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*Same image on commons (db-i8 speedy declined). Note that this image has been the subject of image-related vandalism (see faint "bitch" inserted in 19:30, 29 November 2008 version). HoboJones (talk) 03:33, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Postpone any decision while the image history is needed as evidence in a current sockpuppet case.[1] There is no vandalism to the image, this is trolling by sockpuppets. SpinningSpark09:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Replace - All the images in the Stanley Kubrick article were flagged for deletion in one fell swoop two years after they were originally uploaded. All images in that article were given the same rationale. While scrolling through an article this long, searching for discussion of a specific film, the images from specific films are useful for quick searching.
However, It might be better if we could use poster/cover art instead of this image, since the fair use policy of WP prefers that screenshots be used in the context of critical commentary. Indeed, we could be in trouble with "In articles and sections of articles that consist of several small sections of information for a series of elements common to a topic, such as a list of characters in a fictional work, non-free images should be used judiciously to present the key visual aspects of the topic. It is inadvisable to provide a non-free image for each entry in such an article or section." and "Barring the above, images that are used only to visually identify elements in the article should be used as sparingly as possible"
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Fan art of a beholder. Low quality, and questionable copyright status. The article would be better served with official art, or no pictures at all. Phirazo (talk) 06:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The uploader claims to be the original artist. If this is true, there is no copyright issue. Do you have any reason to doubt the claim? —Dominus14:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fan art is an iffy area. Beholders are original to Dungeons and Dragons in a way that many monsters (for example, orcs and goblins) aren't. You can draw a picture of a goblin copyright free since the concept is in the public domain, but beholders are under copyright law. Besides, Wizards of the Coast claim Beholders as part of their "product identity", so that Beholders aren't under the Open Gaming License either. Either way, this is a bad MS Paint rendition. We can do better. --Phirazo (talk) 16:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There are two arguments here - one, that the image is awful, which may be true. The second argument seems to be something like "All images of beholders, original or not, violate copyright." This is utter nonsense. Much as WotC may own the Beholder trademark, they cannot keep me from drawing a circular monsters with a big eyeball and lots of little eyeballs on stalks. These would be considered derivative works and are fair use. See the Wikipedia section on Fan Art [3]. -- Gaius Octavius | Talk08:04, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As to the first mentioned point, is the work a masterpiece? No. Does it provide an illustration of the subject, and in a slightly humerous way? Yes.
As to your second point, I can't quite tell what you're saying. You say that it is "utter nonsense" that "all images of beholder, original or not, violate copyright.", but then you say that "These would be considered derivative works and are fair use." -Drilnoth (talk) 13:31, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The article is about a RPG, and all such games take place in the players imagination. "Official art" is against RPGs base assumption that the players create the game world, and that published art and rules are merely aids. Pi3832 (talk) 14:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I think that the image helps illustrate the article, even if the image isn't exactly a masterpiece. Just to clarify the situation with this image: It is being used under fair-use (a recent update after now-archived discussion at WT:D&D), and "official" images can't be used to illustrate the articles, so the fan art is being used instead. Personally, I think that the black-and-white is better than the yellow-colored version, and that that change should be reverted, but I think that the image should be kept. -Drilnoth (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The beholder is an odd creature that probably could not be adequately described with text alone. There's definite utility in keeping this fan art picture. Craig Sniffen (talk) 03:10, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Fan art is in a legal gray area, but I don't see how using fan art could be any more problematic than using official art. If necessary, we can add a fair use rationale. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 06:04, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
File:Beholder GPL.png Why isn' this free? The author posted it here, stating "I made this myself. Feel free to use this crappy image LOL". Is this not enough? If someone doubts the "freeness" of this image, here's an altenative that I, as the author, release into the public domain. It's not as awesome as the previous, but should meet the Wikipedia criteria for fair use. (Thumbnail links to full sized, public domain image). -- Gaius Octavius | Talk07:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that the basic depiction of the creature is copyrighted. In fact, this image had originally been in the public domain at Commons, but it was deleted there because it was derivative of a copyrighted work. So, the image was restored again here and a fair-use rationale was added (removing it from the public domain which it was never supposed to, technically, be in). -Drilnoth (talk) 13:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The great thing about this image is that its epic lack of quality allows us to neatly ignore whether it's fair use or not. Non-useful to the project as it has zero chance of inclusion in an article. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk13:57, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is already one free image in the infobox. Another free image has also been included in the article, from commons:Category:Zoran Đinđić. The rationale used for the image which I requested speedy for used a rationale which is used for commentary on the TV program, not a rationale used to identify the individual in question. --RussaviaDialogueStalk me07:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, First of all, there is only one rationale used for TV screenshots, which is used with this image. This image should not be deleted, because it is important to show Zoran Đinđić's activities during the time he was Prime minister of Serbia. There are other free images, yes, but they show Đinđić's political activities, while this one shows his humanitarian activities, as the money he won on the quiz was given as a donation for children's fund. Vanjagenije (talk) 12:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There's nothing about the image that is not replaced by the free equivalents. His appearance on the show isn't even discussed in the article. Completely superfluous image. