To my knowledge, there was no such rule at least in the first wlm competition in Switzerland. But it was clear at all points to the jury not to select somebody s fathers picture. No rule can make up for a lack of common sense and a certain sense of honor.
So, if you had a rule, i find your decision great. If there was no rule, i d never overrule the jury. The international jury will need no rule to not select this picture for any price, no matter how good it is. To give another example we experienced where i would find a rule helpful: A single person submits multiple excellent images. The jury did not see the names when making the final decision and selected 3 images of this person into the final set of images. At a national level the jury wanted to give only one price to the person, because at the end its a peoples contest as well. there was a discussion how it would be possible to leave it to the international jury which of the 3 they like most, have 10 persons submitted, and give 10 prices to 10 persons on a national level. Rupert Am 01.11.2013 21:07 schrieb "Ilya Korniyko" <[email protected]>: > Hi, Ukrainian organizing committe has trouble with one winner. > > In 2012 the chapter board set rules for Ukrainian part of the competition, > which contains a point that organizing committe members, jury and their > family members (I don't know how to translate precisely, and the correct > word matters here) cannot take part in the competition. According to our > rules places are determined by jury but organizing committee can disqualify > works. > > This year we found out only after final jury round that second place is > authored by one of jury member's father an his wife. While we have no > direct objections that this choice was unfair or biased, we thougth that it > would be difficult to understand by other people and may harm the contest > reputation. We decided not give the prize from the chapter but to present > this photo among 10 best to international competition and say that it was > seconf by jury decision but authors were not given prizes due to violation > of the rules as the organizing committe decided. > > Now the authors of this photo ask us questions > > 1) There is no prohibition in the international rules for jury members' > family. Does our chapter have a right to add additional criterias? > 2) Can a father be qualified as a family member? Is this a good criteria? > 3) Is this ok for organizing committee to override jury decision in this > case? > > Oranizing committe, the winner and jury member in question are in copy. > > Thank you, > Illia > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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