User talk:Innesw
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Tip: Categorizing images
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 (talk) 15:03, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Battle of Trafalgar
I am just wondering where you got the data for the photo on the Battle of Trafalgar. Thank you. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 22:01, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
- It wasn't me who got the casualties data, all I did was make a better graph of it. The figures would have been in that article, or from the <Battle of Trafalgar order of battle> article. The tables in that article seem fully referenced. Innesw (talk) 00:34, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 07:51, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
- Could you give any detail of when you got the data. I will then search the old pages around the time you give me and I will ask that person. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- If you look at Battle_of_Trafalgar_order_of_battle, you will see that the caption for the chart states that the data came from the tables in that article. The chart itself was then also used in Battle_of_Trafalgar. I have zero knowledge of the original sources for the casualties data. ALL data used in the chart is from the Battle_of_Trafalgar_order_of_battle article, not from any more original source. The sources are listed in that article. (I *think* Battle_of_Trafalgar may have once have had a similar table of casualties, but I cannot be sure.) Innesw (talk) 11:50, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- Could you give any detail of when you got the data. I will then search the old pages around the time you give me and I will ask that person. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 18:03, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 07:51, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
