Commons:Deletion requests/PD ineligible signatures

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Add {{delete|reason=Fill in reason for deletion here!|subpage=PD ineligible signatures|year=2025|month=January|day=02}} to the description page of each file. Notify the uploader(s) with {{subst:idw||PD ineligible signatures|plural}} ~~~~ Add {{Commons:Deletion requests/PD ineligible signatures}} at the end of today's log.

PD ineligible signatures

• File:Edwardsig.svg
• File:Edwardsig.png
  •  Comment: The two files above are derivatives of File:Edward abdication.png, which is tagged {{PD-BritishGov}}. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:43, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
  •  Keep these two. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 19:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
• File:George VI signature.svg
• File:George VI signature.png
• File:Signature of Elizabeth II.png
• File:St Marys Church queens autograph.jpg
• File:Stephen Hawking Signature.svg
• File:Anna Wintour signature.png
  •  Comment As the uploader of the Anna Wintour signature, I would point out that it was taken from the U.S. edition of Vogue, which she edits. If we apply this, could we make sure it is applied only to signatures sourced to within the UK and not to anyone who is a UK citizen? Daniel Case (talk) 15:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
  •  Keep this one. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 19:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
• File:JK Rowling Signature.svg
• File:Tony Blair signature.svg
• File:David Cameron Signature.svg
• File:Anthony Eden Signature.svg
• File:Alec Douglas-Home Signature.svg
• File:Boris Johnson Signature.svg
• File:Clement Attlee Signature.svg
• File:Edward Heath Signature 2.svg
• File:Edward Heath Signature.svg
• File:Gordon Brown signature.svg
• File:Harold Macmillan Signature.svg
• File:Harold Wilson Signature 2.svg
• File:Harold Wilson Signature.svg
• File:James Callaghan Signature 2.svg
• File:James Callaghan Signature.svg
• File:John Major Signature.svg
• File:John Major Signature2.svg
• File:Nick Clegg Signature.svg
• File:Philip Signature.svg
• File:Prince Charles Signature.svg
• File:Sir Winston Churshill Signature.svg
• File:Thatcherautograph.JPG
• File:Winston Churchill Signature 2.svg
• File:Winston Spencer Churchill's signature.jpg
• File:TonyWrightMPSignature.png
• File:Douglas Adams' signature (from Hitchhiker's cover).jpg
• File:Douglas Adams' signature.png
• File:Agatha Christie Signature.svg
• File:Christopher Isherwood signature.svg
  •  Keep: Signature source is from 1974 when Isherwood was living in the US; UK copyright therefore does not apply. --Morn (talk) 13:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
• File:Quentin Crisp signature.svg
  •  Comment: from File:Quentin Crisp's Signature.jpg, so you'd have to ask the original uploader if the signature was made in London or New York (Crisp moved to NYC the year that book was published, 1981, so it could be either way). --Morn (talk)
    • P.S. I've contacted the JPG uploader (at the Spanish WP). --Morn (talk)
• File:Signature James.jpg
• File:Roger penrose sig.jpg
• File:Terrys-signature.svg
• File:Jrr tolkien signature.png
• File:Jrr tolkien signature.svg
• File:Roald Dahl Signature.svg

Signatures are copyrightable in the United Kingdom (see Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag#UK for an explanation). --DrKiernan (talk) 09:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

•  Delete: These would have to be at least PD in UK according to Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag#UK before we can consider their copyright status in US (if any). If the royals however signed any publicly distributed material more than 50 years ago, could we consider {{PD-UKGov}}? Jappalang (talk) 10:12, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

• I support to  Delete those which are not {{PD-BritishGov}} and were not published originally in US nor in Germany. But, it seems some of the original uploaders were not notified, and than, the deletion requests specifically for these images whose original uploaders were not notified should considered to be invalid, as per COM:DEL#Instructions for administrators. I believe some of these signatures of UK politicians truly come from documents by UK govt, than the problem for them is just lack of source. So the nominator should notify all the original uploaders, giving them a chance to appeal and to prove the signature's copyright status. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 19:26, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

• I notified all the uploaders in November. The requests are valid. Whether the signatures come from official government documents or not is irrelevant for anything signed after 1960; the signatures, and the documents, are still copyrighted. DrKiernan (talk) 16:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

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Deleted. - I kept some, for above mentioned individual reasons - Jcb (talk) 13:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)