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Files for discussion (FfD) is for listing images and other media files which may be unneeded or have either free content or non-free content usage concerns. Files that have been listed here for more than 7 days are eligible for either deletion or removal from pages if either a consensus to do so has been reached or the nominator specifically requests deletion or removal and no objections are raised. To quote the non-free content criteria, "it is the duty of users seeking to include or retain content to provide a valid rationale; those seeking to remove or delete it are not required to show that one cannot be created." For undeletion requests, first contact the administrator who deleted the file. If you are unable to resolve the issue with that administrator, the matter should be brought to deletion review.

Examples of what files you may request for discussion, deletion or change here:

Obsolete – The file has been replaced by a better version.
Orphan – The file is not used on any pages in Wikipedia.
Unencyclopedic – The file doesn't seem likely to be useful in any Wikimedia project.
Low quality – The file is of an extremely low resolution, distorted, or has other physical image quality concerns.
Copyright violation – The file might be used in violation of copyright.
Possibly unfree – The file is tagged with a freeness claim, but may actually be eligible for copyright in the United States or the country of origin.
NFCC violation – The file is used under a claim of fair use but does not meet the requirements.
NFCC applied to free image – The file is used under a claim of fair use, but the file is either too simple, or is an image which has been wrongly labeled given evidence presented on the file description page.
Wrong license or status – The file is under one license, but the information on the file description pages suggests that a different license is more appropriate, or a clarification of status is desirable.
Wrongly claimed as own – The file is under a self license, but the information on the file description pages suggests otherwise.

If you have questions if something should be deleted, consider asking at Media Copyright Questions.

What not to list here[edit]

For concerns not listed below, if a deletion is uncontroversial, do not use this process. Instead tag a file with {{subst:prod}}. However, if the template is removed, please do not reinsert it; list the file for deletion then.
For speedy deletion candidates as well, do not use this page; instead use one of the speedy deletion templates. See the criteria for speedy deletion. These are: duplicates (where both files are on Wikipedia), thumbnails, broken files, non-existent files, non-commercial, "by permission" files and files which are not an image, sound file or video clip and have no encyclopedic use.
Files that have no source, have an unknown copyright, are unused or replaceable non-free, or are non-free without rationale can be marked so that they will be deleted after a week, and should not be listed on this page. Add one of the following to the file page:
1. {{subst:nsd}} if a file has no source indicated.
2. {{subst:nld}} if a file has a source but no licensing information.
3. {{subst:orfud}} if a file has a non-free copyright template but isn't used in any articles.
4. {{subst:rfu}} if a file has a non-free copyright template but could be replaced by a free file.
5. {{subst:dfu|reason}} if a file has a non-free copyright template but the rationale isn't sufficient or is disputed.
6. {{subst:nrd}} if a file has no non-free use rationale.
Redundant or duplicate files do not have to be listed here. Please use
1. {{db-f1|Full name of file excluding the "File:" prefix}} for speedy deletion if the other file is on Wikipedia, not on Commons
2. {{now commons|File:NEW FILENAME}} if the file now exists on Commons, or {{now commons}} for files with the same name on Commons. (Don't nominate protected images, they are usually locally uploaded and protected since they are used in an interface message or in a highly used template, thus they are high-risk.)
For blatant copyright infringements, use speedy deletion by tagging the file {{db-f9}}.
If a file is listed as public domain or under a free license, but lacks verification of this (either by an OTRS ticket number or a notice on the source website), tag it as {{subst:npd}}.
Files that are hosted on Wikimedia Commons cannot be deleted via this process. Please use the Commons deletion page instead.
Description pages with no local file, even though they are in the file namespace, should not be listed here.
1. Redirects should be treated as in any other namespace: if no speedy deletion criteria apply, they should be listed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion.
2. Local description pages with no associated file are speedy-deletable under criterion G8; use {{db-imagepage}}.
3. Local description pages for files hosted on Commons are usually speedy-deletable under criterion F2 if there is no content relevant to Wikipedia; use {{db-fpcfail}}.
4. Any other local description pages for files hosted on Commons should be listed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion.
If a file is appropriately licensed and could be usable elsewhere, consider copying it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of listing it for deletion. Once copied to the Commons, it is eligible for speedy deletion per criterion 8 for files.
If you are the uploader of the image, tag it with {{db-author}}.

Instructions for listing files for discussion

To list a file:

1	Edit the file page. Add `{{Ffd\|log=2021 October 27}}` to the file page.
2	Create its FfD subsection. Follow this edit link and list the file using `{{subst:Ffd2\|File_name.ext\|uploader=\|reason=}}` `~~~~` Leave the subject heading blank. If the file has been replaced by another file, name the file that replaced it in your reason for deletion. Refer below for a list of other common reasons. For listing additional files with the same reason, edit the first file section and use `{{subst:Ffd2a\|File_name.ext\|Uploader=}}` for each additional file. You may use this tool to quickly generate Ffd2a listings. Also, add `{{Ffd\|log=2021 October 27}}` to the top of the file page of each file other than the first one nominated.
3	Give due notice. Inform the uploader by adding a message to their talk page using `{{subst:Ffd notice\|File_name.ext}}` Remember to replace "File_name.ext" with the name of the image or media For multiple images by the same user, use `{{subst:Ffd notice multi\|First_file.ext\|Second_file.ext\|Third_file.ext}}` `~~~~` (can handle up to 26) If the image is in use, also consider adding `{{FFDC\|File_name.ext\|log=2021 October 27}}` to the caption(s), or adding a notice to the article talk pages. Consider also notifying relevant WikiProjects of the discussion.

State the reasons why the file should be deleted, removed, or altered. Also, state what specific action should be taken, preferably in bold text; this allows discussion participants and closers to better understand the purpose of the nomination. Some examples of nomination statements include:

Delete. Orphaned with no foreseeable encyclopedic usage.
Delete. Replaced by File:FILE2.
Free (public domain) file may actually be eligible for copyright in the United States. This photograph was actually first published in 1928, not 1922.
Remove from ARTICLE1 and ARTICLE2. The file only meets WP:NFCC#8 with its use in ARTICLE3.
Non-free file may actually be free. This logo does not seem to meet the threshold of originality to be eligible for copyright in the United States and should actually be tagged free using {{PD-logo}}.

Some common reasons for deletion or removal from pages are:

Obsolete – The file has been replaced by a better version. Indicate the new file name.
Orphan – The file is not used on any pages in Wikipedia. (If the file is only available under "fair use", please use {{subst:orfud}} instead). Please consider moving "good" free licensed files to Commons rather than outright deleting them, other projects may find a use for them even if we have none; you can also apply {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}.
Unencyclopedic – The file doesn't seem likely to be useful in this encyclopedia (or for any Wikimedia project). Images used on userpages should generally not be nominated on this basis alone unless the user is violating the Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not policy by using Wikipedia to host excessive amounts unencyclopedic material (most commonly private photos).
Low quality – The image is of an extremely low resolution, distorted, or has other physical image quality concerns.
Copyright violation – The file might be used in violation of copyright.
Possibly unfree file – The file marked as free may actually be non-free. If the file is determined to be non-free, then it will be subject to the non-free content criteria in order to remain on Wikipedia.
Non-free file issues – The non-free file may not meet all requirements outlined in the non-free file use policy, or may not be necessary to retain on Wikipedia or specific articles due to either free alternatives or better non-free alternative(s) existing.
File marked as non-free may actually be free – The file is marked non-free, but may actually be free content. (Example: A logo may not eligible for copyright alone because it is not original enough, and thus the logo is considered to be in the public domain.)

These are not the only "valid" reasons to discuss a file. Any properly explained reason can be used. The above list comprises the most common and uncontroversial ones.

If you remove a file from an article, list the article from which you removed it so there can be community review of whether the file should be deleted. This is necessary because file pages do not remember the articles on which the file were previously used.

Administrator instructions

Instructions for discussion participation[edit]

In responding to the deletion nomination, consider adding your post in the format
* '''View''' - Reasoning ... -- ~~~~
where "Delete", "Keep", "Comment", or something else may replace "View". In posting their reasoning, many editors use abbreviations and cite to the following:

Wikipedia:NFCC#1 – Free equivalent is/is not available
Wikipedia:NFCC#8 – Significance
Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images 2 – Unacceptable image use

Remember that polling is not a substitute for discussion. Wikipedia's primary method of determining consensus is through editing and discussion, not voting. Although editors occasionally use straw polls in an attempt to test for consensus, polls or surveys sometimes impede rather than assist discussion. They should be used with caution, and are no more binding than any other consensus decision.

Also remember that if you believe that an image is potentially useful for other projects and should be moved to Wikimedia Commons, in lieu of responding '''Move to Commons''', you can move it there yourself. See Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons for instructions.

Instructions for closing discussions[edit]

Nominations should be processed for closing after being listed for 7 days following the steps here.

Old discussions[edit]

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October 19

File:Chanchhaya.jpg

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Cambodia does not have freedom of panorama, per COM:FOP Cambodia. —oscitare ^(talk | _contribs) 21:29, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep It's {{FoP-USonly|Cambodia}} at the very least.

Who is the architect? Is it possible that the copyright already has expired? --Stefan2 (talk) 12:44, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 17

File:ME! mural.jpg

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Lack of contextual significance: "For commentary on the album's background and the release of its lead single Me!" is hardly enough to warrant WP:NFCC criteria 8 ("its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.") and 1 ("used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose.") Currently used in two articles: Reputation (Taylor Swift album) and Me!. In the former, another free image currently used (File:Taylor Swift Reputation Tour3.jpg) is enough to provide understanding on the album's background and conception. In the latter, I am dubious about the significance of this file, because the article already has three non-free files to support. Ippantekina (talk) 07:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I disagree. The mural image has contextual significance because it is the first promotional event Swift did for the song or the album. It's not just about the background, but the marketing aspect too. It's not abnormal in album/song articles to include images of how the artist promoted their work, such as via billboards; in Swift's case, it is a mural. The image does the job by actually illustrating the mural, which was widely covered by publications as well. The Reputation tour image is about the conception, while the mural is about the marketing/rollout. Ronherry (talk) 07:55, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I don't see how removing this image would negatively affect the readers' understanding. Non-free files must be essential and not merely decorative. A lot of artists embarked on extravagant promotional campaigns for their albums/singles/films, which can be effectively conveyed through prose, with an external link to the copyrighted images if necessary. Ippantekina (talk) 12:53, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Every image on Wikimedia could be removed and explained in the prose itself, but that's not the case. The mural is quite literally the only image, on Wikipedia, of Swift participating in a Lover promotional event. It clearly serves the purpose and I don't see how it is "decorative" when it's the only picture of anything related to Lover, which had its tour cancelled. Ronherry (talk) 19:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

It can be safely removed without violating criteria 8: "its omission would be detrimental to that understanding". We know that Swift embarked on a large promotional campaign without having this photo--even the subject of this photo, the butterfly, has little to do with the album itself. Ippantekina (talk) 08:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song - sample).ogg

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Currently used at Cultural impact of the Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Power pop, and The Beatles' North American releases. If it helps readers understand the song more and meets WP:NFCC#8, the sample should remain at the song article. Unsure whether the same is true for usages in other articles. George Ho (talk) 23:54, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Speedy keep obviously merited for the articles that were named, and they each contain critical discussion about the contents of the song recording (except perhaps The Beatles' North American releases). ili (talk) 00:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[]
You don't object to removing the sample from The Beatles' North American releases, do you? If so, how would removing it affect the understanding of the topic or what is discussed? --George Ho (talk) 01:04, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[]
I don't object. Removing would not affect the readers' understanding of the Beatles' North American releases because there is no critical commentary about how the musical contents of the song relate to the Beatles' North American releases. ili (talk) 01:00, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Almost forgot: the genre article doesn't mention the song outside a file caption. George Ho (talk) 19:39, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
...So? Why does the body need to include more commentary about the musical merit of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" when the media caption and sample says everything there is to say? In any case, the section contains much commentary about the Beatles' "Mersey sound" from early 1964, the same time that the song reached number-one in the USA. The song is actually referenced, just not directly. ili (talk) 01:00, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]
All right, all right. I guess the caption is sufficient enough, and describing the song outside the caption isn't necessary? Probably the sample is trying to tell readers what early-1960s power pop sounded like, how the Beatles fit the term "power pop"... or what "power pop" had been when Pete Townshend coined the term. In my case, having listened to 1960s songs, I can already understand what the article describes and what a typical 1960s power pop song would sound like, both without having the sample in my head. I even understand what the quote from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll says about the Beatles and its musical style without assuming that deleting the sample would affect such understanding. Maybe younger demographics of today can imagine what a typical 1960s power pop sounds like without the sample, or maybe they need the sample since they are preoccupied with newer songs of their time? --George Ho (talk) 02:18, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]
As a rule of thumb, I think that such broad-concept articles should be kept accessible for people who have hardly listened to anything recorded before this century (i.e. the vast majority of people under 21). I also believe that there are plenty of people above 21 who are, shall we say, too musically challenged to understand what "ringing guitars", "vocal harmonies", and the "Mersey sound" are supposed to sound like without an immediate reference. And perhaps there are people who only know the Beatles for Yellow Submarine (I've met several) and would therefore struggle to understand the link between their songs and Fountains of Wayne. ili (talk) 07:06, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 16

File:Lady Gaga - Applause (Music Sample).ogg

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Currently used at Applause (Lady Gaga song) and Artpop. It was previously nominated for WP:NFCC#8 concerns, but nomination was withdrawn after improvements on rationale, which would improve compliance with another criterion WP:NFCC#10c IMO. Even with rationale improvements, I don't believe that WP:NFCC#8/WP:NFC#CS concerns have been yet addressed.

Artpop is an album, and the sample is used at the "Music and lyrics" section. I'm unconvinced that one sample is necessary to help identify the album's music style and theme and that removing the sample would impact such understanding. Furthermore, the section isn't fully about just one song. The article already provides information about the album and its tracks. If a reader wants to listen to the song in order to learn more about the song, he or she can go to the song article about "Applause".

Speaking of the song, I still wonder whether the sample is way too significant to be removed from the song article, even when it's used at the "Recording and composition" section. If so, then I guess the sample belongs at just the song article. George Ho (talk) 21:10, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[]

As I described at Talk:Artpop#Non-free_audio_example, the sample fails to demonstrate the characteristics described in the sources. If somone wanted to illustrate a point from those sources, a different part of the song should be uploaded. Binksternet (talk) 21:58, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep for Applause page, remove from Artpop I see the file's caption supported by this at Applause (Lady Gaga song). While somebody could change the Artpop one to match it or perhaps tweak in accordance with Idolator (which says the track "plays like a return to Gaga's days of The Fame"), I feel this is best reserved for the song page in order to minimize the use of non-free audio samples. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 02:10, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- Did you notice that none of what is described can be heard in the selected portion of the song? The stuttering synths are at the very beginning of the song, but this section doesn't have 'em. The snare drum hits are also at the beginning but not in the selected portion, which instead has a strange kind of synthetic noise percussion. So the file doesn't work for its caption or its supporting sources, not in the "Applause" song article or the album article. Binksternet (talk) 22:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- Also, the fact that the song is similar to Gaga's Fame output cannot be conveyed by one audio sample. A simple statement in prose is sufficient to get the idea across. Two audio samples might be able to help the reader, but the source does not specify the exact part of Fame. If someone put together a listening sample of "Applause" and some section of Fame then it would be a violation of WP:NOR, because they would have decided on their own what part of Fame was targeted by the critic. Binksternet (talk) 22:45, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 12

File:Friedrich Leibacher.jpg

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Months ago the article about the perpetrator was merged into Zug massacre as WP:BIO1E has applied. Some other perpetrator images have been kept per other FFD discussions. However, I don't believe that the image may comply with WP:NFCC#8. The article is about the tragic event, and the event was already tragic enough. I don't see how the image improves the understanding or identifies the event. It identifies the perpetrator, but he is not the main subject of the already-merged article. George Ho (talk) 22:24, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep. The perpetrator is arguably one of the core subjects of a mass shooting article, which is in part also his biography. This warrants illustration. Sandstein 07:42, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 10

File:Pangasinense People.jpg

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The source is Facebook, claiming that the PD-Gov applies to official social media presences even when unstated, and claims of PD are false as archives of government site to 2019 point to copyright either way. I think an NFUR could be written for this image, within context to the rest of the article, but not certain. Either way, this licensing is incorrect. Sennecaster (What now?) 19:02, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep The image is present on a Philippine government website [1]. The site copyright notice says content is created and maintained by the Provincial Information Office, and owned by the government Province of Pangasinan. It is thus effectively public domain, as as explained in Copyright_rules_by_territory/Philippines. I have updated the image template to recommend moving the image to Wikimedia Commons. --Elephanthunter (talk) 23:21, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[]
The website must state that it is public domain for PD-PhilippinesGov to apply. The website in question was ARR at the time of uploading. This will not stand on commons. This is copyrighted. I wish it worked the way you argue, but it unfortunately doesn't. Sennecaster (What now?) 02:18, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[]
@Sennecaster: This has already been discussed in the case of Smithsonian on Commons, but ARR use by governments is a complicated matter. Also, I am not sure where you got the idea that public domain requires some kind of explicit "public domain" notice, but that is not the case on enwiki. Public domain is inferred, and the rules regarding that process are laid out in broad strokes on WP:PD. As far as I can tell there is no special exemption to this policy for the Philippines, nor does PD-PhilippinesGov require sources explicitly state the images are public domain. --Elephanthunter (talk) 05:58, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[]
Comment: @Sennecaster and Elephanthunter: this is very tricky. I usually consider official socmed pages of the likes of the Province of Pangasinan as under PD. But there is one caveat: did the photographer of this particular file took this photo as part of his/her regular duty as an employee of the Provincial Government? See c:COM:Philippines#Commissioned works, rule #1 for works created during employment. If the second case (letter b.) is the case here (in which the IP rights belong to the province), then this passes Commons' house rules on policy. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 10:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[]
It is generally presumed that in the Philippines, official social media presences are managed by staff members of the office in question as part of their regular duties. At the risk of WP:COI, I'll use this example: my grandmother is mayor of Gasan, Marinduque, and the various offices under her office have official Facebook accounts (e.g. her office, the municipal tourism office, the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, etc.). Those accounts are managed by employees of the municipality as part of their regularly-prescribed duties, and as such their contents are presumed to be in the public domain. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 04:38, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Comment: Unless I'm totally missing something, I don't think this can be converted to non-free per WP:FREER. No disrespect to anyone is intended, but this looks basically to be nothing more than a photo of a group of people standing in a room; so, a similar photo could almost be certainly taken by someone to serve that same encyclopedic purpose, and then uploaded to Commons under an acceptable free license. For example, a photo like File:KKPK Katlung Misyun.jpg (assuming that's not a copyvio) also being used in the same section of the same article seems reasonable to create or find. In addition, given also the way this file is currently being used, it would also be hard to justify this as non-free per WP:NFTABLES and WP:NFLISTS.
The argument that this is PD made by Sky Harbor above, however, is interesting though and might actually be OK. I still think the provenance of the photo would need a bit more clarification to to eliminate any doubts about it. I'm not sure about c:COM:Phillippines, but not everything posted on an official US government website is, for example, automatically PD. US government websites do occasionally "use" content created by third-parties (not US government employees as part of these official duties) and these are not OK to license as {{PD-USGov}}. Whether the Philippines has similar provisions in its copyright law(s) is something I'm not sure about, but that would one concern that I think would need to be addressed before this could be moved to Commons. If there are any doubts as to whether this would survive a c:COM:DR per c:COM:PCP, then Wikipedia probably shouldn't be keeping it under such a license. If there's a chance that anyone in WP:PHILIPPINES could simply take their own similar photo and upload that to Commons, then that might be the best way to try and resolve this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:07, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[]

