPG edit

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Hello, and thank your for sharing your files with Commons. There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. Please remember that all uploads require source, author and license information. Could you please resolve these problems, which are described on the page linked in above? Thank you. Siebrand 14:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
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Welcome edit

Hello, welcome to commons. I have adapted a few of your items as exemples of how you may improve upload info and categories. Havang 15:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

You should find the items I adapted in your my watchlist, see upper line of the wikiscreen; or you see them looking at your my contributions, those who have no (top) have been edited after you did. To help you find them, I'll make a list, after saving this message. Havang 10:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Blue links to the images, the comments of the summary lines are in black. Havang 10:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hello, another exemple I categorised, is Image:St.Philos church mysore.JPG. You may do the other church picture yourself. Up to now, all your pictures have got the tag about missing description. Open your gallery, look and see. So you should improve your descriptions: f.i.: St.Philos catholic church, Mysore, (eventually: Build in jear?). (eventually district or state Ka...???), India. (eventually: Historical monument).
Also for flowers: spider is hardly a description. spider, ca. 3 cm, found in Mysore, India is a minimum, biological classification is better. Without due information and classification, your images will get lost in the millions of other ones. Commons is not just uploading pictures, but uploading pictures to be used in articles in wikimedia's. f.i. at the page en:Mysore ? Good luck and much fun wiki-ing Havang 18:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:Anthurium 103.JPG edit

Hello Gagan, I removed category Anthurium from this picture because this is no Anthurium. It is a Spathiphyllum, maybe S. montanum, but I'm not really sure about species name. The pic is now placed in gallery Spathiphyllum. May I suggest to you to upload it again under the name "Spathiphyllum...." (and delete Anthurium 103.JPG), to avoid confusions caused by this wrong file name? Friendly greetings from Germany --Wildfeuer 15:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)Reply