Metaprotege

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 08:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope

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Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content, User:Metaprotege, 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.

 

This is not a social media site. --Achim (talk) 11:19, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you kindly Achim. I was unaware of the terms of agreement. It is a very particularly confusing site for my brain. There are rules I wouldn’t have known had existed had you not have told me. Thank you kindly. Where do you think I would fit in? Wikibooks, maybe? Actually. Maybe everything except wiki commons. I do terribly apologize. Metaprotege (talk) 16:58, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Also? What should I put in my own talk page? Metaprotege (talk) 16:59, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

User pages are for people who contribute to our projects. By now you didn't do so. You know what an Encyclopedia is? Fine, try to improve our projects. --Achim (talk) 18:14, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you kindly for explaining these terms to me. 172.11.251.10 21:11, 4 February 2020 (UTC)