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File:Cristmas eve, Isle of Pines, 1910 copy.jpg

File:Krungthep Mahanakhon sample.ogg

Not sure how this should be decided, so I'm seeking others' opinions; thank you. (Note: I removed the file from the article. It used to be here.) --Paul_012 (talk) 14:49, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Original comment by me:[1]

I believe the use of this audio clip in the Bangkok article fails WP:NFCC #8. The primary subject being discussed is neither the song nor the artist, but the name of the city which is featured in the song. The lack of this file will not be detrimental to the reader's understanding of the topic. --Paul_012 (talk)

Response by Sam:[2]

I don't see anything in Wikipedia:NFCC that restricts use of a non-free samples to just articles about the work that has been sampled. I believe that it meets the criteria #8: :"Contextual 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." Contextual significance means that the sample makes a contribution in the context in which it is being used. The Bangkok article has an entire section devoted to explain how unusual the full name of the city of Bankok is, and the song is very relevant and helps the reader understand the subject better. If not unique, it is very, very unusual for a songs lyric to consist IN ITS ENTIRETY of just the name of a place. That is all that the songs lyric contains, repeated over and over and over, and it is the song that is responsible for most of the occupants being able to remember the name of their city. So the name of the city, the name of the song, and the song itself are all connected, and best discussed where it is.

It seems as though you would not object to the sample being in an article about the song. I don't know if there is really any need to write an article just about the song. There is not much more to say about it than has been said in the article about Bangkok. If in the future, it was to have its own article, then the use of the sample could be moved there and the song could be linked from the Bangkok article. I don't think it should matter either way. I find both uses acceptable and don't understand how it would be acceptable in one use and not in the other.

I don't claim to be an expert on fair use, and I tend to be liberal in my interpretation of Wikipedia guidelines, so I willing to discuss this further and perhaps see how my interpretation is in error. If there is some relevant guideline or discussion that explains your objections in more detail, I'd like to see it. But for now, I think the tag should be removed. -- SamuelWantman 07:01, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Stanfield Wells.jpg

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File:Brigade SM insignia SADF.jpg

Violates WP:NFG. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:43, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Once again I think you are being a bit pedantic and petty. The only reason for using a gallery is to improve the look and feel. removed from gallery - now it doesn't violate WP:NFG Gbawden (talk) 13:15, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

File:WO of the Navy SADF insignia.jpg

Violates WP:NFG. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:44, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Once again I think you are being a bit pedantic and petty. The only reason for using a gallery is to improve the look and feel. removed from gallery - now it doesn't violate WP:NFG Gbawden (talk) 13:15, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

File:SA Navy midshipman.jpg

Violates WP:NFG. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:45, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

You don't give up do you Stefan. This rank insignia is similar to all the others that you nominated for deletion and that were marked as keep. At the time the concensus was that the use of the images in the table was acceptable. Gbawden (talk) 13:08, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
in case you have forgotten - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2012_September_3#File:SA_Army_General_rank.jpg Gbawden (talk) 13:31, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Precisely: look at that discussion. Absolutely no one provided a valid reason according to any policy to keep the images. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Cmd Sgt Major SADF insignia.jpg

Violates WP:NFG. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:42, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Once again I think you are being a bit pedantic and petty. The only reason for using a gallery is to improve the look and feel. I will remove the gallery Gbawden (talk) 13:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
In addition to the WP:NFG issue in South African military ranks, it also violates NFCC#10c in that article, as the image is clearly not used as the "primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question". -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 20:41, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Plinkoseason37.jpg

File:1953 Grand Rapids Chicks.jpg

File:Italia's Got Talent logo.jpg

File:Osaka 2008 Olympic bid logo.svg

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Fails WP:NFG in Bids for the 2008 Summer Olympics. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:06, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

I am unsure about this one. It might be below the threshold of originality, since it's essentially some simple geometric shapes and typefaces. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 23:25, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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File:NFCE-Uniform-WAS2.PNG

