Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Carnby

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Files uploaded by Carnby (talk · contribs)

Out of COM:SCOPE user-generated fantasy flags; violations of COM:NOTHOST, COM:SELFIE, COM:EV. A realistic educational purpose is a policy requirement for all Commons files. All files with no such purpose must be deleted: "Wikimedia Commons is not your personal free web host".

GPinkerton (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Basically Canadian.svg should be kept, as it is a fictitious flag used in another media previously, so its design was not created by the uploader. Veverve (talk) 21:59, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

~~I cannot find any information on the book mentioned, Benson Cook's Basically Canadian. Therefore, File:Basically Canadian.svg should also be deleted. Veverve (talk) 22:05, 19 August 2021 (UTC)~~ Information provided by the uploader. Veverve (talk) 10:36, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:Flag of the Facebook United States.svg could be kept: it is used in an interesting way on one WikiProject.

The other flags should be deleted, File:Flag of the United States (polar bears variant).svg included as it seems to imitate a random wallpaper found online. Veverve (talk) 21:59, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was the creator and uploader of the images and I would like to discuss about them:

Strong oppose
It is used on one WikiProject (Wikiquote, Neal Stephenson).

File:Basically Canadian.svg

Oppose
A rendition of an artwork by Canadian artist Steve St. Pierre.

File:Flag of the United States (polar bears variant).svg

Oppose
I took inspiration from a website and it is featured on some objects (this and this, for example).

File:Flag of the Cannabis United States.svg

Oppose
Featured on The New York Times: original illustration by Eric Timothy Carlson (source).

File:Flag of the United Kingdom of England (including Wales) and Northern Ireland.svg

Neutral
A rendition of a flag depicting a possible political scenario (secession of Scotland). There are other flags depicting the same scenario, would you delete all of them? However it is entirely a creation of mine, you can delete it if you want.

Neutral
I was the creator and uploader of the image but then it was altered by some other users. My original idea was to replace Flag of Communist California.jpeg that is in JPG format (and flags shouldn't be). You can delete it but you should open a deletion request also for the original JPG image.

Neutral
It is a creation of mine for British people of Jamaican descent, you can delete it.

File:Anglo-Jamaican flag.svg

Neutral
Same as above.

File:Anglo-Italian flag.svg

Neutral
It is a creation of mine for British people of Italian descent, you can delete it.

--Carnby (talk) 09:24, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Carnby: "A rendition of a flag depicting a possible political scenario (secession of Scotland). There are other flags depicting the same scenario, would you delete all of them?" There are infinite "possible political scenarios". It is not Commons' role to host infinite numbers of user-generated flag proposals for each and every one of them. File:Flag of the United Kingdom of England (including Wales) and Northern Ireland.svg is in my view no less inappropriate than File:Flag of Communist California.jpeg or File:Flag of Communist California Republic.svg. Also, could it be that the polar bear merchandise is based on your Commons image, or was it definitely not your invention? There are now websites on which it is possible to buy specially-made real-life flags of every flag image on Commons so there is the risk of citeogenesis … GPinkerton (talk) 13:29, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@GPinkerton: I would like to say: "why just me?" There's an entire gallery of flags about the possible secession of Scotland (Proposed flags of the United Kingdom less Scotland) and there's also a template ({{Fictitious flag}}). The source of my Communist California flag (Flag of Communist California.jpeg) was proposed for deletion, but was rejected. As far as the polar bears flag is concerned I was inspired from an image depicted on a website (this), so the original idea was not mine; also notice my bears are slightly smaller than those featured on the products (there are six bears on the T-shirt and seven on my flag), so they took the idea from the original source.--Carnby (talk) 20:07, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Carnby: thanks for clarifying about the polar bear image. To answer your question: it's not "just you": user-generated flags are commonly deleted; see e.g.: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Julius C, Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tjsmith9656, Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Introdouce Mostkadam, Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "Hadsitan", Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by R-41~commonswiki, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Britannia.svg. GPinkerton (talk) 20:49, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Carnby: As far as I am concerned, flags which should be kept on WCommons and use {{Fictitious flag}} should only be flags of fictitious countries (e.g. File:The Man in the High Castle (Ridley Scott's series).svg), fictitious flags which exist in media (e.g. w:Molvanîa's flag) or in real life (e.g. File:003 Protest gegen Acta in Munich.JPG), or fictitious flags created by users who are COM:INUSE (e.g. File:Flag of the Facebook United States.svg) or serve some Wikipedian humorous purposes among the community (e.g. File:Drapeau franglais.svg, see also Category:Wikipedia humor). Veverve (talk) 21:09, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Veverve: Following your answer, I changed my opinion about File:Flag of the United Kingdom of England (including Wales) and Northern Ireland.svg since it was entirely a creation of mine. Others were not, though: they were SVG rendition of flags created by someone else (and still available on the net). I added File:Flag of the United States (polar bears variant).svg to Wikipedia humor and included File:Flag of the Cannabis United States.svg in the debate about repealing the federal ban on cannabis (i.e. the reason it was originally created).--Carnby (talk) 06:02, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: most per nomination. Kept some that are in use. --P 1 9 9 ✉ 00:57, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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