@Marchjuly: there is. At Section 176.3 of the copyright law of the Philippines: "Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest or otherwise; nor shall publication or republication by the government in a public document of any work in which copyright is subsisting be taken to cause any abridgment or annulment of the copyright or to authorize any use or appropriation of such work without the consent of the copyright owner." JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 08:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, FASTILY 09:23, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

According to {{PD-PhilippinesGov}}, all works by the Philippines Government are in the public domain unless otherwise noted. Where is the "unless otherwise noted" part from? It's not in the law from what I can see. It is also complicated by the fact that Wikipedia disagrees with Commons that works by the Philippines Government are free, see {{Non-free Philippines government}}. Both our template and the one on Commons have survived two deletion discussions. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:12, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]
There is an All Rights Reserved notice at the bottom of the source page, which would reasonably apply to all images published there. I consider that as "otherwise noted" from the PD claims, especially since it is blatantly stated. The Philippines government is notoriously bad at removing those All Rights Reserved notices (if they were unmarked, I could assume PD-Gov but since it is explicitly said I count it as "otherwise noted") and I'm not really sure how to proceed around it. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:25, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Where does the "otherwise noted" statement in the Commons template come from? I can't find it in the law. As a comparison, {{PD-USGov}} does not contain an "otherwise noted" statement. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[]
The text may also be in Republic Act 10372 which isn't linked. Alternatively, and this is my speculation of what I know about Commons, there may be a consensus on Commons to be conservative in respects to copyright, so that could be how a consensus was formed to add it. Unfortunately, Philippine law is very ambiguous on copyright like this and TOO, but I respect and trust what Commons has to say about copyright laws and how it applies to the project (and supplementary, ours). Sennecaster (Chat) 22:52, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Henry Kulka images

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Fourteen non-free files of buildings or interiors designed by architect Henry Kulka all uploaded by the same person and sourced to the Kulka Foundation currently being used throughout the article about Kulka. All the files are licensed as {{Non-free destroyed architecture}}. While it might be possible to justify the non-free use of a couple of photos representing Kulka's work, fourteen seems quite a bit excessive in terms of WP:NFCC#3a; moreover, there are also five images from Commons being used in the article which means (assuming their licensing is OK) that WP:FREER also comes into play and some of the non-free images might also not be needed for general illustrative purposes. All of the non-free use rationales provided for the files contain the statement "To illustrate the specific architectural points described in the paragraph to describe the specific, unique architectural structure described in the Henry Kulka Wikipedia text." or something similar which I think is something that needs to be closely examined to see if this is really the case per WP:NFC#CS and assess when omitting any of these files would actually be detrimental of the reader's understanding of the relevant article content. For example, seven non-free and three Commons images are being used in Henry Kulka#Work in New Zealand which seems quite excessive and also not really needed per WP:FREER.

In addition to the non-free use issues, there are also issues with the file syntax in that thumbnails are being fixed to a specific pixel size which is something that is not recommended at all per WP:THUMBSIZE as well as some MOS:SANDWICHing issues; these things, however, should be fairly easy to sort out once the non-free issues have been resolved. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment So I did some basic research on the Villa Khuner photographs 1 2. Those images are commissioned by Henry Kulka for his 1931 publication Adolf Loos. Das Werk des Architekten and taken by Martin Gerlach,^[1] a photographer who died in 1944.^[2] I would argue given German / Austrian copyright law, those photographs are now public domain and the files should be updated to add Template:PD-URAA.
Overall I am admittedly hesitant to remove fair use photographs for buildings truly destroyed or otherwise permanently damaged, rendering the photographs possibly irreplaceable. Although that's not to say some of these photos shouldn't be removed. I just think deleting them all would be a bad idea. --Elephanthunter (talk) 19:00, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[]
- Thank you for trying to dig up more information on these. If some of them are PD, then that would mean they're no longer subject to WP:NFCC. However, it's not really Wikipedia's role to simply preserve images just because they are rare or might otherwise be irreplaceable as explained in WP:IRREPLACEABLE; so, just keeping them for that reason regardless of whether their use complies with the NFCC is not really something we should be doing. If someone wants to preserve the images for posterity, they can download them and host them on some other platform. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:46, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[]
  - Comment: Yes, thank you Elephanthunter. Based on what you say, it sounds like the files should be moved to Commons. I'd imagine there are additional knowledgeable folks there who can further evaluate the URAA claim if you are not certain. I'd be happy to move them over if you update the copyright tags. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 20:50, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep and move to commons as PD per above rationale. Buffs (talk) 17:28, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Comment: Not excessive: The fourteen images are not an excessive number of images to illustrate the diverse and important architectural points in Kulkas work alongside descriptions in the Henry Kulka article. The not-free use exceptions and image numbers conform to the Wiki rules and Wiki exceptions rules. Each image has been chosen by a group of experts (academic) associated with the Kulka Foundation, a Registered charity to study and curate the works of Kulka. Each photo has been chosen by experts on Kulka to illustrate a unique category of information, whether 1) a period of work of Kulka with Adolf Loos, 2) relating to raumplan theory, or 3) an important typological variant, or 4) a new geography after forced exodus during world war 2 or 5) the separation between his European and South Pacific work or 6) the difference between his commercial structures or his private commissions.
The suggestion to remove these expertly chosen images from this site is inexpert, cavalier and would clearly be detrimental to enabling readers and scholars to get an aesthetic sense of interiors and exteriors that informing about specific aesthetic differences in time-place and in context. Taking these images off would be detrimental to the readers proper understanding of these differences and points in the evolution of works as physicalised ideas.
For example one editor above suggests that seven non free use photos are excessive for his work in NZ but Kulka’s predominant career was in NZ as the chief architect for Fletchers the country’s largest commercial building company and he separately ran a private practice - it is reasonable to have three or four images for each practice set. The initiating arguments hint at a dispassionate motivation behind the suggested removal and reclassification. ‘The Kulka Foundation’ refutes the approach to dissembling a thoughtfully published set of accompanying images.
Copyrights: All images uploaded under non-free use are those where Kulka, who died in 1970, through his Estate in NZ and Europe, still has a potent copyright interest either 1) by way of his financial commission, 2) his copyright in the architectural object-subject he created or co-created, or 3) by virtue of his 'direction of the taking of the image’ under the copyright laws at the time of image production by collaborating photographers. To move the images into Commons as some of the inexpert but no doubt well meaning editors ( indicating ‘ basic research was undertaken by them’) suggest above, would be a copyright violation under both Austrian and NZ copyright laws. The aforementioned comments and suggestions regarding the Khuner photos are an example of a route to copyright abuse because Kulka was a co-creator ‘of’ the Khuner structures themselves, and a director of the image notwithstanding its being taken by Gerlach, and Kulka a commissioner of their execution. The copyright is therefore Kulkas. The uploader has consulted copyright specialists qualified from the University of Oxford and can provide administrators with opinions and the statement of ownership of the owners of the copyright. The other images under non free use were permitted by the Kulka Estate, on the request of the Kulka Foundation. That Registered Charitable and Curatorial Foundation comprises a group of scholars in modernist architecture with specific knowledge about Kulka and his Czech, Austrian and South Pacific ouvre. Expert and professional legal intellectual property advice was sought by the uploader (representing the Foundation ) for each and every image - who commissioned it, who directed it, whose attribution of the object taken. Legal documentation and proofs were kept of such advice for each image and were shared with the Adminstrator. Please note, violations of the Kulkas Copyright found on the internet Commons do not make it safe for Wiki editors to use this violation as a modus/pretext to move the non-free use classification of the image to Commons, particularly after we submit this addendum fore warning. That would be a wilful wrong.
We request that the images be left, as they have been carefully published and categorised, to enrich the understanding of Kulkas’ work, which, being a building art, must be viewed as an image accompanying a description of attribution, provenance, typology, chronological order, geography and creative differentiation - which the article with the image selection does.
Note: We request that the administrators kindly remove the ‘files for discussion’ notices’ from each image please. --Wasuwatanabe 02:23, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[]
Trim number of images Obviously, if any of these actually do turn out to be PD, then they should be moved to Commons and kept. But regardless of who the person is, WP has a non-free content policy with the goal to limit the amount of non-free image usage, including a per-page issue. Henry Kulka does not seem to have as many notability buildings like Frank Lloyd Wright (where these buildings would have their own pages and thus the images could be there), so we have to be much more selective as to what images are used. We need to go by what sources are available to give us critical commentary as to use only those images that best reflect those sources. (And to that end the article is drastially missing sources on much of its content which is not helpful here). For example the interior shot of the Harvey House is support in text via the "violin" comparison (with source) so that would be one to keep, but the next one down of the Meyer house has no discussion in the text and thus inappropriate to have. What the exact number is appropriate is hard to say, but based on how few seem supported by text, I think we're looking at 4-5 non-free at most, and that discounts what images are also PD that can be used. --Masem (t) 04:30, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[]

References

^ "Giving Voice to a Building: A Critical Analysis of Adolf Loos's Landhaus Khuner" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ WINKLER, SUSANNE. "Photography : WIEN MUSEUM". Retrieved 20 July 2021. Martin Gerlach Jr. (1879-1944)

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File:Atlanta 96 Gold - Copy.jpg

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Non-free use in Shannon Miller which fails WP:NFCC#1 and WP:NFCC#8, and in 1996 Summer Olympics which fails WP:NFCC#10c. I'm not seeing any sourced critical commentary in Shannon Miller#1996 is specifically about this imagery of the medal that justifies it's non-free use per WP:NFC#CS. More specifically, an image of the medal that Miller won at that Olympics doesn't really need to be seen for the reader to understand that she won the medal per WP:FREER, and the non-free use rationale's claim that image is needed to "illustrate a point in the article" is pretty by definition decorative non-free use. I can't see any way to justify the file's use in the Miller article and suggest that it be removed from that article.

The non-free use 1996 Summer Olympics#Sports actually makes more sense per WP:NFCC#8 since perhaps there's some sourced critical commentary about the medal's design could be found and added to that particular section and help justify it's non-free use; however, the file is currently without a non-free use rationale for that article which means it can be removed per WP:NFCCE. This could possibly be a keep if the file's use in the 1996 article can be better justified; otherwise, the file will most likely need to be deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:27, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[]

It is a low resolution photo of the item. It doesn't lack contextual signifigance. If the article points out, in the lead, that she was the most successful US athlete in the 1996 games, having a representation of what that looks like is helpful and in context. In addition, since the medals for each games are different, showing the ones for these particular games, such as in the 1996 Summer Olympics article, has value. Both of these are more than mere decoration. I expanded the rationale to reflect this. Clearly this low res picture doesn't degrade the copyright holder's commercial opportunities. Niteshift36 (talk) 12:15, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[]
- If the medals are different for each Olympic Games and sourced critical commentary about the design of the medals for the 2016 games can be found and added to 1996 Summer Olympics and then a corresponding non-free use rationale added to the file's page, then it might be possible to justify the file's use in that particular article per WP:NFC#CS. A separate specific non-free use rationale needs to be provided for each use per WP:NFCCE; otherwise, the file can be removed simply for not having one and there doesn't seem to be a way to write a valid rationale based upon how the file is currently in 1996 Summer Olympics#Sports. As for the use in the Miller article, I disagree that a non-free image of a single medal represents that she was the most successful US athlete in the 1996 games. A visual representation of that is borderline decorative non-free use to begin with, but this isn't even a picture showing Miller with or wearing all of the medals she won. There have been quite a number of multiple gold medal winners over years at various Olympic games and such achievements can be more than sufficiently understood by readers of such articles without actually seeing images of the medals they won. So, the reader doesn't need to see a non-free picture of a gold medal to understand that Miller won any gold medals in 1996; moreover, there's nothing special about the design of this medal that's really contextually tied to Miller, at least nothing currently in Shannon Miller#1996 or anywhere else in the article, that would be hard for the reader to understand if they didn't see this particular image. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:06, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[]
  - I disagree that there needs to be critical commentary about design differences to be relevant to the depiction. Miller wasn't wearing them at the event. If you can find an image of her wearing them, that would be a good replacement. Until then, images of Miller and of the medal will have to fill that void. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:36, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Remove from Shannon Miller. The fact that she won a gold medal can be explained in text. There is no need to include an image of the medal.
The image currently fails WP:NFCC#10c in 1996 Summer Olympics. WP:NFCI §2 says that logos can be used for identification and for Olympic games I think that the same can be said about the mascot and maybe the medal. Is the medal always the same? If they only change the roman numeral, the city name and the year, then I think that the image runs afoul of WP:NFC#UUI §14. If, on the other hand, the image also changes, then it is maybe only WP:NFCC#10c which is violated in the article. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[]
- No, the medals aren't all the same. Any easy way to demonstarate that is..... by photos. Question: What makes this picture unacceptable but makes ones like this [2] ok? Niteshift36 (talk) 13:01, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[]
  - Files uploaded to Commons are not subject to Wikipedia's non-free content use policy which means there are way less restrictions placed upon how they may be used. The file being discussed here was uploaded locally to English Wikipedia as non-free content and, therefore, its use is subject to Wikipedia's non-free content use policy as explained in WP:NFC#Applied to Wikipedia. Please note that uploading a file to Commons doesn't automatically mean its licensing is OK because files are constantly being deleted from Commons for a variety of reasons; however, that's an issue that would need to be resolved on Commons. If you have a concerns involving the 1964 medals photo, you can ask about them at c:COM:VPC, but there could be a variety of reasons the photo might be OK, including the information found in c:COM:CB#Museum and interior photography and c:COM:Switzerland. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:15, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[]
    - I didn't say I had a concern. I asked what the difference it. I'm actually trying to improve Wikipedia, but I'm starting to get tired of you talking to me like I'm an idiot. I have over 40,000 edits on English Wikipedia and have uploads at the commons as well. I'm asking how to do it better, so giving me some useless "things get deleted" wikilink as if I don't understand the basics borders on insulting. Clearly, you're not going to try to help see how we can retain the picture. Your interest in in deletion only. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:24, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[]
      - I wasn't trying to make you feel stupid. You asked a question and I tried to answer. Since you're question involved an image on Commons, I just tried to point out that such things cannot be resolved here on English Wikipedia. Anyway, my apologies if the wording of my post or the links I added somehow seemed insulting because that was not my intent.
        I did explain my concerns about the file and what I think is needed to keep using it both the Miller and 1996 Summer Olympics articles. You seemed to disagree; so, there seemed to be no need to restate the reasons why I nominated the file for discussion.
        I am curious though as to why you think the same file uploaded to Commons under a different name is now your 100% "own work" and OK to release under a free license. Is there some reason for you to believe the engraving and design of the medal is not protected by copyright? Such things actually are often eligible for copyright protection per C:COM:CB#Jewelry and c:COM:CB#Engravings. So, unless you're actually the creator of the medal, then your photograph would seem to be a WP:Derivative work in which there are two copyrights that need to be considered: the one for the photo and the one for the photographed item. Since the photograph entirely focuses on the medal, it would be hard to argue de minimis in this case, which means the copyright status of the medal needs to also be taken into account. I thought this was the reason why the file's licensing was converted by you to non-free per Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2016 March 28#File:Atlanta 96 Gold - Copy.jpg.. If something has change since then and you can clarify what it is, then perhaps this FFD can be quickly resolved. The file uploaded to Wikipedia is now orphaned non-free use and will be deleted per WP:F5 if it remains as such. However, if the Commons file cannot be kept because of c:COM:DW, it will end up deleted as well. Maybe it would be better to re-add the non-free file to the articles where it was being used until any issues with the one you uploaded to Commons are resolved or this FFD is closed, whichever happens first. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[]

I don't magically think it's my own work etc. I'm trying to navigate this as best I can. The focus may be on the medal, but the low resolution photo hardly diminishes the original copyright holders commercial opportunities. Nothing has changed from the conversion. I still believe all of those to be correct. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:35, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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Delete - The fact that Miller won a gold medal is adequately conveyed with the text and does not need a non-free image. Fails WP:NFCC#1. -- Whpq (talk) 02:04, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:We Don't Need to Whisper Acoustic EP.jpg

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I think that WP:NFC#cite note-3 only allows the use of image in the main infobox, not this extra image, as there is no critical discussion about the cover. Stefan2 (talk) 19:23, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Many other Wikipedia pages for musical releases use additional covers that bear significance to the release in question. For example, the page for the song I Fought the Law includes additional infoboxes for covers that were done by the other artists, and have the associated images for said covers, but does not include an image in the main infobox for the page. User:PopDisaster182 (talk) 22:15, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Stefan2, if I'm not mistaken, this is usually standard protocol for music Wikiprojects when the item in question is not notable enough for its own article, but is relevant to an existing one. Such an occurrence is usually rare, especially when the art differs this much. Only problem is, journalists would have a hard time trying to mention this in news items because their editor would most likely tell them "no shit, Sherlock" (nicer of course, but you get the idea). A more common example is in "deluxe editions" of albums where not only the cover art differs significantly, but there is new material. dannymusiceditor ^oops 19:27, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[]
- The way WP:NFC#cite note-3 is witten, I think that only one image is permitted. The situation with deluxe editions is clearer. It looks similar to the child and adult editions of the books about Harry Potter, where Wikipedia only uses the covers of the child edition, so I don't think that we should use both regular and deluxe edition covers of music albums.

