Category talk:Maps of the State of Palestine

message: So far, I have found 2 images that belong in this category or its subcategories:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Is-map.PNG
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Palestine_election_map.PNG
This category also links to more images in the parallel wikimedia commons category:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_Palestinian_territories
Please also see this discussion:
*Image talk:Is-map.PNG#Map categories. --Timeshifter 06:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images that belong in this category or its subcategories 

message: Images can be in multiple categories. Maps, for example, often cover multiple nations and territories. So maps can have category links for both "Maps of Israel" and "Maps of the Palestinian territories." Historical maps of Palestine before the creation of Israel in 1947 belong in "Maps of Palestine".
Just paste the code for any of the applicable category links below to the bottom of the relevant image pages.
Category:Maps of the Palestinian territories
Category:Maps of Palestine
Category:Maps of Israel 
See the map category index for additional map categories:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps --Timeshifter 09:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to put category links on an image page 

message: Category:Maps of the West Bank
Category:Maps of Gaza Strip --Timeshifter 12:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategories created 

message: Commons media are for the use of all wikipedia sites worldwide. The English wikipedia pages for those commons media list the English wikipedia pages on which those commons media are used.
The commons page for a particular image does not list the English wikipedia pages on which that image is being used.
There are images in English wikipedia categories that would not be accepted in the commons. Gif images, fair use images, etc.. So the link to the commons category allows for more public-domain images to be used in English wikipedia pages.
The existence of the English wikipedia category allows for links to be made to the commons category of the same name. So English wikipedia editors then know of the additional commons media available to them. Those images are sometimes better, as explained previously. Oftentimes there is a larger selection of images at the commons.
The existence of the English wikipedia category also allows a logical location for links to the English wikipedia subcategories.
Not all commons images are suitable for placement in English wikipedia categories. Images captioned in other languages for example.
As many others have done I put some of the English-language commons images in the English wikipedia categories. This saves editors time in finding images. Because they don't have to click many commons images to open them up and see what language is used on the image. --Timeshifter 08:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons media in English wikipedia categories

message: Wikipedia guidelines say that we should use the most popular names for article and category titles. 
Google searches for phrases when one puts quotes around the phrase.
See for yourself the popularity of various phrases by seeing the number of Google results for these phrase searches:
*http://www.google.com/search?q=%22israeli-occupied+territories%22
*http://www.google.com/search?q=%22israeli-held+territories%22
*http://www.google.com/search?q=%22palestinian+territories%22
"Palestinian territories" is by far the most popular among these phrases. --Timeshifter 10:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Google popularity comparisons

message: An important reason for "placeholder" English wikipedia pages for wikimedia commons images is that the placeholder page lists all the English wikipedia pages using an image. The placeholder page also helps categorize images at English wikipedia. The image itself is not stored on English wikipedia servers. It is stored at the commons for use by various wikipedia sites that use various languages. This saves server space and is a big reason for having the wikipedia commons. Here is the current list below of English wikipedia pages using this map: :Image:Israel and occupied territories map.png. The list can be found on that image placeholder page. That image will soon be replaced by this one, or one similar to it: :Image:Is-wb-gs-gh.png.
    * History of Palestine
    * History of Israel
    * Yasser Arafat
    * Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    * Palestinian state
    * Oslo Accords
    * Palestinian refugee
    * Jewish exodus from Arab lands
    * Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs
    * 2000 Camp David Summit
    * Mahmoud Abbas
    * Road map for peace
    * Beirut Summit
    * East Jerusalem
    * Elon Peace Plan
    * Geneva Accord
    * History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    * Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
    * Israeli peace camp
    * Palestine
    * Wye River Memorandum
    * Madrid Conference of 1991
    * Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    * Taba Summit
    * Wikipedia:Notice board for Israel-related topics
    * Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum (1999)
    * Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
    * Quartet on the Middle East
    * Realignment plan
    * Template:Israel-Palestinian Peace Process
    * Lieberman Plan
    * Israel
The placeholder page is created when categories are added to the page. The English placeholder page for a commons image is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:COMMONS_FILENAME
You can substitute any wikimedia commons filename in the above URL. Then click the link to see the placeholder page. The placeholder page is made permanent by adding categories to it. 
You can see the commons image filenames by going to various commons categories. 
For this particular map the current categories are :Category:Maps of the Palestinian territories and :Category:Maps of Israel. 
The category code added to this placeholder page is:
Category:Maps of the Palestinian territories 
Category:Maps of Israel 
Images can be in multiple categories. --Timeshifter 21:04, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: English wikipedia pages using a particular wikimedia commons map