Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sir George Airy.png
Commons needs good and traceable sources. Here, there is no valid source given: What should "Popular Science Monthly" be??? Is it a book, a magazine, a newspaper? Even the given author "Youmans (Publisher)" is very vague. Despite of that the person who decided to upload such images puts them into the public domain. I was working for a multilingual european television channel for several years and I must say that such way of sourcing information is very fragmentary and nonprofessional. 93.211.82.114 10:15, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- Description File:Sir_George_Airy.png
- Portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy
- Date 1891(1891)
- Source Popular Science Monthly
- Author Youmans (Publisher)
If I had to guess, I'd say the sourcing means it's from an 1891 edition of Popular Science Monthly published by Youmans? Jackass. 
Keep Sherurcij (talk) 20:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- Keep The second Google hit on "Popular Science Monthly" is w:Popular Science, so I'd say the source is pretty clear. It'd be nice to have issue and page numbers, but it's not insufficient as is. This is not a multilingual European television channel; among other things, if you'd like a clarification on a source, we consider it better to ask the uploader rather than request that the item be deleted.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:47, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- Comment, point of interest if you click "Check Useage" you'll see exactly which issue it was from, as we're transcribing them all on Wikisource. Sherurcij (talk) 03:57, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- "Check Usage" tells you where it's used; there's no reason that someone trying to figure out the source of an image would think of using it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:13, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- I replaced this image with File:TPSMV3P8 Airy.jpg with the correct license. This image can be deleted.Ineuw (talk) 03:28, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- They aren't identical, since TPSMV3P8 Airy.jpg is in color (which given the original is B&W, I think is a downgrade), and you have the wrong license on TPSMV3P8 Airy.jpg; you can't slap PD-Old-70 on a picture and claim the artist is unknown at the same time. Nor is it appropriate to put an image at Commons:Deletion requests up for speedy deletion, or to delete the info block on an image that you're putting up for deletion.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- Personally, I couldn't care less which image is kept, although both originate from this page, and it's the only page that used File:Sir George Airy.png. Just wanted to eliminate duplicates.
- The original info above is wrong. The image first appeared in 1873 and the artist is unknown. Youmans was the editor in chief of TPSM, and not the publisher, which was D. Appleton & Company.
- As for the image TPSMV3P8 Airy.jpg it is transcluded into this page where I tried to give some sense of the real document, since reproducing the original is not possible. Ineuw (talk) 18:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Kept - there is no copyright problem (non-admin closure). /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 07:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
