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This user has been on Commons for
9 years, 7 months and 29 days

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Clem Rutter lives in Rochester, Kent, and English Wiki. Apart from many Fuji digitals camera and a vast back catalogue of jpegs, Clem also uses Inkscape and Gimp. Find out his edit history Counting tools

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Category:Images requiring combining

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Geocode tool: Multichill
CommonsHelper to move from :en:Geo-coding tool
User:Nichalp/Upload script To be evaluated- looks good.

User:ClemRutter/New category suggestions

The location bookmarklet is

javascript:void(prompt('',%22{{location%20dec|%22%20+%20gApplication.getMap().getCenter().lat().toFixed(4)%20+%20%22|%22%20+%20gApplication.getMap().getCenter().lng().toFixed(4)%20+%20%22}}%22));

Creative commons tags for text and wikipedia

[:https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en CC0].

Rule book

Rules of Category naming, and the rules of Gallery naming:

Commons:Categories#Category_name and Commons:Naming categories - Category naming policy (the last one in perpetual "proposed" stage)
Commons:Galleries#Naming_conventions
Commons:By location category scheme to add one more.

To delete a category

{{delete|reason}}
{{bad name|Category:correct category name}}

To clean images from a dirty category

{{Intersect categories|Images from the Geograph British Isles project|Cleveland, Ohio}} into Category:Cleveland, England where the template is placed.
Category:Category maintenance templates useful potential toys

To geotag a file

Object location	51° 23′ 45.24″ N, 0° 29′ 28.68″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth

Find a file nearby- look at its geotag (as above)- click on the numbers and then click on Open streetmap - zoom in and click at the target spot- you can pick up the coordinates from the box top left.

commons camera location {{location dec|51.3959|0.4913}}
commons object location {{object location dec|51.3959|0.4913}}
en wikipedia {{Coord|53.494|-2.451|display=inline,title|format=dms|name="Arrowsmiths Mill"}}
de wikipedia

To convert a video into copyright acceptable form

cd to input file containing directory
ls to check
ffmeg2theora -o filename inputfilename Manual for options

Wikimedia Commons policies and guidelines

Policies

Project	General disclaimer Privacy policy Project scope Allowable file types Evidence Neutral point of view Precautionary principle Pages, galleries and categories

Content	Licensing policy De minimis Fair use When to use the PD-Art tag Deletion policy Revision deletion Criteria for speedy deletion Language policy Category policy

Behaviour	Blocking policy Page protection De-adminship Paid contribution disclosure Translation administrators Signatures Username policy

Guidelines

Content	What Commons is not Non-copyright restrictions Fan art Nudity Photographs of identifiable people Derivative works When to use the PD-scan tag Galleries Using ImageAnnotator File renaming Overwriting existing files Grandfathered old files

Behaviour	Assume good faith Ownership of pages and files Talk page guidelines User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy Vandalism Rollback Patrol

Licensing help

Choosing a license	Copyright rules Copyright rules by subject matter Copyright rules by territory Copyright tags PD files

Copyright special cases	Derivative works De minimis Freedom of panorama 2D copying Threshold of originality

Using files	Reusing content outside Wikimedia Credit line Reuse of PD-Art photographs

How to detect copyright violations	License laundering Problematic sources Flickr Picasa Web Bad sources License review