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File:G20 world leaders.png

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--Gump Stump (talk) 16:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

File:Ashoka.gif

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 15:57, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

File:Graph of Kindle Prices.png

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 21:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Percentage of World Population Urban Rural.PNG

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 18:19, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for uploading Image:Percentage of World Population Urban Rural.PNG, however the license that you have uploaded it under has been deprecated. Please could you select a new free license that describes the rights of the image correctly? If you are not able to do this, the image will be deleted in 7 days.

For more information on licenses that can be used on Wikimedia Commons, please see Commons:Licensing. If you have any questions, please ask at the village pump. Thank you for your patience and consideration. This is an automatic message by Nikbot.--Filnik 18:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Tennis_Grand_Slam_Calendar.png

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undefined Otourly (talk) 18:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Well the template is released under CC-BY-SA 2.5 and GFDL. and should give the link to this template. Otourly (talk) 19:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Taylorluker~commonswiki!

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) 11:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Image:Graph Kindle Prices.png was uncategorized on 31 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Image:NYC Area Codes.PNG was uncategorized on 14 March 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:51, 15 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:Republican Presidential Primaries 2012.png was uncategorized on 24 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Party composition of Senate and House of Representatives

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.PNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives.PNG

The graphs show a number of errors: Taft was a Republican, not a Democrat. The Senate was Democrat all through the Reagan years. The President colours are wrong from 1889 to 1897.

218.186.8.253 12:20, 5 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

[1] - You indeed have the Presidents wrong. Tuckerresearch (talk) 06:19, 21 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

And etc... Tuckerresearch (talk) 19:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
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Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

05:46, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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