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Attempts to delete duplicated photos failed

Can a staffer look at these please and tell me what went wrong in trying to delete these duplicated photos?

#210718-220248-006602

#210725-105753-855502

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Hi Marco -

Similar image situations have been brought up in the recent past regarding duplicate images that cannot be removed from the site.  While it is generally against policy to list duplicate images, there are rare exceptions made, as is the case for the images you reported, where the image is from a partnered-source and the display is reliant for specified features on the site. 

As such these specific duplicate images will need to remain on the site.

I hope this helps clarify!

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@Michelle Define rare please. As you say yourself, this issue has come up in the recent past as well as now, so to me, it doesn't seem to be extremely rare.

Apart from that, how is a contributor to know which duplicates can and can't be deleted? If contributors can't know this, you're risking contributors not contributing to these kind of issues.

And of course, are there plans to mitigate this issue in the future so all dupes can be deleted if discovered and the database will look a bit more professional?

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Hi Marco -

Perhaps I used the wrong terminology (stating "rare") in my previous reply, instead I should have communicated that these are "unique" exceptions, wherein we must allow the duplicate to display on the site, as the live image is being used for other features on the site.

We are aware of the inconsistency and  complications with these duplicate images, so it is on our radar for future improvements.

Cheers!

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I hope it is still somewhere on the radar, because I bumped into this problem again:

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