If the WP:NFC guideline has diverted from music guidelines, then a discussion is needed somewhere, probably at WT:NFC. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:14, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]

I think there has to be one of these discussions somewhere but I'm not certain where it is. All I'm aware of is that this is usually considered normal, as far as I know. dannymusiceditor ^oops 01:28, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[]

A WikiProject cannot decide to do something that supersedes a community-wide policy like the WP:NFCC per WP:CONLEVEL. If a WikiProject is providing guidance that isn't in accordance with a community-wide policy, it's up to the WikiProject to revise its guidance accordingly to comply with the policy or to get the policy changed. The best way to do the later is to start a discussion on the relevant policy's talk page. You might have a preliminary discussion on a WikiProject's talk page, but things will need to be ultimately sorted out on the policy's talk page. In the case of songs, it seems to be commons practice to put all of the cover versions of a song in the same article for encyclopedic reasons, even in cases where an individual cover might be WP:NSONG in its own right. In many cases, there are individual covers for each of these versions added to the article, but that doesn't necessarily make all of the additional covers NFCC compliant. I think that basically comes down to whether the assessment is that the cover art would be allowed if it were being used in an independent articles about notable cover version. I'm not sure how that applies due to the difference between "song" and "album". I guess the same reasoning could apply if the EP is deemed notable in its own right per WP:NALBUM, but in that case it might simply be better to create a separate article for the EP and then use WP:HATS to link the two articles together. Alternative cover versions used outside the main infobox are going to be harder to justify as explained in WP:NFC#cite_note-3 and simply adding the file to a secondary infobox template isn't probably going to be deemed sufficient. Does the acoustic EP meet any of the criteria of NALBUM; if not, then it's going to be quite hard to justify the non-free use of its cover art. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:12, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[]

WP:NFC#cite note-3 is just talking about a particular state of affairs that automatically satisfies WP:NFCC#8. But even if we don't think it applies here, taking a step back and looking at the #8 "contextual significance" criterion directly in this case, I think it's fair to say it's satisfied. i.e. omitting this image would be detrimental to the reader's understanding. I mean, the "Acoustic EP" section is basically just a little stub article embedded inside another article. If the image would be appropriate for the exact same content if it were simply moved to its own article, why would it not also be appropriate here? Colin M (talk) 03:56, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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The file is a LucasFilm image of Star Wars Stormtrooper. As actors/cosplayers playing Stormtroopers wear the same indistinguishable costume/armour (apart from obvious derivative cosplays), it seems that cosplay images can perfectly replace the fair-use file. Given that we have ample cosplay images of Stormtroopers on Commons, it is doubted that whether WP:NFCC#1 is violated. The file is therefore nominated to be deleted. 廣九直通車 (talk) 05:47, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[]

I've also asked for further copyright advice on WP:MCQ#Star Wars Stormtrooper and File:Stormtrooper (Star Wars).png, but it seems that no response have been made.廣九直通車 (talk) 05:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep but overwrite with an image from official media because according to Fandom (which is listed as the source here, unacceptable) this image originates from http://www.anovos.com/collections/the-imperial-collection/products/star-wars-classic-trilogy-imperial-stormtrooper-pre-order (dead link) which was "awarded the STAR WARS™ high-end costume and high-end collectibles licenses" so the current image is no more valuable than a photo of a cosplayer wearing the same thing. 廣九直通車, according to Commons we have to use the separability test. While a large portion of the suit would be considered utilitarian, particularly the lower part of the helmet doesn't appear to be, containing many details without any function. It has been a source of debate for well over a decade on Commons though. @Clindberg: would you agree that at least the helmet is eligible for copyright protection? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:27, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[]
- I believe a U.S. court ruled they were copyrightable (but it was a summary judgement, as the defendant did not show up) -- but they are not copyrightable in the UK, actually. See Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth. Carl Lindberg (talk) 05:55, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]
  - Do you know of a "real" ruling? The Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth article mentions a case in California where Lucasfilm won by default, i.e. the court never considered the question whether the costumes were copyrighted because the defendant never showed up in court. I don't think that a default ruling is suitable to determine if something is copyrighted or not.
  - For Commons, it is also necessary to determine the status in the source country. The French supreme court has ruled that furniture can be copyrighted and that photos of furniture can infringe the copyright of the furniture, so photos of costumes could be an issue in France. However, Wikipedia only looks at United States law and United States law exempts utilitarian objects from copyright protection. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:18, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]
    - Presumably there was a valid copyright registration for Lucasfilm to file suit in the first place -- if they have one of those, then I believe copyrightability is prima facie assumed by the court. I think a defendant would have to disprove it during the case, and the defendant did not show up. I'm not sure they had a sculpture registration directly, though General Mills has a couple of 1978 registrations on derivative stormtrooper toys. Those mention the movie itself as the underlying work, so Lucasfilm may have been relying on the character copyright embodied in the movie in order to file suit, rather than a direct sculptural registration. The U.S. Copyright Office searchable records only start in 1978 though, so it's possible there was something earlier. Carl Lindberg (talk) 03:31, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[]
      Clindberg, I can see why the "it's a sculpture!" argument would fall flat. It clearly isn't a sculpture, it's a functional helmet. It will protect you from rain and foes armed with paintball guns. I wouldn't count on it as a bike helmet, but that's not a requirement to be utilitarian. What would be interesting (assuming this isn't what happened) is if Ainsworth had used all the holes in the lower part of the helmet to turn it into a functional gas mask, respirator or diving helmet. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's possible (but I have no helmet to check) that the holes actually allow for air to circulate so the actors won't suffocate/overheat. If that assumption is true it would make this considerably harder to judge, I think. But until we know more, I think it's safest to assume non-free. Besides that, I'd really prefer to see a genuine depiction from the movies in this case. A cosplayer ultimately isn't a Stormtrooper. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:51, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[]
      - @Alexis Jazz: The Copyright Office has generally said that Halloween masks would tend to fall outside of the "useful article" scope, and are often registrable. See here. From that, Although a mask alone is not considered a useful article, a legitimate question arises regarding registration practices in instances where a copyrightable mask is combined and sold as a unit with an otherwise uncopyrightable costume. In such circumstances, the Copyright Office will register the "work" on the basis of the copyrightable authorship in the mask. A helmet could be an interesting part of that -- the helmet portion can be utilitarian, but if the portion in the mask area is considered "separable" or not utilitarian, it could still be a problem. It's in the gray area, for sure. There is also the possibility there is a "character" copyright on the details of stormtroopers, and a costume could infringe that (but not sure we delete photos of cosplay on those grounds, if the costumes themselves are legal). And photos which are not focusing on the mask portion may be fine, as well, if the copyright is just on the mask, much like a photo of a bottle is not a derivative work of a copyrightable label on the bottle -- only photos focusing on the label itself. Carl Lindberg (talk) 16:11, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep non-free image but replace, per above - I uploaded this image in the first place because every cosplay image previously used in the article was systematically deleted from Commons as a copyright violation (see Costumes and cosplay). I'm sort of shocked that there are so many such images on Commons now, perhaps the community has begun taking a less aggressive stance? In any case, I was unaware this was not an official image, so if a non-free image remains then I agree with Alexis Jazz it should be replaced with an official one.— TAnthony^Talk 21:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[]
- Question @Alexis Jazz and TAnthony: Commons had a deletion case involving a image depicting a Spiderman cosplay (which of course is the kind of character where the costume covers the full body of the actor/cosplayer), and the file involved is later closed after lawyer's opinion is solicited. Do you think such safeguard on Commons is sufficient to ensure that related files on Commons won't be suddenly deleted?廣九直通車 (talk) 05:15, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]
  廣九直通車, that 2009 email from Godwin has been superseded by the 2011 email from WMF legal which was discussed and agreed upon by all three lawyers in residence. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]
  - My fault for not noticing that advice has since been superseded by another one. Fine then, I'll withdraw my request for deletion, and will wait for the replacement. Thanks for all of your comments!廣九直通車 (talk) 13:31, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]
    I don't have access to the movies currently. TAnthony, can you supply an image from the movies? Or if you can find a suitable image at https://www.youtube.com/c/StarWars/videos I could take a screenshot. I found no great image in the trailers for the recent Star Wars movies on that channel but there's much more content there. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:13, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Regiment of Artillery logo.png

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Almost certain these would all fall under the license of non-free symbol as copyrighted designs of the Pakistan Army and that they have just been mis-licensed. I however came across this file on Commons which threw some doubt into my mind. If the decision is that they are non-free then they should be removed from the List of serving generals of the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Army articles. The few symbols that are used in the infobox of the specific military unit should be re-licensed and kept (namely File:Regiment of Artillery logo.png, File:Punjab Regiment logo.png, File:Armoured Core logo.png, File:Corps of AAD logo.png, File:Corps of Engineers logo.png, File:Army Ordinance Core logo.png and File:EME Core logo.png). Salavat (talk) 14:54, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Starro, The Suicide Squad, Aug 2021.jpeg

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Non-free image that is stated to be used for identification but is actually used at the bottom of the article. File:Starro.jpg is the fil in use for identification. The remocal of this image would not detract from the understanding of the topic. Fails WP:NFCC#8. Whpq (talk) 01:02, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]

weak keep it's the same character in a quite different (and quite popular) media. Seems quite relevant to the article and no reasonable amount of words is going to make the differences clear. This is "a picture is worth 1000 words" situation IMO. Weak because it's not clear all that is enough for using a non-free file... Hobit (talk) 19:14, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Somi Dumb Dumb Sample.ogg

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Non-free song sample which is not the subject of any significant sourced commentary. The song is mentioned in the article but none of the critical analysis claimed in the purpose is present in the article. Fails WP:NFCC#8. Whpq (talk) 13:29, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep Whpq's point was absolutely valid, however, having read through the article it was used in, it now meets WP:NFCC#8. Rain Forest (talk) 06:26, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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Move file to Dumb Dumb (Somi song). WP:NFC#UUI#6 guides users to utilize non-free content in the article of the subject if it exists, which it does in this case. The critical commentary should be moved there as well. ✗plicit 13:54, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Love Train - O'Jays.jpg

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The US release lacks a picture sleeve, yet the US market share was larger than the rest of the world at the time. Yeah well, I'm summarizing what the uploader (the same who uploaded this image and the other image I previously nominated) said at the other FFD discussion. To put it another way, the American music industry has been very important. Out of huge single releases at the time, Americans received the single release using just a generic sleeve. The US release hasn't been distributed with a picture on the front cover.

I don't think a picture sleeve of an overseas release of "Love Train" by the O'Jays is necessary. The free image exists (File:Love train by o'jays US vinyl.png) and is concurrently used there. Furthermore, the song can be already well understood without a picture sleeve identifying singers (or band) who recorded the song or a song title. The (overseas, or German/Dutch) picture sleeve may fail WP:NFCC#8 and/or WP:NFCC#1. Moreover, the picture sleeve wasn't well identified without a caption. Whether enjoyment of the article or the song may be affected by deletion of the sleeve isn't part of NFCC. Understanding the song (or the single release) with or without the image is part of the NFCC.

Well, it's not like "I Need You (Eric Carmen song)", whose non-free lead image was kept by default. Rather I hope to compare this with "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing". This isn't the case of whether the song has more than one version. Instead, this is more about identifiable releases (of the same version of the song). George Ho (talk) 18:07, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep Where are you getting information about the sleeve cover? It looks like you also changed Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing to say that it was artwork for the German single [3]. --Elephanthunter (talk) 16:10, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[]
45cat.com shows images of the Dutch and German releases, which contain the same picture sleeve. The US release lacks one. Even the German release of the Donny and Marie Osmond version of "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" has a picture sleeve, while the US release doesn't. I can show you images from discogs, a user-generated website, if you like. If you don't believe in 45cat or discogs, then I don't know how else to convince you. If only eBay listings show more images of the releases.... George Ho (talk) 23:16, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[]

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Comment: Very surprised that neither 45Cat nor discogs (2 US entries) have one. I tend to believe them, even though they are "not WP:RS." Maybe, as US artists, the company assumed the American public would know better who they were buying? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:28, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]
If curious, you can look up sources discussing vinyl singles sleeves or use the Wikipedia Library. You'll learn history of releasing singles before CDs. George Ho (talk) 10:47, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Thanks for the links. The first has "No preview available" for me. I'm not sure there is anything there which might answer the question here. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:49, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:ZTE Orbit phone.jpg

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Fails WP:NFCC#1 Jake Wartenberg (talk) 16:09, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep Well within the bounds of WP:NFCC#1. This is a defunct phone with defunct insecure OS from almost a decade ago, with batteries that are rated for 2-3 years. The chances of a new free equivalent being created is zero, and I don't see any existing free replacements. --Elephanthunter (talk) 18:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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Delete It is possible that the batteries no longer work, but most phones can get electricity by connecting a cable to the phone if you wish to run the software. Note that the software is unfree, but the photo still fails WP:FREER. Also, there is no software seen on the back of the phone. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:18, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Gojira - Ocean Planet.ogg

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Non-free music sample claimed to be used for the purpose: "specifically discusses the themes Gojira evokes in its album From Mars to Sirius" but no such discussion about this song exists in the article. Fails WP:NFCC#8. At 33 seconds, also fails WP:NFCC#3b. Whpq (talk) 01:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Whpq, I was just talking to the uploader about this. A fix may be in the works. I cannot say the same about the other sample you nominated. dannymusiceditor ^oops 02:38, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[]

If the issue is addressed, then we can re-examine this but I would think that the From Mars to Sirius article would make much more sense as the place for such material and this sound sample if such critical analysis were to be added. -- Whpq (talk) 11:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[]

Hi. After a few hours of thinking, the file moves to the From Mars to Sirius article. I uploaded another version of the sample: 30 s, 55 kbps. Oroborvs (talk) 14:25, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[]

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Comment - I suggested that the album would be the more natural place for the file and its accompanying sourced critical commentary. The image has been moved but there has been nothing about the song sample. -- Whpq (talk) 21:08, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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Comment - The primary purpose of the non-free music sample was to illustrate the theme of the From Mars to Sirius album in Gojira's article, but I have no problem if it has been moved to the album page since its use on the latter is more relevant. Oroborvs (talk) 10:54, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Clash-The Guns of Brixton.ogg

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Sample currently used in album article London Calling and song article The Guns of Brixton. The song "Guns of Brixton" is briefly mentioned in the album article. For usage in the album article, the sample is supposed to help readers understand what the album is about. However, the sample itself doesn't adequately help readers identify the album release, and critical commentary isn't substantial enough to justify using the sample. Furthermore, details about the song itself in the album article can be already understood (as part of the album release) without the sample. The usage may fail WP:NFCC#8 and/or WP:NFCC#1.

For usage in the song article, I'm unsure whether a sample of the song is necessary especially for identifying the song. Reading the article, a reader can already understand what the song is about without having to listen to sample. I just think there's not enough critical commentary to make the sample irreplaceable and necessary for further understanding or identification of the song. The usage may also fail WP:NFCC#8 and/or WP:NFCC#1. George Ho (talk) 09:21, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[]

Probably makes sense to delete from the album article, but keep for the song article. I added material about the music that is illustrated by the file, and plenty more material is available that can be added. Rlendog (talk) 23:20, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Overwatch loot box.gif

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The NFCC#1 "not replaceable with free media" criteria is inaccurate. Even assuming that it's impossible or extraordinarily unlikely for any freely licensed game to have microtransactions, it would still be possible for someone to create a freely licensed representative example of lootbox opening. Such an example already exists at File:Video game loot box mockup.png and is included in the article Loot box. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 15:05, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[]

I'm also going to add on that in the context of the article as it is right now, none of the elements specific to Overwatch are discussed in the context of this image. The description for the image as it is used in the article only remarks on general features of lootboxes that are present in the image, such as the items flying out of the lootbox, item rarity by colour, and the "final reveal". Two of those are demonstrated in the freely licensed image at the top of the article and a freely licensed "final reveal" could be easily mocked up. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 15:09, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep This was discussed last December with "no consensus" Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2020 December 8, and I think the same arguments still apply. The article discusses the specific nature of how certain parts of opening loot box animations (not necessarily those specific to Overwatch, but exemplified by Overwatch's animation) are used to draw in the gambling loop. While there are free ways to show how a loot box is opened, they do not capture the artist aspects that companies like Blizzard have spent to make the aspect of opening another loot box attractive (factors discussed in the article in depth). That animation aspect cannot easily be remade by free works. A free work can demonstrate the mechanic aspects of what a loot box does, but not the psychological factor which is what only is going to come from a commercial -- and therefore non-free -- example. --Masem (t) 15:21, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[]
Since the last FFD an example has been created at File:Video game loot box mockup.png, so the discussion has materially changed since then.

The argument you're making is basically equivalent to saying that no free equivalent of lootboxes can be created that is of the same quality of the Overwatch lootbox. This flies in the face of the spirit of WP:NFCC and a decade or so of consensus, which is that we can't use a non-free file solely because it would look better than a free equivalent. "Free replacements" are allowed to be substandard and of a significantly worse quality so long as they demonstrate the encyclopedic aspects of a non-free image.
And the necessity of the profit motive making something non-free is illogical. If I create a JimboBox app on my computer tomorrow that lets one collect rare Jimbo cards composed solely of freely licensed photos of User:Jimbo Wales and charge the user $5 for a box of four Jimbos, solely so I can screenshot a photo of that app and freely license it, would that change your opinion? Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 00:57, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[]
There's two aspects of a loot box image. One is the mechanical factors to show the box opening, dispensing loot (with different rarities) and all the flat-out gameplay stuff which absolutely can be 100% recreated with a free image. But the factor about loot boxes is the subtle psychological aspects of how this presentation has been tuned with fine details as to increase the anticipation level and draw the player into continuing the cycle - matters discussed in the article, and the type of stuff that is refined by commercial publishers (seeking to make a profit) to maximize that influence. Those elements simply can't be recreated with a free image because they represent time and money put into by the commercial company to get it just right. And that's the part that is important to capture from the OW loot box image and justified via NFC. --Masem (t) 23:16, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[]
You're again, just reiterating the argument that since free images can never have the same quality as the commercial ones (which may or may not be true), that it's OK to include non-free content. This is an argument that has been rejected time and time again, with low quality free images used all the time in place of high quality images. It's also interesting that you claim that these "subtle psychological aspects" are "matters discussed in the article". I don't actually see any discussion outside of the caption of these "subtle psychological aspects" in the gif that aren't demonstrated by the free image that's currently present in the article. Just to diagram it, let's examine what's present in the non-free/free image and discussed in the "design" section as of this diff [4]:
Loot boxes are often given to players during play, by watching streams, or by buying them (free N non-free N; neither image shows how the lootbox is obtained)

Loot boxes can either be openable immediately or by using "keys" (free N non-free N; both images do not show keys)

Loot boxes have appealing visual effects (free Y non-free Y)

Loot boxes have appealing audio effects (free N non-free N)

Loot boxes can be modelled off of slot machines or roulette wheels (free N non-free N)

Loot boxes can show a prominent button prompting the player to buy more (free N non-free Y)

Loot boxes can contain items of differing rarity, sometimes denoted by colour (free Y non-free Y)

Loot boxes can have a mechanic that increases the odds of higher rarities the more cases are opened (free N non-free N)

Loot boxes may give items that can be traded or shown to other players via inventories (free N non-free N, no demonstration of that mechanic in the gif itself)

Loot boxes give items visible to other players via the course of a game (free N non-free N, neither image actually shows the game in which the items are being used)

Loot boxes can give items that the player already owns (free N non-free N, player's inventory is not shown in either image)

Loot boxes that give "duplicates" can have systems for the player to get rid of these duplicates, such as trading or converting into in-game currency (free N non-free N, neither image shows those systems in use)

Loot box systems can allow a player to use the aforementioned in-game currency to directly purchase items they don't have, circumventing the loot box (free N non-free N, neither image shows those systems)

