The ticket is resolved and it is dA's position that watermarks (even logos) cannot be "links" (and that means, apparently, text URLs or the company's website, even if not actually hyperlinked - just "human readable"). So all 200 or so deletions were found to be accurate and that work is gone from here. I am "allowed" to repost them all with my new, censored logo, if I want...
So, that closes this round of efforts and I will continue to post (new art, I am not going back to restore history here) with my new, censored logo, and all is well again. In a way, dA helped me - I was never branding my work so heavily until now, and that was probably a mistake anyway.
No hard feelings here, my new company website gallery already has more traffic than my dA work had in the last many months combined. It shows me the relative relevance, if you will, of efforts done here.
So, onward and upward.
Sta.sh
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