Commons:Deletion requests/File:Benjamin Bottoms -a.jpg
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
While this image comes from a Coast Guard web site, it has not been identified as a Coast Guard photo. Compare it to File:Benjamin A. Bottoms.jpg which comes from the same article and is identified there as a Coast Guard photo. Additionally, this appears to be a casual photo, not one taken for official purposes. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 04:32, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Another Snow Keep This Fox News article does attribute the image to the USCG. Geo Swan (talk) 06:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- I trust the Coast Guard over Fox News. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 17:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Are you going to challenge every photo sourced to Fox? That the Coast Guard didn't explicitly credit an image of Coast Guard member Bottoms, during his wartime service, in a grease-stained working uniform, is that they thought it was obvious to everyone that it was a Coast Guard photo. This challenge is yet another instance where you carry the precautionary principle way too far. Geo Swan (talk) 19:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Can we stick to discussing this image and its sourcing instead of going off on tangents and how you imagine the photo originated? You took an image from a Coast Guard blog. The image was not credited there to the Coast Guard, although another image in the same article was. You have assumed without evidence that it is a Coast Guard photo and in the public domain. You also state that the image is from 1942. Both of these could be correct, but those are both assumptions made by you, the uploader, not information taken from the source. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 20:57, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hard to judge this without knowing about the Compass's media use procedures. It seems sensible to presume Fox grabbed it from the Compass and assumed it was owned by the Coast Guard, so the question is really more about whether they would've used it without owning it. Since one of the images, but not that one, is explicitly labeled as a Coast Guard photo, there's reason to be suspicious, but without any evidence at all that someone else owns it, it's hard to argue delete. I've sent a Tweet to USCG on the off-chance the person who runs that account can find out more. — Rhododendrites talk | 17:13, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
Deleted: per discussion. --JuTa 05:21, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
