File talk:Zaniskari Horse in Ladakh.jpg

Is this photo really authentic ?

The location is wrong. It cannot be accurate, that's impossible. If you look at satellite image, you will see that it corresponds to the top of a mountain and not to a meadow. There is a reasonable doubt about the authenticity of this photo which seems a little too perfect... a little too professional to be a simple holiday photo. This is the kind of photo you find in image banks on the internet like stock.adobe.com or shutterstock.com Djampa (留言) 06:27, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for starting a discussion, Djampa. Well, the location may be off by a few metres, but that's really no reason to say the photo was taken in Mongolia, is it? What is your reason for making that assertion? Justlettersandnumbers (留言) 09:35, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Several photos uploaded by contributor eatcha look questionable:

First, the first: File:Zaniskari Horse in Ladakh.jpg The location is wrong. If we look at the satellite photo, this location is at the top of a mountain, and therefore cannot correspond to a pasture. Moreover, this horse is probably a horse of Mongolian breed and not Zanskari (https://stock.adobe.com/search?filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aphoto%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aillustration%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Azip_vector%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Avideo%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Atemplate%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3A3d%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aaudio%5D=0&filters%5Binclude_stock_enterprise%5D=0&filters%5Bis_editorial%5D=0&filters%5Bfree_collection%5D=0&order=relevance&serie_id=105512052). Finally, this photo seems a little too professional, a little too "licked" to be a simple holiday photo.

The same is true of several other photos uploaded by this same contributor. For example: File:Sunrise Chagar Tso Lake Ladakh.jpg This photo cannot be a photo of Chagar Tso Lake. Indeed, Lake Chagar Tso is surrounded by mountains, and a mineral landscape without vegetation. While in this photo, the relief is flat, without any mountains on the horizon, and looking closer, we see that the banks are covered with trees. Finally, here too, this photo seems a little too professional, a little too "slick" to be a simple holiday photo.

These doubts are reinforced by the fact that this contributor has already been caught red-handed (see his talk page). He once uploaded a photo found on the web, claiming it was of him, and giving a fake location. We can also see that he does not hesitate to modify the metadata to make them correspond...

I think these 2 photos are not the only ones to cast doubt on, but there are several others, in particular photos obviously taken in winter, of landscapes covered in snow and ice, and which he claims to have taken in July...