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Is My sign OK in English Wikipedia ? Viva! Persia (talk) 10:04, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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With regards to your edits to Cologne Cathedral, There are many many more images of Cologne Cathedral than we can possibly use, stored in Wikimedia Commons. For that reason, only the most useful, that convey a lot of information about the building have been included in the gallery. Large galleries are generally discouraged, but in this case the galley has survived from being deleted simply because each picture has a caption that tells something different about the building.

Don't be discouraged! Here is some practical advice: when you add an image to a gallery, it doesn't need any brackets. Just paste the filename.

Amandajm (talk) 10:52, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for helpful information , friend !I hadn't worked in Wikimedia before!Now I know about galleries in articles.But it just predicate in English Wikipedia not others like Persian that have just two or three pics, It's better to choose the best pics for them two but pictures like this are temporary acceptable.By the way , I really appreciate it, thank you!! I have another question , Is there any limit for uploading pics to Wikimedia ?? Viva! Persia (talk) 12:12, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Translation

That sentence is kind of confusingly written, I agree. But what it's saying is that the album is not in the bubblegum pop genre, but instead is more similar to the Christian pop artists named at the end of the sentence. Without knowing what the album is, though, I can't judge whether the reference to "bubblegum pop" is actually relevant or meaningful in any way. Bearcat (talk) 17:19, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

@Bearcat: Thank you very much. You've already helped me a lot; I didn't know anything about bubblegum pop though, thought it's an expression. However, it is the last sentence of this part. Viva! Persia (talk) 17:30, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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