Dwight Burdette

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Dwight Burdette!

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) 10:42, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Camp Williams Historical Marker Adrian Michigan.JPG was uncategorized on 11 May 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:42, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Ephrata WPA poster.jpg was uncategorized on 19 May 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Chelsea Michigan Clocktower.JPG was uncategorized on 9 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Chelsea Milling Company.JPG was uncategorized on 9 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Chelsea High Schol.JPG was uncategorized on 9 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Missile silo findlay ohio.JPG was uncategorized on 3 September 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Michigan Central Railroad Dexter Michigan Depot.JPG was uncategorized on 12 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:50, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Albert H. Pattengill House historic site Ann Arbor Michigan.JPG was uncategorized on 15 July 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Former Home of Former Michigan Football Coach Rich Rodriguez York Township Michigan.JPG was uncategorized on 13 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:54, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Category Wiki syntax

You are using {{ when you should be using [[ to add categories. This is causing your new pages to show up in the wrong categories. Look at Category:Michigan and you will see a number of town and township categories that you created and put into subcategories but are being forced into the Michigan category by using the wrong shape of brackets. (It is probably a "feature" but I don't see why it would be useful.) 75.41.110.200 19:08, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Lenawee County Courthouse Adrian Michigan.JPG, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments nice colors and shadow --Ralf Roletschek 07:52, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

--Vera (talk) 17:09, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Clinton Township Michigan Township Office.JPG, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good--Jebulon 14:31, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Vera (talk) 22:34, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Saint Joseph's Catholic Church Adrian Michigan.JPG, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments PLease see annotations. All correctible.--Jebulon 14:37, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Done--IIVeaa 21:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC) It has some overexposure, but is otherwise nice. Mattbuck 13:03, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

--Vera (talk) 16:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ An image you created has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you created was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Ypsilanti Water Tower.

review

•  Support best in scope --Wladyslaw (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
•  Defer Please create a gallery and link to it in the scope. พ.s. 22:33, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Apologies if I've missed it, since this is my first VI nom, but the only mention I see of galleries in the criteria is that "Images may optionally be added to any relevant content-related gallery." Am I missing something? Thanks, cmadler (talk) 01:19, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
    •  Comment Reviewers are permitted some latitude in their reviews. However, those who close these discussions may choose to disregard reviews that do not cite at least one of the six criteria. A discussion of galleries may be found at Commons_talk:Valued_image_candidates/candidate_list#Is_a_gallery_a_requisitive_for_a_VI.3F. Your thoughts are welcome there. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 01:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
      •  Done Gallery is created at Ypsilanti Water Tower. cmadler (talk) 02:08, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
        •  Support Great. พ.s. 07:14, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
          •  Question "Great" because of the picture, or "Great" because of the gallery ?--Jebulon (talk) 14:07, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:39, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

cmadler (talk) 13:34, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

advertisments

Hey Dwight,

Please don't upload photo's of busses that have advertisement plasted all over them, or advetisments in general. These are creative works that are copyright protected. It's ok if the trademark doesn't pass a certain level of complexity, like in this trucks case. But a truck like this should have the side blurred. I might make the time to pick out the trucks I think aren't ok--Vera (talk) 19:37, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Noted Dwight Burdette (talk) 00:23, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I just noticed your picture

File:Statue of Harriet Tubman Ypsilanti Michigan.JPG at the Ypsilanti, Michigan article. I spent some quality years there. Anyway, the rights to an image of a piece of sculpture are owned by the sculptor, not the photographer. You might want to look into it. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

If you will look at the Discussion page for the image, you will see that I have explicit permission from the sculptor to upload the photo to Wikimedia.Dwight Burdette (talk) 17:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I looked at the page again, and it still is not that clear that the sculptor has given permission, since "I, the copyright holder of this work" is often used by photographers who believe that the copyright issue of the picture is up to them. It is a lovely work and I'm glad to know that it is gracing my old town. Carptrash (talk) 23:58, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) I've edited the description and permission to try to clarify it, and linked to the deletion discussion. cmadler (talk) 12:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I've edited the template some more to clarify things --Vera (talk) 08:37, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Holiday greetings

Wishing you the happiest of holidays and the best new year! — Vera (talk), December 2012

File:320 South Divisiion Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.JPG

I found the why this house is historic and added it to the David Murray Cowie article. Rmhermen (talk) 17:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the historical information to the photo. Dwight Burdette

File:South Lyon High School Michigan.JPG

File:South Lyon High School Michigan.JPG 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

99.36.127.3 14:50, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar

I absolutely love all of your wonderful photographs from Ann Arbor and the surrounding communities in the area. Please accept this barnstar as a small token of my appreciation. As both a fellow Wikipedian and a fellow Ann Arborite, I really do appreciate how your contributions have enriched Wikipedia's coverage of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. Thanks so much! Michael Barera (talk) 03:47, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Michael

File:WDTW station vehicle Farmington Hills Michigan.JPG

File:WDTW station vehicle Farmington Hills Michigan.JPG 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Levdr1lp / talk 02:44, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Camp Williams Historical Marker Adrian Michigan.JPG

File:Camp Williams Historical Marker Adrian Michigan.JPG 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 22:06, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Comerica Bank branch Ann Arbor Michigan.JPG

File:Comerica Bank branch Ann Arbor Michigan.JPG 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Nthuxen (talk) 21:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

International trucks

There is a discussion on this page whether images should be categorised as International trucks or International Harvester trucks.   Not many wikipedia contributors have contributed to the discussion or voted with their preference, but you have contributed to material on International Harvester.   I would be grateful, if you have the time, if you would share your own opinion on the page name.  And thank you. Eddaido (talk) 00:27, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

File:Serta semi-trailer Ann Arbor Michigan.JPG

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Colin M (talk) 23:17, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

File:Digital billboard.JPG

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116.206.12.42 16:17, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

File:Airport Senior High School Carleton Michigan.jpg

File:Airport Senior High School Carleton Michigan.jpg 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

NJBRANNAN (talk) 02:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)