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Here you can see some of the images they uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_North_Face_Wikipedia_advertising_campaign https://commons.wik

Here you can see some of the images they uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_North_Face_Wikipedia_advertising_campaign https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_North_Face_W... There are at least two ongoing community discussions about the incident: - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_User:Fhpatucci https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User_Gmortaia_vandalizing_pages_with_guerrilla_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

the_north_face 7y ago
But why wouldn't you want to look at such nice photos?
iso-8859-1 7y ago
This account made the edit removing the image in the Wikimedia Foundation blog post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamjonnes80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamjonn...
chaostheory 7y ago
Most of the pictures are fine i.e. you can't really see the North Face logos. A few of them though are just really terrible and don't belong on Wikipedia.
- ignoranceprior 7y ago
  A few of the images don't even contain the logo at all (AFAICT). Maybe those were uploaded as distractions so it didn't look like a single-purpose advertising account.
  - RobLach 7y ago
    That’s exactly it
rdiddly 7y ago
Look, they got fellow shyster Elizabeth Holmes involved! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pico-do-Marins.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pico-do-Marins.jpg Them's jokes, son. Obligatory intellectually interesting content: Paul Dirac was a Swiss-British quantum physics pioneer who shared a 1933 Nobel Prize with Schrödinger.
X6S1x6Okd1st 7y ago
Of note: In at least one of these the bag is photoshopped in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_do_Agudo_Santo_Antonio_do_Pinhal.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_do_Agudo_Santo_Anton... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vale_do_paraiba_montanha.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vale_do_paraiba_montanha....

the_north_face 7y ago

But why wouldn't you want to look at such nice photos?

iso-8859-1 7y ago

This account made the edit removing the image in the Wikimedia Foundation blog post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamjonnes80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamjonn...

chaostheory 7y ago

Most of the pictures are fine i.e. you can't really see the North Face logos. A few of them though are just really terrible and don't belong on Wikipedia.

ignoranceprior 7y ago
A few of the images don't even contain the logo at all (AFAICT). Maybe those were uploaded as distractions so it didn't look like a single-purpose advertising account.
- RobLach 7y ago
  That’s exactly it

rdiddly 7y ago

Look, they got fellow shyster Elizabeth Holmes involved! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pico-do-Marins.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pico-do-Marins.jpg Them's jokes, son. Obligatory intellectually interesting content: Paul Dirac was a Swiss-British quantum physics pioneer who shared a 1933 Nobel Prize with Schrödinger.

X6S1x6Okd1st 7y ago

Of note: In at least one of these the bag is photoshopped in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_do_Agudo_Santo_Antonio_do_Pinhal.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_do_Agudo_Santo_Anton... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vale_do_paraiba_montanha.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vale_do_paraiba_montanha....