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This page is a guideline for the creation and use of templates, categories and gallery pages that relate to one specific user. Users often create such items to collect their contributions in one place and save time/effort repeating licensing/source information. For the corresponding policy see [[COM:PSP]].▼
{{Nutshell|1=<translate><!--T:30--> This guideline allows users to create and use templates, categories, and gallery pages related to their own contributions. User pages can be created in the User namespace, while galleries can be created as subpages of user pages. User-specific categories should be categorized under <tvar name="1">[[:Category:User categories]]</tvar>. Users can create user-specific templates for standardizing information on image pages. Acceptable elements include attribution preferences, limited self-promotion, contact details, and technical details. Additional conditions cannot be required beyond the chosen license. User-specific templates should be substituted if they incorporate a standard license template.</translate>}}
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▲This page is a guideline for the creation and use of templates, categories and gallery pages that relate to one specific user. Users often create such items to collect their contributions in one place and save time/effort repeating licensing/source information.
For the corresponding policy see {{pg|<tvar name=link>Commons:Project scope/Pages, galleries and categories</tvar>|COM:PSP}}.
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In general: you are welcome to create things for your own convenience, as long as they won't disrupt other people browsing in a normal way.
==User pages== <!--T:3-->
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Users are welcome to create a page in the User namespace with their own username, for example [[User:Example]] for a user named "Example". The system will sometimes link to this user page automatically, such as in [<tvar name=1>https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:User-specific_galleries,_templates_and_categories_policy&action=history</tvar> page histories]. Additional pages may also be created as long as they are named as subpages, by following the user page with a slash and the subpage name, e.g., "User:Example/Sandbox".
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User pages and subpages can be left uncategorised, or can optionally be added to relevant subcategories of [[:Category:Commons community]]. They should never be added to categories in the [[:Category:Topics]] hierarchy.
==Gallery pages== <!--T:6-->
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Users are welcome to create galleries of their own work on pages that are subpages of their user page, e.g. "User:Example/Gallery". Optionally, they can be categorised under [[:Category:User galleries]] (<tt>{{tl|User gallery}}</tt> does this automatically). Users are welcome to create as many of these galleries as they wish. They can also create galleries in their user space such as "My favourite pictures at Commons".
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Users can also place a link to the MyGallery Javascript tool on their userpage, which shows ''all'' their uploads. <tt>{{tl|MyGallery/userbox}}</tt> looks like this, and on a userpage will link to that user's uploads: {{MyGallery/userbox}}{{clear}}
==Categories== <!--T:9-->
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Users are welcome to create user-specific categories, e.g. "Category:Photos by User:Example". Such categories must be categorised only under the category [[:Category:User categories|User categories]]. This should be done with '''only one''' supercategory by adding {{tlp|User category|''username''}} to the category page.▼
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▲Users are welcome to create user-specific categories
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Ambiguous user categories (e.g. ''Category:Photos of London'') must be disambiguated (e.g. ''Category:Photos by London (Commons user)'').
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Subcategories of user categories must also be marked as user categories, and not be categorised under the main category tree. Furthermore, media files must still be categorised under the main category tree (i.e. files in ''Category:Photos of the 2012 Summer Olympics by User:Example'' must also have a main category such as ''Category:2012 Summer Olympics'' or subcategories thereof).
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Categories shouldn't be created to collect files based on
==Templates== <!--T:14-->▼
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▲==Templates==
Users are welcome to create user-specific templates in order to standardise the information they produce on their image pages. Such templates should exist as user subpages rather than in the template namespace, e.g. "User:Example/Template" or "User:Example/Info". The template should use [[Template:Information]] as basis.
===Acceptable=== <!--T:16-->
Users can use such templates to specify how they want to be attributed, e.g. by their real name or username. Some "advertising" for the user's work is allowed, such as a link to an external website (portfolio/gallery). (As we discourage [[Commons:Watermarks|image watermarks]], the image page is the appropriate place for such "advertising".) Requests for notification about use are allowed. (Only requests, not requirements.) A notice such as "other terms/higher resolution available on request" are allowed. Contact details are allowed. Technical details such as camera model or method of creation of the file/s are allowed.▼
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===Not acceptable===▼
▲Users can use such templates to specify how they want to be attributed, e.g. by their real name or username. Some "advertising" for the user's work is allowed, such as a link to an external website (portfolio/gallery). (As we discourage
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No user template can ''require'' additional conditions of use above and beyond the terms of their chosen license. Additional conditions such as notification can be ''requested'' but must not be ''required''.
===Regarding licenses=== <!--T:20-->
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Regarding license templates: if the user-specific template incorporates a standard license template, the user-specific template should be subst:ed in use. If the user-specific template does not incorporate a standard license template, then it can be subst:ed or not as the user prefers.
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Templates such as "CC-BY-SA-UserExample" (which combines the standard license template with file author information) should not be used. Use of such custom templates reduces machine readability about file licenses. (It becomes impossible to tell by parsing the wikitext which license applies, if there are potentially as many license templates as there are users.)
====Examples==== <!--T:23-->
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'''User:Example/Template1'''
<pre><nowiki>This file is a work by User Example. More of my work can be
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appreciate being notified if you use my work outside Wikimedia.
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Example's works at Wikimedia Commons are all licensed under the GNU Free
Documentation License:
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{{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}
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On an image page, the user would only put the template {{tld|User:Example/Template1}}. Because this template incorporates a standard license template, it must be [[w:Help:Substitution|subst:]]ed, so they must always put {{tld|subst:User:Example/Template1}}.
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'''User:Example/Template2'''
<pre><nowiki>This file is a work by User Example. More of my work can be
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This template does not incorporate a license template. On an image page, the user would put at least two templates: <tt>{{tlr|User:Example/Template2}} {{tl|CC-BY-SA-4.0}}</tt> (or any other acceptable license from
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