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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Cougar6!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Cougar6!

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) 10:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Dr. Samuel Welch House, Talladega, Alabama, USA.jpg was uncategorized on 21 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Talladega Public Library Talladega Alabama USA.jpg was uncategorized on 22 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:William Blount McClellan and wife Martha.jpg was uncategorized on 22 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Idlewild Talladega Alabama USA.jpeg was uncategorized on 22 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Meadowlawn Lowndsboro Alabama pic1.jpg was uncategorized on 23 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:McAlpine Place c.1826.jpg was uncategorized on 28 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Sims-Grice Home.jpg was uncategorized on 28 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
• Image:The Corner House c.1890.jpg was uncategorized on 3 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:42, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Talladega County Courthouse.jpg

This media may be deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Talladega County Courthouse.jpg, is missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

Martin H. (talk) 00:30, 20 September 2011 (UTC)