User talk:Bettycrocker
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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 05:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Bridge to Eden.jpg is uncategorized since 18 April 2009.
This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 05:54, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
File:Dylan mcdermott.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.
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.
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--Túrelio (talk) 06:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Bettycrocker,
are you "Robert F. Carter"? If yes, you might put your real name besides your username in the author entry of the descriptions of your images. Otherwise, people will think that you are a different person and that you need permission by Carter. --Túrelio (talk) 07:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
About your deletions, see also: Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Bettycrocker .28talk .E2.80.A2 contribs.29. --Túrelio (talk) 08:45, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you...
[edit]... for the fine images you've uploaded so far. They are very much appreciated and useful for the projects. Please don't be frustrated from the comments and results of the FP candidacies. Getting FP status for an image at Commons is quite challenging and not all votes are always justified. Many high quality photographs do not make it and even our "star photographers" do by far not get every one of their snapshots featured. Many contributors (like me with more than 600 uploaded photographs) have not even a single featured picture.
Please note also that once you have uploaded one of your photographs with a perfectly free license, you cannot retract that. As long as the photograph is considered to be within our project scope, it is kept even if you change your mind. This is similar to a donation that cannot be taken back. I hope you enjoy Commons and I hope certainly to see more of your shots. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 21:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Bettycrocker, you reuploaded another image over this photograph giving following comment:
- Replaces old photograph. Moral obligations decided he was photographed at a private family event and it was wrong to use it as an opportunity to become an impromptu paparazzo.
There are multiple problems with that approach. Firstly the reuploaded image was a dupe to another image already deleted as a copyvio (see File:Dylan mcdermott.jpg). If you want to have this back, we would need a permission by the copyright holder sent to our OTRS team. Secondly, you cannot delete image by reuploading another image on top of it as this can still be reverted. If an image is to be deleted, open a new deletion request for it as you have already done before. Finally regarding your concerns regarding a photograph taken at a wedding: I do not think that you became a paparazzo by uploading this image. A wedding is usually an event where many people are taking openly photographs of each other. This photograph also does not intrude his privacy as he is shown alone. According to our policy we would tend to keep this image. If you are not sure about this yourself and you know him privately, just ask him. I would wonder if he would object given the quality of this shot and the opportunity to be represented with a photograph at en-wp. Given all this reasoning, I have deleted the reuploaded image such that the original image is back again. --AFBorchert (talk) 05:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
File tagging File:Dylan McDermott.jpg
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Thanks for uploading File:Dylan McDermott.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). Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you. |
Dman41689 (talk) 06:03, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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- use in any work, regardless of content
- creation of derivative works
- commercial use
- free distribution
See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.
Please make sure that you only upload educational content 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. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.Yours sincerely, Green Giant (talk) 00:27, 6 November 2014 (UTC)