Commons:Deletion requests/File:Furry Survey 2008.pdf
I don't think this is within project scope since the only realistic educational use I can come up with is as a source on w:Furry or something. However, documents hosted on Commons aren't reliable sources - we should instead link to the report on their official website. If there is another use which places this file within scope, I have missed it. — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 20:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Keep For the following reasons; first, a quote from COM:SCOPE:
The expression “educational” is to be understood according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge; instructional or informative”. […] A media file that is in use on one of the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation is considered automatically to be useful for an educational purpose, as is a file in use for some operational reason such as within a template or the like. Such a file is not liable to deletion simply because it may be of poor quality: if it is in use, that is enough.
- The verifiability of this file is given within the document itself;
- the document provides informative knowledge (hence automatically in scope);
- it is freely licensed, while Wikipedia discourages fair use when a free alternative is possible (for usability on Wikipedia). If the file ceases to be hosted on the original website, it will result in a lack of source for the Wikipedia article.
- PS: Remember that the rules of Wikipedia doesn't apply on Commons. One of the requirements for being in scope is simply to be usable on Wikipedia; it will be. See fr:Modèle:Commons for an overview about how we (will) include such content on FR.
- another educational use is the following: compare statistics with former or latter versions of this file.
- To finish: although you can't see it right now because the file had just been OTRS verified, we are going to use it at fr.wikipedia. We need, preferably, to translate it; such an act is possible only if the file is free, and the OTRS ticket #2009010510015742 gives us the opportunity to do so. →Diti the penguin — 20:55, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
- Keep (weak) per Diti's explanation because it will be used on frwiki. abf «Cabale?! Quelle Caballe?» 17:21, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Keep (strong) L'article a été proposé à la suppression mais conservé, ce fichier servira en tant que source obligatoire (et le fait qu'il soit libre est bien aussi) --Garfieldairlines (talk) 18:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- By the way, fr:Furry was requested for deletion by myself (because of lack of sources), but the community decided to keep it (see fr:Wikipédia:Pages à supprimer/Furry), provided that sources are added. The page fr:Aide:FAQ/Sources (among others) doesn't discourage the use of documents on Commons (and not Commons itself) as a source. As soon as I'm sure that this file will be kept, I'll include it on the article. →Diti the penguin — 20:19, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Included. →Diti the penguin — 23:43, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Kept. File is already in use so i believe we can keep it on commons Mardetanha talk 21:10, 21 February 2009 (UTC)