PatHadley

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, PatHadley!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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]]

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When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

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CategorizationBot (talk) 15:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

• Image:View from the site of Star Carr SE toward the Wolds..jpg was uncategorized on 26 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
• Image:View of Star Carr site looking NWW..jpg was uncategorized on 26 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Mount Pelee YORYM-TA0151.jpg

And also:

• File:Mount Pelee YORYM-TA0152.jpg
• File:Mount Pelee YORYM-TA0154.jpg

Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 04:09, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Templeborough Roman Fort visualised 3D flythrough - Rotherham.webm...

A great flythrough! Thanks for uploading it, Hchc2009 (talk) 18:42, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

File:Pyramid of the Sun YORYM TA2277.jpg

hi, nice image. hope you agree with my metadata cleanup. if you have only one image at a time, the old uploader will allow photograph template, and GWtoolset is the future, but not easy yet, i've been using Help:VisualFileChange.js to strip off the information template wrapper, as a batch process without using a bot, but it takes some tweaking. cheers Slowking4♡Farmbrough's revenge 16:35, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Slowking4. Thanks for tidying that one! I knew I'd miss something. We're all set to use GWToolset with the York Museums Trust collection but the files I needed weren't yet synchronised to the online collection! Soon we hope! Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 12:24, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Anubis Mask from Harrogate

Click the thumbnail in Chrome or Firefox, then move the mouse pointer around to rotate the mask

Hello PatHadley,

I'm amazed by the quality of your photography, especially those from GLAM! As I'm experimenting with Scalable Vector Graphics to see what it can do for Wikimedia, I'm creating a 3D object viewer and would like to use your Anubis mask from Harrogate. Would you happen to have a photograph taken from the rear but higher up? I could find all 8 cardinal directions at both elevations except for this shot.

Many thanks,
cmglee (talk) 01:30, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Cmglee: ! That's a great reuse of the Anubis Mask images! Unfortunately, I didn't take the images, they were taken a few years ago for an education project (link). In a classic example of unfortunate digital preservation issues, the digital 3D model of the mask has now been lost and those were the only photos the curator could find on the system! Sorry that means there's a gap in your lovely interactive! Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 12:39, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, Pat. That's a pity, but it's all right; I've used the overhead view for that position. Cheers, cmglee (talk) 12:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!

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Dear PatHadley,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

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Your VFC installation method is deprecated

Hello PatHadley, we are aware that using the old installation method of VFC (via common.js, which you are using) may not work reliably anymore and can break other scripts as well. A detailed explanation can be found here. Important: To prevent problems please remove the old VFC installation code from your common.js and instead enable the VFC gadget in your preferences. Thanks! --VFC devs (q) 16:23, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

File:Cover of Tristram Shandy Folio Society edition illustrated by John Lawrence.jpg

File:Cover of Tristram Shandy Folio Society edition illustrated by John Lawrence.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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Philafrenzy (talk) 07:02, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Category:Images from the Australian National Maritime Museum

Why are you deleting files out of Category:Images from the Australian National Maritime Museum? Broichmore (talk) 09:27, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

@Broichmore: I haven't deleted any :-) I've moved the images into a nested category Category:Arthur Thomas Wood in an effort to prevent over categorisation per Commons:Categories. But, because of Category:Images from the Australian National Maritime Museum being hidden you might not see it as clearly depending on your preferences? It's arguable whether collections of photographs as they exist in museums/archives are usefully reproduced on Commons. Feel free to change it back if you have a strong preference PatHadley (talk) 09:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I see what you mean, your certainly right as long as all of this photographer's portfolio is owned by only this one institution. It's my belief that this knd of category (created for attribution / source / ownership reasons, as opposed to where I got it from) pertains to individual images and not categories as such. Thats why its hidden to stop people meddling with it. I only know of one other photographer whose entire collection has only one owner. Broichmore (talk) 10:47, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Cool. Well there are several complete collections just in the ANMM collection (eg, File:10 footer CORNSTALK on Sydney Harbour (8005417364).jpg this from the Hall Collection). I think it's quite common for museums/archives to have entire collections donated to them. I guess the categorisation needs to be done pragmatically on how the images are likely to be used on Wikipedia. For the Arthur Thomas Wood example I think they can be added usefully to the articles on the ship and battles. To be honest I'm only doing a bit of casual organising and editing at the moment! I made the category move quite casually but now you've made me think about it! PatHadley (talk) 11:12, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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