Loot boxes can implement "gashapon" mechanics (free N non-free N)

Loot boxes can be "seasonal" and only available during a certain time (free N non-free N, Overwatch seasonal lootboxes not shown in the gif)

It appears to me as if the only aspect that this particular gif demonstrates over the free image that is included in the article is that this gif includes a button to go to the "shop". The rest of the details are only included in the caption and are unsourced commentary. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 18:33, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete as the article does not discuss any visual elements specific to Overwatch, and discussions about the psychological factors are not related to the visual elements. The free image File:Video game loot box mockup.png is sufficient to serve the same encyclopedic purpose. --Wcam (talk) 18:55, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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Delete It's clear from Chess' analysis above that this image is replaceable. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep per Masem. Spy-cicle💥 ^Talk? 04:12, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Paris logo

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See WP:NFCC#8. While it might be appropriate to use the logo in the article about Paris (where it is currently not used), the logo shouldn't be used in the articles Council of Paris and List of mayors of Paris. Also, there shouldn't be two copies of the logo on Wikipedia. --Stefan2 (talk) 06:56, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[]

It is the logo of the City and of the council of Paris, so it should be used in both those articles (with appropriate non-free rationales.) Of course, the newer duplicate should be deleted. Rcsprinter123 (jive) 09:37, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[]
- See WP:NFC#UUI §17. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:37, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[]
I did not know that another version exists. Yes, there should be only one file. Both the council and the mayor are using this symbol instead of the coat of arms, so i think its appropriate. The infobox in Paris wont allow an additional file. --Andrei (talk) 10:23, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Copenhagen - the little mermaid statue - 2013.jpg

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Why is this tagged as non-free instead of {{PD-US-1923-abroad|2030}}? This was previously listed at FFD by Marchjuly (talk · contribs) in February this year, but the discussion was only about the copyright status in the source country whereas Wikipedia looks at the copyright status in the United States. Stefan2 (talk) 14:58, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

How I've been told is that works that are not free in their home country but are free in the US need NFURs anyway. I don't think that adding a {{PD-US-expired-abroad}} would disrupt or conflict with anything else listed. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:07, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

If a file is free in the United States but not in the source country, then it is treated as a free file on English Wikipedia, but should be tagged with an appropriate template like {{PD-US-1923-abroad}}, {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} or {{FoP-USonly}}. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:22, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Photos of this statue have been previously discussed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 November 14#File:Den lille havfru.jpg, Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 January 17# File:Mermaid Statue Copy in Dallas Texas.jpg, Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 June 1#File:The Little Mermaid Statue Copenhagen Denmark.jpg, Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 June 14# File:The Little Mermaid Statue Copenhagen Denmark.jpg, Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 June 10#File:The Little Mermaid en.jpg, Wikipedia:Media copyright questions/Archive/2021/January#File:Copenhagen - the little mermaid statue - 2013.jpg and its the last one which led to the most recent FFD at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2021 February 4#File:Copenhagen - the little mermaid statue - 2013.jpg. If an error was made and the file is currently incorrectly licensed as non-free, then it was certainly an error made in good faith. It appears this file is a different from the ones discussed prior to 2013 and it was never licensed as {{PD-US-1923-abroad}}. It was tagged with {{Do not move to Commons}} with this edit in 2015, but it remained under only a {{self}} license until earlier this year. Photos of the statue were uploaded and deleted a number of times over the years under different file names (File:Den lille havfru.jpg, File:Mermaid Statue Copy in Dallas Texas.jpg, File:The Little Mermaid Statue Copenhagen Denmark.jpg, and File:The Little Mermaid en.jpg) and people just probably never made the connection between them before until Stefan2 did here. Whether all the deleted files can be restored is unclear; if, however, the consensus is that this latest one need not be non-free, then the non-free license should be replaced per Stefan2 above. Finally, this is not really a discussion for this FFD per se, but there should be some way to better tie in discussions about essentially the same file under different file names so as to perhaps avoid things such as this. There's nothing like a {{Afdx}} template for FFD discussions and the talk pages of files that end deleted typically aren't tagged with {{Oldffdfull}}: even if they were, file talk pages almost always are deleted when a file is deleted. So, unless you've been involved in previous discussions about such a file or just happen to notice something odd, any re-uploads or a deleted file are likely going to go unnoticed for quite some time. So, if this file's licensing is changed as Stefan2 suggests, there should be something added to it's talk page which connects it to all of the previous discussions about previous photos of the statues for reference purposes. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:56, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

At least one of the photos was deleted because there was no evidence of permission from the photographer. I think that the rest can be undeleted and tagged as {{PD-US-1923-abroad}}, unless there is reason to believe that there is no evidence of permission from the photographers. If you read The Little Mermaid (statue)#Copyright issues, you will find that the heirs suddenly dropped a claim for compensation in the United States. It doesn't say why the claim was dropped, so maybe they just tried to back off quietly after they discovered that the copyright already had expired in the United States.

Commons sorts many deletion requests into categories, so deletion requests for photos of this statue would normally be sorted into both c:Category:Undelete in 2030 and c:Category:Danish FOP cases/deleted, making them easy to find. It would be useful to have a way to also sort deletion requests on Wikipedia. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:23, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Worcester Six memorial at Franklin Street Fire Station.jpg

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See c:COM:FOP United States. Stefan2 (talk) 21:47, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Convert to non-free since there are no free pictures (per FOP and de minimis) available for any memorials of the fire and I believe an NFUR could be written to satisfy NFCC. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:33, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I am the original uploader (on Wikipedia) of the image. Consistent with the above, I've converted the rationale to non-free, and have updated a lower-resolution version of the image. Dmoore5556 (talk) 17:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Betty Chancellor actress.jpg

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Conflicting copyright information. Both cc-by and cc-by-nc-nd are mentioned on the file information page. No evidence of permission for either licence. Stefan2 (talk) 22:30, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[]

You say there is no evidence of permission. But I see clearly: "Evidence: The license statement can be found online at:....." What more evidence can there be? I have an email from the National Portrait Gallery dated July 17 2019 which says: "You are welcome to upload this to Wikipedia under our free Creative Commoms BY-NC-ND licence: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw204576" It is signed Matthew Bailey, Rights & Images Manager. I do not begin to understand the complications of this. What can evidence consist of? Obviously not a piece of paper. This is annoying. Rory Johnston — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roryjohnston (talk • contribs) 20:33, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- @Roryjohnston: You uploaded the file under a {{cc-by-4.0}} license. Can you provide a link which shows that the file has been released under that license? The link you provided above shows the file released under a cc-by-nc-nd-3.0 license, but this license is not accepted by Wikipedia. Basically, Wikipedia needs a license that allows anyone anywhere in the world to download this file at anytime and reuse for any purpose; so, any licenses that place any restrictions on commercial or derivative use aren't going to be free enough for Wikipedia's purposes. This is what I believe Stefan2 meant by "no evidence of permission". Wikipedia needs something that specifically shows that the photo has been released under the licensed you uploaded it under. If you just made a good-faith mistake when uploading the file, then that's OK. Perhaps you just choose the license you thought was closest to "cc-by-nc-nd-3.0"? However, it's still a mistake that needs to be addressed. One possibility would be to discuss whether this can be converted to non-free content. Such a thing isn't always possible, but it might work here. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:11, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - This image is likely still in copyright thought many NPG images now on the commons are actually in the public domain but claimed to be unfree by the NPG with a restrictive licence as this one has. It is a good candidate to convert to non-free in a reduced size. ww2censor (talk) 22:14, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - The picture may well be out of copyright. It came from Bassano Ltd. so the photographer's name is not known. British copyright law does not allow for corporate authorship so since 1935 is more than 75 years therefore public domain. If it were non-free content would the thumbnail on my mother's page have to be smaller? I could look out an alternative picture.Roryjohnston (talk) 02:59, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - Non-free content needs to comply with WP:NFCC#3b (WP:IMAGERES) and it seems that the currently file would thus need to be reduced. How much it will end up being reduced is unclear, but most of the time it is a bot that does the reducing. The standard image size for an infobox like {{Infobox person}} is touched upon at WP:IMAGESIZE and I imagine the bot reduces things partly based upon that; in other words, the bot will reduce image to default size considered OK for Wikipedia. Finally, you seemed to imply above that Chancellor is your mother and also stated as much on your user talk page. If that's the case, you should carefully review Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for reference. I've added some links about this to your user talk page, so please take the time to look them over because it might help you avoid problems moving forward. I'm not trying to say you've done anything wrong, but COI editing is an area where problems between editors can quickly develop; so, the more transparent you are about this, the better. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:32, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Convert to non-free or delete if NFCC can't be satisfied, since the CC-BY-NC-ND is incompatible with Wikipedia. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:29, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Jess Glynne - This Christmas.png

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Cover art identifies the (digital) single release of Jess Glynne's rendition of "This Christmas", originally sung by Donny Hathaway. The Jess Glynne version charted in the UK and Italy, all right. However, I'm not confident that the image improves understanding of a Christmas song that has been sung by different artists. Furthermore, the article doesn't describe anything else valuable about the recording itself, especially the Background subsection. Rather any valuable info about the Jess Glynne version, even as a top British hit, should be merged into the section about cover versions, IMO. Moreover, the cover art itself doesn't improve understanding of the recording's notability, and the recording's notability itself would be already understood without this image. In short, it may fail WP:NFCC#8 and/or WP:NFCC#3a. George Ho (talk) 23:24, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep. ~~I don't particularly care if this image is deleted or not~~ I don't agree with this nomination. The nomination seems to be focusing on having a subsection for Glynne's cover of the song, which is not a discussion for and beyond the scope of FfD. (That being said, to dispel what the nominator said: Glynne's cover is the most successful version of the song in terms of chart performance, including Osmond's original. No other version has peaked as high on a national non-radio singles chart than Glynne's has, so any argument that this should not have more of a focus than a sentence in a "cover versions" section is frankly bollocks.) Cover artworks also aren't uploaded and do not primarily function to "improve understanding of a recording's notability". They are used to identify the work in question, which has nothing to do with whether or not the song is notable. WP:NFCC says nothing about notability; WP:NFCC#3a does not apply, in my opinion, because the cover of Osmond's original doesn't identify Glynne's more successful version. Ss112 10:07, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[]
All right. "Notability" is never mentioned in NFCC as I hate to admit. Nonetheless, in the past, one or a few more other editors used "notability" as part of their arguments. Well, maybe I shouldn't use #3a criterion. BTW, Glynne's version was successful in just her home country but performed either modestly or so-so in another country. If that's your definition of success, then how do you explain deletion of a cover art of Collette's take on "Ring My Bell" and Jessica Mauboy's take on "Something's Got a Hold on Me", which were deleted without objection in other FFD discussions? --George Ho (talk)

Almost forgot: I nominate this image not because of article quality but because I don't think this image is necessary to understand the song and the release in question. Also, I want to be sure that deleting the image would not affect how readers learn about the song, its history, and its versions. --George Ho (talk) 19:12, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[]
What has happened in other FfDs, whether editors didn't care or not, has nothing to do with this one. Glynne's version is the most successful and highest-placed version of this song in any one country. I didn't claim it had international success, but that being said, I don't see why we only need to retain the original, especially in cases like this where Glynne's version has been more successful and is arguably better recognised in a country than the original. This assumes the original is always more important and this just isn't the case. The A-side of a 7" vinyl can hardly identify a version of the song issued 50 years later in the 2020s by a completely different artist that had more success with their version. Ss112 02:47, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Glynne's version is the most successful and highest-placed version of this song in any one country. I think the assumption that Glynne's version will be more successful and well known than Hathaway's original screams recent-ism, doesn't it? Furthermore, I hardly see why "importance" of Glynne's version would be affected by deleting the cover art. The importance (or lack of it?) of Glynne's version is already understood enough by most readers, and the cover art is... excessive, isn't it? This assumes the original is always more important and this just isn't the case. Since the original's debut, the song has become one of staple Christmas songs especially from the US. (see "Cover versions" section.) Moreover, the original singer was also one of its songwriters, and the original version re-charted in Christmas of last year. Since the song became more acknowledged especially in the 1990s, many other singers before Glynne covered the song. The assumption that Glynne's version is more important than other versions made prior... isn't what I have in mind. The A-side of a 7" vinyl can hardly identify a version of the song issued 50 years later in the 2020s by a completely different artist that had more success with their version. I don't know why you said that. The side label used as lead image identifies an early, original release of Hathaway's version. The original version performed modestly in early 1970s, so I'm using that side label. Also, Americans didn't receive an official picture sleeve when the single was released to them. --George Ho (talk) 04:03, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
George, I already outlined how Glynne's cover version is the most successful. I'm talking about in terms of chart performance. I didn't think I needed to keep repeating this. That's not "recent-ism", that's literal fact. I absolutely believe Glynne's is the most important cover version of the song because of this. Also, I never said Glynne's cover was "more important" than Hathaway's original. I said it was more successful on the main singles chart of a country than any other version, including Hathaway's original, which is fact. Please do not attempt to twist my words while literally quoting me directly. You are now getting outside the scope of something that should be at FfD. I'm no longer going to speak about whether Glynne's cover should have its own section, because what is said here won't affect that overall section, so please stop bringing this up. "I don't know why you said that." Because you're saying we should get rid of the cover art for Glynne's version, and that somehow the face of a 7" vinyl that you uploaded suffices as the only picture we should have on the article. It doesn't and can't identify the more chart-successful Glynne cover or any other version, full stop. Is it detrimental if we remove the 7" vinyl cover? I don't think so. I notice that my image for Glynne's version predates your upload of the 7" vinyl cover, which seems almost done to spite me or because I uploaded a cover for another version, so if we keep anything, I say we keep Glynne's cover and get rid of the picture of a vinyl, which I believe is inconsequential on any article. I don't even believe it helps readers' understanding in identifying Hathaway's version, because Hathaway's version became a "Christmas staple" years after the era where its single would have been distributed on vinyl, which you even said yourself. Most articles you've furnished with a picture of a 7" vinyl A-side have not been benefited with said picture, nor has this article. Only people old enough to have it at the time or vinyl collectors would even know what the face of the vinyl looks like. Actual covers are always more important in my opinion, and you're yet again attempting to get rid of one here. Ss112 07:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I notice that my image for Glynne's version predates your upload of the 7" vinyl cover, which seems almost done to spite me or because I uploaded a cover for another version. I uploaded the label identifying Hathaway's original version not to spite you. Actually, if the digital re-release of the original had an available cover art, I would have used that available cover art just as long as better chart performance prevails. The same couldn't be said for Stand by Me (Ben E. King song), however. The 1980s re-releases of the other song had picture sleeves, but the FFD discussion led to keeping the 1960s single release lacking a picture sleeve instead because the original release was successful and was deemed to be used by default. Back to the side label, I think the side label helps. The original Hathaway version charted on Billboard in early 1970s as written in prose. Maybe I should duplicate the info in chart form if necessary.
Most articles you've furnished with a picture of a 7" vinyl A-side have not been benefited with said picture, nor has this article. Oh really? With help of captions, those labels should help readers realize how most US vinyl single releases were manufactured and distributed before CD singles became popular in the 1990s. Furthermore, they help readers stop assuming that most pre-1990s US singles had picture sleeves, which were contradicted by those existing products themselves. Nonetheless, some other editors disagree with my views and have been fans of cover arts. To me, using facts, including factual visuals, helps improve understanding of the past. Furthermore, some other editors are tempted to add a cover art probably due to their dissatisfaction with side labels as lead images. But I'm doing my best to relate well to most readers. Only people old enough to have it at the time or vinyl collectors would even know what the face of the vinyl looks like. That shouldn't prevent readers, including the young, from being curious about older single releases, should it? Indeed, I even overlooked but then realized especially via research that most American single releases missed out picture sleeves, while overseas single releases somehow contained picture sleeves.
Actual covers are always more important in my opinion, and you're yet again attempting to get rid of one here. The criterion's purpose is making sure that the non-free content improves understanding of the article topic, i.e. the 20th-century Christmas song, and is too significant for deletion. Well, not that covers are or aren't "important", but covers have had mass appeal and has attracted most customers. However, the Jess Glynne cover art is supposed to improve understanding of one of 20th-century Christmas songs, which is the purpose of WP:NFCC#8. I don't see how it does. To me, the cover art makes readers recognize the release that was successful in one country... but is probably ineffective in illustrating the song's long history and prominence. The cover art is just... there... as part of the version's success and to display the singer's appearance, but I wonder whether the cover art adds anything much to readers. From what I learned in another FFD discussion, eliminating the cover art might affect a reader's enjoyment, but the enjoyment itself isn't part of NFCC. In other words, the content's ability to be enjoyable wouldn't improve its ability to comply with the NFCC. Instead, understanding the article topic is one of keys to prolong the non-free content's survival. Another key is making sure that free content, especially text, isn't enough for such understanding. To me, unfortunately, deleting the Jess Glynne cover art from the article does not and may not affect what a reader can (already) learn about the song especially by reading the whole article. --George Ho (talk) 09:18, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
I say we keep Glynne's cover and get rid of the picture of a vinyl, which I believe is inconsequential on any article. To you, the vinyl label is "inconsequential", but deleting the label would increase or please people's (poor/bad) assumptions about older vinyl single releases using generic sleeves, i.e. lacking picture sleeves and discourage others further from using such labels. Furthermore, that would affect readers' understanding of how vinyl singles, like the original Hathaway version, were variously manufactured and distributed in different regions at the time. --George Ho (talk) 09:40, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
George, writing interminable paragraphs to each of my points is not going to change my mind that the Glynne cover should be removed. The Glynne artwork does inherently not carry with it the fact that the song peaked higher on a national singles chart than any other version. That's what it sounds like you're trying to say above. It's art; it can't say that itself. It's to identify the most chart-successful version of the song, period. Your reasoning for uploading pictures of the A-sides of 7" vinyls sounds like an agenda to "educate" readers about the fact that vinyls were previously not packaged with cover artworks, and that sounds like the wrong reason for editing. Any cover for any song could be said to be "just... there...", and most of your points could be made about any of the, I repeat, inconsequential vinyl A-sides you've uploaded. I said nothing about "enjoyment"; I didn't upload the cover for my or any reader's "enjoyment", so your point about this is a response to something nobody had suggested. I'm not replying to you beyond this, as it will just encourage you to further clog up this thread with your rants suggesting things I didn't even say, and make any admin ignore any valid point I made just so they'll see you arguing, give up reading and delete the cover. I didn't know before, but now I've learned you are one of many users on this site who'll endlessly rant at any and everybody who disagrees with you. Please spare me the green inline quotations of what I've said, it's pretentious and ridiculous, and I'll ask you to never bother me with the nonsense you posted on my talk page earlier today again. I say keep the Glynne cover, delete George Ho's picture of the A-side of the Hathaway vinyl nobody ever cared about because the song wasn't successful upon release on vinyl in the 1970s. Thank you. Ss112 10:16, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
I'll vote keep the Hathaway vinyl if you nominate it for deletion. George Ho (talk) 10:27, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
(edit conflict) Yes George, thanks for clarifying something that was never in doubt. Ss112 10:29, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Nom's further comment: Identifying the most successful cover version of all cover versions with a cover art... If deleting the Glynne cover art affects understanding of the very old Christmas song, then I can stand corrected. However, art or not, to me, keeping the cover art of the successful cover version just because it's part of the successful version of a very old Christmas song and/or just because the vinyl label is "inconsequential" (to you), looks less than appealing (to you), and would be the only image left... There must be other reasons to keep, i.e. never delete, the cover art. Neither success nor being negative about the vinyl label should be the only, if not main, reasons to keep the cover art. Maybe recognition is also it? But that would make text content appear inadequate to help readers recognize the version, wouldn't it? Honestly, I trust the ability of the text content to teach readers about the song as much as that of the vinyl label I uploaded. When I read info about the version's chart performance, I can already understand and recognize its success. Is a cover art needed for understanding and recognizing the article topic? Would deleting the cover art affect such understanding? Why or why not? If being a success is enough to keep the Jess Glynne cover art, then... I don't know what else to say besides, "That would contradict the decision made about the cover art of the successful but lesser-known Collette version of the other song". The original Hathaway version charted well in one Christmas music chart in the early 1970s and has been well known to many, especially those who covered the song. Some like the uploader can say that the original version wasn't successful, but to my eyes, the Hathaway version has been successful since its original release. --George Ho (talk) 13:31, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Are you not able to leave this alone? Have you never encountered or do you not expect opposition when you nominate something for deletion? It's like you can't believe the user who uploaded the file actually disagrees with you and you just have to keep replying, like you're offering something new. (You aren't.) You've already elaborated on this in three very lengthy replies above. Who do you think is reading all this? (Those are all rhetorical questions, in case it wasn't clear.) Imagine putting up this much of a fight over one cover artwork when you nominate files day-in day-out. It's seemingly all you do on Wikipedia. I'm in disbelief you have this much to say about whether one damn file gets deleted or not. You've contributed 10 KB of text on one image file. I think we can safely say it's not swaying any administrator who's assessing this, nor any other user, and nobody is reading your rants at this point, myself included. Any sensible user can see you're wasting your time. Time to move on. Ss112 14:36, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep This is a song cover of a notable cover version that if they were the original song would pass WP:GNG and WP:SONGS, thus it an acceptable fair use and passes WP:NFCC#8. WP:NFCC#3a does not apply, which should be for cover files by the same artist and not by different artists. Aspects (talk) 23:05, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 6

