I believe this image should not be deleted. I think the reasons for this have already been exposed quite clearly on the fair use rationale and in my opposition of the deletion. Nevertheless, as it seems I have not been understood, I will repeat that. It fulfills all of the Non-free content criteria.
- No free equivalent - This is a very rare fossil, of which only two specimens exist. One is badly preserved and fragmentary, and is not exposed to the public. The other is well preserved, but is not exposed to the public and, in fact, the museum which houses it will be closed until 2011 at least. Given that most of, if not all, the people who now enter the museum are construction workers, it is reasonable to believe that a free alternative cannot be created, even if a written request was made. The Museum's website itself acknowledges that taking photos is complicated at best. This is even more so taking into account that many museums do not grant blanket permission for commercial use of their images.
- Respect for commercial opportunities - Apart from the fact that this image currently has no known commercial use, the use of this picture on Leptictidium would not harm any eventual commercial use, since the image is much lower resolution than the original.
- Minimal usage - Only this image is used to illustrate L. tobieni. Minimal extent of usage - the full image is necessary to show what the animal looked like.
- Previous publication - The image has been published outside Wikipedia, on [1].
- Content - Obviously enciclopedic.
- Media-specific policy - Meets all requirements.
- One article minimum - It is used in Leptictidium
- Significance - There is no other existing image of L. tobieni, so there is no other way to describe the animal. Text description is not enough to give a good idea.
- Restrictions on location - Will only be used in article namespace.
- Image description page - The fair use rationale includes the source, a "fair use in..." template and the name of the article in which the image will be used.
![[1]](http://img.geo.de/div/image/53225/01_messel.jpg){kind=link}
It is quite clear that this image satisfies the non-free content criteria. Other images have been allowed, even in Featured Articles, which have a more dubious claim to fair use:
- Dalek has a non-free image at the very top, which could very well be substituted by free images in this category. Image:Flyingdalek.jpg could very well be substituted for a sentence saying "Daleks have gained the ability to levitate since they last met the Doctor.".
- Image:Xenu nip-tuck.jpg could also be easily substituted by the text which accompanies the thumbnail.
- Image:AStreetCarNamedMargeImage.jpg serves no clear purpose, as it does not show any special or particularly important moment in the show.
These images have been allowed to stay despite their not meeting the non-free content criteria, just because they happened to be used in Featured Articles. This Leptictidium image has a stronger claim than them, so it should stay. Leptictidium (mt) 11:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
