File:Dorothy Howard Talbot.png

Unlikely to be uploader's "own work", nor is the uploader likely to be valid copyright holder. --Animalparty (talk) 00:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Can someone please move this to English Wikipedia and add a fair use summary, since the subject is deceased, and no free image of this person has been found? -- 03:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssilvers (talk • contribs) 03:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep Now fixed. --RAN (talk) 14:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

• On what did you base "1920" in this edit? The photo does not look to be of a 34-year-old to me. On what evidence are we saying this was definitely taken before 1955? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  00:51, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

• I changed it to 1930, where she would be 44, she has no crow's feet, showing someone at about age 40. we have hundreds of images of women at different ages for comparison. --RAN (talk) 19:46, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Hints on Stage Makeup.png

Not uploader's "own work". Merely scanning or photographing a pre-existing work does not grant copyright, otherwise all bootleg films would be free. --Animalparty (talk) 00:39, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Delete Artist died less than 50 years ago. --RAN (talk) 20:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
•  Keep We keep other Category:English-language book covers. This book is by Category:Dorothy Howard Talbot, a theatrical director. Krok6kola (talk) 15:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

The works in Category:English-language book covers are either freely licensed by their valid copyright holder, or are in the public domain for any variety of reasons, such as date of publication, 70+ years past the death of the author, or below the threshold of originality. --Animalparty (talk) 16:18, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

The flag is absolutely not a produce of that mod. The mod got it from here, not the other way round. For some reason, the original file was deleted from Wikimedia years ago. There are countless sources for this flag that predate the mod in question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AderynMelyn (talk • contribs) 22:39, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Flag of the Free Wales Army.png

fictious flag, the source listed is literally from a hoi4 mod's fandom page Userd898 (talk) 00:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Keep The flag is not fictional, it was used by a real life militant Welsh group in the 1960s. Photographs from that era confirm this. Where the file was previously hosted is not an indicator of its origins. CeltBrowne (talk) 06:51, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Wikimedia Summit 2022 K4.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Grand-Duc as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: Assumed copyvio derivative, the display graphics lack a suitable licensing status. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:41, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Comment, the graphic on the screen is copyrighted by “gapingvoid” (as credited at the bottom), see similar images here at their store and . Since the graphic is not free, it definitely needs to be blurred/cropped. Tvpuppy (talk) 23:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Flow cat in Riga.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Grand-Duc as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: Copyvio derivative of Flow (2024 film) character, COM:FOP Latvia does not show for a hosting admissibility. Nor does COM:DM, as the cat is clearly referenced in the file name and the description - hence it's inclusion is NOT incidental and unavoidable.. Ineligible for speedy deletion per COM:CSD#F3. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:45, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Hayao Miyazaki cropped 1 Hayao Miyazaki 201211.jpg

Image was online for several years before it was uploaded to the government website, for example https://www.listal.com/viewimage/609990. Does not attribute author or indicate it was given the rights to release image for free use. The Terms of Service page which indicate files published on the website may be freely used also says some content may be owned by other parties, and you need to get permission from them to use the files. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 02:17, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Similar upload from same user sourced to this website was deleted last year in Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Sugako Hashida. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 02:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Keep 政府標準利用規約を適用する際、各官公庁のウェブサイトにおいては、従来の画像のうち許諾が取れないものは除去する、規約の適用対象外と明記する、撮影者など当該省庁以外が著作権を保持している旨を明記する、といった対応がとられています。特に今回の出典元となっている文部科学省の文化功労者名簿の場合、許諾が取れなかった方の写真の掲載をやめる、あるいは、許諾が取れなかったため撮影者の氏名を明確に併記し政府標準利用規約の適用外であることを示すといった対応が取られています。一方、上記画像はいずれの対応もなされておらず、この写真は当該規約下での公表に同意を得ていると考えるべき。「文部科学省ウェブサイト利用規約」のとおりに扱えばよいと考える。他媒体に掲載されている写真であったとしても、当該規約の下での公開に同意を得ていないことを意味しない。記事のアップロード日時よりも撮影日時の方が前であることは特に珍しくない。したがって、他のサイトで以前から公表されていたから削除すべきとの主張は的外れである。--Scanyaro (talk) 23:55, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

