Hi Jernej,
Based on what you describe, this is a complex issue indeed, and an unfortunate intersection of circumstances. I don't think there is a perfect solution.
I don't see a good reasoning to accept the new image unless somehow you can argue that the newer version is better because of either metadata or resolution. You could also check if they have a slightly different angle/version that they maybe did not yet upload to Flickr. These are all imperfect solutions though.
You could discuss among yourselves whether to accept these submissions anyway in the national competition; you have some leeway there - but I should warn you that most likely these images would not be accepted as 'new' in the international competition. The international jury has to stick to their rules, I'm afraid, and I think the definition is pretty clear here, however unfortunate this is for the photographer.
I'm sorry that I don't have a better solution.
Lodewijk
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:25 AM Jernej Polajnar jpolajnar.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
we came across an interesting issue. Apparently, the Slovene campain attracted an author whose freely licensed pictures were transferred from Flickr almost a year ago by a long-time user. Naturally, I'd like to keep the new pictures which were uploaded in good faith, so that the author wouldn't be offended by deletions, and that the campaign results would be better. You think that Commons admins could be persuaded to delete the older instances instead?
Here's one example: < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spodnje_Gorenjce_hamlet_in_Semi%C4%8...
(old) and < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Podru%C5%BEni%C4%8Dna_cerkev_Sv._Jo%...
(new). There's a couple more.
What do you think can be done?
Thanks,
Jernej
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