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The result of the discussion was: delete. Fails
WP:NFCC#2 as the source`is an encyclopedia or almanac which is similar in nature to Wikipedia and created to make money for the copyright holder. The use may not even be transformative enough to qualify as fair use. -
Nv8200ptalk19:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete Cannot meet NFCC, including NFCC 8 without independent reliable sources directly discussing the image and it seems unlikely that any independent reliable sources directly discuss the image. --
Suntag☼15:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)reply
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Inadequate source information. Description implies originals were non-free with a license that specified non-commercial use only, so the resulting image cannot be public domain.
PhilKnight (
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14:09, 27 September 2008 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was: - Delete - I cannot see a strong argument of how the reader's understanding is significantly increased by this image. Per some discussion below and at the prior DrV there is text in the article that describes the banner, to the point that image is redundant to the text. -
Peripitus(Talk)11:55, 11 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Speedy deleted on September 14 per
WP:CSD#I7 (invalid fair use rationale). Considered at
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 September 22 over double the usual time, where a fragile consensus emerged to list it here, even though there was a sense it would probably be deleted anyway. Since the subject is the (copyrighted) banner rather than Mr. Shearer, its use to illustrate
Alan Shearer has never been well established.
Chick Bowen19:33, 27 September 2008 (UTC)reply
1. No free equivalent (image is replaceable by a free version) - The image is not being used to illustrate the person, it is being used to illustrate the installation of a banner with accompanying article text. It is not replaceable by finding a free image of the living person.
1. No free equivalent (subject can be adequately conveyed by text) - The image is of a fairly unique event, it has likely never happened before, and it is not comprised of common elements that would be easily understood by all readers. If you asked ten people to recreate the scene from a text description alone, you would get 10 wildly different versions. Replacing the image with text would vastly reduce the quality of the information being conveyed by the related article text. It is quite easy to assert that you know what is being described by the text when you already have access to the image.
2. Respect for commercial opportunities - This image is a low quality photograph of a banner which was created using a copyrighted photograph and logo. The image is not a direct reproduction of that copyrighted logo or photograph. In terms of legal copyright protection, photographs of this public exhibit are not a realistic threat to any commercial use of the copyrighted source images that were used to create the banner. I can see no scenario where for example, a person selling t-shirts with this photo on it would receive a cease and desist letter, let alone be prosecuted. If really necessary the resolution could be reduced even further and still retain the original purpose of use. Seeking permission from the holder would likely be impossible, given the upheavals at
NUFC /
Northern Rock since the banner was created.
3. Minimal usage - not applicable.
4. Previous publication - Images of the banner have been published in a variety of other sources.
5. Content - The image as content is notable and encyclopedic
6. Media-specific policy - Image meets the
Image use policy, specifically it meets the policy's subsidiary
non-free image guideline's criteria for acceptable use of non-free images under criteria 8: Images with iconic status or historical importance. As far as I know, no other football club has ever paid tribute to a player in this manner, the historical significance and importance of this image to the article is demonstrated.
7. One-article minimum Image is currently used in
Alan Shearer only.
8. Significance - The image, and accompanying explanatory text, contributes greatly to the understanding of the topic of perception, analysis and understanding of Alan Shearer's career contribution to NUFC, an essential part of a biography of a football player. It is also a historic, notable and possibly unique image in the world of football generally, see point 6. I am not sure if this clause is still supposed to cover the text desription relplacement clause of NFCC1, so if it is, see the defence at point 1.
9. Restrictions on location. The image is used in article space only.
10. Image description page - The image description page has a source, a valid copyright tag, and a correclty formed
non-free use rationale guideline, uniquely worded to the justification of use for this image.
I just don't see the logic here. To make this statement to my mind requires a very big assumption about the imagination and level of subject knowledge of all readers. To me, no two readers would be able to describe the same thing if asked to expand on what the text describes alone.
MickMacNee (
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00:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete Replaceable by text. One of the things to realize here is that like it or lump it, wikipedia has pretty restrictive fair use guidelines. We are the free encyclopedia and as a result rules about fair use images are applied that would not be applied to free images. I couldn't remove a free image from an article solely because I felt that text did an ok job instead but this is a perfectly reasonable reason to remove a fair use image.
Protonk (
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05:31, 28 September 2008 (UTC)reply
But it doesn't replace it, it is an extremely poor second best. Reducing quality is not the goal of the fair use rules when all other criteria and image use content guidelines are met, which they are. A 'free encyclopoedia' is a goal of some users, it is not official policy.