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Use in two articles violates NFCC#10c. Possibly violates NFCC#1. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 08:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

See my argument in #File:NFCE-Uniform-WAS2.PNG above about complex logos. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:13, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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File:Seal of the General National Congress of Libya.png

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Violates WP:NFCC#10c in Coat of arms of Libya. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

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File:ZambiaFA.png

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This file fails WP:NFCC#10c in 3 articles. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:44, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

It needs be determined whether those three teams use that logo as their official logo. If that is the case, then valid rationales for those three uses should be added. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 15:23, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
It looks like it's the official logo of the Football Association of Zambia (where it's not currently used). It's also commonly used by/for all of the national teams, see e.g. [4][5][6]. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:25, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
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File:RASIGS.gif

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Use in 109th Signals Squadron violates WP:NFCC#10c. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 11:44, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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File:31st Mechanized Brigade Emblem Greece.jpg

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Use in 12th Mechanized Infantry Division (Greece) and IV Army Corps (Greece) violates WP:NFCC#10c. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 11:52, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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File:7th Mechanized Brigade Emblem Greece.jpg

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Use in 12th Mechanized Infantry Division (Greece) and IV Army Corps (Greece) violates WP:NFCC#10c. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 11:59, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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File:Magritte TheSonOfMan.jpg revert nom

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The 2009 color-corrected version was overwritten in July with a dull, oxidized snapshot of a damaged print, at enormously oversized resolution given the lack of focus, with a rather mocking upload description. It looks like a brag of ownership of a print, really, heedless of its obvious shamefully decrepit condition. The penciled inscription was not sealed, fixed, or otherwise protected. I'm nominating this for reversion to the 2009 version, but came here to seek consensus about it. --Lexein (talk) 17:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Bump. Discuss? Am I in the wrong discussion area for this? --Lexein (talk) 18:34, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
This page is usually followed only by people wanting to delete NFC images, so don't expect much quality discussion. I agree that the latest overwrite is a terrible version of too low quality even for NFC criteria. But I'm confused as to which image has the right colors - there's a July 2012 version that claims accurate colors and includes a colorchecker. If those colors are right this seems to be the preferred version, but it should be downscaled to about 1/4 of its current resolution. But if you're sure the 2009 colors are the right ones, go ahead and restore that (they certainly look more natural). Diego (talk) 16:17, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for replying. The color issue is thorny. I think we should err on the side of verifiability, as recorded on gallery and museum websites. The painting, and prints, when new, and as reproduced worldwide, are fairly bright (white shirt, pinkish cloud hues). A private collector may insist that their copy is truer: all a color reference proves is that their (apparently non-archival, damaged) copy has faded. I've reverted to the 2009 copy, and reduced to 100k pixels. --Lexein (talk) 09:40, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
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File:FranceTV-2011.svg

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This file is listed as unfree. If that is correct, then the image violates at least WP:NFCC#9 and WP:NFCC#10c at some places. However, I'm not sure if the image is complex enough to be protected by copyright in the first place. The SVG source code could maybe be protected as a computer program (i.e. literary work). --Stefan2 (talk) 14:08, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I think the unfree part is correct. The color boxes have enough detail and use of gradients to make them creative (additionally, Commons states that while France follows common law TOO, its bar is much lower for originality).
That said, this is being used in a template.
That said, from the webpage of the system, just the text words are also a logo of the system and thus to get this into compliance, the SVG needs to strip out the boxes at the top and just use the plain text part at the bottom (clearly uncopyrightable). --MASEM (t) 14:50, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia doesn't care about the French TOO. If it is ineligible for copyright in the United States but not in France, it can be tagged with {{PD-ineligible-USonly}}. That said, I'm not sure if this is simple enough for US TOO either. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:01, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Yea, I would still argue it fails TOO in the US as well. But as I note, just the text part is still used as a logo and thus all that is needed is to strip it down to that, make the resulting SVG free, and everything is good. --MASEM (t) 15:31, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Also, to a point: we don't consider any copyright with respect to the underlying SVG "code" when it is offered by the people that own the mark/image. I do think we actually have some hard-to-recreate non-free SVG logos pulled directly from the trademark owner which we do use (since resolution is meaningless w.r.t. SVGs and NFCC#3a). But here at worst, the text part of the logo is an easy SVG to be remade if any issues come up. --MASEM (t) 15:34, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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File:Alan Freed WJW-AM promotional photo.jpg

