User talk:Enyavar

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Enyavar!

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:

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[[Category:Category name]]

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[[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) 10:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Airlines Australia Timeline.svg was uncategorized on 8 May 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

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Copyright status: File:De DZfG 1891 06 017 Karte.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:De DZfG 1891 06 017 Karte.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear. If you created this file yourself, then you must provide a valid copyright tag. For example, you can tag it with {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multi-license GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or you can tag it with {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. (See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of license tags that you can use.) If you did not create the file yourself or if it is a derivative of another work that is possibly subject to copyright protection, then you must specify where you found it (e.g. usually a link to the web page where you got it), you must provide proof that it has a license that is acceptable for Commons (e.g. usually a link to the terms of use for content from that page), and you must add an appropriate license tag. If you did not create the file yourself and the specific source and license information is not available on the web, you must obtain permission through the VRT system and follow the procedure described there. Note that any unsourced or improperly licensed files will be deleted one week after they have been marked as lacking proper information, as described in criteria for deletion. If you have uploaded other files, please confirm that you have provided the proper information for those files, too. If you have any questions about licenses please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright or see our help pages. Thank you.

Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 05:05, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

About File:Arab Boycott map.svg

Taiwan has never participated the boycott. --Elnino199127 (talk) 12:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I was using Gil Feiler, page 40, as a source for that: he claims that at some point, yes they did, "by 1987" which could mean they joined only in the 1980ies and stopped in the 1990ies after only a few years. He lists 26 states in the same breath, so no details are given. Best, --Enyavar (talk) 05:18, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Tourist's guide category

Yes, you used the template correctly, as long as that populated category is the one that should be kept. --Auntof6 (talk) 00:55, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Locator maps

Dear Enyavar, Good day, Thank you for your kind message. Nowadays i am so busy with my school. But i will complete for all Turkish provinces.--Emreculha (talk) 18:49, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

File:Silk Road in the I century AD - ru.svg

Hi!
Please, tell me why did you do this?

Hi, I was categorizing maps, and stumbled upon a couple maps that didn't belong into "Route Maps", hence I removed unnessecary categories. The end goal is to have maps of similar extents, timeframes or topics sorted together; and different types of maps sorted separately. And neither did these two maps of the silk road show "Natural Earth" nor are they showing local directions which would be the purpose of a "route map" (check the other maps within "Route maps"). --Enyavar (talk) 16:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Natural Earth contains images created using data from the site www.naturalearthdata.com. If you look at the section "Source" of the file Summary, you will see that this picture was made using this data. As for the routes, I'm at a loss. The map consists of route images almost entirely. Look at there or there. --Kaidor (talk) 16:48, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

I restored the Natural Earth category, thanks for pointing out my error here. Merely 1000 maps have that category so far, which is a neglectable amount, so apologies, I didn't know. It is a valid maps-by-source cat.

About "Route maps", well we have hundreds of thousands of maps that highlight one route or the other. So we need to subclassify them as specifically as possible, in this case Category:Maps of the Silk Road", in other cases Category:Route maps in Connecticut or Category:Airline maps or Category:Maps of sea routes, etc. In the ideal world, the "Route maps" category would have no entry at all, only several thousand sub-sub-categories. --Enyavar (talk) 17:18, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Then I suggest including Category: Maps of the Silk Road into Category: Route maps.--Kaidor (talk) 17:56, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Maps of the United States by theme

Hello. I see your native language is German. Mine is English. In English we wouldn't normally prefer this:

• Category:Cultural maps of the United States

over this:

• Category:Maps of the United States by theme

So I used Cat-a-lot to move the maps there. --Timeshifter (talk) 02:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

So you emptied the more specific category and put all the content into its broader parent category, leaving an empty node in the category tree? I didn't invent the structure, I merely put it in place as the maps of the US were mostly not sorted at all. There is "Category for Discussion" for a reason, why didn't you use that first? English is the universal and defining language of the Category tree, so following your argument, there shouldn't be any "Cultural maps of <places>". --Enyavar (talk) 05:18, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Actually, yes. None of the categories and subcategories inside this overall "cultural" category seem right to me:

Category:Cultural maps of the Americas

--Timeshifter (talk) 11:01, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Right, I created a CfD already. --Enyavar (talk) 11:50, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Please post the link here. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:28, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

You were notified by username, and I thought nobody else would read my talk page right now. Here you go: Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2022/01#Category:Cultural_maps_by_region --Enyavar (talk) 21:38, 18 January 2022 (UTC)