It is not a best practice but we should not fight against watermark. We should inform the uploader about free licence and the fact that one can remove the watermark and reupload another picture (please do not overwrite or engage in edit war for watermarks:p)
Sincerely,
2015-11-05 13:15 GMT+01:00 Rebecca O'Neill rebeccanineil@gmail.com:
Just as a note from the Irish team, when we contact the winner who has an image with a watermark, we request that they upload one without. Generally it is just that people don't understand that it is not best practice on Commons, and it is just habit that photographers add them.
On 5 November 2015 at 12:12, Nicu Buculei nicubunu@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:49 PM, ecemaml @ es.wikipedia ecemaml@gmail.com wrote:
Just a quick watching of the available pictures promoted to the international phase and some questions, comments, remarks...
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Pictures with watermarks: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldunngan.jpg
Note that the respective watermark falls under "discouraged", not "unacceptable": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Watermarks
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