Sctechlaw

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Sctechlaw!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Sctechlaw!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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) 20:20, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Artist Jacques Amans or Jean Joseph Vaudechamp Étienne Mazureau, 1840-43.png was uncategorized on 5 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 20:20, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Delivered by Orbot1 (talk) at 10:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC) - you are receiving this message because you voted last year

Autopatrol given

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 03:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Sctechlaw (talk) 06:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Oso landslide

Hi Sctechlaw;

I haven't been able to verify the license for File:Oso landslide (WSP).png. Do you have link to a WSP page granting the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license? Otherwise, the COM:OTRS process may apply. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 04:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, you are probably right. I spoke with Trooper (Mark) Francis this evening (external link on the image attribution permission) and he gave permission via telephone. I sent him an email thank-you note but he hasn't replied, my email may be on hold in his spam folder. Please feel free to change the license, or if you'd rather I do it I'm happy to. Sctechlaw (talk) 06:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Sent subst:OP email and changed page accordingly. Thanks for helping. Sctechlaw (talk) 06:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

The picture well-illustrates the mudslide. It is kind of Trooper Francis and the Washington State Patrol to grant a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license for this image. Thank you for your work. Walter Siegmund (talk) 14:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

File tagging File:Oso landslide (WSP).png

File:Oso landslide (WSP).png which you uploaded has been tagged with {{OTRS pending}} for more than 30 days. This tag indicates that an email setting out permission to use the file was sent to the Volunteer Response Team. Unfortunately, we cannot find any record that such an email has been received, and accordingly the file remains without permission. Unless the Volunteer Response Team receives evidence that permission has been granted within 15 days of today's date, the file will be deleted. If you have already sent the permission, please re-send it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org now. Please quote the file name ("File:Oso landslide (WSP).png") in your email. At the same time, please leave a message at the VRT noticeboard so that a volunteer can follow this up or contact a VRT member directly.

 

JuTa 21:06, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

File:GuanTongForgery.png

File:GuanTongForgery.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Wcam (talk) 13:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)