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The result of the discussion was: Delete; deleted by Anthony Appleyard (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 10:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:F-GZCP.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Evercat (notify | contribs).

• There are other free images of an Air France A330 on Commons which are similar to F-GZCP. While I understand that F-GZCP is "lost" when photos of it is replaceable (Anyone may have photos of it yet to be published or someone could ask an author to release a photo under a free license). Bidgee (talk) 03:43, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• I would argue that, while a freely licensed replacement would be good, this file's rationale for fair use is relatively sound. The file should be deleted, but ONLY if/once a freely licensed replacement is produced. Otherwise, I think it should stay. Mattpat (talk) 04:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is no differences to F-GZCN and F-GZCP (Other then the registration on both aircraft). Just to have a photo so it shows the registration is like having a photo of a unfree photo of a car just because of it's registration plate yet there is a free image of the same model car which can easily replace it. Bidgee (talk) 04:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It is pefectly acceptable to use a photo of the actual aircraft involved. There is a valid fair-use rationale for the said use. Photo is irreplaceable in the sense that it cannot be recreated. If a free-use image is released, then naturally it would be used instead, even if a poorer quality image. Mjroots (talk) 05:18, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Qantas Flight 72 article doesn't use the aircraft that was involved with it's incident but uses the same model aircraft in Qantas colours, the same goes for Japan Airlines Flight 446, Colgan Air Flight 3407, Comair Flight 191 and Britannia Airways Flight 226A. Also the registered F-GZCP aircraft would still have replaceable images even if the aircraft has been lost but it still doesn't stop anyone with a photograph of the aircraft to freely license it but we can use an aircraft with a different registration with a free license as it's the same model, same look, same livery and same aircraft. Bidgee (talk) 05:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • But it's not the same aircraft! If you want to play it that way, BOAC Flight 712 uses two images of the actual aircraft. Both are used under fair use rationales. Mjroots (talk) 06:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • So? They are similar, same model, same livery and free. BOAC Flight 712 is of the incident/accident and I wouldn't see the problem if fair-use images of the remains of F-GZCP were included in the article but having an unfree image of the aircraft itself pre the incident/accident shouldn't be uploaded or used since the similar F-GZCN can easily show what F-GZCP was like only thing thats not the same is the rego and can still be replaced as all you need to do is find someone willing to freely license an image of F-GZCP. Bidgee (talk) 06:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment

      (free use same aircraft) you could say the same thing about dead people, but it's the rationale used for dead people images.

      (identical aircraft) if you don't have the exact aircraft, then ofcourse you'd be using a most similar photo as possible.

      70.29.208.129 (talk) 05:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

      There is a difference with a aircraft and people. People change in looks (greatly change) over time were as aircraft's don't (Unless they change livery but thats all that changes). There is a free image on commons of an A330 in Air France livery on Commons. Bidgee (talk) 05:42, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

      I don't see why that would matter for people, since various biography articles have various photos of people at various ages, which many are not all that similar to their age at death. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 06:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