• Comment by nominator: The above user made the same argument in the Sugako Hashida discussion. A relevant response was posted by that deletion nominator: I believe that in Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Yuriko Koike and Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Kaoru Sakura we concluded that we should not rely on the hypothesis that the government would have convinced the third-party to release the work under CC BY 4.0, when deciding whether to host it at Wikimedia Commons. This request belongs to the same category in my opinion. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 05:33, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Ilham Aliyev inaugurated “ASAN xidmət” center in Aghjabadi 08.jpg

Derivative work of a copyrighted screen A1Cafel (talk) 03:23, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep. I don't think there's anything copyrightable on the the left screen (simple graphs) and the pictures at right are blurry and de minimis. IronGargoyle (talk) 12:53, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Gerardo Murguia.jpg

He has a Wikipedia article! Stop the F10 vandal!!! 186.173.77.97 04:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

• I found a smaller version @ Certainly in scope. The uploader needs to explain where the upload was taken from; it doesnt seem to be own work.. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 04:24, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Matsuyama Railway depot 20240529 (2).jpg

撮影者を特定される CT-May (talk) 06:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello @CT-May, please excuse me for answering in English. Could you please explain in more detail how the photographer is identified? I can't see anything at all. זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 13:09, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Addendum: Upon closer inspection, I see two mirrors in the upper right corner. In one of them, you can see the outline of a man on a bicycle. Is that what you're talking about? In my opinion, it's too blurry to actually recognize anyone. זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 13:12, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Speedy keep No valid reason for deletion. Indeed someone is visible in the mirror but the resolution is too low. Taylor 49 (talk) 16:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

この画像が存在することによって撮影者に危害が加えられる。今すぐ削除せよ。CT-May (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

(machine translation added by User:Taylor 49) The presence of this image harms the photographer. Delete it now.

@CT-May, your second answer isn't a reason to delete it either. @Taylor 49, I'd suggest cropping the right edge and making the first version invisible. Perhaps that would put an end to the issue? זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 07:28, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

 Neutral towards "cropping the right edge and making the first version invisible" ... since the resolution of the person "visible" in the mirror is too low making this a non-issue. The latter answer from User:CT-May is NOT a valid reason for deletion. Taylor 49 (talk) 17:51, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Palworld Logo.png

Per Jap-PDlogo tag: text logo needs to have artistic appearance that is worth artistic appreciation, what is the case here. The letters are styled after trees, and the logo is compositionaly integral, that is, letters won't make sense on their own. No simple text logo imo. Masur (talk) 07:03, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Magnetic Mirror Nuclear Fusion Reactor.jpg

From EXIF data it appears that Steve Jurvetson is not the copyright owner. SV1XV (talk) 08:21, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:FIFA U17 2025 logo.png

Copyrighted logo Yogwi21 (talk) 08:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Anti Trump Protest March London July 13 2018 (122) (28530156657).jpg

Derivative work of a copyrighted banner A1Cafel (talk) 10:46, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Quake logo.svg

Copyrighted in the United States per registration number TX0004346218 and https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V15019D446 Absolutiva (talk) 11:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:René Magritte - Les misanthropes.jpg

• File:René Magritte - Les misanthropes.jpg
• File:René Magritte - Ceci est un morceau de fromage.jpg
• File:René Magritte - Les Grâces naturelles.jpg

Paintings by en:René Magritte (d. 1967), not yet 70 years PMA needed per COM:FRANCE. -Consigned (talk) 11:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Ontario short-form birth certificate.webp

Some elements of this Canadian birth certificate are eligible for crown copyright in Canada. Absolutiva (talk) 12:14, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete Ontario Government issued document above COM:TOO, any Crown Copyright it holds will expire 50 years after its initial 2015 publication. Most likely safe to undelete on Jan 1 2066. PascalHD (talk) 02:07, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Simbolis Altam.jpg

I noticed a similarity between this file and the Trinity emblem file. It seems the uploader took it from there and edited it and re-uploaded it as if it were his. Badak Jawa (talk) 14:35, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Formal Defense Statement: Transformative Use of the "Altam Diagram"

Dear Commons moderators,

I respectfully contest the proposed deletion of this file on the basis of its alleged similarity to the Trinity Shield diagram. While the visual layout is partially inspired by the classical Trinitarian model, this work is a clear example of transformative use under both legal and cultural standards.

