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Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Microtoerisme

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::Also, if I might add, the word "discouraged" is precisely part of the problem. Uploaders think watermarks are "discouraged" because that's what we tell them. Maybe we should find a perfectly clear way to tell uploaders such as this one DON'T DO IT. Then again, a similar problem (misuse of "own work") was met with the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk%3AUpload_Wizard&diff=92611938&oldid=92601456 reponse] (I'm paraphrasing) ''Uploaders won't listen anyway and we want to be popular like Facebook and make things easy to upload and bad uploads are just maintenance and if other editors don't want to do maintenance then maybe they're just lazy.'' Everyone has their perspective I guess. – [[User:Jbarta|JBarta]] ([[User talk:Jbarta#top|talk]]) 01:37, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

::Also, if I might add, the word "discouraged" is precisely part of the problem. Uploaders think watermarks are "discouraged" because that's what we tell them. Maybe we should find a perfectly clear way to tell uploaders such as this one DON'T DO IT. Then again, a similar problem (misuse of "own work") was met with the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk%3AUpload_Wizard&diff=92611938&oldid=92601456 reponse] (I'm paraphrasing) ''Uploaders won't listen anyway and we want to be popular like Facebook and make things easy to upload and bad uploads are just maintenance and if other editors don't want to do maintenance then maybe they're just lazy.'' Everyone has their perspective I guess. – [[User:Jbarta|JBarta]] ([[User talk:Jbarta#top|talk]]) 01:37, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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* Btw, most of the images this user uploaded have this text in Dutch: ''"Deze afbeelding wordt u aangeboden door de Stichting Microtoerisme Inzicht - www.microtoerisme.nl"'' (which translates to ''"This image is offered to you by the Microtourism Insight Foundation - www.microtoerisme.nl"''). Apart from the outcome of the watermarks discussion, this clearly spammy message should imo be removed from all his uploads, which shouldn't be too hard for a bot. [[User:Wutsje|Wutsje]] 01:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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* Btw, most (if not all) of the images this user uploaded have this text in Dutch: ''"Deze afbeelding wordt u aangeboden door de Stichting Microtoerisme Inzicht - www.microtoerisme.nl"'' (which translates to ''"This image is offered to you by the Microtourism Insight Foundation - www.microtoerisme.nl"''). Regardless the outcome of the watermarks discussion, this clearly spammy message should imo be removed from all his uploads, which shouldn't be too hard for a bot. [[User:Wutsje|Wutsje]] 01:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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