On 09/07/2012 11:08 AM, Samat wrote:I don't like them either, but I think is better to have watermarked images than no images at all, at least we can clean them.
The Hungarian national contest prohibited watermarks for images last
year (and personally I don't like pictures with watermark).
Here are good reasons to not watermark and may be an useful resource to point the "offenders" to.
In Wikimedia Commons:
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Watermarks#Reasons_not_to_upload_watermarked_images
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_guidelines#Image_page_requirements
This guideline is for *featured* or *quality* images, not for all images.