      and can still be replaced as all you need to do is find someone willing to freely As I said, your argument equally applies to people. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 08:26, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep This image is the image of the plane that the article refers to. You don't need more explanation than that.--Camilo Sanchez (talk) 05:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete What additional useful information does the user extract if we use a photo of F-GZCP instead of another Air France Airbus A330? None, except for the registration number. Remember people, we are an encyclopedia, photos (especially fair-use ones) should be used only when they have something significant information-wise to add to the article. Additionally, if the user wants to see the actual plane for whatever reason, the external links provide a variety of photos. --Ferengi (talk) 06:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We are an encyclopedia, and the value to the readers of articles is significantly increased by addition of topical and relevant illustrations (photographs, diagrams, etc). Photos and illustrations should be used everywhere, because they focus reader attention and increase the percentage of the text that they read and remember. Pages with photos or other illustrations are statistically seen as higher quality and more fun to read in readability studies. The objection that we should only use them "when appropriate" is just wrong - they're always appropriate, they always add something significant information-wise, because that's how human beings process the articles (or pages on books, etc). We limit fair use images per policy to those which are significant and notable, but using images is always the right thing to do (if we can). Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So NFCC #8 can be removed then? Perhaps you should propose this? The fact it exists though would seem to be a suggestion that the community doesn't consider unfree images to be appropriate in absolutely any circumstances. Adambro (talk) 20:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NFCC #8 should remain and be enforced exactly as it has been in the past. Which I have done repeatedly and will be perfectly happy to do going forwards - I tag and delete unfree images as appropriate, or supply rationales where their use is inappropriate. Where we disagree is where this image falls under NFCC #8. NFCC#8 has never in the past been used to attempt to justify replacing a nonfree image of the article subject with a free image of a similar object. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:15, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I find your comments unbelievable. Far from enforcing NFCC #8, what you are actually suggesting is that we should completely ignore it. How can you claim that this image will significantly improve a reader's understanding of this subject? An image of an A330 in AF livery helps readers understand what the type of aircraft looks like. What additional benefit does this unfree image bring? None. In fact, since it is much lower resolution, not only can they not actually see the one difference, the registration, which you assert justifies using an unfree image, they aren't able to understand what the type looks like as easily. This isn't significantly improving a reader's understanding of this subject, far from it. To use this unfree image is more likely to be detrimental to that understanding. Adambro (talk) 22:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep — The mere fact that this is a photograph of the plane involved in the accident makes its inclusion credible. – Zntrip 07:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • So? Other free photos can display a A330 in Air France livey, Only difference is the rego. If it had of been a photo the aircraft in trouble or the remains of the aircraft would suit fair-use but this image is replaceable even with it being lost (Please read my comments above). Bidgee (talk) 07:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Japan Airlines Flight 123, Helios Airways Flight 522, American Airlines Flight 96, Korean Air Lines Flight 902, and a host of other incidents make do with CGI Renderings, so I fail to see how using a non-free-use image can be used when their are alternative methods. Also, is it that hard to go to airliners.net and ask photographers to submit pictures? --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 07:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Let me augment my arguments above by quoting some policy: this image fails criterion 8 of WP:NFCC: Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding. Can't see how that is not satisfied with a free image of an Air France Airbus A330. As such it could even had been submitted for speedy deletion per WP:RAT#Speedy deletion and WP:CSD#I7. --Ferengi (talk) 08:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. A few comments: I do not believe that we can claim fair use in this case; Specifically:
  • "(As a quick test, before adding non-free content requiring a rationale, ask yourself: "Can this non-free content be replaced by a free version that has the same effect?"" — the use of an image of the same plane type achieves this, there is no visual difference between the two at resolutions appropriate for fair-use (as in you cannot see the registration anyway).
  • "Respect for commercial opportunities. Non-free content is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media" — the claimed fair-use image has potential commercial use by the original author
  • "Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding" — the use of the actual plane image vs one of the same types would not significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic.
  • There are many existing images currently under non-free licences or unpublished that can be released by the photographer under open licences. Thanks/wangi (talk) 08:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • We are not infringing the photographers commercial value of the image. They published it on Flickr. It's already up there [1], under CC-Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic. Our reuse here does not affect the commercial value or ability to resell. Anything that photographers CC-anything publish on Flickr is pretty well past the "dilluting commercial value" step relative to use on Wikipedia.
    • The image is significant because it is of the actual crash plane. Most readers not being able to tell the difference is an excuse, not a viable challenge to the significance of the actual crash aircraft being in the image. The WP:FAIR policy in no place has an exception "But you can't use fair use if normal people wouldn't be able to tell the difference". Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:28, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I would suggest you read point 8 of that policy: "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic". Not exactly "you can't use fair use if normal people wouldn't be able to tell the difference" but certainly very relevant to this discussion. See also my other recent comments. Adambro (talk) 19:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. An image of a 99% identical plane, in the correct colours, exists on a free license. Therefore, using this non-free version clearly fails the NFCC. And this deletion debate is moot anyway, because as of the time of this comment, the image is not used in any article, so it is eligible for speedy deletion as unused non-free media (CSD F5). If the supporters do not build consensus for its use on the article talk page and get it inclued in the article, a bot will come along and legitimately tag this for deletion anyway. MickMacNee (talk) 09:36, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete To have a photo of the exact plane where the only difference from other aircraft of which freely licensed photos are available or can easily be created is the small letters painted on the side isn't justifiable. It doesn't add significantly to a reader's understanding of the subject, in fact, it doesn't add anything at all. It also remains feasible that a freely licensed image of this exact aircraft will be located and as such I think it is too early to claim that isn't possible, especially where the benefit to readers in using an image of the exact plane is negligible. Adambro (talk) 09:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, fails WP:NFCC#8 and probably #1, per MickMacNee. Stifle (talk) 10:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, a free use image of the actual aircraft is available from Commons. Mjroots (talk) 11:36, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Can you point that one out? What's the filename? 70.29.208.129 (talk) 13:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Mjroots has said he was mistaken. Adambro (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, makes no sense to have a photo of a standin when a photo of the actual plane is available under a mostly-free license. Until another photo of the actual plane can be found, this one is valid, as it's connected to a historical event. If there were no free-use pictures of a person involved in a major news story, would you put a picture of someone else in the article because they mostly look like the same person? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is a rubbish analogy. You are not talking about some random other person, you are talking about their identical twin, wearing identical clothes no less. MickMacNee (talk) 17:10, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - It's notable because it's that particular plane that crashed, not a random other A330. It's significant for the same reason. It's license is almost completely Wikipedia compatible anyways. (note for closing admin - I restored after an earlier speedy deletion which was out of process)

