User talk:Gsdcraig

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Gsdcraig!

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{{Helpme}} I don't understand how all this works. I can't read/write code. Is there any other way to use this site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsdcraig (talk • contribs) 00:04, 13 Oct 2018‎ (UTC)

Hello, it is sad that you have decided to leave the site. Perhaps you have misunderstood the nature of it. The idea here is to create a collection of media useful for educational purpose that are licenced freely. This means that everybody is free to reuse them in any way they want. Your photography seems very good, although you upload files in very small size. I cannot really help you out more, because you haven't said anything about what it is you want help with. You have clearly figured out how to upload files, you can categorise them quite easily (for now). ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 07:27, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Uploading without knowing (pseudo-)code

You can use this upload wizard if you don't know how to write WikiCode. It's a lot simpler than the old upload form. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 14:16, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Answer to your message

Hi, Currently, there is no picture from you on Wikimedia Commons: Special:ListFiles/Gsdcraig. Please do not write in capital letters, it is like shouting. Regards, Yann (talk) 19:21, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

How do I know I have no pix posted here? I can't even figure that out. Your site sucks and apparently is just for code nerds. Nobody anywhere else uses this kind of a platform -- Because Nobody Understands it. Get off my arse about caps. Make the site understandable and I might not have to spend 95% of my time trying to get somebody to answer questions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsdcraig (talk • contribs) 19:30, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, you do need to learn some Wikicode, but I would not call this 'code' in the programming sense because even developers state that "there is not such thing as right or wrong Wikicode". Or were you talking about legal codes? In this case you do need to understand some things, but that is precisely the point of the project. If you upload an image and you place an incorrect template on it, but you describe the correct licencing with text, I would argue that any admin that deletes that should be at least reminded to pay attention. However, if you upload another image and place a correct template, but that template is legally invalid, then a file will and should get deleted. You need to read two pages, that describe what this project accepts: COM:SCOPE and COM:L, if you have any questions about Wikicode and templates you could do what I did and just look at what others do and then develop your own approach, or simply use things like Upload Wizard. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 04:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

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Can anybody tell me what all this gibberish is up here? I am Scott.

Still can't figure your site out. I keep asking what all the coding is and nobody will give me a straight answer. WHAT IS ALL THE CODING AND HOW DO I KNOW WHAT IT IS? I'll stop yelling when somebody answers -- with an actual answer and not a reference with code bs all over it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsdcraig (talk • contribs) 02:14, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

All the code you're complaining about is called Wikitext. It is this code that produces the formatting of each Wiki page, e.g. big headlines, blank lines, internal and external weblinks, footnotes, bold font, etc. in the final output that is visible when you just read a page. If you would like to know what all the different bits and pieces do, you might want to look at this page. De728631 (talk) 20:40, 12 February 2019 (UTC)