Commons:Deletion requests/WestonLangford Photos

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WestonLangford Photos

• File:Port Pirie Junction SAR BG Locomotive Depot 844 932.jpg
• File:South Australian Railways broad gauge locomotive depot at Port Pirie Junction with diesels 844 and 932 and Cwth Rwys passenger car (WLangford).jpg

This is an image and a cropped version of that image that was uploaded from Flickr. The image is no longer available on Flickr but the license was verified by File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) at the time of upload. However, the Flickr account holder is not the photographer. Although the image is no longer on Flickr, account is still there. Per the information in the first file, the source account is https://www.flickr.com/people/16367219@N03 which identifies as Railways of Australia by Daryle Phillips (emphasis added). The EXIF shows the author of the photo is Weston Langford, and not Daryle Phillips. And indeed, in the first image, the watermark identifying "© Weston Langford" is in the original uploaded image but then cropped out. Weston Lanford's web site has an explicit CC BY-ND 4.0 license statement for all his photographs. I doubt that the Flickr license is valid. --Whpq (talk) 17:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

•  Delete unfortunately, Weston Lanford’s website in 2011 was © Weston Langford. Bidgee (talk) 19:35, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
•  Delete Given the background, I must support deletion. Weston Langford is now deceased, and a relative, who maintains the westonlangford.com website, changed copyright coverage to Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Weston, whom I knew when he was alive, was a superb photographer, and his photos are reproduced quite widely. They are not only very good, they are of subjects that, often, have not been published by anyone else -- as in the images nominated. But the relative, whom I contacted in relation to another photo, is firm in not making a waiver on the No Derivatives front for any photo. SCHolar44 (talk) 04:59, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

  I think we could undelete this on 30 January 2084, as it would be 70 years after the creator's passing. Bidgee (talk) 07:37, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 04:06, 28 June 2024 (UTC)