User talk:AlphaEta/Archive

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Deleted contents[edit]

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Hello AlphaEta/Archive,

the following content you uploaded is not free and therefore had to be deleted:

Image:Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr.jpg

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files which can be used for any purpose, including:

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Please make sure that you only upload works you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial to understanding how the Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions. --Davepape 19:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tip: Categorizing images[edit]

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Hello, AlphaEta!
Tip: Add categories to your files
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.

BotMultichillT 06:42, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Worlds tallest buildings, 1884.jpg[edit]

Hi,

I took the liberty of transcribing the table on Worlds tallest buildings, 1884.jpg --Vera (talk) 12:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fort Lachine.jpg[edit]

I count at least five Admins and one busy non-Admin whom you asked to weigh in on this discussion.

WP:EN and others have an explicit rule against soliciting comments on DRs. We don't have such a rule, but it is certainly not our usual practice.

We are all busy people. Commons Admins make about 1,400 Admin actions per day, mostly deletions. Three quarters of those are done by ten of us, and that ten includes four of those you solicited. We have better things to do than weigh in on DRs where competent colleagues have already opined.

While I understand your concern over your role in uploading a copyvio, please remember that we have over 12,000,000 files on Commons. My best guess is that 1% of them -- more than 100,000 --- have copyright problems. While I fully believe in our policy of rigorously enforcing copyright rules as set forth at Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle, I cannot imagine anyone complaining about your image -- it is, after all, from a 1927 book and is (c) in the USA -- and only the USA -- because of a law that very few people understand.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:24, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize if my request for help was inappropriate. I truly do appreciate the work of the Commons administrators and hope I haven't been too much of a pest. I'm trying to do the right thing by bringing this issue to light, and my unfamiliarity with the deletion process has perhaps led me to be a bit too overzealous soliciting comments. Thanks for letting me know that this is not common practice. I will cease to do so in the future. --AlphaEta (talk) 17:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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