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I wonder what is happening here. At the moment, this image looks like a certain copyvio, because it seems someone simply took a picture of an advertising photo. I say “at the moment” because the image history shows that the content of this image has changed a number of times. http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-44.jpg I have not been around in awhile (except to accept/clear requests, which I keep up with pretty regularly). So I don’t know if this is a new thing or not.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an example of a bug in the image importer. Multiple people seem to have uploaded multiple unrelated images replacing each other, none of which are similar in content (there is similar behavior in other images with similar URLs -40.jpg etc). Additionally, the image description seems to have not updated with each image upload, despite the correct template data being in the changelog’s comment. With respect to the image itself from its page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/11419506@N08/2397445954 ) it seems that this was a fake advert the the photographer himself made (presumably for fun. Vodka adverts are cool), and licensed correctly. Not that there aren’t a dearth of falsely CC-licensed images out there, I just don’t think that this is one of them - with the exception of the Absolut trademark, which possibly invalidates the photographer’s CC license.

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Thanks, Nathan. The image does not seem to fit any of the three articles to which it is currently affixed, which is what led me to think about a solution, and then to ask here first. I am still puzzling over how this is happening. http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Book-Worm http://www.wikihow.com/Smile-When-You-Think-You-Can't-Smile http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Paint-on-Glass-Windows

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I wonder if the answer could be as simple as the fact that a name like Image:-44.jpg is common. Could a new image called Image:-44 automatically drop into a file which was previously called http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-44.jpg ? or would the image uploader not allow duplicate names?

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The image uploader doesn’t allow duplicate names, if someone still chooses to use the new image with the same name it replaces the old file with the same name - you get the option to replace the name from your own file.

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I think you are saying, Elyne, that if someone does not take the option to replace the name, that what will happen is that the image already there is going to get replaced? That is perhaps what happened in all these files with names which seem pretty common. http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-34.jpg http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-44.jpg http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-53.jpg http://www.wikihow.com/Image:-47.jpg

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KnowItsome yes, and probably yes, that happened by newcomers I think , or they just push buttons to get rid of the pop ups or something.

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I think I asked Krystle or Jack around mid-December to fix the image glitch to avoid it happening. In the past, sometimes it would over-run certain number file names with spaces. Anyone is free to change out anything to reflect it better in the articles affected.

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Maluniu, I think you contacted me about that back then. I filed a bug on it; I thought we had it fixed. I’ll check with Scott and let him know we seem to be having the issue again.

10

Bah! It was someone! lol

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It’s probably a bug in the system or just the image.