Regarding the twins analogy - we do not freely interchange images of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. They're different. This aircraft which crashed is different than other A330s. That the average reader cannot tell the difference does not mean that the images of the actual crash airplane are not notable for being of that specific plane. We can illustrate the article with any A330 image, yes, but the argument that we MUST NOT use this one and that it is not notable for being of the specific crash plane is specious. It's notable. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No one is denying that this particular aircraft is notable. We have an entire article dedicated to its last flight and it is currently presumably sitting in bits on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Whether it is notable isn't the question in my view. The main point is that it simply doesn't significantly improve a reader's understanding to show them a photo of the exact plane since the only difference from a freely licensed image is the small letters painted on the side. If it doesn't improve a reader's understanding we can't justify using an unfree image. It is this most fundamental point which you seem to fail to consider. Your suggestion that the licence is almost free is irrelevant. For WMF purposes there are two situations, freely licensed or unfree. To use the latter needs a solid fair use rationale, regardless of whether it is "almost completely Wikipedia compatible". Adambro (talk) 19:26, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a novel reinterpretation of NFCC#8 which has not been supported before, and is not supported by the WMF board policy statement from which WP:FAIR was derived nor by prior case history on english Wikipedia.

The article isn't on "The A330" in the generic sense. It's about the unfortunate end of F-GZCP. We're not trying to show readers "this is what an A330 looks like". The specific aircraft which crashed is entirely relevant to the value of the illustration. We have plenty of precedent that images of things now destroyed or moments lost in history are perfectly valid fair use exceptions and justifications - we can't send someone back in time to photograph the plane before its crash, the world only has available what was taken before a few days ago. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting how you consider my suggestion that we comply with NFCC#8 which says fair use can only be used where it significantly improves a reader's understanding is a "novel reinterpretation". How should I interpret this? How does this image significantly improve a reader's understanding? Adambro (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The image does comply with NFCC#8. We've always interpreted NFCC#8 in a way which is entirely inclusive of this image. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who is "we"? If by "we" you refer to the community in general, why hasn't NFCC#8 been removed since you seem to be endorsing completely ignoring it. Adambro (talk) 20:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above comment by Georgewilliamherbert is a blatant disregard of fair-use policy. Said policy does not examine notability but other factors which have been analyzed in depth by others and me higher up in this discussion. Also the people analogy is ludicrous at best. People have personalities, feelings, souls, that differentiate them from any other person, even their clone. Comparing an inaminate object to a person defies explanation. --Ferengi (talk) 19:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've been involved in Wikipedia for many years, and I was quite involved in the policy debates which led to the Board's fair-use policy statement and the current version of WP:FAIR. To say that my position is blatant disregard of policy I helped write is slightly hard to believe.

