Commons:Deletion requests/File:Can 1972 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 102).jpg

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File:Can 1972 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 102).jpg

Potential problems here. This is a Flickr image without {{Licensereview}}. It became a valued image last year, but the discussion doesn't mention the licence at all, so maybe no one ever checked. Unfortunately, the image is currently listed as CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 on Flickr, which is unfree. It is possible that the Flickr user has changed the licence statement on Flickr at some point, but there is no way to tell. Additionally, Commons lists the image as CC-BY-SA 1.0, but Flickr only uses version 2.0 of the Creative Commons licences, so it is impossible that Flickr might have used the Commons licence in the past. It is possible that the image might have been listed as CC-BY-SA 2.0 on Flickr at some point, but if someone overlooked the version number, there is also a risk that someone might have overlooked an "NC" in the licence. Stefan4 (talk) 17:44, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

•  Delete, Very dubious license, no evidence of permission from photographer evident. This is troubling; that this has been made a featured image and put in wide use on Wikimedia apparently without any check of the license status. The supposed license, CC-BY-SA-1.0 is NOT and HAS NOT BEEN a license tag used on Flickr (CC-BY-SA-2.0 is used on Flickr). I didn't find an old version of this photo page on Internet Archive, though I did see some other 2010 archived versions of other Flickr pages by the photographer, NONE of which were under licenses acceptable to Commons. I am not deleting the photo outright myself, since there seems to have some discussion on the photos by the photographer on de:W here and I don't speak German; can some de user check just to see there isn't some type of OTRS on de:W that was never forwarded to Commons? There seem to be some other photos on Commons by the same photographer with the same situation. The link to the flickr photographer is Heinrich Klaffs if someone wishes to contact them directly. -- Infrogmation (talk) 18:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
  • It has not only been used by Wikimedia. In fact, I only noticed this because my local newspaper published this image with the attribution "Foto: Wikimedia Commons" on its web site and I decided to check whether any attribution requirements had been violated. The fact that it is so widely used by Wikimedia just makes it all worse. --Stefan4 (talk) 18:25, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Deleted: That's bad luck but if there never was a licensereview we cannot verify a free Creative Commons license. High Contrast (talk) 17:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC) --- Restored per Undeletion Request. Flickr license history shows this was OK. Abzeronow (talk) 16:22, 22 September 2023 (UTC)