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Why? (in english)

Jos Driessen
posted this on Jan 05 11:34

Under the 'Why?' button I found this comment: 

You added that photo, and photo is removed by an admin.
You loose -11 points.
What is meant by 'an admin'?
The removed photo in the mammal article is highly appreciated in other articles, has the right technical specs, and is showing a horse in the article 'mammal', which is quite relevant in my opinion. I found two more pictures removed from relevant articles this morning. These were not my own photo's, I choose them because I think they are great pictures. 
 

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Moderator / Raphie
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Hello Jos,

"by an admin" means a flag was validated on a photo by an administrator. For example, on this photo that you nominated in mammal article a flag "image editing" was validated, so the photo was removed.

Best

January 05, 2012 13:14.
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jaap polak

oke, first of all sorry for my bad English. I had 2 photo's they where removed by the administrator. the photo's of Bruges where very good large enough, fantastic of quality and the had together 47 point. The people who nows me from trekearth, know that I only put good stuff on the side. So I ask you why you remove them. I can not follow the rules here.

regard jaap

January 05, 2012 19:59.
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Jos Driessen
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Dear Jaap, Give a link to the photo, I'm curious...
January 06, 2012 02:05.
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jaap polak
January 06, 2012 06:41.
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Jos Driessen
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When I follow the link it brings me to pictures that are not taken by you and are not taken in Bruges.
January 06, 2012 10:55.
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jaap polak
January 06, 2012 11:11.
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Philippe Schillings
One of my photos was removed from the Canal of Damme article. It shows the Schellemeulen and the Canal of Damme. I don't understand why it was removed by an admin. Can I get an explanation for this? Thank you.
January 06, 2012 13:44.
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Moderator / Raphie
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Hello,

@Jaap: Your photos have 1339×1200px and 1391×1200px. The Fotopedia Quality Guideline recommends you add photos with the highest resolution possible. Photos in resolutions lower than 1400x1080 will be reported and removed.
@Philippe: Same thing, your photo have 1200×800px while Fotopedia recommends 1400x1080.

Regards

January 06, 2012 15:22.
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jaap polak

I am not agree that my photo's are not sharp enough and 1391 x 1200 = 9 to low and therefore you remove this quality job.  oke the other photo is 61 below that 1400, but for this photo I can say when you want quality, you have here quality.

regard jaap

January 06, 2012 15:31.
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jaap polak

When I look to them in big format you must tel me what is wrong about it.

jaap

January 06, 2012 15:35.
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Jos Driessen
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Jaap, 

The Quality Guideline is used very rigorously.  1399 is not 1400, 1078 is not 1080. I can understand that, you can't start an argument over every photo that's a few pixels to small. I just hope you still have your originals so you can upload them again.

Personally I find it strange that photo's cropped to a square must  therefore be bigger because they have to be 1400 by 1400,

It is very irritating that many of the best photo's on fotopedia have a resolution below the guidelines. You can view them in the article they were in originally, but when you nominate them in another article they are flagged. I just hope these great photo's will not disappear!   

January 06, 2012 16:15.
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jaap polak

oke I know what you mean, but on the other side when I look to the very bad photo's with that resolution by an article I think by myself, that bad picture they must deleted.

I am a new here because I stopped by trekearth because the moderators, I hope not that I have the same here.

regard jaap

January 06, 2012 16:29.
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Philippe Schillings

OK, Raphie. Now I understand why my pic has been removed. I found it strange because it was posted before and accepted. But it was before you changed the minimum size for the pictures. Thanks for your answer.

Have a nice weekend,

Philippe

January 06, 2012 17:03.
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Jos Driessen
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Fotopedia is changing its rules quite often and it happens unannounced. Since about a month you lose reputation points when you vote down on photo's, so bad pictures tend to stay on the site much longer than before. You can earn them back when these pfoto's are removed, but you can also lose more if they are voted up again. If you earn more than 100 points on a day you can vote down without consequences, until you are back to 100. So after adding a lot of photo's to articles, you're own pictures or great pictures by others, which is the best way for getting points, you are rewarded with the privilige of cleaning up.
January 06, 2012 17:13.
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jaap polak

thank you Jos for the explaining.

groet jaap

January 06, 2012 17:18.