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This violates WP:NFCC#1, WP:NFCC#8, WP:NFCC#10c and WP:NFG in the article Disc jockey. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. I could possibly understand if Freed was credited with being the first DJ to use a non-free image of him as part of the history (but even then that's a tenacious use), but being listed as only an example of notable DJs would not elevate the need to illustrate him with a non-free. --MASEM (t) 17:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Actually, Alan Freed is a *significant* part of DJ history. He was the center of the payola scandal in the late 50s, when "DJ" was defined as a person who announced and played records on a radio station. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
The text does not give any sense of this, even if he was the first to be called that. --MASEM (t) 17:25, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
He's also widely believed to have coined the phrase "rock and roll" [7]. But you're right, the article needs a lot of work. I may split off "radio DJ" into a separate article in order to avoid the history of the term being overshadowed by the more recent "club DJ" phenomenon. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:42, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Oh, I'm not doubting his importance, though even if you split off a "radio DJ" article (a reasonable suggestion), I'd still make sure it is clear (as I believe is the case) that Freed is credits as creating the concept of the modern radio DJ, and I think there may be justification for it there. But you will need more than just a sentence or so for that. --MASEM (t) 18:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, good advice. Unwatching this page now, but feel free to comment at the article Talk if need be. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:11, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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File:Will Shade.jpg

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This violates WP:NFCC#1, WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#10c in the article Washtub bass. Additionally, it violates WP:NFCC#3b. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:53, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Clear violation. We have free images already to demonstrate the instrument, no need for a non-free here. --MASEM (t) 19:59, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Agreed. And the user has piles of non-free violation warnings on their talk page. Stifle (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
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File:30th Mechanized Brigade Emblem Greece.jpg

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Use in 16th Mechanized Infantry Division (Greece) violates WP:NFCC#10c. Use in IV Army Corps (Greece) violates WP:NFCC#8. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 21:42, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Clear violation of WP:MOSFLAG as well. No need to use for id on the page when it has its own article where it is used on. --MASEM (t) 21:46, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Yup. These little icons are horrid. Jheald (talk) 21:50, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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File:Jim Reeves.jpg

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No separate non-free use rationales for the uses in He'll Have to Go and Jim Reeves, therefore violating NFCC#10c in those two articles. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 21:29, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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File:Junta swearing-in ceremony.jpg‎

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Use in List of Prime Ministers of Thailand violates WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#10c. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

It would be interesting to know when the image was first published. If it is still subject to copyright protection, then the use in List of Prime Ministers of Thailand has to go. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 19:47, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
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File:Sanya Dharmasakti.jpg

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Use in List of Prime Ministers of Thailand violates WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#10c. Sourced to Thai Wikipedia where it is claimed to be {{PD-TH-exempt}}, although I'm not sure how to verify this claim. The licence only seems to apply to text, and this isn't text, but maybe it includes illustrations in certain government decisions and the like. No idea if it comes from a government decision or similar. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:42, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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File:Portland State Vikings Logo.svg

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Use in Portland State Vikings football violates WP:NFCC#10c. Might not meet the threshold of originality required for copyright protection. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

It certainly is too original to be claimed as uncopyrightable. Since it appears to be the logo that all of PSU's collegate teams use, it is reasonable it can be used on the football team's main page - though it certainly does need a rationale for that, but that should be easily fixed. --MASEM (t) 14:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
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File:Supermarine Walrus N.19.jpg