1. This is a Transformative Work, Not a Derivative Copy

The image has been substantially transformed in both meaning and context. The Trinity Shield is a theological diagram representing Christian doctrine; in contrast, the uploaded file is a visual-philosophical symbol within a post-internet subculture called Altanism—a microphilosophy rooted in self-perception, digital identity, and socio-aesthetic stratification among youth in the post-digital era.

The function, message, and audience are completely different.

This makes the image qualify as transformative content, protected under fair use and well-established practices in digital intertextuality and cultural remixing.

2. This is Intertextuality, Not Plagiarism

This work openly references the Trinity Shield as a symbolic framework, not to deceive or replicate, but to repurpose a traditional form into a radically different conceptual realm. Much like how artists repurpose religious iconography to critique or reinterpret modern values, this diagram serves as a philosophical repurposing rather than theft.

It aligns with postmodern meme culture, where reuse and semantic redirection are not only accepted—but fundamental.

3. It Belongs to a Broader Philosophical Narrative

This image is not a “random meme” or vandalism. It is part of a documented, well-structured philosophical framework called Altanism, which includes:

Three core pillars of thought

A coherent metaphysical structure

A digital-native critique of fatalistic reductionism and blackpill determinism

The image functions as a semiotic anchor within that system. Deleting it removes not just a file, but a key artifact in documenting emerging digital philosophies.

4. No Misrepresentation or Commercial Use

The uploader has not falsely claimed authorship of the original Trinity structure. This file is not used commercially, not passed off as the original, and not exploited for deceptive purposes. It is a non-commercial, cultural reinterpretation, meant for educational and expressive purposes—fully within the spirit of Wikimedia Commons as a living archive of cultural production.

Conclusion

To delete this file on grounds of “unauthorized reuse” would be to ignore the contextual depth, intellectual function, and artistic legitimacy it embodies. Wikimedia Commons should remain open not only to traditional knowledge structures, but to the evolving epistemes of digital-native youth cultures.

I request that this image be preserved as a valid cultural and philosophical artifact under the principles of transformative use, educational intent, and digital expression.

Thank you for your understanding and consideration.

Sincerely,

[zane421] Zane421 (talk) 01:07, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete. No clear educational use case. Copyright isn't the issue here (the Scutum Fidei is certainly in the public domain), but that doesn't make every edited version of the image in scope. Omphalographer (talk) 01:46, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

This image is not mere parody it visualizes the core metaphysics of Altanism, a grassroots microphilosophy born from digital subcultures. Inspired by the Scutum Fidei, it reinterprets the concept of trinity to represent identity fragmentation in the algorithmic age: 4lt.real (authenticity), Looxpilled (aesthetic-social reality), and Palsu (the false or curated self). It holds sociocultural and philosophical relevance as a visual schema of online existentialism.

Dismissing it as lacking educational use overlooks its role in documenting emerging thought from the digital margins precisely the kind of knowledge contemporary archives should preserve. Zane421 (talk) 02:38, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete Hello! Sorry I just responded to this message because I just found out about it considering the many files submitted here. What Zane421 said is just a hoax because he deliberately made an article on Wikipedia Indonesia with the excuse of introducing the ideology even though there is not a single news media that discusses the ideology and I have also noticed that the Altamnism logo is taken from Trinity which strengthens the reason for deleting the file. I hope the Commons administrators can delete the file as soon as possible Badak Jawa (talk) 16:29, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

He took then edited it and seemed to claim that the file was purely his creation. Badak Jawa (talk) 16:34, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 137.jpg

Doublon --> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_De_slaapkamer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?uselang=fr 89.159.165.243 15:17, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

What exactly is wrong with this file? Why should it be deleted? I do not understand. JopkeB (talk) 17:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

The nominator thinks it's a duplicate (doublon). --Rosenzweig τ 21:58, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

But the other file carries the warning: "The original file is very high-resolution. It might not load properly or could cause your browser to freeze when opened at full size." Surely there are reasons why a smaller file might be useful and should not be deleted. Krok6kola (talk) 15:22, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Greta Bellamacina-pic.jpg

Copyright violation. Claimed by uploader as 'own work', 2025; but appears in Acadia 2024 at https://celebmafia.com/greta-bellamacina-arcadia-2024-chanel-special-4210602/ . The same image was previously uploaded by the same user under a different filename (File:Greta Bellamacina 2025.png) and was deleted on 19 May for copyright violation. GrindtXX (talk) 15:41, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Files uploaded by AL Sadraye (talk · contribs)

Personal files, not in use, out of prject scope.

