Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nicholas Alahverdian and Andre Dubus III.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search
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.
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.

author request Bbdyn (talk) 10:15, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

uploader request Bbdyn (talk) 16:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Can the deleting admin please remove the 1 July DR as it is redundant (previous not even closed yet). (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 16:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: no valid reason for deletion. --Gbawden (talk) 06:48, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.

self-request Bbdyn (talk) 16:49, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Closed as Speedy Kept; previous DR closed less than a week ago; no additional info or reason for deletion offered. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 17:47, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.
  • User:Thoughtful and Considerate tagged this for speedy deletion as a copyright violation with the following text: "The intellectual property that is the subject of this correspondence consists of two original works owned and authored by The Nicholas Alahverdian Trust (hereafter referred to as "The NA Trust" or "The Trust) in the form of photographs. This is one of those photographs. The photographs are not in the public domain in any country, nor are they freely licensed and are therefore illegally uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons platform by users who do not have the requisite permission or license. The Wikimedia users who uploaded these images intentionally misrepresented any permission or license from The NA Trust as none was given. The NA Trust is left to resolve that internet users who may be the Wikimedia users themselves or users associated with them downloaded the photographs from the Trust website, Flickr account, or through another website, and uploaded the photographs with a falsified copyright tag and made false representations about ownership and copyright. This allowed the photographs, which are the intellectual property of The NA Trust, to be used across Wikimedia projects without license or permission from The NA Trust. The uploads were processed deceptively and violated applicable copyright laws. Patently false information about the license, copyright, and ownership status was given on the file description pages accompanying the photographs. The two photographs that are relevant to this correspondence are the work product of workers, contractors, freelancers, or volunteers of The NA Trust who, as part of their work-related responsibilities and duties outlined in their contract, assisted in the taking of photographs of officers and trustees of The NA Trust along with other guests and people at events that were Trust-sponsored or attended by officers or trustees of The NA Trust. At no time did any Trust employee, contractor, or volunteer violate their contractual obligation regarding the ownership of these two or any other photographs. As a result of the unauthorized uploading of these two photographs, The Trust, as described earlier, is sufficiently confident that they were downloaded as unlicensed copies of photographs published on website(s) owned or contracted with The Trust to host intellectual property on the basis that Trust property would be viewed solely in context with the articles or photographic essays or albums published by The Trust, which would include works authored by the Trust such as essays, photographs, videos, and other media. At no point did The Trust grant permission, license, or otherwise allow in any way for the Wikipedia Commons users to upload original works considered copyrighted intellectual property in the form of photographs authored by The NA Trust under a contractual basis with Trust employees, interns, and volunteers. To conclude, under the Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter section COM:NETCOPYVIO it unequivocally states that “[t]he vast majority of images found on the internet are copyright-protected and may not be uploaded. The fact that an image has been posted to a publicly-available website does not give you implied permission to re-use it nor to upload it here. Many websites are silent on copyright issues, but images on those sites are just as off-limits as those on sites which explicitly say “Copyright, all rights reserved.” Works are copyrighted by default; a copyright notice or a © sign is not needed.” On The Trust website, and on any website or platform where The Trust contracted for exhibition of any intellectual property, a detailed copyright notice informing the viewer that the intellectual property was copyrighted by The NA Trust was published along with a © sign and the message “Copyright (year). All rights reserved” when those safeguards are not necessary only as an abundance of caution. As a result of the copyrighted photographs owned by The NA Trust which were downloaded from the Internet by Wikimedia Commons users who were not given permission or license to upload the original works owned by The Trust to Wikimedia Commons and later intentionally misrepresented the copyright and actual ownership of the works, we respectfully ask that this photograph and the other photograph tagged as a copyright violation that are the subject of this correspondence, as well as the cropped version of one of the photographs located on the same page, be deleted and permanently removed from Wikimedia servers in accordance with copyright law of the United States and Wikimedia Commons policies, guidelines, regulations, and procedures. Thoughtful and Considerate (talk) 14:32, 8 January 2021 (UTC)" I have converted the "speedy" tag to a deletion request. Note: This would also apply to the derivative work File:Nicholas Alahverdian and Andre Dubus III (cropped).jpg. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:20, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]


  • Deletion overturned following DRV at [1]. These files are subject to repeated attempts at deletion by one or more users abusing multiple accounts, please ensure future deletion requests are filed by editors in good standing and not single purpose accounts or accounts blocked for sockpuppetry on other projects. Nick (talk) 00:18, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]