User talk:Sentient Planet
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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 11:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Miliaria rubra mild.jpg was uncategorized on 14 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Image:My Dying Bride.png was uncategorized on 17 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:31, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Gary Yourofsky.jpg was uncategorized on 20 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 02:20, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Coconut oil hardened closeup.jpg was uncategorized on 31 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Coconut oil hardened.jpg was uncategorized on 31 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
File tagging File:Gary Yourofsky.jpg
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Thanks for uploading File:Gary Yourofsky.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. |
— Yerpo Eh? 19:11, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
File tagging File:Laurent Bisch.jpg
[edit]This media was probably deleted.
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Thanks for uploading File:Laurent Bisch.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). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:Laurent Bisch.jpg]] ) and the above demanded information in your request. |
— Yerpo Eh? 19:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Keeping images from other authors
[edit]Hi, thanks for the explanation. On Commons, there is a formal way for external authors to provide permission for use of their works, otherwise it cannot be verified. Please consult Commons:OTRS where this topic is explained. Note, however, that in order to publish images on Commons and in Wikipedias, the author must give permission for free use under the license Creative Commons BY-SA and/or equivalent, meaning that the works can also be published elsewhere without restrictions (except having to credit the author and concede the same freedom to others). Permission "for use in Wikipedia" is not enough. So if the two authors agree with this, please ask them to send permission as per instructions on the page OTRS, under the heading "Declaration of consent for all enquiries". If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask me. — Yerpo Eh? 12:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Need your presence at Featured sound candidates
[edit]We request the honor of your presence at Featured sound candidates | ||
Dear Sentient Planet, Featured sound candidates needs your help and you can participate by reviewing or nominating sounds for the FS tag. You can start reviewing/nominating sounds now. Welcome! -- Eatcha (Talk-Page ) 06:55, 12 May 2019 (UTC) |