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:09, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I have found a photo which is not a screenshot (no TV logo etc.) and it is free for use so you can just erase this one.--Avala (talk) 20:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually it appears you only opened a webpage looking for GFDL release there without looking at what is written under permissions of the image description here. It is not a screenshot, notice the missing tv logo. Under "permission" you will see that they released their material subsequently under GFDL in a valid and verifiable message to Serbian Wikipedia administration.--Avala (talk) 17:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did look. This is the English wikipedia, and I can not verify this image's release. What I do see is that their response does not mention GFDL directly. They might be referring to the license release requested, but it's not readily apparent. A translation would help in clarifying this. Perhaps you should consider hosting this image on Commons, where there are people who can handle such issues rather than having the image hosted across multiple language Wikiepdias? --Hammersoft (talk) 17:27, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The request asks for GNU-FDL release and they grant it for their website and under self-initiative they released the material of the other website too. You have the text of the release on your talk page.--Avala (talk) 17:38, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is an odd one. Description is clearly copy/pasted from another image, as this isn't a montage (maybe pulled from an actual montage). Uploaded has added copyrighted image in the past though the "author" has not. I declined the I11 speedy. Protonk (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Same as the other jackson photograph. Purloined description, "author" is not the uploader. Uploader has a history of copyvio uploads. Orphaned. Unencyclopedic. Protonk (talk) 07:52, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Nom seems to show extreme POV. How on earth can the only image of a visual artist's work not "significantly add to the reader's understanding of the article"? Johnbod (talk) 01:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I find the nom extraordinary in the extreme. It would be impossible to know what this artist's (or any artist's for that matter) work looks like without seeing an actual example of it. If words could sufficiently substitute, then there would be no need for artists to create visual work in the first place: they could simply describe it. A single example of an artist's work in an article about the artist is always justified. Ty01:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Sorry, but you need to have commentary on the work in the article. Right now, it's just decorative; it doesn't expand on any points made in the text. And Tyrneius, no, you are wrong; non-free images are only justified when there is a visual requirement for them. Johnbod, you forget the second clause: omission of the non-free work must be detrimental. How to keep the image: Expand the article so that it comments on the image itself. Example (and I'm just making this up off the top of my head):
"Nash's Rain Pattern 3 (1969) was the epitome of this style, using diagonal slashes to draw rain, and asterisks for lightning. This pioneered the field of ASCII art and today, Rain Pattern 3 is seen as a groundbreaking masterpiece.[1]" --howcheng {chat}03:28, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We seem to be having difficulty getting across the concept that an article about an visual artist creates an automatic "visual requirement" for an illustration of their work, and an automatic detriment if there is no such image. An article discussing an artist with no illustration will always be completely unsatisfactory. Obviously the specific work could be discussed with benefit, but the image stands as the only example of her work and therefore the whole text is relevant. It meets all the policy criteria as it is - or which one do you think it does not meet? Johnbod (talk) 03:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And that's where you are wrong -- there is no "automatic" entitlement to use non-free media. You need a specific reason why this piece of art is necessary. If Nash's work is so pioneering and important, then expanding the article to include such commentary should be a piece of cake. howcheng {chat}04:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You are either not reading what I and others are saying, or deliberately twisting it. What is automatic in an article about an artist is the requirement for an image - perhaps you genuinely don't understand this, but it is the case. There is no requirement to show a partiucular specific image is needed - you need to show an image is needed, and that no non-free alternative exists., Please stop making policy up. No is there any requirement to show the work is "pioneering and important" beyond the normal requirements of notability - your suggested peacock prose above is wholly inappropriate. Johnbod (talk) 14:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't "suggested", but just an example I wrote off the top of my head of something that makes the reader think, "I definitely need to see what they're talking about". I am not making anything up. As you said yourself, you need to show that the work is notable, but that is completely missing from this article. Where is there any discussion of Rain Pattern 3 here? howcheng {chat}18:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The critical analysis is already in the text with the definition of the genre of art she made and the means she used to make it. The juxtaposition of text and image makes the connection between them perfectly obvious to the reader. However, you may note that the template allows the use "To illustrate the subject in question". The subject is an artist. A legitimate illustration of an artist is the work they produce. This seems a good example of that which will greatly help the reader to a better understanding of her. Ty04:35, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am not properly explaining myself or something. You cannot use an art image to discuss the artist, or the subject depicted in the ar. You can only use it to discuss the artwork itself.
