User talk:Ling.Nut

Welcome to the Commons, Ling.Nut!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki - it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons. You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page, write this: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], it makes this: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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Yann 23:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:BoNM – Czech Republic.png

You uploaded this image which you claim to be your own work. On the upload page you agreed to place it under a Free license but did not specify which one. Please do so by replacing the {{OwnWork}} tag with a suitable copyright tag.

By the way, I suggest you to check your preferences page, and mark the E-mail me when my user talk page is changed.

Yuval Y § Chat § 00:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:BoNM – Czech1.png

Hello, I have created Image:BoNM – Czech1.png on the base of your Image:BoNM – Chile.png . All your images are nice, especially images concerning Czech republic, but both are rather order (first one seems as national order of white lion). Pls take a look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BoNM_-_Czech1.PNG and let me know your opinion. --Bohemianroots 11:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Help to new barnstar

Hi Ling.Nut. I've seen your Image:BarnstarGA.png and wonder if you could maybe make one alike in blue with this image in the middle instead? --CarinaT 20:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

my experience with uploading CC images from flickr

I saw your recent question about uploading CC images to the commons.

The mozilla firefox browser has some add-ons that make this easier. There is an add-on called "greasemonkey". If you add this on to your browser you can selectively run third-party scripts that alter the behavior of web-pages.

There are a bunch of scripts for flickr. I enabled one called "f2com button". If you enable it it adds a couple of buttons to those flickr pages that are appropriately liscensed to be used on the commons.

1. You click the "upload photo" and it opens a new tab with an filled out commons upload page.
2. You then click the "download file" to transfer the photo to your computer -- giving it a name appropriate for the commons.
3. You go to upload page, pick the file to upload -- the one you just gave a good name to
4. Then add appropriate categories -- forgive me if I am repeating something you already know -- each file should have at least one category
5. I don't know if you are aware there is a tag, {{Flickrreview}}, that calls for a robot or human volunteer to verify that the liscense the flickr uploader put on the image really was compatible with commons. flick2commons, and flinfo, both automatically put this tag on the images.

There are other ways to upload flickr images. I like this one because you know, right off the bat, that the image is properly liscensed.

I didn't use to do this, but for the last six months or so I always leave the original flickr uploader a note telling them that I uploaded the image to the commons. I started doing this for selfish reasons. I found that I had uploaded so many images that I wasn't recognizing ones I had already uploaded, and would complete the upload process, only to find the image was a duplicate of an earlier version I had already uploaded.

When I first started doing this three or four flickr uploaders were very cross, saying I wasn't doing them a favor, and I should have asked for their permission first. Embarrassing, because they clearly didn't understand that the CC liscense they published the images under WAS the prior permission.

I have had a few flickr uploaders subsequently try to claw back their images, after I told them I uploaded them. Sometimes, when I suspect a flickr uploader may try to claw back their images, I wait until the flickrreview robot has already confirmed the liscense before I leave them the thank you.

Six months or so ago I had about a dozen images I uploaded trigger other commons contributors to accuse me of flickr-washing. Flickr-washing is the sneaky process of taking an image someone else owns the rights to, uploading it flickr, putting a liscense that says you own it, then uploading it to the commons, citing the apparently valid flickr liscense as if you were involved in putting a bogus liscense on the image at flickr. A more knowledgable contributor came to my defense, and pointed out that I was not a bad faith contributor engaged in flickr-washing, I was an innocent victim of what they called flickr-vio -- sneaky flickr uploaders who have convincingly claimed they had the rights to release under CC liscenses images they didn't actually own.

I am more suspicious of flickr uploaders now. And I haven't received any more of those accusations. But I suspect there may have been a fad in leveling the flickr-washing accusation that has come and gone.

A lot of flickr uploaders claim the rights to images that they don't actualy own this without actually knowing any better.

A lot of flickr uploaders improperly claim "all rights reserved" for images that should clearly be in the public domain.

I used to politely ask the flickr uploader for clarification when I was sure the image should be in the public domain, with mixed results. Then, about a month ago, I participated in a mass deletion discussion, where a commons contributor wanted to delete all the images that had originally from one flickr uploader. The nominator had noted that some of this flickr uploaders images seemed improperly liscensed, then claimed we shouldn't trust that any of their images were properly liscensed, and should delete all of them.

I contacted the original flickr uploader, who created a commons ID, and established their bona fides. I was surprised by the advice they were given. They were told that if it wasn't their image, but the image was in the public domain, they should not put a CC liscense on it. They were told they should mark it as "all rights reserved", and trust that commons uploaders would use their own judgment and ignore the "all rights reserved" if the image was clearly PD.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 11:04, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Ling.Nut!

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) 10:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Battle of Kum River 14Jul1950b.jpg was uncategorized on 9 April 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• Image:19th Kum River Map2.JPG was uncategorized on 9 April 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Wiki gryphon.png was uncategorized on 4 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:BaksaFormosaHuntingParty1871.jpg was uncategorized on 29 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:BaksaFormosaHuntingParty1871b.jpg was uncategorized on 29 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Childrenofthestars2.JPG was uncategorized on 11 September 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Childrenofthestars.jpg was uncategorized on 11 September 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

File:Celtic-knot-insquare-transp.png

Not completely sure why you converted an SVG to a PNG, which is the opposite of the way things are most often done around here... AnonMoos (talk) 16:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Bonus-Sweden.png

I ask you to help. Install license and more. That the file is not make "deleted" File:Bonus-Sweden.png. No doubt you are the author of this file. But in my project (Sweden) - it is necessary to give a clear picture of the Swedish national symbol (flag) in top. And also, I am a Christian - I want to see a Christian symbol where it is. I would be grateful to you if you make a file - no stars, but with the cross in bottom as in en:Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden. With respect to you --Krupski Oleg (talk) 11:20, 11 February 2013 (UTC)