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Commons talk:Watermarks

‎Opposition to the direction of this proposal: new section
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==New guideline draft==

==New guideline draft==

I thought the old guideline draft was really rather poor - far too wordy, far too unclear. So I made a new one, at [[Commons:Watermarks]] (the old one is at [[Commons:Watermarks/old draft]]). What do people think of that? (NB this is inspired by the current [[Commons:Village_pump#Watermarks]] discussion.) [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] ([[User talk:Rd232|talk]]) 15:53, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

I thought the old guideline draft was really rather poor - far too wordy, far too unclear. So I made a new one, at [[Commons:Watermarks]] (the old one is at [[Commons:Watermarks/old draft]]). What do people think of that? (NB this is inspired by the current [[Commons:Village_pump#Watermarks]] discussion.) [[User:Rd232|Rd232]] ([[User talk:Rd232|talk]]) 15:53, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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== Opposition to the direction of this proposal ==

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As I have stated in the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#discussion discussion on VP], I feel that the project is set up to provide educational material, and thus at no time should freely licenced educational material be deleted (and definitely uploader should not be blocked) when no alternative exists. In many ways it is akin to the proposal to block for blurry images, but even worse (nobody can "unblur" images, but watermark could at least potentially be removed).

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But it's no good to complain without proposing something, so:

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* I propose to state clearly that once an alternative with no watermark that is at least as good appears, than the media damaged by watermark can be deleted.

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* I propose to completely remove all instances of "not acceptable" (with the exception of possible non-free watermark, that would create a non-distributable derivative work, and that note should really also be added to [[COM:L]]).

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* A mention that watermaked image cannot become "quality image", "image of the day", etc; should be added.

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However, since I believe that I am somewhat at the fringe of the consensus, I will not be bold and incorporate any of my suggestions myself at this time. [[User:Sinnamon|Sinnamon]] ([[User talk:Sinnamon|talk]]) 06:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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