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– (more or less) – JBarta (talk) 02:13, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a general request for a large number of pictures, namely all the contributions of this user: [1]. All of these have a watermark near the bottom that is a link to a company's website.

Request: Is it doable in some way to make these contributions suitable for use in wikipedia without this watermark? What are the options? --VanBurenen (talk) 14:12, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion(s):

The option at this point is to leave them. Unfortunately, one of the problems Commons suffers from is lack of a good and strong watermark policy. Guidelines are written in such a way as to give uploaders the impression that watermarks might be ok. I went and tagged them {{watermark}} which will add them to the huge mountain of other watermarked images. As far as removing the watermarks, there are two options... some sort of mass crop (don't even know if that's possible) which will remove the bottoms of the images (not an appealing idea), or whittle away at the watermarks one at a time as the images are used. For now, they will simply sit on Commons unused. Used even less because of the watermarks actually. In an amateurish effort to bring attention to his web site, the uploader has ensured that even fewer of his images will ever see the light of day. – JBarta (talk) 15:39, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has nominated one of his watermarked images for deletion and cited the reason as "advertising". May make for interesting discussion... or not. – JBarta (talk) 16:11, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I pointed all deletion discussions regarding this uploader's files to one common request. – JBarta (talk) 23:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If somebody is able to automaticly crop off the bottoms of these images than that would be a perfect solution in my opinion. Indeed a small part of the image is lost. But if somebody wants to do a better crop on a later moment this is always possible based on the current version. Basvb (talk) 15:05, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]