File:Mary Bell Norma Bell 26 May 1968 Woodland Crescent Nursery MessageA.jpg

Mary_Bell_Norma_Bell_26_May_1968_Woodland_Crescent_Nursery_MessageA.jpg(135 × 193 pixels, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Description Image depicts one of the four handwritten notes left by Mary Bell and Norma Bell in the Woodland Crescent nursery on 26 May 1968 - the days after the murder of Mary's first victim.
Author or
copyright owner
Mary Flora Bell.
Source (WP:NFCC#4) owlcation.com. Direct link here
Date of publication 26 May 1968
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Mary Bell
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

To illustrate the taunting messages left by the perpetrators gloating about their crime. Also depicting the childish scrawl which led the police to rightly conclude the author(s) was/were young children.

Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
n.a.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * The image is cropped from the original
  • Image is of a tinted hue
  • Size of image is 144x206px; original is 238x318px
  • Image is skewed, making it a lower quality
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
n.a.
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  • (NFCC1): This image has no free equivalent; meeting the Wikipedia guidelines
  • (NFCC2): Intended content of this reduced size, skewed, tinted hue, black and white and cropped image is not for use in a manner detrimental to the original copyrighted media
  • The image is relevant to the subsection (for which sole usage of image is intended) in question; and would significantly increase readers' understanding of significance of the mindset (and youth) of the perpetrator
  • (NFCC 6&7): Intended for usage solely within this article. Name of original author and source provided
  • (NFCC4): The image has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods including magazines, newspapers and television, and the Internet since 1968, and in doing so, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution, unskewed, and in an un-cropped form
  • Having specifically named and credited the website from where I captured this image, plus having specifically named the original author of the image in question, as well as meeting the specific criteria outlined, this image does meet the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (as stated in NFCC10).
  • Strongly believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate a section of the article discussing aspects relating to the person depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Mary Bell//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Bell_Norma_Bell_26_May_1968_Woodland_Crescent_Nursery_MessageA.jpgtrue

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