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Appears to be taken from a book, is being claimed under some kind of fair-use reasoning. More generally, could someone just keep an eye on the contributions of User:Rocketrosy? (S)he has been putting a lot of work into the article on United States Naval Air Station, Wexford, Ireland but is still learning her/his way around Wiki licencing - for instance I've suggested an OTRS request for File:Edward-T-Garvey.jpg.jpg and File:Victor-Herbster.jpg could do with one too. Le Deluge (talk# 16:28, 11 March 2013 #UTC#

Given the number of free pics of the Walrus plane #on its article# I can't see the need for this non-free here. Delete. --MASEM ###User Talk:Masem|t### 16:34, 11 March 2013 #UTC#

Irish Supermarine Walrus N2301 N#19

I am not trying to lean my way around any licensing whatsoever. The two pictures Edward Garvey and Victor Herbster are my property - What do you want me to do for licensing? Where is it that I apply for licensing because 1 - Victor Herbster is a picture I personally - a picture of a picture with full authority from the United States Naval Academy. I will apply for my own licensing as I am abolutely certain it will be granted for both!

There is not a number of Supermarine Walrus planes with the Irish flag on it as it is an Irish Aircraft, actually the only one is THIS ONE. It is not English, it is not American, it was the property of Ireland when it crashed in 1939 and towed to the former NAS Wexford. There was so little information available about this base before I started this site. There was one paragraph with incorrect information. Who monitors the accuracy of information being placed here? Why am I being harrashed about photographs that I absolutely have a right to share. I would call someone - but the mulitude of random messages is ineffective and I am not doing this for personal gain - simply sharing the relationship between two countries - USA - Ireland - unfortunately during the time of British Occupation, or at least until the Irish Emergency.

Thanks - please write directly to me so I can see what exactly you are referring to. Rocketrosy_2013-March-11_1658_PM-EST


12-March-2013 Wydawnictwo Stratusbooks will be in contact with me today and i with you. Vmurphy / rocketrosy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketrosy (talkcontribs) 10:35, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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File:The Persistence of Memory.jpg

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The use of this file in 1931 in art violates WP:NFCC#10c. Also fails WP:NFC#UUI#6. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 10:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Additionally, the use of this file in 20th-century art, Western painting and History of painting violates WP:NFG. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:25, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
The Dali is his most important work and an icon of Surrealism; it is needed particularly at 20th-century art, Western painting and History of painting. It no longer violates WP:NFG.

Okay, lets look at the current uses case by case:

  • 20th-century Western painting - not necessary, wikilink to The Persistence of Memory is sufficient, especially in an era where most browsers support tabbed browsing. The purpose of the image (showing Dalí's style of drawing melting shapes) can be described by words and if necessary, a wikilink to The Persistence of Memory can be put there
  • 20th-century art - clear violation of NFCC#8. No specific reference to the image in the text, purely decorative use
  • History of painting - the fact that "liquid shapes become the trademark of Dalí" is easily described by words and can be understood without seeing an actual example, for the interested reader, a wikilink to the article of the image can be provided
  • Salvador Dalí - there is explicit sourced commentary about the image discussing specific aspects of the image, so that use seems okay, purpose could be stated more explicit in the rationale for this use
  • Spanish art - there is sourced commentary explicitly referring to specific aspects of the image, so seems appropriate, rationale should be made more explicit
  • Surrealism - only reference to the image is the statement "Liquid shapes became the trademark of Dalí, particularly in his The Persistence of Memory, which features the image of watches that sag as if they were melting." That fact is easily understandable without seeing the actual image
  • The Persistence of Memory - article about that image, image definitely appropriate
  • Western painting - unnecessary, the statement that the painting "features the image of watches that sag as if they are melting. Evocations of time and its compelling mystery and absurdity" is understandable without seeing the actual image

-- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 13:34, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