We've been here before. This is not the way NFCC#8 has been interpreted before. If you all want to change NFCC#8 to support this interpretation, that's fine - take it to the talk page on NFCC. Policy as it stands now, and has stood for the last 2 plus years, supports keeping this image. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:51, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would be really interested in seeing a precedent example like this where a non free image has been used instead of a suitable free alternative, of something so obviously similar as to be near identical. The image is absolutely there to illustrate the type of aircraft lost in an accurate setting, it is not there to put across some metaphysical point that this is a photograph of the actual piece of machinery that no longer exists. And in actual fact, the low resolution fair use image is actually worse for illustration purposes - you cannot even make out the registration on the image with leaving Wikipedia, so from that POV, it is utterly useless, indistinguishable as it is from any other image of an aircraft in that production run and in the correct Air France livery. MickMacNee (talk) 19:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid that I fundamentally disagree with your phrasing the problem. The image is absolutely there to illustrate the aircraft lost in an accurate setting. A generic A330 is not as notable or applicable - because it's not the same plane. Whether random readers can tell or not is not the point and not relevant - substituting images of something else on articles, rather than the article subject, in an attempt to minimize use of fair-use images, has not been policy or precedent in the past. Where the object or event that is the article subject is notable, images of the specific object are appropriate. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:10, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm suprised that I have to explain that to an experienced administrator but here it goes: NFCC#8 examines what the image has to offer information wise. The best possible case would be to have photos of the plane during or after the accident, excellent example of which is BOAC Flight 712, where it is obvious that fair use is justified. Barring such photos, a generic photo of the plane, at a moment unrelated to the accident, can only offer information as to what an Airbus A330-200 in Air France livery, with the letters F-GZCP barely discernible on the fuselage, looks like. A free photo of the same plane model in identical livery offers virtually the same amount of information, thus validating deletion of photo in question per NFCC#8. --Ferengi (talk) 20:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK George, I can accept we are at a fundemental disagreement. So what I will repeat to you, is my request to see any instance on the project where the same situation exists, where a fair use image is being used where a free version could be used without any loss of visual meaning, except the metaphysical idea of it not being the actual subject. I am honestly interested, because from my viewing of how the NFC has been enforced for a long time, I don't think one exists, if it ever did. I agree it would be grand if the Flickr user released the actual image, but it is pretty irrelevant to your position here that nothing is being done wrong in the first place. MickMacNee (talk) 22:10, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing is being done wrong in the first place - true. However, there's also nothing wrong (and everything to be encouraged and gained) in simplifying the debate by getting the photographer to ammend or relicense in a completely WP compatible manner. There seems to be an undercurrent of suspicion that I prefer NFCC images to free - that is not so. I prefer NFCC images to nothing. I prefer NFCC images which are of the subject to free images of something else. But free images of the subject are a clear all around win. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 22:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as failing NFCC unless it can be demonstrated from the photo that any substantial differences to the plane in this particular photo from any other Air France A330 is the cause of the crash. (e.g. missing or damaged exterior) - Mailer Diablo 19:21, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Most appropriate photo considering the usage. Alaney2k (talk) 19:26, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete since at the resolution being used to justify "fair use", the aircraft in this image is physically indistinguishable from any of several others for which free content exists. Those proposing that this is the correct image for the article since it illustrates the "authentic", "appropriate", "significant" or "notable" aircraft would have valid and persuasive arguments, if we had a free hand in which content to use and were involved in a purely editorial dispute about which image added most value to the article. Neither of these premises are true. Our selection of content is conditioned on licensing issues, and the dispute here is not on the "appropriateness" of the image for the article (which per se is clear and undisputed) but whether it satisfies Wikipedia's non-free content criteria. The strongest objection raised so far is the claim that this image fails to "significantly increase readers' understanding" - and if this claim is valid then the image, regardless of the editorial value its added "authenticity" or "relevance" brings to the article, is impermissible. Some of the comments voicing