MickMacNee (
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10:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)reply
A free encyclopoedia above all else is not policy, fair use is allowed per the very policy you point out, which as explained is met here. Any assertion that an image has to be replaced by text because this is a free encyclopoedia is just wrong.
MickMacNee (
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23:26, 28 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Yes it very much is policy. We include fair use images when they significantly improve the encyclopedia and are otherwise allowed by our Fair Use content guidelines (the NFC) and policy (the NFCC). In this case, this image does not significantly improve the encyclopedia. I said it fails NFCC 1. It also fails NFCC 8. I'm not going to continue gainsaying this. There is room for discussion that the NFCC can be interpreted in different ways (that room for interpretation is part of the reason why this is listed here, which I voted to do, BTW), but I'm just telling you that the outcome is going to be deleted. The sooner you understand why the less angry you will be over that eventuality.
Protonk (
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23:34, 28 September 2008 (UTC)reply
I'm not angry, I'm just pointing out that a free encyclopoedia is not policy. Fair use is allowed when it meets policy, and I disagree with your assessment that this image does not improve this article or is replaceable by text. It simply cannot be said at all that anybody could realisticaly picture the scene being described through words alone. And it is a significant image, that also just cannot be argued. These are basic facts. People are acting as if this is just another unimportant Simpsons screen shot. It clearly isn't.
MickMacNee (
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00:00, 29 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Note:I have only just realised, and added, IFD warnings to the image at the article it appears in, so I would ask anybody considering closing this bang on the 5 days from its initial listing to give thought to the principle of due notice as laid out in the IFD listing procedure. As far as I know, the only people likely to have been aware of this listing would be anybody watchlisting the image, or casually perusing this extremely long IFD page stuffed with logo nominations to the very bottom (i.e. very likely nobody falling into the category of a general reader)
MickMacNee (
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00:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)reply
And we're back again. Delete as per my previous rationales — irredeemably fails NFCC8 as it does not contribute to readers' understanding of the article. I know you disagree with me, MickMacNee, but save your own time by not replying to this as I do not intend to change my mind.
Stifle (
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14:21, 1 October 2008 (UTC)reply
This opinion is just a
vague wave. How can you even act surprised anybody could disagree with you, especially when they have at least given coherent and reasonable assertions with respect to the specific article and image being discussed as to why they are simply 'right' also.
MickMacNee (
talk)
23:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep - Meets
NFCC 1, obviously, since the poster is copyrighted itself and any photos of it do not change that copyright status. The issue rests on
NFCC 8, "Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic."
Wikipedia:Nfc#Images#4 expands on NFCC 8: Other promotional material: Posters, programs, billboards, ads. For critical commentary. In other words, sourced critical commentary concerning the image would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic. "Critical" doesn't necessarily mean negative, it means evaluation/judgment. Source material cited to and used in the article for evaluation/judgment of the image is at
[1],
[2],
[3], and/or
[4]. Since there is sourced critical commentary concerning the image in the article, that sourced critical commentary would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic. Since the image meets NFCC 8 and all other
Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria, there is no basis to delete the image. --
Suntag☼14:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Also, an argument that the image is adequately replaced by text and therefore fails NFCC 1 seems misplaced because it uses the sourced critical commentary text required to meet NFCC 8 as a way of failing NFCC 1. In other words, if you meet NFCC 8 with text, that text is enough to fail NFCC 1. That does not see logical or consistent with NFCC. --
Suntag☼14:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)reply
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Keep file contains version history essential for GFDL compliance and a talk page essential for establishing the medal is public domain in the United States.
Actually the photograph of the medal is GFDL licensed. OTH all the changes are minor (cropping and changes to transparency) and may not constitute the creation of new works. I agree the talk page should be moved. -
Nard22:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Deletethe .jpg image itself since is an inferior, redundant version of the used .png image. Move the talk page (233 edits!) to
Image talk:Nobel medal dsc06171.png. As for keeping/deleting an image file page lacking an image to maintain
User:David.Monniaux's GFDL history rights, I can't answer that (particularly since no link was provided to establish that David.Monniaux's photograph of the medal was GFDL licensed.) There are 165 edits (yes, 165!) in the Image:Nobel_medal_dsc06171.jpg history, so it couldn't hurt to preserve this information so that we don't have to debate the GFDL issue in this deletion discussion. I think that once the .jpg itself is deleted,
Image:Nobel medal dsc06171.png should be moved to File:Nobel medal dsc06171.png/Wikipedia image history with a note on
Image talk:Nobel medal dsc06171.png explaining why the .png page has a subpage. --
Suntag☼14:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)reply
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