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Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Microtoerisme

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*I am hesitant to support the deletion of all these files because they are freely licensed and may fall into [[COM:SCOPE]]. I do agree that this user's practice is spammy and should be discouraged, but I do wonder if it might be worth it to run some sort of a bot to crop out the watermark and keep the images? [[User:Mono|'''Mono''']] 01:09, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

*I am hesitant to support the deletion of all these files because they are freely licensed and may fall into [[COM:SCOPE]]. I do agree that this user's practice is spammy and should be discouraged, but I do wonder if it might be worth it to run some sort of a bot to crop out the watermark and keep the images? [[User:Mono|'''Mono''']] 01:09, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

::If a bot can crop out the watermarks on the images, that would be a quick and minimally damaging solution. Then in the future, on an individual basis, editors will still have the option to re-remove the watermark without cropping if they wish, as the watermarked originals will remain available in the history. – [[User:Jbarta|JBarta]] ([[User talk:Jbarta#top|talk]]) 01:22, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

::If a bot can crop out the watermarks on the images, that would be a quick and minimally damaging solution. Then in the future, on an individual basis, editors will still have the option to re-remove the watermark without cropping if they wish, as the watermarked originals will remain available in the history. – [[User:Jbarta|JBarta]] ([[User talk:Jbarta#top|talk]]) 01:22, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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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 not to 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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