User talk:FearTec

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[edit] Images

Hello FearTec

Thanks for uploading your images to Wikipedia - very appreciated. Can I however ask you to upload them to Commons instead? Works just like Wikipedia for most things, but the images will be much better categorised (by you - or by obsessives like me ;-) and can be used by everyone, not just on Wikipedia. In theory, ALL images that are under public domain or a free license *should* be uploaded to Commons anyway. Would be great if you could do so as well. Ingolfson 23:29, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

PS: I have already started uploading some of your Wikipedia images to Commons. This will eventually cause them to be deleted here on Wikipedia. Please do not let that frustrate you - as I explained, they will still be available. In fact, easier available than before. Ingolfson 23:29, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

When you upload images to Commons, please be sure to put them in categories, or they will be 'lost'. If you do not know which category to put them in, please place them at least in a top level category like "Category:New Zealand" so that other people can then find and finish sorting them. Cheers. Any questions, just ask me. Same user name on both projects. Ingolfson 23:32, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
As noted, I am already moving some of your images to Commons. If you want to move any that I haven't moved yet (or those of someone else), please use this tool. It will correctly transfer the information over, though you may need to add categories by hand. Ingolfson 23:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if I am overloading you with info right now - if you move an image to Commons, you also need to place the following tag on the Wikipedia version of the image: {{subst:ncd}} so that it will get deleted here (or {{subst:ncd|Image:NEWNAME.jpg}} if you have changed the image name). If that is all too confusing for you at the moment, don't worry. Just get an account at Commons, upload your new pictures there, and the old ones will be transferred later. Ingolfson 23:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Galleries

Hi FearTec, me AGAIN. I recently read how necomers to Wikipedia nowadays are often 'accosted' by the more experienced users, and find it harder and harder to get into the project. I sure hope my comments here are not having the effect of driving you away? We very much appreciate someone who adds a lot to our project.

That said, can I ask you to go a bit more gently on adding galleries to articles? Galleries are a rather contentious issue. Many editors (me included) don't like them on articles, because they tend to grow very quickly and tend to be... oh well, too many images in an article just end up overwhelming the text! Its an encyclopedia, not an image databank - that is Commons, as I described to you above.

So when an article already has images, one should ask oneself: Does it really need more (most articles should not have more than 1-2 images per visible screen on your monitor (i.e. longer articles can have much more, but they need a lot of text first). If new images are to be added, the question should be: do they depict some important part that hasn't been shown, and can they replace one that is already there?

If the question to the above issues is no, then they should be uploaded to Commons instead, where there is no limit to the images that can be uploaded for a particular subject. With a Commons link usually available on articles like Doubtful Sound, these are easily available.

Okay, hope the above clarified why I changed some of your galleries. Some of your photos are really real nice, which is why I moved a part into the main article too. Okay, preaching over - happy editing. Ingolfson 00:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

If you'd like to add images to articles, have an eye out for articles that have no images at all yet. Or expand articles so that you can add more images to them without dominating the text. Or even create new articles just so that you can use your pictures ;-) Not *quite* kidding with that last comment. I have done so before - but make sure that the subject is worth an article, or it will just get deleted. Ingolfson 00:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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