User talk:TimBray
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Tip: Categorizing images[edit]
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 06:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Kris Krug at NV 2009.jpg is uncategorized since 23 February 2009. BotMultichillT 06:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Basic Multilingual Pane.png was uncategorized on 21 August 2009.
- Image:Unicode Codespace Layout.png was uncategorized on 21 August 2009.
- Image:Zed Shaw in Montreal in 2008.jpg was uncategorized on 31 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:43, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Sagrada Familia interior with staircase.jpg was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Sagrada Familia interior over altar.jpg was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Sagrada Familia looking up at ceiling.jpg was uncategorized on 26 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Aerial view of the Igarapé de Educandos (Scholars’ Creek) in Manuas, Amazonia, Brazil.jpg was uncategorized on 3 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Aerial view of the point of Porto Alegre extending into Guaíba Lake.jpg was uncategorized on 8 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Atsuo, drummer and singer with Boris.jpg was uncategorized on 13 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 22:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Wata, guitarist and singer with Boris.jpg was uncategorized on 13 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 22:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Meander River, Alberta, the trading post in 1956.jpg was uncategorized on 17 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 21:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Statue of the Goddess in the Guanyin hall of Jing ’an Temple, Shanghai.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Seated Buddha in the Precious Hall of the Great Hero, Jing ’an Temple, Shanghai.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:3.8-meter Jade Buddha in the Jade Buddha Hall of Jing ’an Temple, Shanghai.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:RUNE3523.jpg was uncategorized on 6 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Ingress screenshots[edit]
Hello,
The screenshots of Ingress-related material constituted a Google's copyright infringement, as they aren't published on a free license. I so deleted them.
Wikimedia Commons only allows work under public domain and open source licenses (with the exception of copyrighted Wikimedia stuff).
The goal of Wikimedia Commons is indeed to offer a free media repository, to serve informational and educative purposes. We want everybody willing to reuse our content for any use to be able to do so.
If you mainly uploaded these screenshots to illustrate the English Wikipedia articles, we could reupload them (I use we, as I can help you to reupload them there if you wish) according their fair use copyright exception policy.
Please review Commons:Licensing for more information. --Dereckson (talk) 15:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- The English Wikipedia uses a system of templates to identify fair use. As you link this file from a recent post of you blog, I reuploaded it on en. to the double purpose to avoid a 404 and show you a templates sample -> en:File:Ingress Intel Map full-screen.png. --Dereckson (talk) 15:42, 10 December 2012 (UTC)