File:Central Market midcentury.jpg

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Violation of WP:NFCC#8: not critically discussed. Also dubious WP:NFCC#1 assessment. Why is it believed that no free images exist? The image is from the time when copyright notices and renewals were required. What checks have been made to verify if there are other images which were published without notice or renewal, such as advertisements? Stefan2 (talk) 17:57, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep - this is not a violation of #8, I discuss its Tudor-Revival trim that was in place for its last 36 years, and thus is how many residents identify the building, as stated it was "commonly associated with the building". It also shows the building in the mid-20th century. The only free files show it around the turn of the century, before the automobile era and urban revitalization. The image conveys it as a relic of a past time, an important part of the historical narrative. As for NFCC #1, again, this would be another benefit of talking to me first. I wrote the article on the market, and had a heavily exhaustive search (literally and figuratively) to find free images of the building in this era. All you have to do is ask, not tag-bomb. $ɱ$ (talk) 18:05, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- Assuming that this discussion you're referring to above is the second paragraph in Central Market (Columbus, Ohio)#History, then perhaps there's a better way to support what's being claimed than a single citation at the end of the paragraph. Right now, it's not clear (at least in my opinion) whether everything in that paragraph reflects what is written in the cited source or whether the source is for only the last sentence. I'm getting a 404 error when I try and check the source, which is making verifying things a bit hard at the moment. An image isn't automatically "historic" per WP:NFCC#8 (as clarified in item 8 of WP:NFCI, WP:ITSHISTORIC and WP:NFC#CS) just because it's old or shows how something looked a long time ago; historic images tend to be ones which themselves are the subject of sourced critical commentary either at the time the image was taken or in the years since. There might be critical commentary added about an image to an article, but it's going to be considered WP:OR in many cases if it's unsourced or vaguely sourced. So, if there's a way to further clarify things about the image in this article by adding more supporting sources or clarifying whether the existing source applies to the entire paragraph, then that might help sort out the NFCC#8 concerns. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:48, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - This is a near-repeat of an earlier comment you made to me. If you really think {{Non-free historic image}} is meant for what you claim it is meant for, why not try to reword it? Because as it stands right now, the only part that says "the image itself" has to be the subject of commentary is when the image is from a press agency. For general uses, like sentences above that, it has no such clarification. $ɱ$ (talk) 22:01, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - {{Non-free historic image}} is a copyright license template. I didn't create it or any of the other similar templates, but my guess what that they were worded in a way that allowed them to make them easier to apply to certain types of non-free files. Simply adding a non-free copyright license doesn't, however, make a non-free automatically WP:NFCC compliant; even adding a non-free use rationale doesn't make a particular use compliant. The burden falls upon the uploader of a non-free file per WP:NFCCE to provide a valid justification of it's use(s), and any disagreement over this can be resolved through discussions like this. If a consensus is establish in favor of the file's use, then the file will be kept; if not, it won't. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - Cool, well it's abundantly clear that the image can be licensed as nonfree-historic without the physical photograph needing to have its own notability. $ɱ$ (talk) 22:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - And I would be cautious when taking that narrow interpretation - the guidelines/essays you cited to me do not stress that the image itself has to be iconic and subject of commentary, but that the image has to have a historical importance, and parallel critical commentary in the article. $ɱ$ (talk) 22:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - My interpretation is what I based my comment on. I didn't WP:!VOTE in this discussion, only commented. Either way, if my interpretation is incorrect, then whatever consensus is established will almost certainly not reflect what I posted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - I'll fix the dead URL to Edible Columbus, but you're not very clear going on about references and paragraphs, can you explain more clearly what you intend to point out about that? $ɱ$ (talk) 22:06, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - There's a seven sentence paragraph supported by a single citation at the end. The content spans a 30-year period, and one of the sentences even appears to be an indirect quote attributed to the Governor of Ohio. The only sentence which specifically seems to tie into the market's appearance and thus this file's use is the first sentenace: "In 1930, the market was remodeled by Thomas Tully, with new dormers, half-timber trim, new roof lines, and heating and refrigeration installed." That sentence, however, doesn't seem to be supported by a source. Is all of that content of that paragraph supported by the same single citation? If it is, then perhaps would be better to clarify this (if possible) to make the WP:INTEGRITY a bit clearer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - There are three instances that mention timber, several that talk about urban renewal, and one that mentions its historic surroundings, contrasted by the more modern nonfree image here. $ɱ$ (talk) 22:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - And this about citations is a dead giveaway that you're not a seasoned writer here. You don't have to cite every single sentence, in fact, you're discouraged from doing that. Unless it really needs to be clear, e.g. with a controversial statement, it is better to add the inline citation following all the information being cited, usually at the end of the paragraph. So, yes, those seven sentences were from that reference, and I'm not about to add six more citations just to clutter up the prose. $ɱ$ (talk) 22:46, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Another comment - this building is almost always depicted with the Tudor Revival trim. It's the most identifiable feature, and unique for a public building and near-unique entirely for Columbus. This is the case so much that works that talk about it, including A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus, only use a photograph of it with the Tudor Revival exterior. To have an article on the building without this appearance is like having an article on the U.S. Capitol but only depicting it with photographs from its pre-dome state. $ɱ$ (talk) 01:44, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Apple store 2017-19 renovation.jpg

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Fails WP:NFCC#8: no need to see a picture of it being renovated to understand that it was renovated. Stefan2 (talk) 18:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep - the file demonstrates the reconstruction of the cube with three massive panels of glass per side, and is the only known photograph to show it alongside the temporary Apple store. Both are part of critical commentary in the article. $ɱ$ (talk) 18:11, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete: Free pictures of previous renovations already exist, and there is already another nonfree image in the article. Does not really serve to improve my visual aid since it doesn't describe any particular unique renovation. The box in 2011 was pretty unique, warranting its inclusion (plus the presence of multiple free images), but this one I don't see anything that would improve critical commentary. Sennecaster (Chat) 17:46, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:WDSW-LP CoverageArea.png

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See c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:WDSWCoverage.jpg. Stefan2 (talk) 19:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep: @Stefan2: Contrary to what you said on Commons, that is not Google Maps. That's the FCC's LMS mapping system. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:56, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- If this is true, then it would perhaps be better to provide a link to the FCC's LMS mapping system as the source of the image instead of linking to a Commons file. The same link could then be added to the Commons file and a comment added to the Commons DR to clarify such. The file might've just been uploaded to Commons with an incorrect license and perhaps it can be shown to actually be OK as {{PD-USgov}} or a similar PD license instead; such a thing, however, will need to be clearly established because this file will end up going if the Commons file ends up going if things remain as is. Moreover, if the Commons file turns out to be OK, there's really no reason to keep a cropped version of it locally here on English Wikipedia. The cropped version could be moved to Commons and the two files' descriptions could be then updated with c:Template:Image extracted and c:Template:Extracted from to show more clearly how the two files are connected. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:31, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - @Marchjuly: I didn't update the original when I updated the WDSW-LP page, the original was already there. I just cropped it, renamed it (per naming rules), and saved it Wikipedia, not commons since it was FCC LMS. I put the license as CC4.0 as that was what it was by the previous uploader. I have no problem switching the licenses around, that's not a problem. I also have no issue with the image just not being in the article altogether. It's not particularly necessary, but since it was already there (a unique image), I decided to use it. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - @Marchjuly and Stefan2: Let me know if this update is sufficent. If not, I am more than happy to do a further update. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:42, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - The link you provided does seem to work. If that's deemed sufficient for the Commons file to be kept, it will making keeping this one pretty much automatic. If content created by the FCC falls under WP:PD#US government works, then the only thing that might be needed is to tweak both file licenses to reflect that. Perhaps, c:Template:PD-USGov-FCC would be fine to use and then all that would be needed is to revise the descriptions of the uploaded files accordingly. FWIW, I don't think the CC license is correct because using a zoom feature to create a blown up version of the map seems (at least to me) to be more of a case of c:COM:2D copying than a case of c:COM:DW; so, no new copyright would be established for the zoomed image. People are uploading files to Commons all of the time, and in many cases they misunderstand what "own work" means; thus, their choice of license is based on this misunderstanding. In almost all cases, it's just a misunderstanding and not a case of intentionally trying to deceive. Commons can't, though, simply just accept a claim per c:COM:PCP is there's significant doubt raised and in such cases some supporting evidence is needed for files to be kept. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:00, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
It looked like a Google map to me. A source has now been provided. The source is a page on a server belonging to the United States government. Content on US government websites are normally {{PD-USGov}}, but I notice that it says © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap Improve this map in the bottom right of the map. OpenStreetMap maps are freely licensed (but not government works). I can't find any evidence that Mapbox content is freely licensed, but I don't know what Mapbox has contributed to the map. Maybe only background software. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:36, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- @Stefan2: As the original shows, with the various buttons, that match the source. Google Maps stopped providing mapping API to websites across the web back in 2018 and the FCC was one of them. Most signs either use MapBox or OpenStreetMap now. So, MapBox is the provider of the map itself, but the information is provided by the FCC. So, {{PD-USGov}} or {{PD-USGov-FCC}} would still work. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:12, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 5

File:Columbus Railway, Power & Light car barn.jpg

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Violation of WP:NFCC#3b, WP:NFG and WP:NFCC#8. Stefan2 (talk) 01:01, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep: WP:NFCC#3b is ridiculous, simply reduce the image size. WP:NFG is merely a guideline that states it's okay on a case-by-case basis. And in this case, it doesn't need to be in the gallery, but the car barn is decently discussed in the article, an important part of the complex written about, and this is the only image that depicts it. It's likely a free image anyhow, it's so old, though I haven't found the original source. As for WP:NFCC#8, I already cover that it's a significant part of the complex with enough discussion to warrant an illustration. $ɱ$ (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- The file description page - which you wrote - and its use in the article doesn't support any of that. The assertion that it's "as small a version as possible", at 3710x1974 px, is ridiculous on the face of it. The image isn't discussed at all in the article; the sum total of critical commentary is the caption "Car barn and powerhouse, undated". Use of {{non-free historic image}} generally requires critical commentary on that specific image, not its subject - that the subject no longer exists would strengthen a different base rationale (typically identification), but isn't one in and of itself. And no, it doesn't identify the article's subject, which is the office complex; what this image covers gets all of one sentence in the article body and two words in the lead. Maybe an acceptable fair-use rationale could be written to use this image, but this ain't it.
  I do agree that it's likely free. It looks like newsprint, so was probably published promptly after creation, meaning it dates to 1930 at the latest and either is now or will be public domain within the next few years. Best bet to keep this image would be to contact that blogger and ask him where he got it from. —Cryptic 16:43, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - I already contacted the blogger, and he has no idea anymore, nor could I find the source myself. I can work towards adding more about the car barn in the article, but can you show me a better example of a nonfree file like this with a good rationale, so I can improve this one? And/or if you want to help correct it yourself, please do. $ɱ$ (talk) 19:20, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
    - Since we don't have a better source, we have to assume that the file is unfree. However, due to the age, there is also the question on whether the image is thought to satisfy WP:NFCC#1. What attempts have been made to determine that there are no other photos which are in the public domain due to lack of notice or renewal? --Stefan2 (talk) 18:17, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
      - I have been exhaustively searching the web for this file, and ones like it. So far the best I've got of the car barn is a low-res photo of the side, without showing the words printed on the front, and without showing the powerhouse. $ɱ$ (talk) 18:22, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
        It sounds as if you have been searching the wrong place. The web did not exist back in the days, so the obvious place to publish photos was not on the web but on paper. What attempts have been made to see if anything was published on paper and whether any such material happens to be in the public domain? --Stefan2 (talk) 18:44, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]
        Is this serious, or humor? I have been a historical researcher for well over a decade. I am not sure if you are, but I know the best avenues for research. The blogger, Don, found the photos online, and thus they are certainly online somewhere. And you might not know, but digital archives like the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, Google Books, and local sources like the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Westerville Historical Society, etc., etc., have far more old documents, newspapers, photographs, and books available online than you could find with countless hours of manually searching paper volumes. $ɱ$ (talk) 19:05, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:June Havoc photo from Anna Christie on Celanese Theatre.jpg

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This non-free image is not the subject of significant sourced commentary failing WP:NFCC#8. The breadth and scope of the subject's career does not need an image to demonstrate it as that is accomplished with the text in the article with her credits and so fails WP:NFCC#1. Whpq (talk) 02:04, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I have to say what first comes to mind is the "old chestnut" that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think that this is particularly true with a visual artist such as an actor or actress. It is true, of course, that the text indicates that June Havoc played the part of Anna Christie in a performance of the Eugene O'Neill play on the Celanese Theatre program in 1952. However, that fact does not describe the performance: the look of Ms. Havoc in the role; her costume; the props. The photograph shows Ms. Havoc in character as Anna Christie, which is separate and distinct from the fact that she played the role.Raygauche (talk) 20:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

That old chestnut is generally not accepted as a valid reason to keep a non-free image. What is needed is significant independent sourced commentary about the image. -- Whpq (talk) 15:12, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Old Street station 1920.jpg

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Pretty much per the previous FfD, where I set out the rationale of why the file was PD, leading it to be kept. However, a bunch of bots keep "edit warring" on it, so I'm bringing discussion here again to gauge consensus on this. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:27, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The previous FFD only considered public domain status in the UK. If it was published in 1929 and in copyright in the UK until 1999, then it's still in copyright in the US - the monstrosity that is the URAA "restored" copyright to foreign works still in copyright in their country of origin in 1996. Particularly heinous for this image, which likely would have been public domain in the US for many decades had it originated there, maybe since publication.
Copyright duration in the US for works-for-hire is 95 years since publication, or 120 since creation if that's sooner. So if you know it was actually published in 1929, it'll become PD in the US in 2025 (at least unless Disney intervenes again). If it was just created in 1929 and not published until later, it might remain under US copyright as long as 2050. —Cryptic 12:05, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Cryptic, And to further add to that, the "Underground Group" mentioned in the picture is (I believe) the Underground Electric Railways Company of London which was a private organisation, hence copyright expiring 70 years after publication. However, four years later, in 1933, it was absorbed into the London Passenger Transport Board, a government organisation and hence under Crown Copyright which expires after 50 years. So, if my understanding is correct, it means that a photograph published later by the same body (or descendent) is more likely to be out of copyright. That's .... bonkers. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:14, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Lena Horne with Tuskegee airmen.png