The painting is Dali's most important work and it is needed to be seen - (visual art needs to be seen) at the History of painting, Surrealism, Western painting, 20th-century Western painting, Salvador Dali, and The Persistence of Memory...Modernist (talk) 13:47, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Why? If there is not something I am missing, the section in History of painting#Dada and Surrealism referring to the image is the following:
"1931 marked a year when several Surrealist painters produced works which marked turning points in their stylistic evolution: in one example (see gallery above) liquid shapes become the trademark of Dalí, particularly in his The Persistence of Memory, which features the image of watches that sag as if they are melting. Evocations of time and its compelling mystery and absurdity. The characteristics of this style - a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the psychological - came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modernist period, combined with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be "made whole with one's individuality."
I can get the point of that section (that the painting marked a turning point in Dali's stylistic evolution, that liquid shapes became a trademark of his works, that the image features depictions of melting watches) even without seeing the actual image. Even though the painting is a piece of visual art, that doesn't mean a work discussing the image (in this case the article History of painting) must visually depict that image. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlkctb) 14:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm only making references the article History of painting, but the same issues are also relevant to other articles. I see several problems:
  • There are way too many images. Check WP:TOO LONG!#Technical issues. Older computers and mobile phones don't like huge pages. I've had my mobile phone web browser crashing when trying to read oversized newspaper websites, and it takes forever to download all of the images if you use a dial-up connection or are accessing the Internet using a mobile phone at a place where you only have access to 2G signals. To make it easier for less powerful systems to access the page, I would favour removing most of the images. If you need more examples, you could click on links to more specialised articles: Prehistoric art, Chinese painting et cetera. Compare with the corresponding Spanish article, es:Historia de la pintura, where there are much fewer images. The policy on Spanish Wikipedia is that no files may be hosted locally but that all files have to be hosted on Commons, so no fair use is permitted. However, even if you look at the ancient sections, you will find that there are still very few images. For example, the English article has eight examples of prehistoric cave paintings, whereas the Spanish article only has one.
  • WP:NFCC#1: you shouldn't use non-free files if free files are available, and in most cases there are alternative images which are in the public domain and can be used instead of the copyrighted images.
  • 20th-century visual art needs to be seen and the imagery after 1923 tends to require Fair use; visual art - requires being visual; as pd images become available they are being put into the articles, except in the case where specific paintings need to be specifically represented...Modernist (talk) 15:47, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
  • WP:NFCC#3a: the article uses more non-free images than I feel would be necessary. For example, WP:NFG says that non-free images usually shouldn't be used in galleries, and there is also WP:NFLISTS §4: if the non-free image is used elsewhere on Wikipedia, for example in an article about the painting, it is preferred to link to that article instead of repeating the image.
  • WP:NFCC#8: you shouldn't use non-free files unless removal of the file would be detrimental to the understanding of the article. I would still understand what surrealism means even if a few images were to be deleted from the section. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
In many of these articles the image is not used just to illustrate the image itself but the whole Surrealist period. Thus the criterion of WP:NFC#UUI#6 where the image could be replaced with a link doesn't hold, as the visuals are still required to represent the characteristics of the whole movement.
Of course WP:NFCC#8 must be respected; uses like the gallery at 20th-century_art are out of question. But Wikipedia:NFCC#3a doesn't require us to delete repeated uses if each one is in context and serves an illustrative, educational purpose. "Conveying the same information with words" has never been part of WP:NFCC; what's important is that the reader can understand the visual characteristics of the image in the place where they are discussed. With this in mind, this is my evaluation of uses:
  1. Surrealism#Golden_age: good use. The importance of Dali's work to this period of surrealism is clear from the text, and liquid shapes are discussed in the context of two different authors - so showing some liquid shapes does significantly improve understanding. (Here Wikipedia:NFCC#3a means that showing images from the two authors would be too much).
  2. Salvador Dalí#1929 to World War II: maybe. The text does not only describe the image but the role that soft watches represent in the philosophy of time. But the visuals are not as important as in the other articles.
  3. Spanish_art#20th_Century: good use. It's not used just to describe the image but to represent the work of Dalí as a whole, a central artist in Spanish painting. Understanding of the 20th century period wouldn't be same without it.
  4. 20th-century art: remove. Although the image is iconic, it's not properly placed in context in this article.
  5. 20th-century_Western_painting#Dada_and_Surrealism: good use, described as "some of the most widely recognized images of the movement" and illustrating the characteristics of art in this period ("to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance...") and a turning point in Dali's work. This is more than just a description of the image.
  6. Western_painting#Dada_and_Surrealism: same as before. It's illustrating the late period and not only Dalí's work but also Tanguy's and Magritte's.
  7. History_of_painting#Dada_and_Surrealism: same as before. It's shown in contrast to Miró's abstract Surrealism.

