Commons:Deletion requests/File:Israel Shamir.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.
no evidence of permission Off2riorob (talk) 17:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Keep There is no doubt the original user at en.wiki is Israel Shamir[1] and Commons allows users to upload pictures of themselves as a minor exception to our copyright policy Commons:Licensing#Questionable.2C_may_or_may_not_be_OK -Nard (Hablemonos)(Let's talk) 17:54, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- There is no confirmation that the uploader was the living person at all, only that he edited the BLP and that he appeared to have similar opinions to the living subject, but there is no confirmation that it was him at all. Off2riorob (talk) 14:32, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Keep per Nard. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 19:12, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- Just commenting keep as per john when there is no real evidence of permission is no reason to keep it. Off2riorob (talk) 16:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Delete This is out of keeping with the Precautionary principle policy and the wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy, which requires that (with the exception of the "Exemption Doctrine Policy", from which Commons is explicitly excluded), "All projects are expected to host only content which is under a Free Content License, or which is otherwise free as recognized by the 'Definition of Free Cultural Works' as referenced above." The subject of a photograph may not release it under free license unless copyright was legally conveyed to him, which is seldom the case; our permitting such content on Commons misleads our reusers, which contravenes the WMF:Terms of Use: "Where not otherwise noted, non-text media files are available under various free culture licenses...." Commons should by no means be granting minor exceptions to its copyright policy given that the WMF Licensing policy does explicitly note that Wikimedia Commons is not permitted an Exemption Doctrine Policy. As an OTRS agent, I know that the Wikimedia Foundation requests that we seek confirmation of copyright when photographs are submitted by subjects (we use [2]). To maintain the Wikimedia Foundations' resolutions for Commons and Commons' own policy, we need verification of permission for this from Henriette Franssen. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:20, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- Delete Per Moonriddengirl. We need permission from Henriette Franssen, not from Israel Shamir, and the "minor exception to our copyright policy" mentioned by Nard only says that it's questionable, not acceptable. Note that Commons:Licensing#OK even says "pictures others took of yourself ... require the consent from whoever took the picture". VernoWhitney (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Deleted, copyright violation. The subject of a photograph cannot be the photographer. Kameraad Pjotr 21:20, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