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There is no proof this photo is in the public domain. The uploader first tried to argue that it was a photo taken by members of the US military pursuant to their official duties and thus a US Fed Gov photo, but neither the source of the file (a book) or a HuffPost article linked that features the photo have said where it came from. We can't claim photos are US Gov if no source actually attributes it to the US Gov. The uploader has now changed to a PD-US-no notice tag, which stipulates that the photo was published in the United States between 1926 and 1977 inclusive, without a copyright notice. None of the sources provided have demonstrated when or where the photo was originally published, or that it was first published without a copyright notice. I reiterate, the uploader has failed to fulfill WP:BURDEN in showing that that this photo is actually in the public domain. My efforts at locating the origins of this photo have turned up nothing. Indy beetle (talk) 21:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep no copyright ever has been asserted - this is clearly a military promotional/propaganda photo published freely - the photo shows a contemporary star posing with Tuskegee Airmen taken January 1, 1945. The photo falls within public domain (The work was published in the United States between 1926 and 1977). If there ever had been a copyright it no longer exists and {PD-US-not renewed} would apply. FYI: This nomination is a spillover from a cantankerous AfD for a Tuskegee Airman named Willie H. Fuller. Lightburst (talk) 21:40, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- If this is clearly a military promotional/propaganda photo published freely then surely we can find a source that will WP:PROVEIT is indeed a US military photo? For all we know it could have just been easily been taken by a promotional agency for Horne, by a news agency that was covering her visit, or simply a private photo of an airman (not taken as an official duty). But of course you've abandoned that line of logic since you've opted for a different PD permission tag; you assert, work was published in the United States between 1926 and 1977 and yet you can't demonstrate the original place of publication and/or date. What newspaper? What propaganda publication? What issue and page number? You can't tell us because there is indeed zero proof that this photo meets the terms of that PD tag. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:52, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Googling for "Tuskegee airmen" "Lena Horne" site:gov OR site:edu shows 76 results to sort through. I see other photographs of her with them at https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000982133/ and https://www.aamu.edu/about/inside-aamu/news/polk-exhibit-scheduled-at-aamu.html There should be a government or educational website somewhere we can sort through to find the picture. Searching for .mil shows four more results. Searching for site:org gives 120 results. Anyone know a better way to search for this specific image? Dream Focus 22:08, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- tineye.com and paste the image's url (not Wikipedia's file page); or images.google.com, click on the little camera icon, paste the url, and select "Find other sizes of this image: All sizes". I get better results with the less-cropped huffpost version, especially on google. —Cryptic 23:01, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep I just found the image at The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) 03 May 1995, Wed Page 180 [5] The image is used as part of a museum exhibit. Far more is written at The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) 09 Dec 1993, Thu Page 275 [6] showing this historical photograph as part of the The Miami Museum of Science display titled "The Tuskegee Airmen: WWII's Black Aviators". Various newspapers use it, the museum uses it, anyone publishing a book can freely use it, it is clearly public domain. Dream Focus 22:21, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- "It is used a lot" is not the same as "public domain". Press agency photos are also used a lot. And now the earliest example of publication is 1995, which still falls out of scope for the PD-US no notice tag. Why not use one of the other photos that is clearly marked as a US Air Force photo? OH right, because then it couldn't be levereged to try and save the AfD. -Indy beetle (talk) 22:34, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
And what would you know! The Independent calls it an Associated Press photo here (scroll through the gallery). This website also attributes it to the AP, as does an official PBS tumblr account post. Press agencies will sometimes provide PD photos to newspapers, but we should have rock solid proof that it actually is PD before trying to compete with AP. Note that even our policy on non-free content at WP:NFCI forbids the use of press agency or photo agency (e.g., AP or Getty Images) images when the image itself is not the subject of commentary. -Indy beetle (talk) 22:53, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Does the Associated Press own it, or just give them something from public domain? Is there any way to find out? Dream Focus 00:07, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment "...between 1923 and 1963, a published item like a photo had to have a copyright notice, the copyright had to be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, and — for protection to still exist today — the registration would have had to have been renewed. And, according to the Library of Congress — home of the U.S. Copyright Office itself — “only a few images were registered for copyright and those copyrights were not renewed.” That may not be true of every image but it’s certainly true of most of the older news service photos." The legal Genealogist. We can do this all day, but I do not be a a party to another food fight. Battling all across the project with untold Terabytes filling the WP servers - all of this to help diminish the notability of a bonafide war hero. It is a shame :( Lightburst (talk) 00:27, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

@Dream Focus: That's my point exactly, is that we don't know. I wish there was an obvious way of finding out, I'm not aware of any methods. @Lightburst: You're quoting that on the assumption that the photo was published between 1923 and 1963. The earliest example we have of it being published is 1995. -Indy beetle (talk) 01:06, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Indy beetle Maybe you will allow us to put it back in the article now? Clearly published and Willie H. fuller is clearly identified. No copyright asserted. Lightburst (talk) 02:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Very good. I still don't think PD is 100% proven per se (since nothing actually says that it is) but I suppose that's good enough. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:29, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Of course you don't. Lightburst (talk) 02:34, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Are you faulting me for being cautious about a press agency photo? You repeatedly lied to say it was a US Gov photo despite having no evidence to support that assertion, and it took all this discussion to finally drag out the photos origins. I think caution was perfectly warranted. At any rate, as long as the details on the file have been updated I think we can call this one a day. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:A screenshot of Smalltalk-76.png

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Was going to di-replacable-fair-use this, but since it is used on a couple of articles where this would be useful, I think it would be good to have a discussion about this. For each of the uses listed, only Xerox Alto seems like the one most in line with our WP:NONFREE policy. The rest should be removed. And even Xerox Alto's usage may possibly not be in line with our non-free policy. That is my reason for listing this for discussion. Aasim (talk) 23:49, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[]

It's not impossible to see what a Smalltalk-76 desktop looks like, but it's a very high hurdle for a casual visitor to Wikipedia. Trying to talk about the history of Window-Icon-Mouse-Pointer (a.k.a. WIMP) based GUIs and the desktop metaphar without this image tends to result in reality being twisted by history revisioners, especially fan of Apple and Jobs. It is very important to show this image at key points, and I hope you understand. SUMIM.ST 9:55, 6 October 2021 (JST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SUMIM.ST (talk • contribs)

The main concerns here are NFCC 1 and NFCC 8. NFCC 1 prohibits uses where text would suffice. NFCC 8 prohibits uses that would not increase understanding of a topic. Aasim (talk) 21:23, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[]

For older nominations, see the archives.

Discussions approaching conclusion[edit]

Discussions with at least 6 full days since nomination. After 7 days, they may be closed.

October 20[edit]

File:Leung performing at Newman Recital Hall.png[edit]

Low resolution and lack of metadata suggest this is not "own work" as claimed. Appears to be a screen grab from either this or this video. Ixfd64 (talk) 02:27, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Solzhenitsyn.jpg[edit]

No evidence of acceptable license at source. The website does include a GNU license, but the image was likely used on this website without proper permission. Please also see a Commons deletion request for the same file. Johnj1995 (talk) 18:17, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:WYSIO.jpg[edit]

I would have PRODded this, but I wonder whether the image is eligible for copyright in the US. This cover art contains just red stars, plain typeface used for the artist's name and the song title, and blue background. It may or may not be sufficient enough for UK copyright per c:COM:TOO UK; UK's originality standards are very low. George Ho (talk) 18:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep CD1. My rule of thumb is that if an additional image for one version of a song can be described in words, don't add it. This has just been proven, so the digital artwork should probably be removed regardless of copyright concerns. For the CDs, either could be used, but since CD2 is a bit more wordy than CD1, I'd have to go with the latter. ResPM (T🔈 🎵C) 12:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Hey there. I PRODded CD2 cover. This iTunes cover is the only one I'm listing. --George Ho (talk) 15:52, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:RothkoBlackGray.jpg[edit]

This image is in my opinion too simple to be eligible for copyright, and should probably be replaced with the {{PD-ineligible}} template. Realmaxxver (talk) 18:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Or the {{PD-simple}} tag. Realmaxxver (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Most of Rothko's (late) work is equally as "simple" as this one. If you were correct, none of his work would be eligible for copyright protection. I doubt that {{PD-simple}} was intended to apply to works of art. Vexations (talk) 13:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Threshold of originality says that in the US, copyright protection can be granted to works of authorship that possess at least some minimal degree of creativity. Also, the original source from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum states "© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York". Johnj1995 (talk) 14:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment: Just because there is a copyright notice doesn't mean something is actually copyrighted. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:12, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

You're not suggesting that the Rothko estate is making a false copyright claim though, are you? Just that sometimes other people do so? The article Rothko case has some background info on the estate, and might help to convince folks that Kate Rothko does indeed hold the copyright. Vexations (talk) 17:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The US Copyright office provides this guidance on registering copyrights for visual art works. Reviewing the examples doesn't resolve issue of copyrightability for me. In explaining to me why the National Gallery of Canada's acquisition of Voice of Fire was not a boondoggle, an artist friend once explained that the stripes, shapes, and any other elements in works also have brush technique adding visual texture to the work. I'm not sure how the US copyright office would view that argument. There is visual texture apparent in the painting. This looks like one of those things that sit at the borderline. I would err on the side of caution and keep this image licensed as non-free. -- Whpq (talk) 01:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Ultraviolet/The Ballad of Paul K[edit]

"The Ballad of Paul K" cover turns out to be part of promotional release and shouldn't be used (discogs, ebay). All other covers may be okay to use, but using more than one may violate WP:NFCC#3a, and any one of them may also fail WP:NFCC#8. The drawing/animation cover was used for the DVD release (discogs, ebay). However, either CD or digital release is more preferred, so I think DVD one should go. If I see no preferences from anyone else so far, I think the very top image, i.e. CD1 single (ebay), should be the only one to use by default. George Ho (talk) 19:13, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep CD1. This is an article for a single—a musical composition released commercially—so the promo "Ballad" artwork and DVD artwork should definitely go. As for the CDs, I'd usually go for the artwork used most frequently internationally, but since it wasn't released outside the British Isles, this turns into more of a numbers game. Seeing as neither artwork has achieved a solid sense of identity in the UK, we could go without one or the other, but one comes before two, so CD2 so be removed. ResPM (T🔈 🎵C) 12:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Extra covers of Fill My Little World[edit]

If using more than one cover violates WP:NFCC#3a, then let's delete extra (vinyl) covers of Fill My Little World I'm nominating here. Preferably, the cover displaying two scoops of ice cream melting on a cone, which I'm not nominating, should be the only one used. George Ho (talk) 19:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep CD. Being a fan of food, I personally find the re-release covers more enticing. However, the original artwork (i.e. the red-and-white 7-inch) is what I generally prefer using in articles, but since the re-release was more success and there are no other infoboxes in the article, it might be wiser to use the most widely known artwork. I've seen more uses of the ice cream art than the cupcake art, so let's keep the former. ResPM (T🔈 🎵C) 12:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Questions and Answers (Biffy Clyro song)[edit]

If using more than one cover violates WP:NFCC#3a, then let's keep either one. By default, the animated/drawing cover of a red-haired woman should be preferred, but you decide. George Ho (talk) 19:34, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep CD1. In 2003, the 7-inch single was much less popular than the CD, so that image should be deleted. As for the CD images, if one of them is deleted, it can easily be recreated with words. The numbers bias comes into play here, with one coming before two, so CD1 should be the main identifier. ResPM (T🔈 🎵C) 12:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Extra covers of Radio:Active[edit]

Using more than one cover art containing "equivalent significant information" may be against WP:NFCC#3a, despite different appearances. Preferably, the one I'm not nominating here should be the only one used in the article. The extra covers that I'm nominating, including the Japanese one, should be deleted. George Ho (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You.ogg[edit]

Currently used at Doug Hopkins, Found Out About You, and Gin Blossoms. The sample was de-PRODded, citing one critic's quote, haunting, almost psychedelic quality to the interweaving guitar lines, as sufficient enough to keep the sample. Hmm... I wonder. I still don't think the sample meets WP:NFCC#8 when used at the singer article and the band article. Unsure whether the sample complies with the criterion when used at the song article, even with the quote. George Ho (talk) 20:16, 20 October 2021 (UTC); edited, 20:17, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:McAitanaBillboard.jpg[edit]

Aitana's partenering with MsDonalds is already adequately conveyed with text. The understanding of this is not detracted with the removal of this image. Fails WP:NFCC#1 and WP:NFCC#8. Whpq (talk) 21:09, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Recent nominations[edit]

October 21[edit]

File:Waiting on the World to Change Limited Edition EP.jpg[edit]

Previously nominated for deletion by a bot, but was kept due to two votes. This time, I'm nominating the image here due to my concerns about its compliance with WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#3a. This image is of limited edition EP release and may not be necessary. The other image is already sufficient enough to use. George Ho (talk) 07:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

In case anyone else is confused about the history, the file was first nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Files for_deletion/2007 June 18#Continuum (album) covers. That was closed as keep, but the closing admin didn't remove {{ffd}}. This caused a bot (thinking the image was tagged but not listed) to relist the image for deletion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2007 December 30#Image:Waiting on the World to Change Limited Edition EP.jpg, which was closed as keep again (this time properly removing the FfD tag). * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:09, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change.ogg[edit]

The sample was de-PRODded, citing the song's status as John Mayer's signature song. Even as "signature song", I still have concerns about the sample's compliance with WP:NFCC#8/WP:NFC#CS and WP:NFCC#1/WP:FREER. Free text content can already explain what the song is about. I also don't think critical commentary is sufficient enough to support the sample and the sample's content. The assumption that readers couldn't understand what critical commentary describes without the sample underestimates and IMHO would undermine the free text content's ability to teach readers about the song. George Ho (talk) 08:01, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Coldplay - Fix You.ogg[edit]

The sample was de-PRODded under assumption that it may be supported by critical commentary and comply with WP:NFCC#8. Re-reading Fix You#Arrangement, I'm unsure whether it does. The section describes briefly the song's structure and transitions. The sample contains one of the song's verses, yet the section doesn't mention it very much or at all. The section quotes one or two of the song's lines, but that's about it. Furthermore, an organ (or "a church-style organ" described by a caption) is assumed to be less understood without the sample. How would a reader not be able to understand what the article, including its "Arrangement" section, says without the sample? Furthermore, I wonder whether the sample complies with WP:FREER/WP:NFCC#1. George Ho (talk) 08:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love 2021.jpg[edit]

This cover art is of the upcoming 2021 re-release of "Plastic Love". Sure, the song became more popular due to internet fan-made video back in 2017. Furthermore, a cover art used for the other song "Sweetest Music" was used instead for that video (now deleted?) and is now used for this year's upcoming re-release. There's already the cover art of the original 1985 release, which... well, didn't perform well in Japanese music chart. Still, why need the re-release cover? George Ho (talk) 09:31, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I started other discussion at Talk:Plastic Love on whether to use the "Sweetest Music" cover, identical to the reissue cover. George Ho (talk) 09:33, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

@George Ho: Just trying to clarify: you want to remove the reissue cover and replace it with the "Sweetest Music" cover under fair use? ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 18:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

@Ganbaruby: If that's possible and there are no objections... then yeah. Not as part of top infobox; rather part of "Resurgence" section. Well... Even if the Sweetest Music cover won't be accepted, I still don't think the reissue cover is necessary. --George Ho (talk) 19:09, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep. Reissue covers are displayed on articles all the time, and for good reason. This one has more relevance than most, as the reissue cover both shows the Sweetest Music photo that's become associated with the song and serves as evidence of the cultural impact of the song's resurgence in the specific form that it did. ElspethOfValeron (talk) 22:39, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

In other words, you favor using the reissue cover instead of the "Sweetest Music" cover art, right? George Ho (talk) 23:28, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Correct. The key thing, in my eyes, is that the reissue cover demonstrates that the cultural impact of the "Plastic Lover" video was enough to inspire official recognition of the correlation between the song and the image. ElspethOfValeron (talk) 01:52, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep per ElspethOfValeron. The Sweetest Music cover should go on the article about Sweetest Music, not here. There should be more reasoning than "don't think it's necessary". ◢ Ganbaruby!  (talk) 07:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Ramones-Blitzkrieg Bop.ogg[edit]

The sample is more than 10% of the song's length and may violate WP:NFCC#3b and MOS:SAMPLE. Even when the length issue is fixable, the sample may still need to comply with WP:NFCC#8/WP:NFC#CS and WP:NFCC#1/WP:FREER. It has been used in four articles: Blitzkrieg Bop, Punk rock, Ramones, and Ramones (album). I don't think the usages in the band article and the song article comply with NFCC. The sample should be removed from those two articles. Unsure whether any sample (same or different) of the song meets NFCC well in the other two articles: one genre and one song. George Ho (talk) 10:58, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Dean1ofFAS.jpg[edit]

Appears to be a photograph of a photograph. No evidence uploader owns the copyright to the original. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:49, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 00:26, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:DSW Store San Antonio.jpg[edit]

Uploader says image was taken with an iPhone 7, but the low resolution and "Instagram" in the metadata say otherwise. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

@Jay1095: Please upload the original file if you really took this picture. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Photo of Pritam Ghosh.png[edit]

Low-quality and unused photo of non-notable person. Article about subject was deleted. Furthermore, the description says the photo is to be used for Wikipedia only, which contradicts the CC0 license. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 00:27, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:RichardWilsonBaner.JPG[edit]

No freedom of panorama for 2D artworks in the United States. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:56, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 00:28, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Stabiliti Poster English.jpg[edit]

Unused film poster, no evidence uploader is the copyright holder. Ixfd64 (talk) 19:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, questionable licensing and no obvious reason why the file is useful if converted to non-free as article for the film is still in draft. Salavat (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Brian Tyler 2011.jpg[edit]

Listed as an official photo at IMDb. [7] VRT permission is required. Ixfd64 (talk) 19:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Midwakh2.JPG[edit]

Unused crop. No foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 20:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete, I agree with Salavat and have no particular fondness for this crop. -- Frotz(talk) 20:28, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Persepolis Seasons(2008).jpg[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 20:34, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 00:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Manndorff-Coat-of-Arms.gif[edit]

This is sourced to old books but it doesn't say which books, so the public domain claim can't be verified. Stefan2 (talk) 20:42, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Avarice Lincoln Cathedral West.jpg[edit]

Unused crop. No foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 20:50, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 00:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bill Turner CIMG7263.JPG[edit]

No freedom of panorama for 2D graphic works in the United States. Ixfd64 (talk) 20:59, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:RF02915 rscape secondary structure.svg[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 21:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 06:49, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Sullivan Mountain Lions ticket stub.png[edit]

Bogus public domain reason. The logo on the ticket meets the threshold of originality. Stefan2 (talk) 21:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bill Suplee.jpg[edit]

Description suggests photo is a screen grab from a TV show. Low resolution also suggests this is not "own work" as claimed. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, questionable licensing and no obvious reason why the file is useful if converted to non-free. Salavat (talk) 06:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bird identifcation chart, Sultanpur national park.jpg[edit]

No freedom of panorama for 2D graphic works in India. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:02, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, questionable licensing and no obvious reason why the file is useful if converted to non-free. Salavat (talk) 06:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Soviet Major General Fyodor Samuilovich Kolchuk.jpg[edit]

See Copyright law of the Soviet Union#Transition to post-Soviet legislation in Russia: That new Russian law had a general copyright term of 50 years p.m.a.[145] and was retroactive,[146] restoring copyright on works on which the shorter Soviet copyright terms had already expired. The old five-year term is irrelevant. Stefan2 (talk) 21:06, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:The Kilwa Sultanate.png[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 21:11, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 06:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Perspective-2point.png[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 21:13, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 06:51, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Mary Pickford historical plaque.jpg[edit]

No FOP. Also unclear if the Creative Commons licence only applies to Wikipedia due to the ambiguous wording. Stefan2 (talk) 21:14, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 06:51, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Helmut Missner.jpeg[edit]

No evidence that the photographer died before 1926 as required per {{Not-PD-US-URAA}}. Stefan2 (talk) 21:24, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep I updated the file rationale. {Non-free fair use in|Helmut Missner|image has rationale=yes} Lightburst (talk) 21:31, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]
I think you confused "rationale" with licensing change that you made recently. I added the rationale on your behalf. --George Ho (talk) 22:47, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

User:George Ho Thank you for that! - I was just trying to work on it and I very much appreciate your help! Lightburst (talk) 22:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Hirosaki Temps.jpg[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 21:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 06:52, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Rogerssp.jpg[edit]

Unused, low quality, unidentified building. Stefan2 (talk) 21:33, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 06:52, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Caslte Irwell Student village sign.jpg[edit]

School logo is likely above the threshold of originality even in the United States. No freedom of panorama for 2D graphic works in the United Kingdom. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:38, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 06:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Flora ceylon20190424.jpg[edit]

No evidence that uploader is the copyright holder or that the cover is old enough to be in public domain. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, questionable licensing and no obvious reason why the file is useful if converted to non-free. Salavat (talk) 06:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 22[edit]

