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Paintings by Piet Mondriaan in PD now. Why is anonymous "look-alike" needed? Uncle Fred 19:43, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete Not even a look alike, I'm sorry. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 21:09, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep It's not a lookalike (even though the filename suggests that), it's an illustration of the principles of neo-plasticism, the style in which Mondrian painted. And, even though Mondrian is PD in Europe, thanks to the URAA we can't upload these files on Commons, except if they were published before 1923 (Mondrian's neo-plastic period was after that). Furthermore, this file is happily used on over 30 wikis, also illustrating neo- plasticsm, not just Mondrian's work. Husky (talk to me) 10:19, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
it's an illustration of the principles of neo-plasticism — In this case, it's an original research, author is not the expert in the history of art. we can't upload these files on Commons — We are already upload its, and this reproduction ===> is illustrate Mondrian's style (and principles of neo-plasticism too) most better than "look-alike".--Uncle Fred 11:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
COM:INUSE is a policy here, and "not wikipedia" (incl. WP:NOR) is a part of the COM:NOT guideline here, what's the problem with this harmless SVG? It's even valid. –Be..anyone (talk) 23:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
All cases of usage of this file in wikipedias are in articles about Mondrian or Abstractionism. Real painting is better for this use than lookalike. Commons is not Wikipedia really, but original researches are deleted constantly. what's the problem with this harmless SVG?COM:NOTHOST. It's just anonimous nonobjective picture. When Mondrian's paintings were not free, it was shown Mondrian's style. Now original paintings are better for its. Uncle Fred 18:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The description says this image is necessary because images of Mondriaan are still under copyright. This is no more the case. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 21:55, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NOTHOST explicitly says "out of scope", and INUSE explicitly says "in scope". NOTCENSORED is also relevant, it's not the job of commons to tell other projects what they should use on their "abstract art" pages and even a portal. The uses on Mondrian pages will be replaced sooner or later, the image shown here already made it to wikidata. All those utter dubious DRs mentioning "original research" somewhere were requests, not decisions, e.g., this JPG was kept. The uploader contributed hundreds of files since 2005, and "own work" is perfectly normal here used on 11,768,744 pages. –Be..anyone (talk) 04:11, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: In use. Yann (talk) 12:47, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]