• File:الصورة 80.jpg
• File:Profile picture of the Fida'iyun group 01.jpg
• File:الصورة 100.jpg
• File:الصورة 200.jpg
• File:Flag of the Albū Ḥasān tribe.png

— D Y O L F 77^[Talk] 15:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:NGC 2451 a.jpg

Despite the claim that this is "Own work", it is a DSS image, which is copyrightː https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/MASTDATA/Photographic+Sky+Surveys. Lithopsian (talk) 15:48, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Рефрма1343.jpg

Содержит ошибку. T370M (talk) 16:05, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Crossdresser hooks up with man.webm

Extended video clip depectining sexuality or sexual expression, unused, no academic context provided, Comons is Not Webhost. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:06, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Nudity#New uploads YehudaHubert (talk) 10:15, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Samo ku waar - Anthem of Somaliland (Instrumental).ogg

This file was initially tagged by TansoShoshen as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: Composition seems to be copyrighted  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:21, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

No {{PD-Somaliland}}?  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:22, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

I was not aware that was a tag.

Regardless, Hassan Sheikh Mumin, the composer and lyricist for the anthem, died in 2008 in Norway. For a lot of his life he lived outside the borders of Somaliland, including both Norway and Djbouti. If I understand the wording of the tag provided correctly, if he were to have created Samo Ku Waar outside of Somaliland, it would be under the copyright of his host country. The problem now is that we don't know where he was when he created the song. TansoShoshen (talk) 01:03, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

 Speedy keep Hassan Sheikh Mumin was most likely in Borama when he composed the anthem, see https://somalipen.blogspot.com/2008/03/obituary-farewell-xasan-shiikh-muumin.html?m=1, where the author of this post on a World Association of Writers page recalled an interview with him hosted on 22 August 1997, the same year when the anthem was made. It's safe to say that he moved back to Borama from Djibouti by 1997, before he moved back to Norway, based on context clues (the article stated that he lived his last years in Norway after it mentioned about the interview). Samo ku waar also appears to be adopted by Somaliland at the same year when the anthem was made, and because the Somaliland government has remained in Hargeisa this whole time, we can safely say that this was first made in Somaliland. VTSGsRock (talk) 15:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

I'd also like to add this quote from the blogspot, which is relevant to where the Somaliland anthem would be published:

Like many other leading playwrights of the berisamaad era, Xasan withdrew from the play-making practice and kept a low profile ever since around the mid-1970s when he moved from the Somali capital Mogadishu to the Republic of Djibouti and, later, back to his district of birth, Borame.

Let's get to the Berne Convention's definition of publication:

The expression "published works" means works published with the consent of their authors, whatever may be the means of manufacture of the copies, provided that the availability of such copies has been such as to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public, having regard to the nature of the work. The performance of a dramatic, dramatico-musical, cinematographic or musical work, the public recitation of a literary work, the communication by wire or the broadcasting of literary or artistic works, the exhibition of a work of art and the construction of a work of architecture shall not constitute publication.

Because Mumin maintained a low profile from the mid-1970s overall even after he moved back to Somaliland, he probably first showed Samo ku waar to the Somaliland government so that it could be adopted as a national anthem. Then the government accepted it and lawfully published the Somaliland anthem in Somaliland to inform people about the state symbols.

