User talk:Pjhatfield

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 10:10, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Canadian categorisation

Hi Phil!

Some useful links:

• Category:Images from the Canadian Copyright Collection at the British Library - all Picturing Canada images.
• Category:Picturing Canada images not yet categorised - ones still to be sorted.
• Log page of all changes made to the Picturing Canada images.

We primarily want to categorise by place, year (when appropriate), and "things" in the picture.

Example categories:

• Location: mostly of the form Category:Lethbridge, Alberta or Category:Toronto. Smaller places will tend to have a single category; places like Toronto will tend to have hundreds of subcategories, including...
• Time: ...if it's somewhere like Toronto, there should be year-based categories - Category:1900 in Toronto‎ - or decade-based ones - Category:Toronto in the 1900s‎. This allows us to do the place and time categorisation simultaneously. If you don't have a year-based category for the place, I'd recommend categorising them by "year in province" - so File:Steam plowing, Lethbridge, Alberta (HS85-10-23180).jpg is down as Category:1910 in Alberta as well as Category:Lethbridge, Alberta
• Things: Important things to categorise: significant named people; significant buildings; military units; named ships; organisations (eg CPR, or the Parliament pictures); interesting objects (the steam tractor in the Lethbridge picture); activities (ploughing, forestry); themes (advertising, propaganda). If all else fails, there are categories like Category:19th-century portrait photographs of women, Category:Sculpture of Canada, or Category:Mountains of Canada.

You'll find that a lot of categories that should exist don't, yet, especially for small towns, organisations, or people. If you make a note of these and send it on to me (by email or editing here) I can set them up for you.

When using the categorisation tool, a tick should show up if the category exists, a cross will show if it doesn't. If it doesn't and you do save it, the link to the category will be red - you may want to check this, or leave it in place if the category should exist!

Hope this all helps - if in doubt, skim some of the already-categorised ones and see what they look like. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:28, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

...also, if you spot any of the old low-quality LAC scans that are superseded by our images, make a note of them and I'll see about getting them switched over in the articles. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)