User talk:Cavrdg
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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.--EugeneZelenko 15:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
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 05:43, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:CoppetHill.jpg is uncategorized since 21 March 2009.
- Image:Geograph-1209044-by-John-Salmon.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Geograph-1665766-by-andy-dolman.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Geograph-846923.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Geograph-821765.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Geograph-300061.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Geograph-1271951-by-R-Sones.jpg was uncategorized on 6 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
"Geograph images" with higher resolution than on Geograph
[edit]Hello. I've noticed that (some years ago) you've uploaded several pictures to Commons that are tagged as coming from Geograph Britain and Ireland, but that are in much higher resolutions than Geograph has. This is a bit of a problem for two reasons. First, it means that the claimed "source" is inaccurate: these files aren't available on Geograph. More importantly, Commons licensing policy says that we don't assume that a licence for a low-resolution version of a picture also applies to a high-resolution version. This means that we don't have any evidence of the CC BY-SA 2.0 licence claimed for the high-resolution versions of these pictures.
I've found the following files affected by this:
- File:Helen's Bay station.jpg
- File:HolywoodArt.jpg
- File:Holywoodex.jpg
- File:HolywoodEx.jpg
- File:HolywoodFirstPres.jpg
- File:HolywoodFoliage.jpg
- File:HolywoodNeds.jpg
- File:HolywoodUlsterWay.jpg
- File:Tebay mem.JPG
There are a few possible ways to correct this this. Probably the best would be for the contributor of these pictures on Geograph to upload the higher-resolution versions to Geograph (via the "Upload a larger version" link on the image page). That way all the information on Commons would be correct and Geograph's pictures would be improved as well. The alternative would be to update the file descriptions on Commons to accurately indicate where the files came from. For instance, if you took the photos yourself you could put {{Own}} in the "source" field and ideally replace {{Geograph}} with {{Cc-by-sa-2.0}} and {{Also geograph}}. A final approach would be to downgrade the pictures to the versions that we do have good sources for, but obviously I'd like to avoid that if possible. --bjh21 (talk) 22:55, 13 May 2021 (UTC)