support for keeping the current use of the image seem to implicitly assume that the editorial value of the image's authenticity should be weighed up against the criterion of "increasing understanding", and if the former outweighs the latter then the image should be kept (although nobody has put it quite this way, the underlying logic for several respondents seems to be of the form "even if it doesn't help to understand the reader what the plane looked like more than a free image of a different plane, this is a photo of the actual aircraft and is therefore irreplaceable, hence keep."). This view is, of course, incorrect - the criterion is overriding, and if it is not satisfied then the image must be removed. The more valid "keep" arguments are the ones where the "authenticity" of the image is used to address whether the image meets the "increases understanding" criterion, rather than implicitly weighed up against it. "Unlike the available free content, this image illustrates the actual aircraft involved, and therefore increases the reader's understanding" is certainly a reasonable viewpoint, but I disagree with it fairly strongly, since in this case the aircraft in this image is physically indistinguishable from other individual aircraft, and moreover there are free images of those aircraft where they in turn appear physically indistinguishable from this one. If two things are physically indistinguishable, what is the "added understanding" of using one rather than the other? It seems to me that if I am unable to perceive a physical difference, then mentally I can't understand in a different way either - let alone achieve a state of "increased understanding". I am not at all disputing the editorial superiority of this image - authenticity adds value, and if it were licensed appropriately, I would far rather have this in the article (even if it were grainy and blurred) than a technically superior shot of an equivalent plane. My sole beef is that I have yet to see a convincing explanation of why this photograph increases understanding compared to a freely licensed one of a physically indistinguishable (at the size the image would appear in the article) aircraft. Has anybody tried contacting the owner of this photograph's copyright and seeing if they are prepared to release it under a Commons-compatible license, even if only at low resolution? TheGrappler (talk) 21:18, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I disagree with the entirety of that conclusion, other than the last sentence, on which I am way ahead of you. Flickr mail sent this morning to the photographer and if anyone has or knows of a better contact method for them, please feel free to email me and I'll contact them that way as well. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:46, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks a lot, that sounds practical :) For what it's worth, your arguments above seem intelligent and well-put (and I agree with them all except for NFCC#8), but it's not clear from what you just wrote, where in particular you are disagreeing with my comment. Could you clarify whether in your view (1) that the added irreplaceable authenticity of the image (given that it shows the actual plane) should be weighed against the fact that it doesn't increase the reader's understanding to reach a decision, and that it's high editorial value overrides the requirement for it to increase the understanding of the reader, (2) that it is the authenticity itself that actually raises the reader's understanding, even if the photograph is essentially indistinguishable from the free content equivalents (if so could you please explain how, if I can't physically see a difference, I'm meant to achieve a superior understanding? Nobody seems to have done so yet, and this is the bit I'm not "getting"), (3) you believe that the aircraft in this image actually is physically distinguishable from those in the free content images at the resolution at which the image will be displayed in the article, so that (2) is based on a false premise and it is this visible distinction that will serve to increase the reader's understanding, or (4) that I have produced a false trichotomy (and if so what am I missing?). Your prior arguments for the image passing NFCC#8 seem to focus on to its authenticity, irreplaceability and established precedent, rather than on how exactly the reader will understand the topic better as a result, so my guess is you're in camp (1) - do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. When I read NFCC#8 (in full: "Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.") I see the bolded "significance" not so much as the touchstone of the test, but rather as a not-particularly-clear summary of the criterion that follows. In particular "significantly" seems very narrowly construed, used only in the sense of "would significantly increase readers' understanding" (which on a plain reading of the text, is a strict requirement to meet the criterion). Just because a photograph is unique, authentic, irreplaceable, of a notable subject covered in the article, historically important, or a whole bunch of other things that would clearly make it "significant" in a wider sense of the word, doesn't mean it meets the "#8 Significance" criterion, unless it can be shown to increase the reader's understanding significantly beyond what the freely licensed images can. Or am I wrong? I know you had an input into the writing of the criteria - is NFCC#8 meant to be passed by any reasonable claim of "significance", with "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding" merely one example