Besides, the columns seem to have names(?) on them, so there might be a meaning somewhere.. Ole On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com > well sounds like a job for openstreetmap, the germans map every single > lightpost, so i would say if they have geotags, keep them and put them > on osm. > mike > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Racso <racso(a)colombia.com> > I'm having a bit of trouble with a really weird (troll?) participant. He > has > > uploaded some valid photos to the contest, but also lots of really weird > and > > invalid stuff (for example, a photograph of a dead rat found in a park > [the > > park is a monument, so let's take some close-up details of it!]). His > last > > gift was this golden collection: > > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N33.jpg > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N35.jpg > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N39.jpg > > > > (Try changing the two-digits number of the filename with other numbers to > > see even more columns :D [or just check this out: > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Ivan_Tunja > ; > > look for the "NXX.jpg" filenames]) > > > > Apparently, this time he is moving around the inside of an area > surrounded > > by some kind of fence and taking photos to each column the fence has. I > > can't even know if the columns are part of a valid monument because I > cannot > > see what is behind the photographer (inside the fence); and even if they > > are, I think this is just irrational and not useful at all! > > > > What do you think I should do? Nothing? Disqualify the images? Let them > stay > > until the end of september and then filter them? I don't feel comfortable > > knowing that about 10% of the contest valid images are photos of almost > > equal columns :S ("Hey, check out Colombia cultural heritage! Yep, > columns! > > [And dead rats!]"). Also, I'm getting tired of following this guy's > > contribution to filter the non-useful, even offensive pictures (I won't > > allow the rat image to reach the judges!). I think that, while the rules > > don't state that uploading dozens of almost equal photos is invalid, this > > guy is clearly stretching the spirit of the competition. > > > > Any advice of how to deal with this kind of behaviour will be really > > appreciated. If you think that I'm wrong and I should let him be happy > and > > participate with his images, tell me so; It will also be appreciated. > > > > Racso > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion > http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588

Hi Oscar, Thanks for your mail. I don't have the feeling from the column pictures at least that this is a troll or attention seeker. Lets assume good faith, and assume he indeed wants to make detailed photos. Then I think that allowing them as images is totally fine. It may be obvious that these pictures are unlikely to win any prize though. Disqualification won't help anyone and will at best get you huge discussions. What is important though, is that he identifies which monument it is. Transcribing etc seems to me too much like you're making fun of him - do I definitely don't agree with that suggestion. So, if this indeed seems like a detail of monument 06-050, then just accept it as a submission. If you want him also to make overview photos, you could just ask him that in a constructive way like "Hey, thanks for participating! I see you make a lot of nice detailed photos, but I wondered if you could, on top of that, also make a few overview photos so that it is clear how these details relate to each other". Hope that helps, Lodewijk 2012/9/15 Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com>

2012/9/15 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> Looks like you found it :P 2012/9/15 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> No, thank you and everyone else for your advice! :) The fact is that here (and maybe in some of your countries) some areas are monuments as a whole. In this case, for example, 06-050 refers to the "historic zone" of a town, so buildings, streets, etc. that are located in the area are considered to be valid. So yes, those are details of a building which is located in the historic zone. Well, I was hoping to optimize the amount of photos the jury will see so they can truly focus in picking the best images. More images mean more work and stress for them; having them review more than 100 (!) columns pictures (which, as you said, probably won't win anything) is, imho, innecesary. OK guys, if you think the pictures are fine then I'm happy with that (specially because, as I told before, is a lot of work to keep checking new pictures looking for "invalid" stuff). I will let every picture participate (even the rats, I guess; the jury will whip them out) and limit my actions just to telling people who uploaded photos without valid IDs to tag them properly. Thank you all. Oscar