Are these what you relying on? They don't remotely support your case - you should consider #4 especially. This does not fit any of those examples, and has a far closer relationship to the subject of the article. Johnbod (talk) 20:56, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Um, yes they do. All of those make the point that non-free images can used in context of discussing the image itself. Baseball cards, statues, magazine covers, etc. #4 is what allows the use of Guernica but disallows other still-copyrighted paintings/photos from the Spanish Civil War. howcheng {chat}22:19, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest you read #4 more carefully, but thank you for pointing it out - I have just reverted your recent edit to Spanish Civil War, as Guernica is clearly as iconic for the war as the Capa photo, and exactly meets the example in #4 of what is allowed. I am amused by your colleague User:Megapixie's edit here, as he has now removed the exact example used in the policyWP:NFC#Unacceptable use Images # 4 to illustrate when fair-use is allowed, with the edit summary ""Raising the flag" is NOT fair use in this context - per Policy. Replacing with another suitable image." This must be something of a record in the annals of policy creep. Johnbod (talk) 22:57, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see a conflict with #5, so Raising the Flag was a bad example to use, since it has its own article. A better example is the lead image in Six-Day War. Guernica probably should be the same situation. howcheng {chat}04:45, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The whole point of the article - which essentially is about Nash and what she does, places her work in context with or without further description. The work is clearly usable...because it represents itself - an embodiment of what Nash does - the work..It clearly stays...Modernist (talk) 05:14, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No, sorry, that's not good enough. You need to talk about Rain Pattern 3 specifically (as per my example) in order to use it. Even fair use under US copyright law can only be claimed when there is some sort of critical commentary about the item being displayed. Your last edit only added, "Nash used computers to make art". howcheng {chat}06:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Howcheng, you are wrong. The policy does not say that...your interpretation is just that - your interpretation, which is a somewhat incorrect understanding of visual art images, which are visual and meaningful unto themselves not merely descriptives or illustrations of a literal concept or a verbal set of priorities...Modernist (talk) 14:42, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to be accurate about the law, Howcheng, then please be so: according to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 : The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.[4] You will note that it does not specifically say how this criticism or commentary should be applied (as you do) - only that it exists in relationship to the work in question, which in this case it does. The article as a whole (as with any article on an artist) has the purpose of criticism or comment, these being that the author of the work is an artist (a critical evaluation), who produces art (a critical evaluation) of note (a critical evaluation) of which this is an example (a critical evaluation). Your insistence that this critical response should be particularised may be interesting, even desirable, but is not mandatory. Note also Wikipedia:Nfc#Images (acceptable use) #7: "Paintings and other works of visual art: For critical commentary, including images illustrative of a particular technique or school." Clearly this image is illustrative of a particular technique. If you disagree with a guideline which has wide acceptance, then you should argue to change the guideline in the appropriate venue, not make a unilateral alternative application of it. Ty15:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
@Modernist: Policy cannot be specific to each possible situation, so it gives the general guidelines. I have been involved with the NFCC and their application for several years now and I am telling you that "my interpretation" is the long-accepted application of the policy. For example, image galleries of non-free images without any commentary on the images themselves are completely disallowed. This is an example of a one-image gallery. What is everyone's objection to expanding the article?? I don't get this. I'm not asking for the world; I'm asking for more explanation about the artwork being shown.
@Tyrenius: What's implied in section 107 is "criticism..." of the object itself. There is no discussion of the artwork or the technique or the school, beyond the one-line "she used computers to make art". Tell me more.
