Sandy Rae

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Sandy Rae!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Sandy Rae!

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]]

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Chrysogaster cemiteriorum (fem).jpg was uncategorized on 5 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Parhelophilus versicolor.jpg was uncategorized on 13 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Parhelophilus sp male.jpg was uncategorized on 13 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Riponnensia splendens male.jpg was uncategorized on 13 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Pipizella male.jpg was uncategorized on 27 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:42, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Melang.umbell fem.jpg was uncategorized on 29 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:00, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Lejogaster metallina.jpg was uncategorized on 31 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:02, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Macoma balthica (Baltic Tellin).jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Hyperaspis arrowi.jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:MeroObsc1.jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Phratora.jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:MeroObsc2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Callophrys rubi2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Melan.scal.male.JPG was uncategorized on 25 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:22, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Orthonevra.brevicornis.male4.JPG was uncategorized on 3 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:52, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Orthonevra.brevicornis.male1.JPG was uncategorized on 3 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:52, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Orthonevra.brevicornis.male3.JPG was uncategorized on 3 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:52, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Orthonevra.brevicornis.male2.JPG was uncategorized on 3 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:52, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Don't over-categorize

Hi Sandy Rae, please don't over-categorize your images. For instance in your File:Grandit.gif

• Category:Platycheirus granditarsus is ok,
• Category:Syrphidae is over-categorized,
• Category:Syrphinae is over-categorized,
• Category:Bacchini is over-categorized,
• Category:Pyrophaena is over-categorized and as the red link indicates doesn't work.

Read Commons:Categories and particularly paragraph Over-categorization for further informtion. Greetings, -- Ies (talk) 13:57, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks Les. I need to do a little editing I think! Sandy Rae (talk) 18:41, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

The same for File:Tropidia scita2.jpg:

• Category:Tropidia scita is perfect
• Category:Syrphidae, Category:Eristalinae, Category:Xylotini are over-categorizations

Donarreiskoffer (talk) 14:52, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello Sandy,
Welcome on wikicommons! We really need new wikibiologists, especially if you know insects ;-)
If you modify list of taxons (like here), you can also provide your sources. Use |source=<WellknowSource> or |ref=<Anything>.
If you have good online sources, I can add them to our list of WellknowSource and create templates to provide direct access to them.
Welcome again, cheers Liné1 (talk) 10:52, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Empty Galleries

Over the last two days, you've created a number of empty galleries:

• Andrena tarsata
• Anthophora alluaudi
• Beris vallata
• Bombus sylvestris
• Dischistus
• Nomada obtusifrons
• Oxycera dives
• Spogostylum
• Stratiomys potamida

Galleries without images are eligible for {{Speedy}} deletion. Since we see about 100 such pages every day, they will normally be blown away by New Page Patrols, who look at all new pages created by inexperienced editors.

Since you have given us some simply wonderful images, I decided to ask what your intentions were. If these are simply mistakes -- you intended to create a new Category -- just leave a note below and I will blow them away. When you make this mistake, it helps the Admins if you put a note on the page -- "Please delete, meant to create a Category" -- and don't worry about it -- we've all done it -- it probably happens five or ten times a day.

If you intend to populate them with images, then please either:

• put a note at the top of the page such as "Images coming shortly", or, better,
• create the new gallery in a user subpage (User:Sandy Rae/Sandbox1, for example) and then copy it to the gallery page when it has been populated. You create a user subpage just as any other page and they can be used for many things see, the bottom of User:Jameslwoodward for some examples.

Finally, please be careful to look over your work after you hit "Save page". At File:Neoascia meticulosa(fem).jpg, you had an equals sign (=) in the middle of the description template, which destroyed the template and left the file without a source or author. There was obviously a problem with the page, albeit one that was very subtle.

If you have questions, you may ask them at the Village Pump in any of 42 languages or on my talk page. I will also watch for questions here on your talk page for at least a week.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 13:57, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

• Hi Jim. I created the galleries for images I uploaded where categories for those genera or species apparently didn't yet exist. I'm afraid I'm still a bit of a novice and sometimes have difficulty tying up my uploaded images to the taxonomic framework. Sandy Rae (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I let them sit for a couple of days -- but I suspect you aren't here on a regular basis -- if you want any of them back, just ask. As a general rule, create categories first. Then, as a category grows large, you can create a gallery to show off the best images in the category.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 00:09, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. INeverCry 01:10, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

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레비Revi 03:57, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

• Delete it. I have tried and been unable to find the problem so I've uploaded another version instead. These are MY own photos on Flickr and I licensed them to be used on sites like this one. Sandy Rae (talk) 09:02, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

•  Comment: Problem already solved. You accidentally gave the wrong flickrlink originally and I added the right link here and ordered a new flickrreview. The flickrbot then passed the image. Case resolved. Regards and Goodnight from Canada where its 1:25 AM, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

• Goodnight and thank you! Sandy Rae (talk) 09:28, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
• You're welcome from Metro Vancouver, Canada. I'm signing off now. Goodbye, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:32, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Sacred_Mountains

Category:Sacred_Mountains has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:53, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Native_American_sites

Category:Native_American_sites has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:56, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

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Smooth O (talk) 14:09, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	For all your high quality and very detailed images of arthropods. Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:44, 8 November 2018 (UTC)