Commons:Deletion requests/PNG signature images uploaded by me, User:Rockhead126

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PNG signature images uploaded by me, User:Rockhead126

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Hello all. Over the years, I've uploaded a number of PNG files of signatures for use in biographical articles. Recently, I've switched to uploading vector files. The above-listed signatures have all been superseded by improved, SVG versions I've uploaded. Now that I've replaced the PNGs on all wikis, I'm asking that that they be deleted. Thanks for your help! Rockhead126 (talk) 21:29, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep I think we should keep both so we can compare them, one is the actual signature, and to get an svg you have manipulate the image and fill in missing lines, strengthen some lines and weaken others. I have seen a few where the dot over the I or J disappeared in making the svg, but you would not notice until you compared it to the png/jpg. Also someone might be able to make a better version that you did, but they need the source material. Whenever we manipulate an image, we are supposed to keep the original base image and credit it. --RAN (talk) 20:56, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I would encourage comparing these particular files with the later SVGs, most of which have the same file name with the different extension. Virtually identical. Nothing of substance lost. Rockhead126 (talk) 03:11, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Whenever we manipulate an image, we are supposed to keep the original base image and credit it, even when "virtually identical", which they are not, they are very similar, and someone might be better at making an svg and need the base image. It took me three attempts for some signatures and new AI based converters will do a better job in the future, if we keep the base image. --RAN (talk) 00:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    They're not manipulated images though. They were created independently. Rockhead126 (talk) 04:46, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have created svg images from png/jpg signature images. You start with the base image and adjust the contrast and brightness to removed the background then render it as an svg. That is not creating an image a priori or ab initio. You are not inventing a novel signature for that person, and we always save the base image for comparison. --RAN (talk) 20:16, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: Per discussion, the original PNG scans are not sufficiently redundant to vectorized versions of these signatures to warrant deletion. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 19:41, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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