Talk:Coat of arms of Albany, New York

WOW

Very cool! Great job on this article.Camelbinky (talk) 11:34, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Coat of arms of Albany, New York/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: –Grondemar 03:18, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

 Working Will aim to complete this review in the next few days (definitely faster than the Albany, NY review). –Grondemar 03:18, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

• File:Coat of arms of Albany statue.jpg—this appears to be a 3D representation of a coat of arms, and per the article text has unique design elements that aren't part of the coat of arms. I don't believe a photo of that can be considered free-use unless the designer, Hy Rosen per the caption, released the statue under a free license. I'll ask one of the image experts for a second opinion on this one.

Otherwise, I have no issue with any other part of the article; I'll pass the article as a Good Article once the issue with the image is resolved.

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   This article will be on hold for a minimum of seven days waiting for the above issue to be resolved.

Thank you. –Grondemar 19:04, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I can send a message to one of the image experts at FAC since that seems to be the only issue holding it up. I know it's a question of freedom of panorama, which I don't think is allowed for statues under U.S. law. I'll check with someone on that. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:36, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

File:Coat of arms of Albany statue.jpg seems to be an interesting case for the differentiation of blason (definition) and emblazon (representation): what we have here is a 3D representation. It is original; it does not resemble any previous representations. Therefore, the statue is entitled to copyright protection. It does not need a copyright notice since this was in the public after 1977. Derivatives of this work, such as this photograph, will have to consider Rosen's copyright; unless he places his work in the public domain or releases it under a scheme compatible with Wikimedia's interpretation of "free", the photograph could be considered a violation of his right. It might be possible to use this image as fair use; the article talks of the statue (in comparison to previous representations). It has to be first reduced in resolution (~100,000 pixels in total size, although this is subjective) to comply with WP:NFCC as well. Jappalang (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. Learned yet another thing about copyright. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear}

As for the review, I've now fixed the image, and since that was the only outstanding issue, I'm passing this as a GA (I see that Grondemar hasn't been that active the past few weeks so I'll just do this). Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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