File:Ryszard Siwiec.png

No higher resolution available.

Ryszard_Siwiec.png ‎(260 × 384 pixels, file size: 190 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Summary edit

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Ryszard Siwiec (1909 – 1968) was a Polish accountant and former Home Army resistance member who was the first person to commit suicide by self-immolation in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Author or copyright owner	The collection of the Siwiec family
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: 1960s Immediate source: https://www.ryszardsiwiec.com/czlowiek-en.html
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Ryszard Siwiec
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
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.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Its low resolution and use in an educational article should not affect the value of the original work, or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1968
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ryszard Siwiec//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ryszard_Siwiec.pngtrue

Licensing edit

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Ryszard Siwiec":

to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:07, 24 September 2021		260 × 384 (190 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	17:42, 23 September 2021	No thumbnail	583 × 860 (665 KB)	Toadboy123 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage

The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Ryszard Siwiec

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Height	794 px
Width	538 px
Lens used
Bits per component	8
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Horizontal resolution	28.35 dpc
Vertical resolution	28.35 dpc