User talk:JohnYeadon
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Please link images
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Hello JohnYeadon!
Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to Commons should be useful to all users of Wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.
To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate topic pages, categories, optionally galleries, or both of them (see Commons:Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.
You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files in this gallery.
The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!
Thank you. EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
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Tees white water pics
[edit]Hi John, well done with this nice collection of images. The last time I was there was a couple of years back and I was very inhibited from taking many photos by some alarming and rather horrible (I thought) signs all over the white water area saying (in effect) "if you're here with a camera then obviously you're a paedophile and will be strung up forthwith". Does the area still have this issue, I wondered, or did you get a permit, or what? I must say that I did get a couple of photos but I was pretty alarmed by the notices which seemed well over the top for what is essentially a public area so I didn't linger and I certainly didn't get any I was all that pleased with. Cheers, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 16:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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.CategorizationBot (talk) 16:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Signage at the Undercliffe Cemetery entrance.jpg was uncategorized on 8 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 16:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Peel Park, Cliffe Rd entrance-900.jpg was uncategorized on 25 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:16, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Bradford centenary memorial-900.jpg was uncategorized on 26 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 16:37, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Autopatrol given
[edit]Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. INeverCry 19:56, 22 October 2012 (UTC)