Commons:Deletion requests/File:USS McCook (DD-252).jpg

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File:USS McCook (DD-252).jpg

Possible copyrighted image. Robert Hurst is neither a sailor nor employeee of the U.S Navy. As with the other images attributed to him on Commons, he only uploaded the image to the website. Wikicology (talk) 10:48, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

There is a much more widely used greyscale version of this image that come from....some fucking place. The given source does not indicate who took the image, and nobody else seems to give a crap about attributing it either. It's 'likely' PD due to subject matter, but we have nothing beyond what we see in the image.  Delete as having no damn clue. Unfortunately. Revent^talk 16:36, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

It's very likely to be PD. Not many people could have taken this aerial view, other than Canadian, British or U.S. Forces. Technically deletable without better documentation, but I'm not sure we should go out of our way to delete this sort of image. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:53, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

@Asclepias: You're probably right... the problem is, we have nothing but a guess. I searched at NHHC... they have several nice images that they show they own the copyright to (transferred, presumably) but only one that's clearly PD. I uploaded it, and cropped it down, as an 'other option' at File:USS McCook (DD-252) NH 46470 (cropped).jpg. It's when it the ship was in US service, though... and not, TBH, that great a photograph, technically. Revent^talk 18:11, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

This is the one I'd like, but it's apparently believed to be under copyright. Revent^talk 18:13, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

I searched at the website of Library and Archives Canada (LAC). They have 42 photographs about this ship, but only 6 are online and none of those 6 are this one or even good views of the ship. One of the 6 is on Commons. A few of the 36 others have interesting descriptions, but they're not online. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination. --Jcb (talk) 15:56, 31 August 2016 (UTC)