of how significance can be achieved? [Sidenote, probably belongs on WT:NFCC, but since NFCC#8 seems to be the nexus of the entire deletion discussion is probably relevant here: it's not necessary to look through many fair use reviews or image for deletion discussions (or indeed fair use rationales) to see that it's a common argument that NFCC#8 is met because the image is "significant" due to it being "important", "notable", "relevant to the article" or "irreplaceable", and without once referring to how the particular use of the image increases the understanding of the reader. I don't know to what extent this conception represents either precedent or consensus - in particular I'm not sure how such claims are dealt with by closing admins. At any rate, if "Significance" is meant to be broadly construed for NFCC#8, then the explanatory text surely needs an urgent and thorough rewrite? And conversely, if the litmus test is meant to be increasing the reader's understanding, isn't "Significance" a highly misleading bold keyword (compared to "Significantly improving the reader's understanding" or similar)?] TheGrappler (talk) 23:43, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep: The image of the actual plane (complete with tail number) is used for identification purposes and as such no suitable alternative exists. The fact that this minutiae has been discussed to death is sad as there are clearly some individuals who are working very hard to ensure that our readers receive sub-standard coverage of the situation. How so very lame - as if anyone is going to get upset about their photo being used to cover such a tragedy in a non-profit wiki. It's fiascos like this that make me question whether this project is worth being involved in (after all I spent some time finding, reducing, uploading and tagging the original image only to have it promptly and repeatedly attacked re: fair use, copyvio, etc.). -- samj _in^out 09:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  And again, how hard is it to go to airliners.net and ask the photographers there to contribute? I know it's been done before (JetBlue Airways Flight 292 anyone?).--293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 09:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  What do you mean that the photo "is used for identification purposes and as such no suitable alternative exists". You can't identify the one difference between this unfree image and the freely licensed alternatives! You suggest "that our readers receive sub-standard coverage of the situation". How exactly? How does, as per NFCC#8, this image significantly add to a reader's understanding of this subject? It doesn't. You go onto say "as if anyone is going to get upset about their photo being used to cover such a tragedy in a non-profit wiki" but you seem to miss that for WM purposes, there are simply two types of content, freely licensed and not freely licensed. This is unfree so requires a solid rationale. If this image did have a solid fair use rationale then we'd not have to worry about the copyright holder getting upset. The fact that you suggest we shouldn't worry seems to be an adminssion that we don't have a solid rationale here. Adambro (talk) 09:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete for the same reason as all the other deletes: WP:NFCC#8. (Just in case someone decides to tally !votes here.) —Bkell (talk) 17:38, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - not needed any more. Evercat (talk) 17:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment this image has been tagged for deletion again (so it has two deletion tags on it) - the reasoning provided for the second tag is it is currently not used on any article page. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 12:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It rather obviously can be used on an article page. The actual plane involved in such a major incident has an specific value--seeing an image of the specific model focuses the attention and thus increases understanding. DGG (talk) 17:16, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We already have a free, higher resolution, image of the specific model. Even in the right colours. Even taken in 2009 (as opposed to 2007). MickMacNee (talk) 19:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know that. I read the discussion. The imager of the particular plane adds to the sense of reality and the effective communication. encyclopedias are expected to provide information effectively. DGG (talk) 00:22, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'We need it for shock value' is the short version of this argument I think. MickMacNee (talk) 02:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It also fails in several respects: 1) Whats to stop me from going elsewhere and asking someone with an image of the plane to release it under a CC-compatible license and they do it? The fact of that mere possibility automatically discredits the non-free use rationale provided in the disputed image itself. 2) Several Aircraft incidents have CGI-renderings; whats to stop someone using Poser or some other CGI-type program from doing a render of the Airplane? 3) In my observation, other Aircraft incidents also make do with similar pictures of planes from the same company. I have no clue if it is precedent or guidelines, but if it is good enough for other articles, then it is good enough for 447 article. 3 valid arguments, 3 reasons why the image up for deletion fails. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 23:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

