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Tip: Categorizing images edit
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 05:58, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Brighelli1.JPG is uncategorized since 23 July 2009.
File:Lepage_Parlement_Europeen.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Teofilo (talk) 09:11, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- Merci pour l'invitation : je n'ai pas pu intervenir puisque l'image a été supprimée 1h30 plus tard ! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lepage_Parlement_Europeen.jpg
- Je ne comprends pas pourquoi cette image a été supprimée alors qu'elle n'enfreint en rien l'avis juridique présent sur le site du parlement européen, et qui autorise l'usage de ses documents pour tout objectif "non commercial" : son usage sur wikipedia n'a justement absolument pas d'objectif commercial !
- In Arcadia (talk) 19:02, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, meaning that they may be used by anyone for any purpose, including commercial use and the publication of derivative works. This also means that anything released under NC or ND licenses are not allowed on here. See Commons:Project scope for more information--Tarawneh (talk) 20:04, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks Tarawneh, I realised meanwhile I was wrong and posted a new message on your talk page. It's nice to have given to me this explanation so quickly. Best regards,
- In Arcadia (talk) 20:30, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- Anytime --Tarawneh (talk) 22:07, 26 December 2009 (UTC)