Diego (talk) 18:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

You forgot that you also need to comply with WP:NFLISTS point 4. Also, you've got WP:NFCC#1. In many cases, there are works which are in the public domain, for example because the works are from the United States and the art gallery was open to the general public, didn't forbid photography and forgot to include a copyright notice. If there are public domain works, then those works should be used instead of the copyrighted works. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:27, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
You're using a weird definition of "list article" if you think you WP:NFLISTS applies here, which is about not having an image for each bulleted point in a list of independent items; these are articles about art history, not "collection of notable paintings in the 20th century". Each section in Spanish art, 20th-century Western painting, History of painting and Surrealism could work as a stand-alone notable article, so they're not just items in a list. Anyway, if this guideline does apply, point 2 (Images which are discussed in detail in the context of the article body, such as a discussion of the art style, or a contentious element of the work, are preferable to those that simply provide visual identification of the elements) means that it is adequate to include this image at least for Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, Spanish art and Western painting.
As for WP:NFCC#1, those other works in the public domain are not singular key referents in the history of the Surrealism artistic movement; so they can't replace the current usage of The Persistence of Memory for the same encyclopedic purpose because they don't have the particular characteristics and influence that The Persistence of Memory had at its time, as reflected by context in the article. The reason WP:NFC allows non-free content at all is to include the particular images that are relevant to the topic they illustrate, i.e. it was meant to support exactly the use that we're discussing here. Negating that visual art articles need images of their key highlights is negating the intent and need of NFC. If these usages are found to be non-compliant with WP:NFC, it will change the meaning of the long-standing consensus supporting encyclopedic use of non-free content. Diego (talk) 10:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
The article History of painting is a list of multiple artistic styles. Per WP:NFLISTS, you can't illustrate all sections, unless you can dig up free images to illustrate the sections with. In that case, unfree images shouldn't be used. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:48, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to think that the history of painting is more than a list of artistic styles, as those are inextricably interrelated; if not, the article should be rewritten to be more than that. In any case, WP:NFLISTS allows for duplicating the use of non-free images when they satisfy WP:NFCC -such as "Images which are discussed in detail in the context of the article body, such as a discussion of the art style, or a contentious element of the work"(!) and "An image that provides a representative visual reference for other elements in the article"(!!!!)- so your conclusion (that only free images should be used) is unsound. I'd adventure to say that people arguing for deleting this image are using more and more bizarre arguments to avoid complying with the spirit of WP:NFC, which is to illustrate topics that should be illustrated for better reader's comprehension. Diego (talk) 22:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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File:Elephants dream (DVD cover).jpg