293.xx.xxx.xx - your rationale 1) applies equally to any fair-use image which we use on Wikipedia. WP:NFCC and WP:FAIR do not require us to never use fair-use images. The rationale that "oh, we could go get the photographer to release a free one" is not a valid reason to remove a fair use one. If we do have (here, or can find elsewhere) a fully WP compatible free image then yes, we have to use that one and delete the fair use one. But the possibility of one existing or being released does not count. It has to actually exist, not theoretically. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 23:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And again, I've pointed to airliners.net. All you gotta do is ask and it shall exist. Again, rationale invalidated. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 01:52, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First - again, that's not how Wikipedia's rules work. The alternate freely licensed content has to already exist before it's a valid reason to stop using and delete the other content. Egg must precede chicken wings.

Second - I asked several people in several places several days ago - no responses so far. All I gotta do? Are you sure? 8-) Who misplaced the eggs? They were all here a minute ago, I swear. You were very insistent...

If anyone else finds a photographer and gets them to relicense something, good for you. Please try. I have. Until that happens, however, we have no other alternative. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 02:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"The alternate freely licensed content has to already exist before it's a valid reason to stop using and delete the other content." Absolutely false. WP:NFCC#1: "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose" (emphasis added). —Bkell (talk) 08:11, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:F1244 it1191 weston streetcar.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Weston_ontario (notify | contribs).

• unsure of copyright status Weston ontario (talk) 08:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Since you, Weston ontario, are the uploader of the image, you could tag the image with ((db-g7)) as, you created the page. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 20:52, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Gothictheatre.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Maliciousactivity (notify | contribs).

• While there aren't any apparent problems with this image itself, the uploader has uploaded many images to Commons that plainly aren't self-created: see File:Redrockslogo.jpg and File:Ogdentheater1919.jpg for examples. With such demonstrations of bad faith, no reason to AGF and expect that the nominator really took this photo himself/herself. Nyttend (talk) 12:50, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just discovered the picture at this website. Speedy deleted as a copyvio. Nyttend (talk) 12:56, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• derivtive work. Uploader is not copyright holder Rettetast (talk) 14:50, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Copyvio crop of [2] – Quadell ^(talk) 14:51, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Deleted as copyvio. Nyttend (talk) 15:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Martin Tower.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Phillies1fan777 (notify | contribs).

• Probable copyvio. On the same day he uploaded File:Venetain Macao.jpg and the Sands photo above, both of which were unambiguous copyvios, both of which he claim PD-release, just like this one. – Quadell ^(talk) 15:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Bethlehem graffiti.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Phillies1fan777 (notify | contribs).

• This may be the author's own creation, or it may be a copyvio. It's just a mediocre photo of graffiti, though. There are many better photos that are not from users with a history of copyvio problems. – Quadell ^(talk) 15:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Touch my hand.JPG (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Alexander.hugh.george (notify | contribs).

• The source provided for the image is [3], which is a website to provide album/single covers of albums/singles that do not have covers. Since this is not an official single cover, it should be deleted from Wikipedia. Aspects (talk) 17:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Muskoka-Magazine.jpg Marcbon (talk) 20:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Unused, no context for encyclopedic use. —Bkell (talk) 23:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:PIC01.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Rustmai (notify | contribs).

• Unused, no context for encyclopedic use. —Bkell (talk) 23:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete there is no evidence the uploader owns the copyright of this painting and there is no useful information about it. ww2censor (talk) 02:12, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Unused, no context for encyclopedic use. —Bkell (talk) 23:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Unused, no context for encyclopedic use. Has an eBay watermark. —Bkell (talk) 23:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Unused. Poor lighting, difficult to see what the photo is attempting to illustrate. —Bkell (talk) 23:37, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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