File:Window-well-cover-example.JPG[edit]

No indication of Creative Commons license at source website. Ixfd64 (talk) 00:11, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Replaced both uses with a free file. Ixfd64 (talk) 00:17, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 06:54, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Kevin Kamenetz.jpg[edit]

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the media below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was: Delete; deleted as F7 by Explicit (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:01, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Replaceable with free images. Both File:Kevin Kamenetz (27993611774).jpg and File:County Executive Kevin Kamenetz (13466862545) (1).jpg are available under free licenses. SecretName101 (talk) 02:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment: The uploader of this file passed away about a month ago. If there's a free equivalent now available for this file per WP:FREER, then there's no longer a need for a non-free one and it should be deleted. In a case like this, though, a FFD discussion isn't really needed and the non-free can be tagged for speedy deletion per WP:F7 unless there are significant doubts about the freeness of the new file. Those concerns, however, will need to be raised on Commons since issues with Commons files need to be resolved on Commons. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Speedy delete --evrik ^(talk) 15:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
I have tagged the file for dated speedy deletion. I didn't want to spam a deceased uploader's talk page with deletion notifications, so I didn't notify the uploader. --Stefan2 (talk) 23:14, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete free alternative images exists, so fails WP:NFCC#1. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

File:Halyna Hutchins.jpg[edit]

She died yesterday, and no evidence that an attempt to find a free image has actually been attempted. As such, I don't believe WP:NFCC#1 is satisfied, as a freely licenced image could be available if people actually did a search Joseph2302 (talk) 15:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep I've searched on Google Images and Flickr and haven't been able to find a free image. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:46, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep: Until we can find a free image of her, I suggest that we let this picture be in her article. Toadboy123 (talk) 09:49, 22 October 2021 (PST)
Note: Article about subject has been nominated for deletion. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:25, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- Now resulted in an apparent snow keep, if it matters here. --Chillabit (talk) 20:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - Non-free content is required to be used in at least one article per WP:NFCC#7; so, the outcome of an AfD can impact whether a non-free file is kept. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:36, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete a cursory Google and Flickr search is not enough. We don’t keep this until a better one is found, we wait a few months until all avenues have been exhausted. Step hen 02:31, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Totally agree with this. There's no reason why either her family or one of her employers wouldn't be able to freely licence a photo for us, or anyone that has ever seen her and taken a photo could also do so. Google and Flickr are not the entire world. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:49, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment: While there's no brightline amount of time that needs to pass before a non-free image of a deceased person can be used, it's generally expected that a reasonable effort be made to find a free equivalent that can serve the same encyclopedic purpose as a non-free one. It doesn't have to be a free version of the non-free one, just a free one that can serve essentially the same encyclopedic purpose. Now, there might be some disagreement among editors as to what is considered a "reasonable effort", but a cursory Internet search shortly just after someone has died usually doesn't seem to be enough. This is a hard case to assess because there was no article about Hutchins before she died and thus there's no way to easily determine whether there was any effort being made to find a free image of her as is sometimes the case with those who die after an article had already been created about them. Moreover, as pointed out above, the default is not automatically to use a non-free image until a free equivalent can be found or created. There are quite a lot of images of Hutchins currently available online. Is there a way to track down the provenance of some of them and see whether WP:PERMISSIONs might work? -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:01, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete per standard NFC approach around recently deceased people (particularly those that we know had public presence), we expect editors to try to make a good faith search for free media, which includes reaching out to family + friends for a possible free licensed image. But we know doing that immediately in the wake of death is not appropriate, but within 6 months or so is a reasonable timeframe, so for those 6 months after death, we do not allow non-free images of recently deceased to be used. --Masem (t) 13:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep. Until somebody produces a free image, there is no reason to assume one exists or could be obtained. Sandstein 19:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

That isn't how fair use works on here. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that a freely licenced phot could be obtained by all the methods I suggested above, we shouldn't default to assuming that none exists just because nobody has found one. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:44, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Comment there appears to be a free image on Commons with the same filename: Commons:File:Halyna Hutchins.jpg. If this is actually a free image, then we should delete this fair use image, and use that free image instead. Though I'm not sure about whether the Commons image is actually free or not. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:49, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- It's unlikely to be free picture because: 1) its uncut version here is mentioned as "courtesy of Halyna Hutchins"; 2) several files uploaded by this editor have been marked as a possible copyright violation. Flipping Switches (talk) 13:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
  - I've nominated all of that user's files on Commons for deletion as likely copyright violations. Elli (talk | contribs) 13:27, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep per Elli, Toadboy123 and Sandstein as well as per text in file summary: "Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) The subject is deceased, so it is not possible to take a free equivalent." "Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject, who is critically discussed in the article." and "Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) The owner of the photo is the subject shown in the photo. Halyna Hutchins was deceased in 2021. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:33, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]
- Not being able to take a new photo of Hutchins doesn't mean a free-equivalent cannot still be created. If an existing image of her can be found that is (1) already freely licensed or (2) the copyright holder agrees to change to a free license, then WP:FREER isn't being met. WP:NFCC#1 doesn't mean that a free new image needs to be taken and it doesn't mean that a free version of a specific non-free image needs to found. If another image of Hutchins can be found that is freely licensed and is capable of serving essentially the same encyclopedic purpose as this non-free one, then this one is not needed regardless of who took it. Moreover, the default isn't just to use a non-free one image until someone else finds a free equivalent. it's expected that the uploaders of non-free files will make a reasonable effort to try and find a free image first before uploading a non-free one. All ten non-free content criteria need to be satisfied for a non-free use to be considered acceptable per WP:JUSTONE, and it's the responsibility of the person wanting to upload and use a non-free file to establish that these criteria are met per WP:NFCCE. The FREER hurdle is a pretty big hurdle to overcome and it doesn't disappear just because the subject of a photo is decased. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:12, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Chanderi Saree.jpg[edit]

No indication of CC0 license at source website. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:22, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete website says "© 2016 Artsy India Arts & Crafts LLP. All rights reserved". If the uploader is from that website, they would need to use OTRS. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:01, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Floridatrip pictures 078.jpg[edit]

No freedom of panorama for 3D artworks in the United States. Only used on the user page of an editor with few contributions. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:27, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, questionable licensing and no obvious reason why the file is useful if converted to non-free. Salavat (talk) 06:58, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Frank Ocean Voodoo.ogg[edit]

Currently used at Frank Ocean#Musical style. If it helps readers identify the musician's style, then I can appreciate the efforts to help readers identify his music. However, I'm not sure whether the sample complies with WP:NFCC#8/WP:NFC#CS. The section's description of the song "Voodoo" is brief, aside from quoting the song's chorus (or a verse?), which I could remove someday. I don't think the critical commentary is sufficient enough to support the sample. Furthermore, I think deleting the sample wouldn't affect how readers can learn about the musician's musical style, which may remind listeners with/of(?) R&B... or "avant-garde R&B"(?), and comparisons to other musicians/artists. George Ho (talk) 20:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Hey, I uploaded the file originally... isn't this a freely released unpublished work that could just be rectified with a different licensing? It was only posted on the artist's social media account for free as far as I know... Anyway, I don't understand all these seemingly knee-jerk delete noms... not that readers couldn't just YouTube-browse these songs anyway, but there is fairly substantial commentary in the article(s); the noted elements in the caption echo discussion in the relevant sections. Piotr Jr. (talk) 19:19, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

More relevant commentary from Stereogum... would this connection help justify the sample? "...moods that fit in well with the rest of Frank’s sometimes-bleak, depressive lyrical tendencies..." ([8]) Piotr Jr. (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The commentary from Stereogum wouldn't help justify much either. I believe that readers will grasp what "sometimes-bleak, depressive lyrical tendencies" (or just "tendencies"?) mean without a sample (and its help). I would like to know why you think deleting the sample would affect readers' ability to understand the topic, i.e. the musician/singer/songwriter and his style, and/or the article's ability to teach readers about the topic. The criterion requires a non-free content to be too significant for deletion, and I'm failing to see how the sample complies with it. George Ho (talk) 20:34, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Unless a reader has heard his music before, I don't think any amount of text would ultimately give the average person a sense of what it sounds like... Piotr Jr. (talk) 21:17, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Well, text and an audio work aren't the same thing. However, ~~I see you haven't yet given text content plenty of chances especially to educate an average person about one song... or one person.~~ for me, no matter how dissimilar the clip and text are, the text content (editable it has been) can adequately give sense of what a person like Frank Ocean and his musical style are about. If I want to sample his songs, I can go to music and shopping websites. Maybe I'm implying the sample's compliance (or failure to comply?) with WP:NFCC#1 and WP:FREER? I wanna mention those but couldn't due to fear that my argument based on the sample's ability to be "irreplaceable" couldn't be strong enough and could be rebutted easily. George Ho (talk) 22:23, 23 October 2021 (UTC); edited, 23:04, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I struck the assumption I made about you in order to keep good faith, I hope. Probably you did give text plenty of chances before but then found text a poor replacement for an audio clip, right? George Ho (talk) 23:04, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Which leads me to believe you are underestimating the importance of an audio sample in general... Piotr Jr. (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Why do you think is the sample of the song, not the whole song itself, significant to the article and its topic? WP:NFC#CS mentions the significance of the understanding afforded by the non-free content, which can be determined according to the principles of due weight and balance. Both links lead you to WP:NPOV, one of the project's core content policies. I'm unsure how the sample containing the chorus (or a verse?) balances the biographical article well and gives the article a due weight. George Ho (talk) 22:23, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I'm still unsure whether a sample of any Frank Ocean song like "Voodoo" is necessary to help readers understand the person in question. George Ho (talk) 23:04, 23 October 2021 (UTC) Didn't notice the reply below until I posted this comment. --George Ho (talk) 23:12, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The Spin source cited in the sample caption identifies it as an "odd" and an eccentric take on an R&B trope, which are identified as characteristics in Ocean's music overall, according to the section this sample is placed in. MTV News identifies the song as "a prime example of Ocean's distinctive technique as a songwriter: His best songs, like "Voodoo," disrupt the flow of linear time by prompting us to dive deep into our own memories and feel something indelibly real." (In an extensive essay on other examples of this in Ocean's music...) Piotr Jr. (talk) 23:00, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The caption may... probably help a lot. However, outside the caption, the body content already describes the song's themes and (derivative?) use of traditional spiritual song "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands". George Ho (talk) 23:52, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I think it's relevant in the spirit of WP:AESTHETIC. Piotr Jr. (talk) 23:13, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Hmm, it sure does meet WP:AESTHETIC, but what about due weight and balance? George Ho (talk) 23:52, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Could you please explain how you are applying questions of due weight/balance to the current content in the section on Ocean's musical style? Piotr Jr. (talk) 23:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I see you added some more content in effort to improve support for the sample. I appreciate your efforts... and I don't know what else to say about the current version. Maybe I hope the paragraph/passage about the song is neither excessive nor overly detailed, is it? If it is perceived to be excessive, then the passage may potentially have undue weight and/or poor balance.

Speaking of excessive, I just listened the whole song at Tumblr and used a stopwatch. I realized the song lasts 96 to 101 seconds. However, the sample is more than 10 percent of the song's length, which is disallowed by MOS:SAMPLE, WP:NFC#Audio clips, and WP:NFCC#3b. In order to trim down, the sample must be no more than ten seconds, unfortunately, and I don't know which of ten seconds I must sample. Do you know which ten-second segment to sample? George Ho (talk) 00:24, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I can figure it out... but I had a question earlier about whether this song is non-free or not. What do you think? Piotr Jr. (talk) 00:51, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

By default, the sample is non-free, regardless of how the song was released, unless the artist released it under either an acceptable Creative Commons license, Free Art License or another acceptable license allowing freer and broader use of content; see c:COM:licensing. --George Ho (talk) 01:02, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Okay, I've shortened it to 10 seconds. Piotr Jr. (talk) 01:19, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I've done my best to create more improved but still-inferior versions of the sample. At least the length is no longer excessive. But the line "don't you let her see divide / voodoo"... and the music... I hope I'm wrong about its (in)significance, but I fear that I might be right about its inability to be relevant or significant to readers. George Ho (talk) 02:28, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Or maybe I was confusing significance with "irreplaceability" and/or intermingling them both? George Ho (talk) 02:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Your revision didn't make much of a discernable difference... And I still feel it's significant enough. Piotr Jr. (talk) 02:36, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Damaged Goods - Gang of Four.ogg[edit]

Currently used at post-punk#United Kingdom. I'm unsure whether the usage complies with WP:NFCC#8. The song is briefly mentioned outside the caption, which to me doesn't improve justification of using the sample. Furthermore, even when used at the song article, I don't know whether the critical commentary of Damaged Goods (song) is sufficient enough to help the sample comply with the criterion. Also, the sample is nine seconds longer than what MOS:SAMPLE allows based on the song's length. Nonetheless, fixing the sample's issues with WP:NFCC#3b still wouldn't help the sample comply with the other criterion. George Ho (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Speedy keep – The caption includes critical commentary about the sample's musical content and the fact that "Damaged Goods" is considered the first post-punk song. It would also be appropriate for inclusion on Damaged Goods (song) because, uh, the entire article is about it? Sample should be trimmed, but not deleted. ili (talk) 00:50, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Which segment of the song please? I want to upload a newer version that lasts 21 seconds or less. George Ho (talk) 02:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Faith No More – I Started a Joke (CD1).jpg[edit]

The cover art was de-PRODded on basis that it supposedly meets WP:NFCC#3a and that the Faith No More version of I Started a Joke is notable. Even if it may meet WP:NFCC#3a and can identify the release, I'm unsure whether the cover art also meets WP:NFCC#8. The version charted in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, but its chart performances were either (less than?) modest or unsuccessful. Furthermore, I think deleting the cover art still wouldn't affect how readers understand (i.e. learn about) the version and its notability and other versions of the song, regardless of the size of the section about that version. There are free images of the band in case that the cover art is deleted. George Ho (talk) 21:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 23[edit]

File:After Midnight by Eric Clapton UK vinyl single.png[edit]

The image was uploaded per my request back in 2016. It's tagged as ineligible in only the US, not elsewhere. However, the Polydor Records logo is used in Wikimedia Commons. Before transferring the image to Commons, I'm unsure whether the logo is free to use in Germany and the UK, whose originality standards for protection are very low; see c:COM:TOO Germany and c:COM:TOO UK. George Ho (talk) 07:07, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I discussed the Polydor logo at Commons months ago: c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2021/06#Polydor Records logo. George Ho (talk) 07:12, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Hands All Over (Soundgarden song - sample).ogg[edit]

Currently used at the following articles: Hands All Over (Soundgarden song), Louder Than Love, and Soundgarden. Insufficiently supported by critical commentary, even with captions. May potentially fail WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 07:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden song - sample).ogg[edit]

Currently used in Jesus Christ Pose and Soundgarden. Insufficiently supported by critical commentary, even with reliably sourced captions. May potentially fail WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 07:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden song - sample).ogg[edit]

Currently used in Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden, and Superunknown. Insufficiently supported by critical commentary, even with reliably sourced captions. May potentially fail WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 07:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Jeff Buckley Grace Sin-E.ogg[edit]

Insufficiently supported by critical commentary of Jeff Buckley. May potentially fail WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 07:54, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Wonderful World by Sam Cooke 1980s Levi's European reissue.png[edit]

I uploaded the 1980s reissue cover last year in hopes to please everyone, i.e. mass appeal, including those who have found cover arts important. However, I'm unsure whether the reissue cover complies with WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#3a. No objection to deletion if it fails either one or both. I already uploaded a freer image at Commons (File:Wonderful World by Sam Cooke US vinyl rainbow label.png), despite lacking a picture sleeve. George Ho (talk) 08:11, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Circle of Life samples[edit]

Samples of different versions of Circle of Life are used as part of the article's infobox. However, regardless of the song's popularity and how identifiable a version is, I've not yet seen critical commentary sufficiently supporting the samples and complying with WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 10:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Synthesizer.jpg[edit]

Unspecific source. Impossible to verify the copyright claim. Stefan2 (talk) 19:13, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, essentially orphaned (not used in the main space) with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 02:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:SergiuOnJail.JPG[edit]

Unused userphoto. Stefan2 (talk) 19:16, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 02:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:East and North-East Asia.jpg[edit]

Unused, no foreseeable use. Stefan2 (talk) 19:20, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 02:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Soviet Major General Grigorii Vasilevich Golovanov.jpg[edit]

Sourced to ru:Файл:Голованов, Григорий Васильевич.jpg which is listed as non-free. Stefan2 (talk) 19:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Southside2.jpg[edit]

See c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Southside2.jpg. Stefan2 (talk) 19:43, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 02:47, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Picture of Iyad el-Baghdadi.jpg[edit]

Based on the Twitter correspondence, the photo seems to be under a Wikipedia-only licence. Stefan2 (talk) 19:58, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Christine profile view.jpg[edit]

Taken from Facebook Page. [9] No indication of free license. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:09, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Csid.jpg[edit]

Complex logo, dubious "own work" claim. Low quality and not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:12, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Also a logo already exists on Colombo South International College. Salavat (talk) 02:55, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:EVOLUTION OF PIANO.jpg[edit]

Derivative work of a poster, no evidence of permission or indication that said poster is in public domain. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:17, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 02:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:"Circle of Life" from Disney's musical adaptation of The Lion King.png[edit]

Currently used in Circle of Life. Not confident that the picture/screenshot(?) of Rafiki lifting a Simba doll adds anything much to the article (or the song), but I appreciate the musical adaptation's retake on Rafiki lifting the lion cub Simba. Not confident as well that critical commentary is sufficient enough to support the image. May likely fail WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 23:23, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Malaysia Rugby logo.jpg[edit]

Complex logo, need evidence that uploader is copyright holder. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:36, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep, mislabelled non-free file so I have relicensed to non-free logo and added a fairuse. Salavat (talk) 03:01, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Keep per Salavat, was just mislabeled. Primary means of identification. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:26, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Dr. Hershel Herzog.jpg[edit]

Photo is credited to subject's daughter Laura. Uploader's user page indicates she was born in 1993, so she and Laura Herzog (born 1959) cannot be the same person. Image is only used in draft space. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:45, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:JCWTBK-Broadway.jpg[edit]

Lacks rationale for use in The Lion King (musical). Even when fixable to comply with WP:NFCC#10c, I don't think the article's critical commentary is sufficient enough to support the image, which depicts three actors Scott Irby-Ranniar, Kajuana Shuford and Geoff Hoyle portraying their own roles for the musical. It may fail WP:NFC#CS and WP:NFCC#8. George Ho (talk) 23:46, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 24[edit]

File:Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1, The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.jpg[edit]

This is a cropped album cover being used to illustrate a biography. The image is not the subject of significant sourced commentary. Fails WP:NFCC#8. Whpq (talk) 02:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete as it fails WP:NFCC#8, and on either Alice Coltrane or Doja Cat it would fail WP:NFCC#1, as both have freely licenced images of the people. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Floodgap gopher top menu.PNG[edit]

The resolution of this image is so low that it is illegible on most modern display devices. The image is no longer used on the article it was intended for. zcrayfish (talk) 04:41, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Floodgap gopher fun menu.PNG[edit]

The resolution of this image is so low that it is illegible on most modern display devices. The image is no longer used on the article it was intended for. zcrayfish (talk) 04:41, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Sharjah aerial view 2021.jpg[edit]

Invalid fair use, as anyone could go to the stadium and take an image of the stadium, and so could be easily replaced with a free image. And we have free image File:SharjahCricket.JPG, the fact that it's old is irrelevant, it's still a replaceable free image. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:24, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete Per Joseph2302's comments. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 09:27, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete - clear violation of WP:NFCC#1. -- Whpq (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Do not transfer to Commons - Per c:COM:FOP UAE, the country lacks Freedom of Panorama. Unsure whether the inside of the stadium still qualifies, even with the audience in the photo. --George Ho (talk) 20:32, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Khaby lame.jpg[edit]

While this uses an image which is a thumbnail of a video under CC-BY, there is no evidence that the uploader of the YouTube video has permission to use the image. The image and the movie itself were most likely available earlier on TikTok. Muhandes (talk) 18:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Unirasian Party logo.jpg[edit]

Unused non-trivial logo, no evidence uploader is the copyright holder or that it's in public domain. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:13, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete not a free logo, and no valid article for a fair use of it, as the Party's article doesn't exist (and never has done it seems). Joseph2302 (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete - Unused image likely used only for madeup crap in a sandbox. No foreseeable use. -- Whpq (talk) 15:47, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 14:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Danielle Arsenault Catering 2016.png[edit]

Could be found on a Facebook Page prior to the upload to Wikipedia. [10] Need evidence that uploader is the actual copyright holder. Image was only used in a deleted draft that failed AfC. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:19, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete unless this the upload is OTRS verified. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:39, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 14:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Dawa Norbu.jpg[edit]

Picture is taken from the subject's private collection per the description. Uploader is unlikely to be the copyright holder. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 14:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete would need OTRS licencing, but we have no value for that photo anyway as it's unused. Joseph2302 (talk) 14:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The Great British Bake Off (series 7)[edit]

I recently uploaded the season premiere photo for The Great British Bake Off (series 7). I have been discussing which images to use (Talk:The Great British Bake Off#Season-specific images). One editor Hzh and I disagreed about the word "Tonight". Hzh was concerned that the word "Tonight" in the photo is misleading and would imply that the programme was just one-off or one-episode or something like that. Then I uploaded the (other) wordless photo, so I'm taking both images here.