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The film appears to be CC-BY-SA (see File:Elephants Dream.ogg) and the cover is presumably also CC-BY-SA. Does this qualify for {{PD-Art|cc-by-sa-2.5}} or are there too many 3D features for that? If the photographic aspects are copyrightable, then the image fails both WP:NFCC#1 and WP:NFCC#8. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:47, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Just because the movie and all its assets within it are CC, doesn't necessarily mean the cover is, though it would helpful to see a direct link to the cover image; if it came from the blender people, yea, its probably CC-BY-SA, but it is possible that a third-party took up the image and made their own cover, acknowledging the CC-BY-SA but publishing it commercially otherwise (which is allowed). --MASEM (t) 21:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Am I confused? Doesn't SA mean 'share-alike' and all derivative works need the same licence? The cover is a photo made from the CC-BY-SA work.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:16, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
It depends. If the cover was released by the same people that created the film, they might have been released under a different non-free license; although I seriously doubt this is the case, since Elephants Dream was a project to showcase open software and content. If the cover was created by a different team from the CC-BY-SA film, then yes it would share its license and would be free content and wouldn't need to be included as WP:NFC. We don't know which one is the case without a source for the image.Diego (talk) 23:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
If it was made by someone other than the one who made the film, then the one who made the image may also choose to violate the copyright of the film (and thus risk being fined for that). If the person who made this image chose to violate the copyright of the one who made the film, then the image doesn't need to be available under CC-BY-SA. --Stefan2 (talk) 00:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Earliest reference: "Elephants Dream Is The First HD DVD Title In Europe", August 14 2006, which mentions the CC, and links to imagion.de/elephantsdream. This links to earliest online HDDVD release page I found: hddvd.de. The press materials are here, specifically 3d package shot here. These seem to constitute plain old product publicity materials.
License page at Blender.org, license unchanged since then. It's all "(c) copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org", but licensed "Creative Commons Attribution" (CC BY 2.5)
All links via archive.org, for that good old stuff. --Lexein (talk) 01:41, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually it helps more than expected: "Excluded from the Creative Commons is: (...) the DVD cover (inlay) and DVD disc print". The image is non-free, and it's easy to replace with a free screenshot from the film because the text doesn't discuss the cover specifically. (Awesome archive-fu, btw). Diego (talk) 07:11, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Excellent - I had missed that explicit text. Many eyes, etc. And I just noticed that even if imagion.de licensed their image freely, there are still elements in it (Dolby logo, imagion.de logo) that will likely never be "free". (updated) --Lexein (talk) 17:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I declined the speedy deletion tag which was placed on this image. This particular deletion tag, {{db-f9}}, states: "This file may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as this file is copied from an unspecified source, which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and the uploader does not assert fair use or make a credible assertion of permission." This does not appear to be the case: the source is linked and a fair use rationale is in place. All sorts of deletion rationales may apply for this image, but the speedy deletion tag used is not correct. Lexein pinged my talk page, so I figured I'd explain myself. Firsfron of Ronchester 16:43, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

My fault. I tagged it as this thread has discovered that the cc-by licence specifically does not include the DVD cover. A replacement image could easily be made with a screen shot that is cc-by. I don't know about threshold of originality in the Dolby logo and others, but they may be able to be photoshopped in if they are public domain.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
File:Dolby surround.jpg Dolby logo is PD.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:47, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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File:Yellow Pages Logo.png

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Can a company logo for a specific city yellow pages be used in the general Yellow Pages article? -- The Red Pen of Doom 20:58, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Er, it probably depends if it is a free image or not since we already have a non-free there for the logo. --MASEM (t) 21:39, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
It also depends if the logo is specifically discussed in the narrative. Buffs (talk) 21:44, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Delete per WP:NFC#UUI §3. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:47, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
There are free images as the original yellow page image was not protected.--Spshu (talk) 15:27, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Image fails to meet the threshold of originality. original logo is not copyrighted or trademarked in the US, but is in Australia. [8]. The rest is simply letters. Buffs (talk) 17:11, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
    • This page mixes up trademark law with copyright law (stating that the logo is in the public domain because it isn't trademarked). The other page doesn't say anything about copyright at all. Anyway, the designer would probably have sued its competitors for copyright infringement if the logo were protected by copyright. It's not clear if the logo is below the threshold of originality or not, but note that it says that the logo is from 1961. US logos from that time are almost always in the public domain in the United States as they have almost always been published in an advertisement or something without a copyright notice. Of course, we need to find a publication without a copyright notice first in order to claim {{PD-US-no notice}}. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:36, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Here are 4 advertisement over the years.

  • LIFE April 1, 1957 page 3
  • Cincinnati Magazine April 1973 page 66
  • New York Magazine July 15, 1974 page 7
  • Cincinnati Magazine January 1982 page 103

-- SWTPC6800 (talk) 04:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

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