Smerus
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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.BotMultichillT 06:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Valentinsilvestrov.JPG is uncategorized since 11 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Greatsynagogue.JPG is uncategorized since 8 July 2009.
- Image:Nelsonmountainsylph.gif is uncategorized since 19 July 2009.
- Image:Fanelli.jpg was uncategorized on 7 September 2009.
- Image:Stradella act III.jpg was uncategorized on 14 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:L'etoile de seville act 1 design charles cambon.jpg was uncategorized on 15 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:33, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Stolz as Stuart, after Lormier, 1844.jpg was uncategorized on 29 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Title page of libretto opera 'Melnik, koldun', obmanshchik, cvyat' ' (1792).jpg was uncategorized on 7 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:44, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Describe what it is about in a short sentence. (What does the image show?)
- State the author and the date of creation. If you made it yourself, say so explicitly. If it is from another Wikimedia user, link to the person's local user page. Best to use CommonsHelper.
- If you did not create the file yourself, state the source you got it from.
- Add a copyright tag - images without an appropriate license tag will be deleted.
- Add the image to one or more gallery pages and/or appropriate categories, so it can be found by others. To find out where an image belongs, you can use CommonsSense.
If you copied the file from another wiki, please copy all information given there and say who uploaded it to that wiki. Use CommonsHelper.
It is recommended to use Template:Information to put that information on the description page. Have a look at Template talk:Information for details of the use of this template.
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.
Please add as much information as possible. If there is not sufficient information, the file may have to be deleted. For more information, follow the Commons:First steps guide. If you need help or have questions, please ask at the Help desk.
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 13:40, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Stradella print
editHi Smerus, Did you scan File:Stradella act III.jpg from Hibberd's book? If so we can put that in the source field. --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:40, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- yes it came from there ultimately, i will add--Smerus (talk) 09:58, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- Just want to point out that lack of a source is sufficient reason for a file to be deleted 7 days after Template:No source since is added (see Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion). --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:17, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Mirobolant
editWhy move File:Mirobolant.JPG (Lazzarone) from Category:Operas by Halévy to Category:Robert le Diable (opera)? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:58, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
File tagging File:Henk de Vlieger.png
editThis media was probably deleted.
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Thanks for uploading File:Henk de Vlieger.png. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT ([email protected]). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case.
Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:Henk de Vlieger.png]] ) and the above demanded information in your request. |
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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. |
Trade marks 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! |