Wipsenade
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How did you manage to clean this up? You weren't the original uploader, yet you produced a much better quality image which actually was a wider angle... -mattbuck (Talk) 16:37, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Because I was both the owner of the original and also the original uploaded under a different name since I thought someone had hacked my Wikipedia account and had got my password (I have had no security trouble since renaming). I have the picture on a CD and as a photo. I have several more from London, Oxon and Berkshire if you want them.Wipsenade (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
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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) 13:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Thames Trains at Banbury in 2000.JPG was uncategorized on 28 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:King's Suttom Foot and Mouth notice (3).JPG was uncategorized on 28 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Thames Trains at Paddington in 2000.JPG was uncategorized on 28 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Borstal, Buckinghamshire.JPG was uncategorized on 2 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:38, 3 February 2012 (UTC)