Polk540

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Polk540!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Polk540!

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) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Auburn Logo 9000 Facade 2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn Tigers 500 building.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn Tigers 500 Building Hallway.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn 9000 Building Entry 2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn 9000 Building Hallway.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn Logo 9000 Building.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn 9000 Building Facade.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Auburn 9000 Building Entry.jpg was uncategorized on 6 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
• Image:AHS 800 Auburn High School letters.jpg was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

File:AL-YoussefBiaz4atFinals-PhotoJamesKegley.jpg

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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 please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --Nikbot 23:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Robert Gibbs.jpeg

File:Robert Gibbs.jpeg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Teofilo (talk) 23:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Categorizing categories

Thanks for your new contributions! I noticed that you have added a few new categories. "Parent" category names are added to new categories just like they are added to files: go to the file/category you want to put inside another category, and then add the [[Category:]] tags for the categories you want that one to be inside of. For example, in the text for Category:Winter in Auburn High School (which is going inside other categories), the following lines would be added for "parent" categories:

[[Category:Auburn High School (Alabama)]]
[[Category:Winter in Alabama]]

or, if you plan on making a category for other winter images in the town of Auburn, maybe

[[Category:Winter in Auburn, Alabama]]

I've already made some of the changes for you. Also, you may want to consider using "at" Auburn High School instead of "in" Auburn High School unless "in" is the normal way people speak of the campus. Thanks for your help! --Closeapple (talk) 00:38, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Category:Student_Activities_Center

Category:Student_Activities_Center 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!

Mjrmtg (talk) 16:25, 16 December 2012 (UTC)