Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Nightscream!

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 06:03, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

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Nice cats

Thanks, for fixing up some of my sloppy categories and imprecise descriptions of northern Hudson County pictures. Of course as it says above some of your own good new pix have no cats at all yet. Picky, picky, the nitpickers are always complaining that we're using too many cats or not enough or the wrong ones. And they're right, darn it, though hope persists that I'm doing better at it this year than last. I missed you at the conference at Washington Square a few weeks ago; met a bunch of nice people, smarter and mostly younger and cuter than me as usual, and learned a hundredth of the important things they were saying, as usual. I hope to see you again when the regular meetings resume at Columbia U. Tomorrows plan is to join a biker gang to Ridgewood. More pictures. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the message. Wilco on the name. No more pictures this week for me; the group cancelled due to rain and warning of thunderstorm. I stayed home and did some description editing and cat wrangling. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:27, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

File:9.13.09McCannSlottByLuigiNovi6.jpg

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Photo on Soupy Sales Wikipedia Page

Dear Nightscream,

I hope I'm posting this message in the right place. I would simply send you an email if I could; however, I have so far been unable to locate contact information for you, other than this page.

Anyway, I have a request regarding the Wikipedia page for the recently-deceased Soupy Sales: The large photo of Sales at the top right of the page shows him at the end of his life, in extremely frail health. Is it possible for you please to replace this photo with a more flattering and representative one, one that shows him during the peak of his performing career?

As a fan of Soupy Sales, I was taken aback, and even somewhat offended, to see that the only likeness of him on his Wikipedia page is one that shows him in a state of severe decline. I would have simply replaced the photo myself with a more representative image, except that I am not certain of the copyright ramifications.

I hope that there is something that can please be done about this. Thank you.

Joe Silver joesilver@hotmail.com 72.80.225.216 talk 15:09, October 24, 2009 (UTC)

File:10.18.09BigAppleCon1.jpg

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File:1.16.10TiloRivas.jpg

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File:1.20.10MotherSetonMiftaahulUloomByLuigiNovi.jpg

Thanks for correcting the file, I've closed the deletion request and archived it, so there are no other problems with the file. Thanks. Techman224^Talk 02:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hello,

Please tag duplicate images with {{Duplicate}}, otherwise admins cannot find and delete them. Blanking the page is not deletion. I deleted both File:10.18.09MikeMcKoneByLuigiNovi3.jpg & File:10.18.09MikeMcKoneByLuigiNovi2.jpg.

Also, what is exactly the problem with Category:2009 New York Comic Con ?

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 13:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetical order

I've put a comment into Category talk:Comic book creators with links to guidelines for categories about people. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

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--Laod (talk) 03:45, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Defaultsort

There's a {{DEFAULTSORT:}} tag that can be added to categorize something a certain way across multiple categories without having to put their name in multiple times in all categories the way it's meant to be sorted. E.g., instead of putting in Doe, John behind say, 5 categories to sort it that way, {{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, John}} will do this for you across all 5 and you only have to type it in once. BrokenSphere 04:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Well yes, the categorizations should be as specific as possible. My original message though is relating to how categories/images are sorted within categories. E.g. here, instead of inserting Horn, Greg into each category sort each time, the defaultsort parameter will do that for all of them at once. Does that make sense? BrokenSphere 00:43, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. My initial point was about sorting only, not about categorizing as specificlaly as possible. BrokenSphere 19:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:RooseveltStadium.jpg

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File tagging File:6.6.10BrianStackParadeByLuigiNovi2.jpg

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DieBuche (talk) 20:01, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Cat moving

Sorry to be so late getting back; been busy preparing for retirement from the Phone Company next week. No, far as I know there is no way to move a category to correct its spelling or its unwise naming. If there were, I might have moved Category:Von Steuben Day long ago. Must make a new cat, move all the contents, and finally reduce the old cat to a redirect. However, it remains an academic question, not requiring resolution until someone starts uploading pictures of Steuben parades or Cuba Day parades held in other places. Jim.henderson (talk) 03:30, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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Martin H. (talk) 23:02, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Thats inaccurate, how do you came to the idea to claim that the image was created by the FBI? --Martin H. (talk) 23:04, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Defaultsort

Hi, {{DEFAULTSORT:}} sets the default sort keys, so there is no need to repeat the sort key as piped argument with the categories, unless the sort should be different from the defaultsort. Enjoy the work. --Foroa (talk) 07:42, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

category:Comics writer/artists

Hi, I noticed that you are doing good work here. Thank you for that. I deleted category:Comics writer/artists because we don't want slashes in category names, and it makes no sense to make all sorts of combination categories writers/artists, illustrators/writers, ...