Honestly, I would prefer the "Tonight" image as the purpose is to display it as the season premiere promo, never intended to be misleading. However, I appreciate Hzh's opinions. Maybe the wordless cast photo is more suitable if other people have the same opinions about "Tonight" as Hzh's, or maybe the word "Tonight" is perceived as not misleading as it is thought to be..

Well, there are various release covers seen in Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. However, I don't think they identify the series in context, especially without literally specifying which season/series a cover belongs to. George Ho (talk) 23:40, 24 October 2021 (UTC); expanded, 09:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

To clarify, I prefer the "Tonight" image over the other one. However, if neither image is suitable, then how about the "Bake Off Is Back!" photo instead? Well, it shows just Paul and Mary with a Union Jack cake. George Ho (talk) 19:52, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 25[edit]

File:Go All the Way.ogg[edit]

Currently used at power pop genre article. I'm uncertain whether the sample of Go All the Way (song) complies with WP:NFCC#8. Furthermore, I think the song article doesn't have much commentary to support the sample. I appreciate the sample trying to exemplify how the genre progressed in the 1970s. However, I think readers can grasp what "sexually suggestive lyrics, considered risqué for the day" really mean without help from the sample... I hope. Moreover, I hope those reading the genre article should grasp what "heavy arena-rock hook to the cooing, teenybopper-friendly verses and chorus" really mean without trying the sample and emphasizing a lot what the caption says about the song. The idea that readers couldn't understand what the song article says about the song itself.... Maybe keeping the sample would allow readers to have their own opinions without believing what quoted passages say? George Ho (talk) 03:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bu Liao Qing.ogg[edit]

The sample of buliao qing (song) is currently used for Mandopop article. However, I don't think the sample complies with WP:NFCC#8 at this time. Even the song article doesn't have sufficient commentary to support the sample. I don't think the genre article does either. Furthermore, there are already samples of spoken Mandarin Chinese in Commons if readers want to learn more about the language. George Ho (talk) 03:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep This is perhaps the most popular song from Hong Kong in the period, and it also illustrates the change of musical style from Shanghai's shidaiqu to the sound of that period (such as the use of piano and strings, the text also mentions the change of musicians employed and musicianship in Hong Kong). Hzh (talk) 08:44, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I see you made some additions recently in order to support the sample and are working hard to help the sample being kept. However, to me, the "1950s–1960s: The Hong Kong era" section... I can't tell whether the condition is bad or not. There aren't enough sources cited IMO. It also uses songs as examples. I tried finding sources discussing the song, but I just found articles about films using the same Chinese title. The assumption that deleting the sample would deprive readers from understanding more about the genre... I wonder why I just don't see that happening in my mind. --George Ho (talk) 09:17, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

More can be written in that section, and more sources can be given. The section as it is is not complete, there is for example no mention of the influence of British bands like the Beatles and the band sound of Hong Kong, but that can be fixed later. There are distinct periods of musical styles (and the files are there to illustrate the change in style), by the 1970s, the synthesizer/electric organ sound became dominant (likely influenced by Japanese pop music), which is why your comment on The Moon Represents My Hear.ogg is wrong, because that was the dominant sound of that period. Hzh (talk) 09:32, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Edited: (Moved my replies about the other sample to #File:The Moon Represents My Heart - Teresa Teng.ogg). George Ho (talk) 10:09, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:The Moon Represents My Heart - Teresa Teng.ogg[edit]

Currently used at Mandopop and The Moon Represents My Heart. I don't think the usage in the genre article complies with WP:NFCC#8. Probably an attempt to educate readers what a Mandarin-language pop song sounds like back in 1970s. However, I've not yet seen sufficient commentary that can support the sample. Unsure whether the sample should remain in the song article, nonetheless. George Ho (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep The text in both articles do explain its significance, specifically illustrating her singing style, which is in direct contrast to the strident style of revolutionary music then only permitted in mainland China, and the reason why her music made such a strong impact in China (her music was not officially permitted at that time but smuggled into China, but still became hugely popular). Her music, in this case her most popular song used for illustration, is of historical cultural significance in China in the shift from the stridency of the Cultural Revolution to something that is more "normal". Hzh (talk) 08:11, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

(moved from #File:Bu Liao Qing.ogg) I said "electric keyboards", not "electric organ". Well, I should've said "electronic keyboards" instead. I wonder whether you can tell the difference between two samples (besides loudness): one you uploaded originally, and the one I took from Spotify. George Ho (talk) 09:38, 25 October 2021 (UTC); modified, 09:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

(moved from #File:Bu Liao Qing.ogg) Maybe they were neither synthesizers nor electronic organs nor electronic keyboards. But I can't figure out which instrument was used for karaoke, especially when a singer mutes the vocals, original or not. George Ho (talk) 09:50, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Ah, compare the video uploaded by ymfan on YouTube with other videos (or copies?) of Teresa Teng's version. I know, or figured, the one uploaded by ymfan is similar to ~~one of the~~ the version you uploaded. George Ho (talk) 10:09, 25 October 2021 (UTC); edited, 10:10, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Tracks used for karaoke generally has no or quieter vocals, so that is irrelevant. Anyway, the one you uploaded is not the whole song (do you have YT link to your version?), so I can't really judge the differences, but those synthesizer/keyboard sounds were exactly what was popular at that time. If you are ripping from a newer release or extracted from a modern download, these tend not to represent the older recordings, because newer releases tend to be too loud and removing nuances in dynamics - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35250557 and in the case of The Moon Represents My Heart, the loudness ruins the intent of the original recording, which was meant to be soft and gentle (your re-upload is softer, so that is not that much of an issue). The ymfan's one sounds like the same one (I extracted it starting from around the 1.25 mark). Hzh (talk) 10:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

As I said, I took the sample from Spotify release, which I'm giving to you. And here's the YouTube video uploaded by ymfan (actually, a U-Best karaoke release). --George Ho (talk) 10:42, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I didn't get it from a U-Best karaoke release, so it is irrelevant. My one looks like it's from this - Forever Star (I no longer have the original file/CD, so I can't really go back and check the one I used). Your one actually is likely not the original, precisely because that wasn't the most popular sound of the time, but unless someone can produce the original release, the argument is moot because the CD I used was a later release, as is the one in Spotify. Actually, I listened to both again, and there is little difference, the difference might be mainly due to which part you sampled from. Yours might also have been remixed to emphasize the strings, resulting in an apparent sound difference that may not be real. Hzh (talk) 11:08, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I didn't remix just to emphasize the strings. Neither did the studio. A video from Bilibili shows a vinyl copy proving how the song sounds. Or search for "videos of 邓丽君月亮代表我的心黑膠" on Google to hear the song on vinyl. --George Ho (talk) 16:39, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

You mentioned CD. As I must say, I don't know which CD you bought, but I can't tell whether it is an authentic copy or a bootleg or something else. AFAIK, even any edition of the compilation album 15周年 (Forever Star, which AllMusic calls it) didn't contain the same version that you uploaded. --George Ho (talk) 18:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

No one has accused you of remixing, quite bizarre that you would think I thought you can. As far as the song is concerned, no bootleg would ever bother to mess with the song or add anything, no idea why you would think that it would make a difference. It's essentially the same song, you need to be a song historian to know why there might be some slight differences with different releases. Just why you spend so much time arguing something when I'm not reverting your new upload I have no idea - the initial objection was on the loudness, but that was resolved with a new upload. Hzh (talk) 22:12, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Keep. As mentioned in the nomination, there's a whole article about the song (The Moon Represents My Heart). The inclusion of the clip there is clearly significant and valid. As for Mandopop, there's a whole paragraph specifically about Teresa Teng and her significance and style, which the clip meaningfully contributes to. Adumbrativus (talk) 08:21, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Kirsten Tucker 2007 Broadway.jpg[edit]

Unlikely to be the uploader's own work due to low resolution and lack of data. A higher-resolution version could be found at another website. [11] Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 16:57, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 14:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Elvis Costello Ticket Stub 1987-04-30 Easton.jpg[edit]

No indication of free license at source website, not sure whether {{PD-art}} is applicable. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:26, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 14:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Etherialbeings.jpg[edit]

Low-quality screen grab from copyrighted film Knowing. Only used on user page. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:30, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, essentially orphaned (not used in the main space) with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 14:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Comment I have changed the copyright tag to {{Non-free film screenshot}}, but the image is currently orphaned in the mainspace so it can't be kept. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Parano song shoot.jpg[edit]

Unused album cover, no evidence uploader is copyright holder. Album and artist do not appear to be notable. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:40, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with questionable licensing. Salavat (talk) 14:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Parish Map Georgeham.jpg[edit]

Original art is likely copyrighted. I'm not sure it qualifies for fair use as the parent article already contains numerous images. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I spoke to the parish priest at the time I took the photo. He said there was no copyright and the tapestry was freely available for photographing Jack1956 (talk) 20:57, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

I wonder whether the priest should send permission statement to OTRS to verify the status. George Ho (talk) 21:08, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

"Freely available for photographing" is not the same as allowing said photographs to be published under a free license. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:34, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Rev. James M. Cesta.jpg[edit]

Seems to be a photograph of a photograph in a frame. No evidence uploader owns the copyright to the original. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:55, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Delete, orphaned with no obvious value. Salavat (talk) 14:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Don't Let Me Down / You and I by Will Young[edit]

Both currently used at Don't Let Me Down (Will Young song) and You and I (Will Young song). If using both still violates WP:NFCC#3a and/or WP:NFCC#8, then one of them should be kept. No preference on either; for now, defaulting to prefer the CD1 single, i.e. just a single photo of Young, over the CD2 single with a bunch of photos of him there. George Ho (talk) 23:36, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 26[edit]

File:Mayor Aslam Butt.jpeg[edit]

Dubious claim that the uploader is the copyright holder. The image is also sourced to Facebook. Stefan2 (talk) 08:26, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

delete per nom. --Asmodea Oaktree (talk) 11:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Delete - fairly clear copyright violation -- Whpq (talk) 15:22, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]
The uploader has commented on the file talk page and on his own talk page. I informed him about OTRS. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Harrypotter5-roomofrequirement.jpg[edit]

Image does not add useful/interesting/meaningful content to the article where it is used. By necessity, it is a small, low-resolution image, but this means that the faces of the fifteen human subjects can barely be made out beyond their relative height and hair and skin colour. An image of the same size that consisted of a 5x3 collage of just their faces might be both fair use-compliant and add something worthwhile to the article, but I don't think this does. Not sure if I need to notify the uploader, who vanished eight years ago (I rather think such notifications might be counter-productive, for reasons I think I probably shouldn't say. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:03, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Davante “Shawt” Peters Dallas City Council campaign logo.jpeg[edit]

Complex logo, no OTRS permission for over seven months. Logo is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 16:19, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Buffalo Wild Wings (logo, vertical).svg[edit]

I'm pretty sure the stylized bison is above the threshold of originality. Ixfd64 (talk) 16:54, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

See USA examples at c:Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/United_States#Threshold_of_originality. I feel comfortable that it would not qualify for copyright protection. Regardless, if consensus is that this is above the threshold, I would be fine adding a FUR to it. —Locke Cole • t • c 01:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Convert to non-free - In looking over the examples of both logos that are under the threshold and over the threshold, the most comparable would be the Twitter bird logo which is a stylized outline of a bird and is considered eligible for copyright protection. -- Whpq (talk) 02:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]
Commented Converted to non-free per additional evidence of copyright registration presented on Commons. —Locke Cole • t • c 07:10, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Expedition Robinson.png[edit]

I wouldn't consider this a simple logo due to the background photo. Ixfd64 (talk) 16:57, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Forgot to update the file's licensing for the title card, apologies. QuestFour (talk) 03:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:NXT Takeover 36.jpg[edit]

Possibly above the threshold of originality due to the 3D effects. Logo is currently not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:09, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Embraer concept art[edit]

Multiple concept art images of possible future aircraft. The removal of these images does not detract from a reader's understanding of Embraer. Fails WP:NFCC#8. Whpq (talk) 17:23, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Thanks for your scrutiny. Would it pass NFCC#8 if it would be in their own article, eg Embraer Short Take Off Utility Transport and Embraer turboprop concept?--Marc Lacoste (talk) 04:30, 27 October 2021 (UTC)please ping me when replying, I don't follow this page, thanks.[]

File:The official promotional poster for the second season of 1MagicTV's The River.jpg[edit]

Definitely not a simple logo by any means. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Oliver Ortega pitching for the Angels.jpg[edit]

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the media below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was: Delete; deleted as F9 by Fastily (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:08, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

No evidence that the image is in public domain. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Speedy delete as a blatant copyright violation -- Whpq (talk) 18:03, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

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File:Hannah and Emil Witton, 1962.jpg[edit]

As far as I could tell, this picture was taken in Australia. Standard copyright term in Australia is life + 70 years, not 50 years after publication. Author is listed as an unknown photographer, so the uploader cannot be the copyright holder. Image is not currently used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:50, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

The uploader identifies as a Ron Witton on his user and talk pages. This suggests he is related to the subjects in the photo. However, the fact that the photographer is unknown is an issue that needs to be addressed. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:55, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Charlie Aust[edit]

This image and its cropped deriative image are identified as public domainin Zimbabwe as 50 years past publication. However, this photo was taken October 31, 1980 so 50 years has not yet passed. Charlie Aust is deceased and my search for a freely licensed image turns up nohing. I recommend File:Charlie Aust on Parade, 1980.jpg be deleted and File:Charlie Aust on Parade, 1980 (cropped).jpg be converted to non-free use. Whpq (talk) 17:53, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Old Devonshire House Music programme from 1938png.jpg[edit]

Permission to use the image on Wikipedia is not the same as releasing it into public domain. Image is not actually used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:48, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Besides, the chief librarian is unlikely to be the copyright holder. --Stefan2 (talk) 00:19, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:United Baseball League original logo.png[edit]

Invalid public domain reason. Copyright persists even if the organization ceases operations. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:52, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[]

October 27[edit]

File:20th Arab Scout Jamboree 1992.png[edit]

Fails WP:NFCC#8 in Arab Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement) and Scouting in Somalia and WP:NFCC#10c in Scouting in Somalia. Stefan2 (talk) 11:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Uploader not notified because the talk page is fully protected. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Agnes Husband's Burgess Ticket.jpg[edit]

Isn't this a government work and thus {{PD-UKGov}}? Stefan2 (talk) 13:19, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

Thanks for this suggestion, I looked back at my original request for licence to use, my correspondence re the archived document which was on public display by the owner, Dundee City Archive and Record Centre.(with Sarah Aitken, Assistant Archivist, who was the one who took the photograph and thus the image author?) shows that the archives clearly granted permission for me to upload it for its use in the Wikipedia article Agnes Husband as they could not upload to Wikipedia direct and also said it would go to Dundee Archives flickr.

This image was for the very first article I created for Wikipedia and may have chosen the wrong licence type.

However as Dundee (or other UK cities) are not listed under Crown Copyright bodies {{PD-UKGov}} may not apply.

Having a look at the PD types it may be covered by {{PD-1996}} as it was publicly created in 1926.

Alternatively I can ask the archivist to add it to the Dundee Archives flickr account now for PD use.

Please advise. Kaybeesquared (talk) 19:03, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Ai Laika!.jpg[edit]

Unable to verify copyright status as the source website is dead. Depicted band does not appear to be notable. Image is not currently used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Beer die tshirt.jpeg[edit]

Derivative work of copyrighted design. Permission from original artist is required. Image is not used anywhere. Ixfd64 (talk) 18:53, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bust of Ferdinand Marcos.jpg[edit]

Fails WP:FREER. This is listed as cc-by-nc on Flickr. Stefan2 (talk) 19:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Bridgend Perth.jpg[edit]

Fails WP:NFCC#8. However, considering that the photo is from 1905, it could also be {{PD-US-1923-abroad}}, depending on when it was first published. Stefan2 (talk) 19:27, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

File:Nokia E7 with homescreen.jpg[edit]

Fair-use image marked as not replaceable because "No alternative without the homescreen visible could be found." However, a free alternative without the copyrighted home screen was later added to the article. Ixfd64 (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[]

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[1] "Giving Voice to a Building: A Critical Analysis of Adolf Loos's Landhaus Khuner" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2021.

[2] WINKLER, SUSANNE. "Photography : WIEN MUSEUM". Retrieved 20 July 2021. Martin Gerlach Jr. (1879-1944)

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