Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Windows logos with wordmarks

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Files in Category:Windows logos with wordmarks

Not convinced wavy Windows logo is below threshold of originality (especially in it's earlier incarnations with a border and decreasing parallelogram pattern).

File:Microsoft whisler logo.png (Unused)
File:Microsoft Windows 7 logo.png (Unused)
File:Microsoft Windows logo and wordmark (Pre-XP).svg
File:Microsoft Windows NT logo and wordmark (Pre-XP).svg
File:Microsoft Windows XP Logo 2.svg (Trivial non-article use on two Wikipedia projects)
File:Microsoft Windows XP logo and wordmark.svg
File:Neplogo.gif (Unused)
File:Neptune logo.png (Unused)
File:Windows 7 logo and wordmark.svg
File:Windows 7 logo.jpg (Unused)
File:Windows 7 logo.png (1 trivial use)
File:Windows CE.png (Fake license tag; no source)
File:Windows Essential Business Server logo and wordmark.png (Unused)
File:Windows Home Server logo and wordmark.svg (Unused)
File:Windows Live logo and wordmark.svg (Unused)
File:Windows logo and wordmark - 2002.svg (Unused)
File:Windows logo and wordmark - 2006.svg (Unused)
File:Windows logo with wordmark.png
File:Windows Mobile logo.jpg
File:Windows Neptune logo and wordmark.png
File:Windows Phone 7 logo and wordmark (blue).svg (Unused)
File:Windows Phone 7 logo and wordmark (green).svg (Unused)
File:Windows Phone 7 logo and wordmark (orange).svg (Unused)
File:Windows Phone 7 logo and wordmark.svg
File:Windows Phone logo (blue).png (Unused)
File:Windows Phone logo (green).png (Unused)
File:Windows Phone logo (orange).png (Unused)
File:Windows Phone logo (red).png
File:Windows Phone Logo.svg (Unused)
File:Windows Server 2003 logo and wordmark.svg
File:Windows Server 2008 logo and wordmark.svg
File:Windows Server 2008 R2 logo and wordmark.svg (Unused)
File:Windows Vista logo and wordmark.svg
File:WP7 Logo.png (Unused)
File:WPF Logo 2.png (Fake fan-made logo)

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:16, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep da ist nichts urheberrechtlich Schützenswertes, der Markenschutz interessiert uns nicht. --Ralf Roleček 15:17, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Totally PD in the USA. Fry1989 ^eh? 16:59, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep It's below the COM:TOO in the US. Besides we've several discussions on this already.--Rezonansowy (talk) 22:08, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep This recurring deletion nominations every once in a while is starting to feel like harassment, in the face of the past precedents, all we have is a nominator who is not convinced. In the good old times, people who weren't convinced went on researching. Now, people who aren't convinced open a new deletion nomination. —Codename Lisa (talk) 22:26, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete everything that's based on File:Windows flag.svg. This has indeed been discussed several times before. Unlike my eager-to-close colleagues above, I'll provide some links. The most recent discussion that came to my attention was Commons:Undeletion requests/Archive/2017-01#Windows 7 Logos. I'll repeat my comment from there: there seems to be a tactic of re-uploading previously deleted content, repeatedly requesting undeletion and forcing the issue long enough to come across administrators that are either unaware of previous discussions or have enough of an activist stance on what the threshold of originality should be to ignore previous discussions, getting them to restore one file without raising too much attention and then building an "other stuff exists" argument around that decision. The lack of links in the rush-to-close calls above seems to confirm this. Some links with actual precedents (again from the undeletion discussion):

—LX (talk, contribs) 21:57, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep wie Nr. 1 schon sagte, da ist nichts urheberrechtlich Schützenswertes, sprich nichts zu löschen --Hennez (talk) 09:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I'm rather on the judgement of LX, if the other decisions are valid we must be consequent to delete. -- User: Perhelion 15:07, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Make a very well-informed decision and stick with it until the sound of horn! Writing Featured Articles on English Wikipedia is already hard enough; writing computing Featured Articles is brutal. What makes this brutal process even worse is having to chase images that constantly switch place from Wikipedia to Commons and back. Do you know how unpleasant it is to go beg a Commons admin to supply me a copy of the deleted file and its image description page for use in Wikipedia? And when the deleted image's description page does not have proper sources, having to hunt for them among the pages that I no longer see is even more unpleasant. Add in the fact that File:Microsoft Windows logo and wordmark (Pre-XP).svg is used on 21 different projects! So, I don't care if these images are free or non-free. All I am asking from the admins here is an informed decision and its stability. Quite frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask. —Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:28, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This nominator has filed other requests for mass deletions. See: Microsoft Visual Studio logos, Microsoft software logos, Microsoft Office 2013 logos —Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 18:16, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I can understand your anger, I'm with you. For example a proper and stabil decision would be if someone ask Microsoft directly. I can not believe that the deleting of so many files is in their interest (from one of the most visited sites in the world). I self have done this with some files on DR in successfully result to OTRS. Best regards -- User: Perhelion 18:50, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Frustration, not anger. Anger consumes a lot of activation energy, which I normally don't have. —Codename Lisa (talk) 19:32, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest that these files be moved to Wikipedia local storage from the Commons. Although it may cause problems outside the English Wikipedia, this simultaneously allows articles on the English Wikipedia to continue to use these files as they have been used, while allowing compliance with the Commons' anti-fair use policy. -- 2601:602:101:72D3:119A:E191:FEF7:6773 04:54, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Not just English Wikipedia. 21 different languages of Wikipedia. Each have their own storage. —Codename Lisa (talk) 08:23, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not obvious to me why the various Windows flags should be below the threshold of originality. /NH 16:24, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep: Just because their threshold of originality is too low doesn't mean I also consider them copyright infringement. 2602:306:379D:1AA0:75EC:7871:5993:992A 16:51, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the unused files and "fan-made logos"; Keep all others. I don't see why the wavy Windows flag is below treshold of originality. HOWEVER, I think that files like this have a proper reason to be deleted, unlike these files (except the "fake fan-made logos"). These files are more widely used than that file I linked, and are uploaded much earlier. 61.6.239.18 07:50, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the Windows Phone logo and similar. It's flat/no 3D effects or shading, flat wavy blocks in different colours are definitely not enough for copyright. As for the others I'm unsure. Skottniss (talk) 10:22, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Four squares transformed into a flag. Nothing special, as every flag can be and is presented in this form it's common property. --Quedel (talk) 11:31, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I think if you take a look at files like File:Microsoft Windows XP Logo 2.svg, you'll see it's a little bit more than "four squares". —LX (talk, contribs) 11:48, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per LX. — Jeff G. ツ 19:12, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: some for being ineligible, deleted most for definitely not being ineligible. --Jcb (talk) 20:58, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Windows logos with wordmarks

Files in Category:Windows logos with wordmarks

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