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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 (talk) 06:10, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- Image:Distribution.jpg is uncategorized since 26 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:10, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- Image:NAMOSBC.jpg is uncategorized since 3 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:AMMASubSpdist.jpg is uncategorized since 6 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:16, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:LTSUnder.jpg is uncategorized since 6 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:16, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:NAMOSBC2.jpg is uncategorized since 7 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Ambystoma phylogeny.jpg is uncategorized since 7 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:MEAConservationStrategies.jpg is uncategorized since 8 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:21, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Salamander FoodWeb.jpg was uncategorized on 10 September 2009.
Thanks
editHi Thompsma,
many thanks for your contributions :-) It's always nice to see experienced authors (experienced on a specific subject) adding new content to species pages on Wikipedia and here on Commons :-)
Yes, this is not an automated bot notification (as the two ones above), this is a message by a human being *g* Well, I'm leaving you this short note just to thank you and to tell you about Category:Ambystoma macrodactylum – you can easily add [[Category:Ambystoma macrodactylum]] directly when you upload new files, and they'll automatically appear on the appropriate category page then. If a species' category doesn't exist yet, you can simply use higher taxa in the majority of cases. For more info on biological content around here, see Commons:WikiProject Tree of Life.
Greetings --:bdk: 03:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
File deletion warning | File:BioResearchPlots.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. 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. |
Thompsma (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Thompsma, in such cases as the above you can simply use {{speedydelete|Reason}}, that's less complicated ;-) --:bdk: 14:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Image deletion warning | Image:FragmentatioBC Forestry.JPG has been marked as violating policy, because it is considered unfree. This image has been, or will be soon deleted. The image is licensed under a license that does not permit unlimited redistribution, commercial use or the creation of derivative works. Wikimedia Commons is a free image repository, which means that unlimited redistribution, commercial use and the creation of derivative work must be allowed. See Commons:Licensing for more information. If you want to ask permission from the author of the image, please do so using a template from Commons:Email templates. For images, you may find it useful to read Commons:Image casebook.
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Files you uploaded may be deleted
editThe files listed below, which you uploaded, have been tagged {{OTRS pending}} for more than 30 days. This tag indicates that an email setting out permission to use the file was sent to the OTRS team. Unfortunately, we cannot find any record that such an email has been received, and accordingly the file remains without permission. Unless the OTRS team receives evidence that permission has been granted within 15 days of today's date, the file will be deleted. If you have already sent the permission, please re-send it to "permissions-commons wikimedia.org" now. Please quote the file name in your email. At the same time, please leave a message at the OTRS noticeboard so that a volunteer can follow this up. Alternatively, you can contact an OTRS volunteer directly. Please note that this message is being left by an automated bot, whose operator is not an OTRS volunteer, therefore please do not send this information to me, as it will not save your images from deletion. Thanks for your time! Please help translate this message! HersfoldOTRSBot(talk/opt out) 21:45, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Trophic.jpg
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A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Trophic.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file (
[[:File:Trophic.jpg]] ).
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Masur (talk) 07:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- it's a derivative work - you used some other pictures, so you need to point your sources and their licenses. All components need to be free. Masur (talk) 07:03, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- And again. This is a montage of various images created by other people. If you reuse someone else work it is self evident that you make sure that the copyright holder allows free reuse and that you provide a source and attribute the original creator. In fact most freely licensed images have an attribtion requirement, otherwise the reuse is a breach of the free license and a copyright violation. You said you will fix this problem and I undeleted the image. That was 2 months ago, nothing happend, the file is still labeled as beeing 'entirely your work'. Its now deleted a second time. If you want to have it restored please provide a list of all sources and authors, I will not wait a second time to have this added post undeletion. --Martin H. (talk) 22:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
File tagging File:NAMOSBC2.jpg
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Thanks for uploading File:NAMOSBC2.jpg. 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 (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). 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:NAMOSBC2.jpg]] ) and the above demanded information in your request. |
Notification about possible deletion
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Yours sincerely Vera (talk) 22:25, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
File:NAMOSBC2.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.
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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File:NAMOSBC.jpg 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.
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