On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, ecemaml @ es.wikipedia wrote:
Watermarking is just an example of disparate rules that make the international phase not equal for every country. Besides the watermarking issue (personally I see it as the less severe issue), there should be a common set of rules for all the countries contesting. As I've told previously, there are pictures that do not belong to a monument at all, countries posting more than ten pictures or providing images of elements of movable heritage (when the remaining countries only consider immovable heritage items). Unless the same rules apply to every country (for providing images for the international phase) the international contest is definitely flawed (again, it's up to each country organization to set the rules for the national contests, however, the international one should follow a single set of common rules).
Actually no, these are not important issues: - for the pictures that do not belong to any monument (which is probably only one, from Egypt), I am sure the international jury will have the wisdom to give it a small score; - there are no country with more than 10 pictures. France listed 3 special prizes beyond their top 10, but those 3 are clearly out of the international contest; - if there are pictures of furniture, not building interiors, also I am sure the jury will judge them correctly; - movable, immovable heritage, this is a federative contest and it was up to each country to define its list of monuments.