Commons:Deletion requests/File:Abraham Lincoln's secretaries (IA abrahamlincolnssjnlinc).pdf
This is not an 1860 publication (wrong date at the Internet Archive where this was taken from), but an archival collection of material on Abraham Lincoln's secretary John Nicolay ("excerpts from newspapers and other sources") spanning a broad time period, starting with an 1860 text indeed, but including many later publications including a 1980 issue of "Lincoln Lore" (see page 29). Many of the images included will be in the public domain, but not all of them, and especially not all of the texts in the later publications, such as the 1980 text. Gestumblindi (talk) 23:34, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
- Can't you just use a PDF editor to delete, or cover that image with a black box, so the document can be kept. --RAN (talk) 21:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Well, it is (without the cover / back pages) a 34 page document with text and images from varying sources and dates which all would need research to ascertain the copyright status (was the copyright renewed? etc.). So I think it's not practical. Gestumblindi (talk) 10:59, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support deletion. @Gestumblindi and Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): I hate to support deleting it but Gestumblindi is right that it's a mix of a lot of various sources. I'm not sure what use a PDF of a collection of source material would be anyways but the individual material is better separated anyways to categorize the individual newspapers and other details. They all belong in the collective category though. Perhaps @Fæ: could break the PDF apart and then upload the individual pages that are clearly pre-1923. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:17, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. The file is still available at [1] if anyone wants to re-upload parts of it that are in the public domain. --Rosenzweig τ 20:51, 17 April 2022 (UTC)