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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, ThunderSkunk!
 
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.

EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:19, 17 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

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Please use SVG
Thank you for uploading some images! Did you know that Wikimedia Commons recommends the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format for certain types of images? Scalable Vector Graphics are designed to look appropriate at any scale, and SVG images are easier to modify and translate, helping Wikimedia to distribute knowledge to all of the world. A lot of modern programs support SVG export. If you encountered problems or have questions, don't hesitate to ask me, a member of the Graphic Lab, or the Graphics village pump. Uploading images in SVG format isn't mandatory, but it would help. (To avoid any misunderstandings, please don't just put raster images into an SVG container as embedded raster.) Thanks, and happy editing!

EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:19, 17 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

File:Beta-Nitrostyrene's Chemical Structure.svg

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File:Beta-Nitrostyrene's Chemical Structure.svg 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.

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Yikrazuul (talk) 19:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.jpg

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File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.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.

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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!

Leyo 22:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi ThunderSkunk. Please read the page above. It will help you to create correct vector images of chemical structures. All the SVG files you have uploaded so far are just wrappers of pixel images and will thus eventually deleted. --Leyo 22:14, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply


To be honest I don't understand the technology. I thought just importing the images into Inkscape and saving it as an .SVG gave the benefits people were after. Guess I was wrong... Should I be using something like FileFormat.info or SVGConv instead?

Images that are vector can be rendered at any resolution, so an original SVG can become any size PNG. But a raster, such as PNG, can only be scaled as a bitmap (simple fraction reductions look fine, but other reductions might not and enlargements look progressively more jagged). Uploading high-quality PNG is fine if that's what your originals are...the MOS that Leyo linked discusses the various diagram standards. DMacks (talk) 22:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Another goal of the MOS is consistency, so that images don't have details that look like carelessness, mistakes, or confusion (especially to non-chemists who don't know what details "matter" vs what are just arbitrary choices of diagram style). For example, File:Partial hydrogenation of a nitrostyrene to an alkene hydroxylamine.svg uses different fonts and types of subscripts in different parts of the same diagram. DMacks (talk) 10:19, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:Knoevenagel condensation of furfural.svg

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File:Knoevenagel condensation of furfural.svg 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!

DMacks (talk) 09:43, 20 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Updated this file to be a true .svg file type. On a side note, why the heck does the text in my browser (firefox) for these images reformat itself so wildly from my editors (Inksscape of Adobe Illustrator CS6)?

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.jpg is disputed

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Dispute notification The chemical structure File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.jpg you uploaded has been tagged as disputed and is now listed in Category:Disputed chemical diagrams. Files in this category are deleted after one month if there is no upload of a corrected version and if there is no objection from the uploader or other users. Please discuss on the file talk page if you feel that the dispute is inappropriate. If you agree with the dispute, you can either upload a corrected version or simply allow the file to be deleted.

In all cases, please do not take the dispute personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! --Leyo 12:56, 26 January 2014 (UTC)Reply


PS. The same criticism applies to File:AdiponitrileSynthesis.png. --Leyo 12:56, 26 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Also, the formula of ammonium sulfate in File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.jpg is factually incorrect. DMacks (talk) 02:59, 27 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

I see the mistakes I made now. I drew a new file in .svg format to fix the error. ...File:Electrosynthetic reduction of a nitrile.svg

File:Knoevenagel condensation of furfural.svg

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File:Knoevenagel condensation of furfural.svg 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!

DMacks (talk) 12:08, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:Electrolytic Amine Reduction.jpg

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DMacks (talk) 12:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

 
File:Electrochemical Synthesis of Glyoxylic acid from Oxalic Acid.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.

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DMacks (talk) 05:23, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:Allyl Iodide's Structure.jpeg

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Leyo 12:55, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

 
 

The SVG image Partial hydrogenation of a nitrostyrene to an alkene hydroxylamine.svg you uploaded contains embedded raster graphics[1] and is now listed in Category:SVG images with embedded raster graphics. Such images are liable to produce inferior results when scaled to different sizes. If appropriate, please replace the raster graphics with vector graphics. You can either upload an improved version or simply allow the file to be deleted. In all cases, please do not take this message personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

 
 

The SVG image Hydrogenation of a nitrostyrene to a primary amine.svg you uploaded contains embedded raster graphics[2] and is now listed in Category:SVG images with embedded raster graphics. Such images are liable to produce inferior results when scaled to different sizes. If appropriate, please replace the raster graphics with vector graphics. You can either upload an improved version or simply allow the file to be deleted. In all cases, please do not take this message personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

 
 

The SVG image Direct nitration of styrene with alumina catalyst.svg you uploaded contains embedded raster graphics[3] and is now listed in Category:SVG images with embedded raster graphics. Such images are liable to produce inferior results when scaled to different sizes. If appropriate, please replace the raster graphics with vector graphics. You can either upload an improved version or simply allow the file to be deleted. In all cases, please do not take this message personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, Storkk (talk) 12:56, 1 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Notification about possible deletion

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Regards, Marbletan (talk) 19:00, 30 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

File:3,4,5-Trimethoxybenzaldehyde's Structure.jpg

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DMacks (talk) 07:33, 12 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

File:3,4-Methylenedioxypropiophenone.png

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DMacks (talk) 07:35, 12 May 2023 (UTC)Reply