On 11/09/2007, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
No official policy, but general consensus is that we don't like them. Maybe we should add that to Special:Upload (or is it already?).
I've noted in the comments on Durova's article that watermarked images are verboten on en:wp and ill-favoured, i.e. likely to be deleted, on Commons - and even if a watermarked image survives on Commons, it's unlikely to be used on en:wp precisely because of the watermark.
- d.