Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gentoo Penguin.png
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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.
Aside from whether or not the author created this map entirely by himself, it is also patently false information: here is a link that shows the actual distribution of gentoo penguins, and it is nothing at all like the image here. I don't know if that means we can remove it, but it certainly seems like a good reason. https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/genpen1/distribution A loose noose (talk) 01:21, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Keep: The file is in use in many Wikipedias, from af:Witoorpikkewyn to vi:Chim cánh cụt Gentoo. Commons policy (COM:INUSE) is that files that are in use on Wikimedia projects are automatically considered to be of educational use, even if they are woefully inaccurate. See also COM:NPOV, under which Commons should not override individual Wikipedias' judgement about which images are useful. I've tagged the file with {{Factual accuracy}}. I don't think there's clear enough evidence that this isn't a public-domain base map with the distribution applied by the contributor. --bjh21 (talk) 13:40, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- bjh21: Fair enough. How do you feel about replacing the inaccurate file with an accurate one (under the same namespace)? Presumably, all of the various Wikipedia projects intend to show the actual distribution of the gentoo penguin, and the editors who added this map almost certainly did not know any better, and had no reason to doubt its [in-]accuracy. Most certainly just copied and pasted the infobox, and even if the factual accuracy tag had been added years ago, they would never have seen it. We could correct this problem by replacing the current image with an accurate one, which I recently created and uploaded here. I fixed this on the English Wikipedia, but you are right, there are a LOT of other Wikipedias using this woefully inaccurate distribution map. I think we can argue that the current image is not realistically useful for an educational purpose (and, in fact, has only anti-educational value!). There is nothing political nor emotional nor passionate about the current version of this file— its inaccuracy is patent and it requires no judgement call to assess this. We aren't talking about a flag or a national boundary, we are talking about a species distribution map. A loose noose (talk) 23:00, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Comment Thank you for creating another distribution map! Yes, you can globally change all occurrences in every project. Taivo (talk) 08:57, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- Excellent! Er, how should we do that? Overwrite the existing file? Or go to each project and manually change the file names in each? The former would be easy... The latter would be... torture! A loose noose (talk) 12:43, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Nobody is listening... :-( A loose noose (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- I think if your new map would be created on the same base map as this one, then you could just upload a new version and override the old one on this. --Crusier (talk) 11:21, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- Nobody is listening... :-( A loose noose (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion: the file is under CC BY-SA 3.0, you can modify the map with more recent/correct data. Ruthven (msg) 10:06, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