VTSGsRock (talk) 15:24, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Carlos Di Sarli.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Grand-Duc as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: By looking at the uploads of Special:ListFiles/JohnMizuki, I came to the conclusion that the user did not pay sufficient attention to the actual copyright situation. He always claims "anonymous work" and "PD-Old-70", but the circumstantial evidence on the media is not of sufficient support for that. Most shots are made broadly between 1940 and 1960, and this is by far not old enough to brashly assume a photographer's death from 1954 or earlier.The uploader is to provide mode data to substantiate the legitimacy of his uploads, until then, a deletion is warranted.  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:24, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Argentinian man who died in 1960, it could be {{PD-AR-Photo}}+{{PD-1996}}

 ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:25, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep Now fixed. --RAN (talk) 22:14, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Francisco Rotundo.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Grand-Duc as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: By looking at the uploads of Special:ListFiles/JohnMizuki, I came to the conclusion that the user did not pay sufficient attention to the actual copyright situation. He always claims "anonymous work" and "PD-Old-70", but the circumstantial evidence on the media is not of sufficient support for that. Most shots are made broadly between 1940 and 1960, and this is by far not old enough to brashly assume a photographer's death from 1954 or earlier.The uploader is to provide mode data to substantiate the legitimacy of his uploads, until then, a deletion is warranted.  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Argentinian man who died in 1997 at 77, just by appearance he was not that old in this photo, it could be {{PD-AR-Photo}}+{{PD-1996}}  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep I agree, license change corrected image. --RAN (talk) 19:58, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Shakila et Johnny Walker dans Aar Paar (1954).jpg

See Special:Diff/1038925769.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Delete per nom. Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 18:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Annie Gordon Baillie.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Grand-Duc as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: By looking at the uploads of Special:ListFiles/JohnMizuki, I came to the conclusion that the user did not pay sufficient attention to the actual copyright situation. He always claims "anonymous work" and "PD-Old-70", but the circumstantial evidence on the media is not of sufficient support for that. Most shots are made broadly between 1940 and 1960, and this is by far not old enough to brashly assume a photographer's death from 1954 or earlier.The uploader is to provide mode data to substantiate the legitimacy of his uploads, until then, a deletion is warranted.  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:33, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Mugshot of woman last in jail around 1900 {{PD-old-assumed-expired}}|  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   16:34, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep I also added {{PD-UK-unknown}} --RAN (talk) 21:25, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep It's clearly in the public domain.

JohnMizuki (talk) 11:40, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't know about this file in particular, but in general you are correct. Jerimee (talk) 01:29, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

File:BABYLON - PHOTO2 verticale Light Matiere.jpg

wrong author - copyright violation? Xocolatl (talk) 18:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:PHOTO BABYLON PRESSION 01 Light Matiere.jpg

wrong author, copyright violation? Xocolatl (talk) 18:05, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Hellfest 07.jpg

2018 or 2024? suspicious... Xocolatl (talk) 18:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Szene aus dem Spot Thomas hat kein AIDS.png

offensichtlich Fernseh-Screenshot, niciht gemeinfrei, URV Seemannssonntag (talk) 18:18, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Decorated Col by Governor Shema and His Royal Highness Abdulmumini Kabir Usman Emir of Katsina in Oct 2009.jpg

Likely copyrighted art. Ooligan (talk) 18:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:United-States-35-knots.jpg

Likely still copyrighted, absent other evidence. There is no proof of a CC-BY release by Arnold Kludas and/or the original photographer. The book this was copied from was published in 2000. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:52, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Support - beat me to it. I had the same suspicions. Only way this image would NOT be deleted is if the OG caption released the image into public domain. GGOTCC (talk) 20:12, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Keep {{PD-US-not renewed}} Arnold Kludas was the author of the book that republished the image from 1952, he is not the creator of the image. In the USA to be eligible for a copyright for a 1952 image, you needed to register the image, then renew the copyright for images created prior to 1964. I can find no images of the SS United States in either copyright database, not even for the postcards they gave passengers. Copyright registration was required until 1989. --RAN (talk) 19:50, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

File:2036 OR2.png

Misleading map showing results for an election that hasn't yet occurred Eureka Lott 19:36, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Logo-Universität-Bamberg-blau.png

Copyright infringement. The file was illegally uploaded here by the German-language Wikiversity. It is a protected logo of the University of Bamberg. The University of Bamberg has allowed me to use it in the German-language Wikiversity, but has made it clear that it may not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. PaFra (talk) 20:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

