Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Knuth-cheque.jpg
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It's not safe to expose the digits on the cheque. See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html Mgc (talk) 18:20, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Comment - Knuth-cheque.jpg is used on 14 pages in 9 projects. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:14, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Keep This account has been inactive for almost 2 years (as the link you point to indicates, he's changed his banking details 3 times since 2006. Since this check was uploaded in 2005 I'm assuming it is one of the original ones). The check itself is pd-ineligible, and the details no longer valid. So it doesn't really matter anymore. -Nard the Bard 19:16, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
- Well, according to a comment page linked by Knuth, changing/closing one's account does not solve the problem: "The thief can keep writing checks on your account even after you’ve started reporting them as fraud, and even after you’ve closed the account. Every time the thief writes a bad check on a closed account [...] your bank will reopen the account". Even if no policy forces us to delete this image, it would be wise (if only as a courtesy) to replace this image — especially given that we do not lose anything since we have equivalent images that do not have the same problem. Schutz (talk) 13:20, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- Upload this image over it (but convert to JPG first), tag as {{PD-ineligible}}, and then delete this version. See also Commons talk:Licensing#Copyright on a bank check. Lupo 23:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
- Agree with Lupo. If this is the final decision, I'm happy to do it, but I'll change the image a bit more first (starting from the original file), to make it clearer that the numbers have been scrambled (e.g. use "0123456789" or "0000000000"), since I've had comments about that. Schutz (talk) 13:20, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Deleted per Mgc. I've transfered File:Knuth-check2.png from en-wp and asked the CommonsDelinker to replace all occurrences of Image:Knuth-cheque.jpg by File:Knuth-check2.png. Schutz, you are free to modify the replacement to make it clearer that the numbers have been scrambled, if you wish. --AFBorchert (talk) 15:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
