Commons:Deletion requests/File:Namara abulhab common.jpg
The text could be copyrighted. Sreejith K (talk) 06:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sreejith2000
The image in this picture includes new tracings and new Arabic readings of Namara which appeared for the first time in a book titled "DeArabizing Arabia" by the author Saad D. Abulhab (myself) (ISBN-13: 978-0984984305) published in Nov. 2011. I am the author and I own the full copyrights to the image and its contents. The altered Nabataean text in this picture, which is based on the re-tracings of the actual inscription in the stone, can be seen in several lines and is significantly different from the original tracing by Dussaud in 1905. Namely: I have drawn new tracings for word#5 on line#2, word#1 & word#3 on line#3, word#3 on line#4, word#9 on line#5. These changes incorporated part of Belamy re-tracing in 1985 and myself in 2009. The new tracing makes the reading understandable in Classical Arabic for the first time, unlike Dussaud's tracing and reading.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabulhab (talk • contribs) 20:38, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Kept: The text is ancient, so does not have a copyright. Copying, writing, or tracing an ancient text does not produce a new copyright whether it is done by hand, by tracing, by photograph, or whatever. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:33, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