@PaFra: When exactly was this drawing that is used by the logo created? It looks like it might be several centuries old, but that might be deceiving. --Rosenzweig τ 21:52, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

• Either the logo is free or its non-free. Non-free content is only allowed on a wiki if it has and EDP. German Wikiversity does not allow non-free content. But as I understand it the logo is centuries old so the copyright empires long ago. --MGA73 (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

I read somewhere that it was based on an old Seal but I could not locate it online. --MGA73 (talk) 12:47, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@Rosenzweig: I don't know when the drawing used by the logo was created? Is that really the decisive factor? Does not trademark protection and copyright protection apply to the logo as a whole?PaFra (talk) 20:17, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@PaFra: Trademarks are Non-copyright restrictions and not a factor for the decision about deletion. And the age of a work can definitely be one factor (among several) for its protection by copyright, because copyright is not forever, but only for a certain time. Like the lifetime of the creator plus another 70 years, or 95 years from first publication (depending on the circumstances and the country, see Commons:Licensing). The writing and arrangement are not copyrightable here in my opinion, so the drawing is the thing that matters. --Rosenzweig τ 00:07, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

@PaFra and MGA73: Please give me a few days. I want to find out whether the university might allow the logo to remain here after all.--PaFra (talk) 20:06, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

A permission would solve the problem. But they have to follow the procedure in COM:VRTS. I tried again to find to old seal and sadly I could not find anything that looks like the drawing in the logo. Most old drawings I found related to the topic showed a standing man holding stuff. The closest I found to the drawing/logo was seals from other cities of men sitting and holding stuff. So unless someone have better skills than I or unless we get a permission I think we have to delete. --MGA73 (talk) 07:00, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Please be patient for a few days. I have contacted the administration of our university in this affair, but it needs some time for the reply, and there's no need to rush now. By the way: Why is a procedure in COM:VRTS necessary? I could simply withdraw my deletion request.--PaFra (talk) 17:11, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Rainer-Rothfuß 11.02.2019 klein.jpg

Person on the photo is Rainer Rothfuß, he can’t be author. 2A00:FBC:EFB2:C6AD:494C:1B97:3E6C:E249 21:15, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Files uploaded by FunnyMath (talk · contribs)

I have nominated these files for deletion because they do not appear to be within the project scope, nor do they appear to be realistically useful.

• File:0-week-old - 파루루ㅣ프리티 풀송 뮤비ㅣ프리파라 시즌 1ㅣPretty FullSong MV.webm
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Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 22:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Speedy keep High quality anime music videos with plenty views  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   00:28, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@999real. How exactly, may I ask, are these files realistically useful? Unless there is use for them on other Wikimedia projects, I don't see why these files should be kept. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 01:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

As noted above there are not many freely licensed videos of this type. There was only 1 file in Category:Anime music videos before I added some of these to it. Now, it might not have been useful to upload so many, but there is no point to delete them now.  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   02:33, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@999real. I understand that the files are properly licensed. But where do they fall within the project scope? Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 03:47, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

The scope issue is addressed in my very long reply below. FunnyMath (talk) 00:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

 Speedy keep We have the same problem as we had in the first section (Files_uploaded_by_FunnyMath_(talk_·_contribs)). There seems to be an assumption that contemporary pop cultural works such as anime are out of scope due to not having any educational use.

All the videos are about the Pretty Series franchise. This franchise, along with its various series (en:PriPara and en:Idol Time PriPara), have their own Wikipedia articles, which indicates notability.

All the videos seem to be of high quality, and likely also of high production costs. They contain high quality 3D animation, and some of them have clips from anime based on the Pretty Series.

Although the franchise is Japanese, the Korean version is still notable. Five anime series were produced via a partnership between a Japanese toy company and a South Korean toy company (en:Pretty_Rhythm#Anime). In one sentence from the Wikipedia article, we have the reactions of both Japanese and Korean fans in one sentence: "They were met with criticism from Japanese and Korean fans for sexualizing characters from a children's show." (en:Pretty_Rhythm#Pretty_All_Friends). Thus, the franchise seems to be of cultural significance in South Korea despite being a foreign franchise.