Please not that {{DEFAULTSORT:}} specifies the sort keys, so it makes no sense to add them again as sort key. To the contrary: if the sort has to be changes, we would need to change all keys, instead of one single key.

Keep up the good work. --Foroa (talk) 08:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Fireworks pictures and all the rest

As I look down this page I don't see anything at all but deletion requests. Now I have another one: please get the fireworks pictures out of the Hudson River category. We are not going to use anything with your name on it except as the contributor of the picture, and then only your login name. Any insistence on no use except with the personal attribution you require is completey contrary to everything WP stands for. This is not good work at all as the previous commenter suggested. It is you trying to use WP to advertise yourself as an illustrator. I for one would appreciate it if you would stop. WP is a non-profit organization relying on the contributions of its editors. Your pictures are NOT contributions. As payment you require that we use your name in the way you specify. We are not helping you build an illustrator business so please stop. If you do I thank you in advance. You can contribute anonymously like any other editor. If you do not stop judging from your talk page you may be seeing more of WP administrators than you may find comfortable. That isn't my field so I am only making these private suggestions in the interest of convincing you to be more helpful. No one but us need know.Botteville (talk) 02:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

How are you, buddy. Thanks for your polite reply. As I understand it, the reply is basically, the restriction you placed on the copyrights of your pictures apply only to outside users, is that correct? WP users can use at will on WP, is that correct? If that is the case I might have been a bit hasty. I suppose I was looking at all these deletions on the talk page. Pictures aren't yet my bag. Maybe you aren't an advertiser. In that case I have a request for you. I noticed that "Category:Hudson River" had hundreds of pictures in it. That in itself is not necessarily bad but a big chunk of them were fireworks. I really don't see how most of these would be used in articles. It seems to me a few would do. I suppose someone could put a reference to these fireworks in one article. In that case one would want to see them clustered under a single title. I suppose they are under the fireworks categories. But, this is Hudson River. They really don't concern the Hudson River. My next thought was to create a subcategory, "Fireworks on the Hudson River" so the user could elect to look at them or not just as he pleases. The system would not put it up! It puts up all my other subcategories. I figured there was some sort of interference. Do you know anything about that? Don't you agree, they ought to be a distinct subcategory? I don't deny they are quite good quality; I suppose you have expensive cameras. But why, I thought, put them in this unlikely place? And why use your powers to block subcategorization? That is the point where I took you for an advertiser. Maybe I was wrong; however, the problem remains. Should these be under Hudson River? If affirmative, should they not be subcategorized to get them out of the way, or to get them more easily in the way if one should decide to view them? If I want to see Hudson River but not fireworks it is a bit irritating to have to look at dozens of fireworks pictures. Well, you say, you have years on WP, some as administrator. As long as you do a good job as administrator that is fine with me. What is your take on this? What would you do? Why did you put these all under Hudson River? Why can I not subcategorize? You should be aware, I am not by choice an administrator. That does not mean other administrators do not review my efforts. With this comment, since you do have years of experience, presumably on Commons, I leave this matter for you to fix. I'll be curious to see how experienced administrators handle issues such as this. I know you can't necessarily do as YOU like. Later.Botteville (talk) 13:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Botteville, general interpretation of CC requirements say that a link back to a page where the author is given is sufficient. -mattbuck (Talk) 14:27, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

I am no real expert in license_languange. I would say, Nightscream's artistic way of interpreting (but not overriding) the attribution is a bit of a border case, but no real drama. If you are in doubt, throw it on COM:AN or so to get a round of legaleese. --Foroa (talk) 14:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

We appear to have reached an agreement. If nightscream wants them in and they are free use to WP editors on WP they should stay in, but he agrees they should be subcategorized. He does not have time to do it. For me this is a project I can slowly work on but then so are all the river pictures and any other general category that collected hundreds of pictures. I will work on it from time to time. I presume that because nightscream is agreeing it is not he blocking my subcategorization. Maybe there's another implemetation lag. No rush. Sooner or later I'll find the answer. Matter closed I believe.Botteville (talk) 16:09, 23 July 2010 (UTC)