Commons:Deletion requests/Images in Category:i-mode characters uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki

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  • Add {{delete|reason=Fill in reason for deletion here!|subpage=Images in Category:i-mode characters uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki|year=2025|month=January|day=03}} to the description page of each file.
  • Notify the uploader(s) with {{subst:idw||Images in Category:i-mode characters uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki|plural}} ~~~~
  • Add {{Commons:Deletion requests/Images in Category:i-mode characters uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki}} at the end of today's log.
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Images in Category:i-mode characters uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki

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These files contain the old (pre-2013) NTT DoCoMo corporate emoji set. They were uploaded by User:٢١٩.١٧٤.١٥٨.٢٢٥~commonswiki in 2007 and were therefore the first emoji set to be uploaded to Commons. They seem to have gone largely unnoticed, since they were uploaded several years before Category:Emoji was created, and were not placed in a subcategory of Category:Emoji until I just noticed them and did so.

Emoji sets are understood to be covered by copyright (hence, the exclusion of Apple Color Emoji or Segoe UI Emoji from Commons, and the inclusion of Noto Color Emoji, Twemoji and a pre-licence-change EmojiOne under their respective libre licences). The uploader marked these as own work and GFDL (later expanded to BY-SA with the automated licence update); however, this would be false unless the uploader was acting on behalf of NTT DoCoMo, which does not seem to be the case, making it a spurious own work claim. They seem to have rather been uploading glyphs for use in their code chart for the emoji block from the TRON character set, prior to the advent of Unicode emoji. --HarJIT (talk) 11:51, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. Uploader's claim that these are their own work is implausible, and even though the images are only 16×16px they are complex enough to be eligible for copyright protection. BabelStone (talk) 15:13, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. - FitIndia Talk ✉ 06:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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