The Pretty Series is a franchise marketed for young girls. This, and the fact that the franchise is marketed in Japan and South Korea, means that the franchise is of significance to the lived experiences of women of color (i.e. East Asian women) who have played the arcade games, watched the animes, read the mangas, owned the merchandise, etc.

The official Wikimedia Foundation website says:

For as long as written history, women — especially Black, Indigenous, and women of color — have been left out of the record. As of January 2025, only 18.9% of the content in all Wikimedia projects, including biographies on Wikipedia, are of women. Further, as of 2020, only 15% of Wikimedia contributors are women.

— Wikimedia Foundation, in: 

Thus, deleting these files would potentially widen the gender gap, where content marketed towards men and boys are overrepresented, while content marketed towards women and girls are underrepresented. This is in additon to aggravating racial biases.

In addition to contributing to gender and racial biases, deletion could also worsen language bias. Deleting the files could result in overrepresenting English-language content and underrepresenting non-English-language content. FunnyMath (talk) 15:13, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I apologize if I am not familiar with this franchise. Are there any characters represented in these files of cultural significance in Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere and whose deletion will, like you said, contribute to biases? These files are plenty and repetitive. And I believe them to be, at least quantity-wise, beyond realistically useful. That is my opinion at least. How do you believe they will contribute to the representation of women and girls? Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Here is a peer-reviewed academic article that analyzes anime music videos, called "Cross-media narrative of anime in YOASOBI and EVE music videos", published in 2025. Below is the abstract; it is translated via Google Translate, as it is originally in Spanish.^[1]

This article examines twenty-three original music videos by Japanese artists YOASOBI and EVE, which not only fall into the category of narrative music videos but are also created entirely using animation techniques. As animated products originating in Japan, these videos display forms, elements, and components common to the narrative medium of anime. Therefore, starting from anime as a medium and its cross-media movements studied by different authors, and drawing on tools from both music video analysis and anime studies, we conduct, on the one hand, a systematic analysis of the narrative and animated music videos, and on the other, a comparative analysis to identify the common components with anime, which go beyond character design, sharing themes, settings, narrative forms, stories, and animation techniques, among other components. Thus, apart from being able to discuss the classification of music videos as anime works, the most representative aspect is that anime finds in these original music videos new forms of expansion and dissemination that support it as a popular transmedia medium in continuous growth, establishing synergies with other industries and media, as it has already done, for example, with video games.

Thus, it is possible for anime music videos to be educational.

Wikimedia Commons should host as many music videos uploaded by the official Korean Pretty Series YouTube channel as possible. We are not academics who can decide which videos are "realistically useful"; it is up to the user themself to judge which video is appropriate for educational use for their particular case. It is also not up to us to decide what would be the correct en:sample size determination, such that we can put a limit on the number of music videos that can be uploaded. For example, what if an academic wants to sample 200 music videos in order to computationally analyse them? Even if we were academics, we would have our own biases which could result in excluding music videos that are of educational use to somebody in the world. By casting the widest net possible, we would be able to maximize educational use of all music videos hosted on Commons. Limiting the number of videos could actually decrease the overall educational use of each video that does end up being hosted.

Furthermore, on the Commons page for the official policy on scope, it says:

There may sometimes be an argument for retaining multiple images that are quite similar from an educational point of view, for the sake of variety and availability of choice...

— Commons:Project_scope#Discussion

Thus, what I just said before is not a radical idea; it is mentioned in the official policy. Although the sentence specifically refers to images, it is not a stretch to also apply this sentence to videos.

These are not just any random anime music videos. They are music videos uploaded by an official Pretty Series YouTube channel. Thus, they can be considered as official promotional material. As official promotional material, they could be of significant academic interest. For example, there is a 2018 peer-reviewed article that analyzes marketing material for the anime film en:Spirited Away.^[2] Here is a brief clip of the abstract:

This article will focus specifically on the marketing materials utilized in the Japanese and American markets for Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Miyazaki, 2001). That is to say, it takes a more in-depth look at the paratextual deployment of film posters and theatrical trailers.

