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File:Somali_man_in_fez.jpg

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the source is wikipedia it self & the link is error or blank. Antime • (My Talk) 22:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Delete unless the original image can be verified. --Leoboudv (talk) 04:02, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep The source is not "wikipedia it self". That is an untruth. The image's description page quite clearly indicates that the image was originally uploaded as a public domain file by Wiki user Turdho way back on December 28, 2006. This same editor indicated that the image was his own work and offered it to the public for free use. This is what the uncomplicated phrase "this image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Turdho at the English Wikipedia project" means. Middayexpress (talk) 12:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Would you please verify your claim that User_Turdho who is inactive for about 2 years now is the original author of the image with a valid link , because The source in the description page is invalid.--Antime • (My Talk) 14:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Certainly. The original file was titled "Cadow-pr2.gif" and User_Turdho first added it to the gentleman in question's article (he is a politician in Somalia, much like your friend Sharif Ahmed) in an edit on December 28, 2006 at 20:36. This can be easily verified by anyone by looking through Turdho's contributions (on English Wikipedia, that is, since that is where he/she originally uploaded the file to, not to Wiki Commons as you have linked to in your post above). It's true that the image was deleted from English Wikipedia, which is why no trace of it appear in Turdho's contributions (when an image is deleted, so are all difs that originally linked to it, including contributions). However, the only reason it was deleted was because I had already transferred a .gif version of that same image to Wiki Commons on August 20, 2008 20:30 or, in the words of the deleting administrator himself, "An identical copy exists on Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Image:Somali man in fez.gif)". If you weren't so busy trying to get rid of perfectly legitimate Somali-related images you don't happen to like, you'd already have been aware of the utter foolishness of this deletion request. Middayexpress (talk) 18:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete Copyright violation of a picture of en:Abdullahi Ahmed Addou. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/somali/news/story/2008/05/080530_adow.shtml — Xavier, 01:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep Xavier your argument is invalid, that article was published in may of 2008, the date on this picture is 2006. Andyzweb (talk) 21:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You are right, dates don't match. Size don't match either. But dates and sizes don't prove anything. We have two scenarios :
  1. The BBC was looking for a picture of Abdullahi Ahmed Addou and we all know they usually don't have enough money to buy photos. So, they decided to steal a picture from the Internet. They came here, they parsed randomly the 1M+ pictures in Commons and eventually, someone shout "Hey guys, look at this man with a Fez! Isn't it Abdullahi Ahmed Addou? Great, let's steal that photo, those dumb people at Commons won't even notice it since they don't know who he actually is...".
  2. This picture belongs to a bank of photos where press companies pick up the material they need. The original uploader borrowed it somewhere on Internet, on a press or government site, and uploaded it on WP with the approximate description "a Somali man in fez".
According to you, which one is the most probable? Now, what I really meant: this picture is on a BBC site? Then either it is public domain or it is an obvious copyvio. Unless you prove it is PD, it should be deleted. — Xavier, 01:40, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment See also Commons:Deletion requests/File:Somali man in fez.gif

Deleted. Missing essential information. --High Contrast (talk) 17:52, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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