Thread:Ancient Alien Astronaut/@comment-27886349-20160531212524/@comment-24668482-20160531221859

Hi SonomaGary, apologies if the email notifications are confusing (they are auto generated by wikia and wording always the same). The images were not changed, but they were added to categories. Categorization does not change or effect that image in any way, it is just an organizational system.

In the process of doing a bit of housekeeping around here this morning I categorized somewhere between 150 and 200 images, all of which had been added by users over the past few weeks or so. There are currently 4000+ images uploaded to the wiki, so some form of organisation is necessary. Images that are uploaded by users just chatting in the forum are added to the Category:Community along with relevant articles etc (like the player preferences lists) to keep them together and easily searchable should they need to be used again (to avoid too much repetition) and also to keep them separate from images of the game used up build the guides here (to make them easier to find as well). Some of your images were also added to the Category:Pets, a category which is perhaps a little unnecessary in terms of organizing the wiki, but interesting to watch grow over time.

In addition to organisational categories, there are also housekeeping categories, which are basically used to tag images that need to be looked at/fixed at some stage (no urgency). The main ones I have to use most often are Category:Requires Renaming (probably self explanatory); Category:Duplicates (ditto); and Category:Potential copyright infringement. The latter are the biggest problem to face with user uploaded images, where users upload images sourced elsewhere without listing a source or any copyright information. If the image is copyrighted and reused here without permission, it could lead to a DMCA takedown notice in worst case scenario. I typically deal with the images in first 2 categories in batches as easy enough to fix without any disruption to the threads they are being on (by fixing posts after fixing images). I will have to deal with the bear of a 3rf category eventually, but right now just tag images that may be a problem with the category to make the job a little easier when the day comes (But users taking a minute to add copyright from drop down menu when uploading and adding a description to their images that includes source if taken from another source online would definitely make it easier).

Typically images can have more than one category added during organisational spurts (an image can be community related and need renaming at same time, for example).

But that is all it is. Nothing for you to worry about, and typically nothing that requires your action (unless you can solve a housekeeping issue like name/copyright to save work later).