Hi, For your first question, I don't know if it's authorized but I can tell you that we added the same rule in french WLM : jury member's family are excluded from competition. It's a common rule in this kind of competition in France at least.
Sylvain. 2013/11/1 Ilya Korniyko <intra...@gmail.com> > 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 > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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