Look, there is no deadline. We have 4 more days before the IFD is ruled on, so that's plenty of time to expand the article. Even if we assume that nobody here has the time to actually do the work, there's no reason it can't be deleted and reuploaded later when the text of the article justifies the inclusion of the image. This is not the end of the world here, people! howcheng {chat}17:46, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
of the object itself is your interpretation and the way you choose to apply it. Nevertheless, apart from this, I notice you have completely ignored my point concerning Wikipedia:Nfc#Images (acceptable use) #7: "Paintings and other works of visual art: For critical commentary, including images illustrative of a particular technique or school." It shows your policy-based argument is not correct. Clearly this image is illustrative of a particular technique and therefore a legitimate usage. The particular technique, namely use of computers and the choice of a specific programme, is stated in the text adjacent to the image. A proposal for deletion such as this undermines the work that people put into articles, is demoralising for them and is not helpful to the project. Ty18:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
PS There is no objection whatsoever to expanding the article. Feel free to do so. The objection is to the image being deleted. Ty18:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Howcheng - just because you interpret a guideline - or misinterpret a guideline doesn't make it policy or law...I would suggest you realize that you are just one person here among many of us who have experience for many years with these things....you don't make the rules. So if you don't mind, kindly lower the tone, and understand that projects such as this are fluid and not static; dogmatic approaches such as you suggest don't fly. Modernist (talk) 18:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
@Tyrenius: I did address your point. There is no discussion of the particular technique or school in the article Katherine Nash. Is she a pioneer of ASCII art? What is it about the Art 1 program that makes art in this way? Give me something, anything, to work with, because I'm trying to help you out. If it's "demoralising" then it's you who chooses to feel this way.
@Modernist: We have two goals in this project: (1) to be a comprehensive encyclopedia; (2) to maximize free content and minimize non-free content. Both of these goals are equally important, but sometimes they are in conflict (as we have here) and that's why we have these the NFCC. NFCC 8 in particular sets the bar for inclusion and asks two questions: (a) does the inclusion the image improve reader understanding (here, yes), and (b) if that image were missing, would the reader be unable to understand the article (no, because "She chose to use software to create art" is understandable without the image). You're making the leap that the reader might think, "Well, how did she do that?" but you're answering the reader's question by using the image, and not by text. You've skipped a step. The text has to be there to justify the inclusion of the image. Am I making myself clear? How can I better explain what's required here? howcheng {chat}18:35, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The reader's understanding of how "She chose to use software to create art" will be severely limited, and most likely plainly wrong, without an image which shows what such images actually look like (rather pathetic in my view, but that's not relevant). All sorts of images are now easily created by using software, as most of our readers well know, and a single illustration of Nash's work conveys the severely limited way she did in a way that even a vastly extended text would not. Equally just saying "Foo was a portrait-painter" or "Foo painted landscapes" does not remove the requirement for an image of his work. Johnbod (talk) 18:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Howcheng, Without wanting to be rude, your choice of language can definitely be improved...however, that said (in response to your question), as Tyrenius says - yes the text in the article can be expanded; yes - the article can supply further explanation; as can the image be further expounded on. But - we are here because it has been proposed that the image be deleted. Throwing the baby out with the bath water. If you just want added text - then just ask for added text..Don't delete the picture! That said - I categorically disagree with your interpretations of the guidelines, the goals, and the potentiality of this encyclopedia that is being built. WP:UCS makes this entire conversation utterly absurd..Modernist (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Howcheng, you did not address my point and did not show that the image was not "illustrative of a particular technique", namely her form of computer art. Whether she is a pioneer of it or how it works is irrelevant here. All that matters is she used this particular technique and this image illustrates it. This is perfectly obvious. Are you suggesting it needs to be pointed out in the image caption that it is an example of her computer art? That would seem to be extremely pedantic. Re. demoralisation - I have no interest in this article: I am merely observing what I have seen elsewhere on wikipedia in similar circumstances. I'm not sure that demoralisation is a choice, as you put it. Also please see Wikipedia:TPG#Good_practice re. bolding text, which "undermines a reasoned argument with the appearance of force." Thanks. Ty01:06, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Not used, tagged as "all rights reserved" and CC attribution 3.0, however the image itself has "all rights reserved" literaly written all over it. Sherool(talk)22:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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