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...
[...]
> 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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