On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, ecemaml @ es.wikipedia wrote:
Watermarking is just an example of disparate rules
that make the
international phase not equal for every country. Besides the watermarking
issue (personally I see it as the less severe issue), there should be a
common set of rules for all the countries contesting. As I've told
previously, there are pictures that do not belong to a monument at all,
countries posting more than ten pictures or providing images of elements of
movable heritage (when the remaining countries only consider immovable
heritage items). Unless the same rules apply to every country (for providing
images for the international phase) the international contest is definitely
flawed (again, it's up to each country organization to set the rules for the
national contests, however, the international one should follow a single set
of common rules).
Actually no, these are not important issues:
- for the pictures that do not belong to any monument (which is
probably only one, from Egypt), I am sure the international jury will
have the wisdom to give it a small score;
- there are no country with more than 10 pictures. France listed 3
special prizes beyond their top 10, but those 3 are clearly out of the
international contest;
- if there are pictures of furniture, not building interiors, also I
am sure the jury will judge them correctly;
- movable, immovable heritage, this is a federative contest and it was
up to each country to define its list of monuments.
--
nicu