On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Nicu Buculei <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:39 AM, LilyOf TheWest wrote:
> >
> > Here are the two examples we ran into in Iran's contest this year:
> >
> > 1) We had two questions early on about the unlisted monuments and whether
> > people can upload photos for those. The two examples that I heard were
> the
> > Caspian Sea (which resonates with the Nile river photo) and Milad Tower
> in
> > Tehran. In both cases, I told the users that they cannot upload these
> photos
> > as part of the contest since they are not registered. (Milad Tower is
> one of
> > the most iconic towers/buildings in Tehran and I would count it as a
> > monument if the formal registration wasn't a concern.)
>
> This is a contest, so it's important to have a level playing field for
> all the participants: draw the line before it starts (define a list, a
> criteria or such) and accept for the contest only what's in.
> Otherwise, some people will (rightfully) be disappointed.
>

yup. That's what we did, we said there are 26K plus monuments you can
upload for that are listed, and anything outside of that won't be
considered.


>
> > 2) We ran into an uploaded photo of a monument with no ID, too, and we
> > decided to keep it. Here is a longer version of the story and how we
> decided
> > to move forward:
> >
> > We have the Cyrus' tomb as part of the top 10 photos with no monument ID
> > associated with it. In this case, Pasargadae which is an area that
> includes
> > the Cyrus' tomb has a monument ID, but Cyrus' tomb itself seems not to
> have
> > one, and we decided that we can consider the photo from Cyrus' tomb as a
> > photo of Pasargadae, and then later figure out if it needs to be
> registered
> > on its own as well or not. But, we didn't manually add the ID to the
> photo.
> > In this case, it seems to us that it was confusing to the uploader what
> > monument he/she had to choose (all the uploaders' other photos are
> > associated with monument IDs), and it seemed the uploader had decided to
> go
> > ahead and upload anyway. We accepted this upload.
>
> Give the Tomb the monument ID for Pasargadae, since it is a part of
> it, a detail For example, if you have a house which is a monument, a
> photo with a detail from it (a door, a window or such) will get the ID
> for the whole house, is the same thing as with your case.
>

Makes sense. I'll do that.

L


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