Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of the Torres Strait Islanders.svg
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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.
It seems rather improbable that the uploader has the right to licence the image, and if they do we'd need proof. As noted in the deletion debates around File:Flag of the Australian Aborigines.svg Australia is stingy with threshold of originality concerns. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:38, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
- Why would the uploader not have the right to upload this? Are you disputing the own work claim? Or the general status of flags? Andy Dingley (talk) 10:34, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
- No, what I don't see is evidence that the uploader is creator of the flag. It doesn't seem to be a PD design, nor an user-made one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- The design is used authoritatively by several bodies that can reasonably be said to represent Torres Strait Islanders. It has been around for 30 years. There are no grounds to delete this as "made up" as Commons (well, one editor) has an annoying habit of claiming. Our general practice for flags is that we accept drawings of them without requiring specific licensing of the designs – if you want to show why this particular one should be treated differently, then it would need a DR with a rationale in it, such as contacting TSIRC, not just a vague handwave.
COM:FLAG is pretty useless BTW because it confuses flags and coats of arms. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:50, 29 April 2023 (UTC)- The issue is not whether the design is made up, but whether the design is copyrighted. Specifically, the symbol in the middle of the flag. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:48, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
- The design is used authoritatively by several bodies that can reasonably be said to represent Torres Strait Islanders. It has been around for 30 years. There are no grounds to delete this as "made up" as Commons (well, one editor) has an annoying habit of claiming. Our general practice for flags is that we accept drawings of them without requiring specific licensing of the designs – if you want to show why this particular one should be treated differently, then it would need a DR with a rationale in it, such as contacting TSIRC, not just a vague handwave.
- No, what I don't see is evidence that the uploader is creator of the flag. It doesn't seem to be a PD design, nor an user-made one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Keep Andy Dingley (talk) 10:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Delete Symbol in the middle appears copyrighted. The Torres Strait Island Regional Council and its communities claim copyright in the flag, see [1] —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:50, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 19:30, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
