Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with marcusburns1977

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Files found with Special:Search/marcusburns1977

Past discussions about the DeviantArt user https://www.deviantart.com/marcusburns1977 (who seems to be the same person as User:GalaxyNite) have found that some of their images are based on questionable copyright claims (Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive/2024-06#File:TabukGold.jpg concluded that there was significant doubt that the Deviant Art user actually owns the copyrights to the many images he has posted there) and that others were videogame screenshots (Commons:Deletion_requests/Archive/2022/01/13#File:Pz_III_N.jpg, a screenshot from WarThunder which Burns still falsely claims on DeviantArt to have Created on Blender - modelling & texturing time: 4 days.).

In Commons:Deletion requests/File:OTs-21.jpg (part of Burns' collection at https://www.deviantart.com/marcusburns1977/art/OTS-21-1022677814), GalaxyNite said they'd generated it themselves with the Midjourney AI but that I was free to nominate it for deletion if I could find earlier media which looked exactly like it - which I could, it was an existing photo which had been slightly edited (the brightness was lowered on the barrel and the magazine was copy and pasted into a loaded position) and then upscaled by AI. Commons:Deletion requests/File:KRISSKARD.jpg was also a minor edit of somebody else's gun artwork, AI-upscaled.

Most uploads in this search are gun and computer-part images have that same AI upscaled look to them. The others are:

Tank and plane schematics (which may be derived from video games again)
Black and white scientific footage like File:CloudChamberRadium226.gif and File:ImplosionShapedCharge.gif with no original source specified
File:Lost Horizons Shangri-La.jpg, described as an own work "oil painting" by Burns but looking like AI, again perhaps from a videogame
Military photos like File:AIM9AIM7AIM54Intrepid.jpg which Burns claims to have taken aboard an aircraft carrier
A complex scientific animation at File:LWR Meltdown.gif which Burns claims to have created, but has only uploaded at a very low resolution

Given the problems with this DeviantArt user's perspective on AI upscaling (taking in best faith, a belief that if they find a photo online, alter it slightly and AI upscale it, it becomes an AI-generated image and is no longer subject to copyright) and their false claims about wholly creating images which were actually derivatives of pictures they found online, I think a precautionary delete of all their content from Commons is probably appropriate.

Belbury (talk) 17:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete Some images look like downsized stripped versions of professional photographs --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 10:26, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Which is still a copyright violation. Even if we supposed a 2000x1000 downscale would be fair use (dubious, especially if the claim by the user below is correct, which would mean that non-encumbered images are available: "This user, using a second account, has edited many Wikipedia articles to delete appropriately licensed images, some of which have been in place for more than a decade, and replaced them with these questionable images."), Commons is not for fair use media. Phiarc (talk) 09:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the precautionary principle. Delete ASAP. 2003:D6:C726:DE89:798B:3CB5:85A2:1953 11:20, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The files relating to cloud chambers uploaded by the user (e.g.CloudChamberRadium226.gif) are derived from a video by YouTube channel CloudyLabs Radioactive sources in a cloud chamber. This and similar videos by CloudyLabs have been used on various news/media sites, consistently credited to CloudyLabs CloudyLabs Videos in the Media, an organisation run by a French engineer building cloud chambers for science education. This source is not indicated in the file descriptions, instead the source given are a files by Deviantart user “MarcusBurns1977”, which do not refer to or credit CloudyLabs and seems unlikely to have any affiliation with CloudyLabs. The CloudyLabs YouTube channel and website have a generic copyright statement but nothing regarding CC licensing as far as I could see. Jôanes (talk) 20:49, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This user, using a second account, has edited many Wikipedia articles to delete appropriately licensed images, some of which have been in place for more than a decade, and replaced them with these questionable images. This is suspicious behavior which suggests that the user is not operating in good faith, and that these images should be deleted immediately. 76.24.25.153 16:14, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:43, 17 October 2024 (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.

Files found with Special:Search/marcusburns1977

Two files missed during the previous nomination at Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with marcusburns1977 - a deviantart.com user with a history of falsely publishing edited photos as own work.

Belbury (talk) 08:16, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete same as it ever was Phiarc (talk) 19:24, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --Krd 09:19, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with marcusburns1977

Files found with Special:Search/marcusburns1977

Files found with Special:Search/marcusburns1977

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