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Description	This is page one of the station magazine for RCAF Station Guelph, home of No. 4 Wireless School. The magazine was called "Sparks". [1] This issue is Volume 1, No. 2, Easter, 1942. The drawing on the masthead is a caricature of Adolf Hitler. Readers will note that the Commanding Officer of No. 4 WS, Keith Russell, had recently been promoted from Wing Commander to Group Captain. Sparks, like all station magazines, was produced by the students and staff of the station.
Author or copyright owner	Kathleen Wall
Source ( WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Wikipedia Immediate source: Guelph Civic Museum
Date of publication	April 2014
Use in article ( WP:NFCC#7)	RCAF Station Guelph
Purpose of use in article ( WP:NFCC#8)	This is a scanned image of one of the few surviving copies of the "Sparks" station magazine. It illustrates life on the air station as it was in 1942.
Not replaceable with free media because ( WP:NFCC#1)	The newspaper is now the property of the Guelph Civic Museum, and is stored in their archives. Members of the public are not permitted to make their own digital copies of this newspaper.
Minimal use ( WP:NFCC#3)	The image will be used only to illustrate the article "RCAF Station Guelph"
Respect for commercial opportunities ( WP:NFCC#2)	The Guelph Civic Museum has given permission for this image to be used to illustrate the article "RCAF Station Guelph". The uploaded image has a low resolution and is only the first page of the newspaper, which is twelve pages long. Readers interested in obtaining complete copies of this issue of "Sparks" should contact the museum.
Other information	In addition to the non-free use assertion shown on this page, the copyright holder has granted permission for this image to be used in Wikipedia. This permission does not extend to third parties. This tag must be used in conjunction with another non-free use image tag. If no other tag is present on this page, and this image was uploaded after May 19, 2005, please speedily delete this image or tag it with {{ db-f3}}. To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each use, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please do not change the resolution of this image!. The resolution was chosen specifically so that Wikipedia readers may enlarge the image and read the text of the newspaper. Use of this resolution has been agreed to by the Guelph Civic Museum.
Fair use Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of RCAF Station Guelph//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RCAF_Guelph_Sparks_Magazine_Page_1.jpgtrue

References

This is the credit specified by the Guelph Civic Museum:
Courtesy of Guelph Museums ID 1984.32.4

Licensing

This image is a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the newspaper or the individual contributors who worked on the articles or images depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of newspaper pages to illustrate either the publication of the article or issue in question, with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RCAF_Guelph_Sparks_Magazine_Page_1.jpg true

The newspaper itself was published in 1942 by members of the Royal Canadian Air Force stationed at Guelph as part of their duties. It is subject to Crown Copyright in Canada and is now in the Public Domain in Canada. The scanned image was purchased from the Guelph Civic Museum by the uploader and its use in Wikipedia is covered by the agreement between the uploader and the Guelph Civic Museum.

Fair use for RCAF Station Guelph

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It is a photo of a historically significant newspaper from RCAF No. 4 Wireless School.
2. The newspaper is one of the new surviving artifacts from No. 4 WS.
3. The newspaper is held in the archives of the Guelph Civic Museum and must be viewed by appointment. It is not possible to take a "free photo".
4. The photo is only being used for informational and educational purposes.
5. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the newspaper was produced by members of No. 4 WS which is the object of discussion in the article.