User talk:Sswonk
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.--EugeneZelenko 17:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:DDG-88_commissioning.jpg
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Thanks for uploading Image:DDG-88_commissioning.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. GeorgHH 17:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- It is no copyright statement on http://www.riseacadets.org/events/preble.html. If you have a written permission that the use under a free licence is allowed, please send a copy to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. For more information see Commons:OTRS. Thank you. --GeorgHH 08:32, 30 March 2007 (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.BotMultichillT 06:13, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Image:MA cities towns NE.png is uncategorized since 11 May 2009.
- Image:MA cities towns SE.png is uncategorized since 11 May 2009.
- Image:Massachusetts Route 122.png is uncategorized since 12 July 2009.
- Image:Mount Wollaston sketch.jpg was uncategorized on 15 October 2009.
- Image:South Boston Boat Clubs Historic District.jpg was uncategorized on 20 October 2009.
File:Park_Drive_Boston.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. |
Teofilo (talk) 03:34, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
MA cities towns.svg and Illustrator
[edit]Hi, Sswonk!
I really like all the SVG map files you've produced of Massachusetts, but for some reason, Illustrator CS6 is failing to open "MA cities towns.svg" Illustrator does fine with all the other SVG files I've ever gotten from the Commons - including others you've done, - so I'm surprised that this one keeps failing to open in Illustrator, giving an "unknown error". Any idea why this might be happening or what I might try? Thanks! Ogram (talk) 17:13, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
File:Formation of Massachusetts towns.svg 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. |