FunnyMath (talk) 00:37, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons should host as many music videos uploaded by the official Korean Pretty Series YouTube channel as possible. We are not academics who can decide which videos are "realistically useful"; it is up to the user themself to judge which video is appropriate for educational use for their particular case. It is also not up to us to decide what would be the correct en:sample size determination, such that we can put a limit on the number of music videos that can be uploaded. For example, what if an academic wants to sample 200 music videos in order to computationally analyse them?
— User:FunnyMath

I kindly disagree with this point. Sites like https://search.creativecommons.org/ already exists as a way to search for CC-licensed content on video hosting sites like YouTube. It seems unpractical for Commons to become a mirror site for CC-licensed media like these anime music videos under the pretext that one day researchers might need to analyze them when https://search.creativecommons.org/ exists to search for CC-licensed media. If these anime music videos existed on a site where they are not supported by CC and where they may be lost to time, then I see a reason to upload these files onto Commons. But this is not the case. These files are already under CC license on YouTube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fancy Refrigerator (talk • contribs) 02:40, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

My point is that the videos I uploaded have a lot of potential for educational use:

1. I have shown that the subject matter, the Pretty Series franchise, depicted in the videos is notable.
2. I have shown that there is academic interest in anime music videos, and promotional content for anime. As the Pretty Series videos are both of these things, there could be academic interest in them as well.
3. I have argued that the videos can be used to improve the representation of East Asian women’s lived experiences, thus combating gender and racial biases.

Therefore, there is no need to deliberately and artificially reduce the number of videos hosted by using our own personal judgements to decide which videos are “more educational”.

I would argue that there are many advantages to hosting the videos on Wikimedia Commons instead of YouTube.

1. The CC BY 3.0 license on any YouTube video could be removed at any point in time. As far as I know, the YouTube search engine allows you to filter for videos that are currently licensed under CC BY 3.0, but not videos that do not currently have the license, but did at some point in the past. If Wikimedia Commons hosts all educational CC BY 3.0-licensed YouTube videos, then Internet users would have a larger repository of free media to use by being able to search for YouTube videos that had the license removed, in addition to YouTube videos that currently have the license. As an example, without Wikimedia Commons, people would not be able to find these freely licensed images of Spongebob characters, as they come from a YouTube video that had the CC BY license removed.
2. Wikimedia Commons has mechanisms in place to ensure that its freely licensed or public domain educational media stays hosted by fighting against invalid copyright claims instead of taking them at face value. For example, in 2020, there was a copyright claim on the 1957 public domain film en:Plan 9 from Outer Space sent to Wikimedia Commons. See Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Plan 9 from Outer Space. In the deletion request, several contributors discussed the validity of the copyright claim, and determined that it was invalid, resulting in the film being kept. In contrast, the Internet Archive at the time also hosted a copy of the film, but it was taken down instead.^[3]
3. Finally, Wikimedia Commons offers a very basic feature that YouTube does not have: downloading videos for free. To download videos from YouTube via its official website, you need YouTube Premium, and even then, the videos can only be played offline for up to 29 days.^[4] You can use third-party software to download YouTube videos without YouTube Premium and these restrictions. However, it is often inconvenient to do that, as such software can be rate-limited or blocked by YouTube.^[5] In contrast, Wikimedia Commons makes downloading videos very easy.^[6]

FunnyMath (talk) 04:02, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

 Keep--Trade (talk) 17:42, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

File:King Von mugshot.jpg

 Delete There's a claim here that the image is {{PD-USGov}}, as a work of the U.S. federal government. Except, the source indicates this is from the Chicago Police department...which is a local agency, not a federal one. The license is clearly invalid. Further, the source is inspecific, just pointing to https://www.chicagopolice.org/, but the website clearly shows at the bottom that they claim copyright, all rights reserved. Copyright violation. Hammersoft (talk) 23:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

1. ↑ Perez, E. J. C. (2025). Cross-media narrative of anime in YOASOBI and EVE music videos. AdComunica, 29, 239–262. https://doi.org/10.6035/adcomunica.8062
2. ↑ Carter, L. (2022, July 24). Marketing anime to a global audience: A paratextual analysis of promotional materials from Spirited Away. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/u45hp_v1
3. ↑ See .
4. ↑ See .
5. ↑ See Commons:Video2commons#Sites_that_work.
6. ↑ Just go on a file page for any video.