The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the media below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a
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This is a photograph of a living person claimed as fair use. It is a private photograph of uncertain date and ownership, taken without permission from the personal website of one of the subjects.
The two people depicted were involved together in child pornography websites both before and after the younger turned 18. It is impossible to say whether the younger subject was a minor at the time of this photograph. This means that photograph may or may not depict the younger subject in the act of underage prostitution.
The notoriety of the two subjects was passing, and has not become lasting notability. I have proposed and received support for making the article this image is listed into a redirect.
DanB†DanD00:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep It has never been alleged that the two individuals depicted had a prostitute/client relationship. It is an otherwise unremarkable tourist snapshot taken of two people in a public place. No other image exists to replace it with, and since it was published on the Internet, it can be appropriated under fair use for the article.
Hermitian22:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Boy, I wish I had such a flexible definition of the fair-use policy available to me when my commercial photographs of artists performing were deleted!
Also, sorry for my imprecision of thought! I can see how wrong it is to suppose that someone who is both customer and business associate in your business of live webcam sex shows is in any way engaged with you in prostitution!
DanB†DanD22:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Berry & Gourlay collaborated on Berry's first "mylivewebcam" site, then they collaborated on Berry's (non-pornographic) xPert Creations web development business and on Gourlay's Chain Communications ISP & hosting venture, neither of which involved child pornography or prostitution. Add to that the fact (reported in the New York Times & CounterPunch) that Berry started as a prostitute & pornographer before meeting Gourlay, and I don't see where your allegation against this photo comes from.
Is it your contention that Berry & Gourlay should never be depicted together because you suppose that Gourlay paid Berry for sex? Do you have evidence to back up your accusation? They were business partners; This photo (of an event that happened years ago) cannot be duplicated since neither man is the same as he was then, neither man has the same connection with the other as they did then, and neither man is going to be vacationing in Mazatlan, Mexico with the other. The photo is of a meeting, an event which won't happen again. A musician performing his music is a quantitatively different thing. --
Ssbohio19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep the problems with this nomination are many, some subtle, some so at variance with the facts as to beggar belief.
It is a photograph of a living person claimed as fair use. What Dan leaves out is that it has a valid fair-use rationale that meets
FU and which has previously been reviewed. It is a photo of a living person as he appeared during the period of time for which he is notable along with one of the people he became notable for knowing.
It is … taken without permission from the personal website of one of the subjects. That's the definition of
fair use. Fair use requires no permission. Fair use requires a valid rationale, which this image has.
It is impossible to say whether the younger subject was a minor at the time of this photograph. THe photo is taken in a public place and is not even suggestive, much less salacious. Berry's age is not a deciding factor, unless deciding by
simply not liking it.
The photograph may or may not depict the younger subject in the act of underage prostitution. This is an unfounded accusation against two living people, one which on its face meets the definition of
libel. Nothing in the article or the image suggests that Berry ever prostituted himself for Gourlay. It's hardly
fair or sensitive toward Berry to accuse him of such a thing in order to win a deletion debate.
The notoriety of the two subjects was passing, and has not become lasting notability. I have proposed and received support for making the article this image is listed into a redirect. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the question of deleting this image. If the article is deleted, then the image goes away as fair use content not used in any article. It is not in any way a reason to delete the image separate from the article.
This nomination appears to be a case of
forum shopping when the nominator was unable to gain the advantage in a content dispute in the article. This image has been viewed and reviewed by a number of editors and admins. Its fair use rationale is solidly within policy guidelines. This nomination treads the fine line as to whether it is
in good faith. --
Ssbohio01:18, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Wikipedia doesn't actually publish logs of who views an image. Thankfully, this isn't
trial by ordeal, and I'm not required to jump through hoops to prove the clear claim of fair use that is already evident here. However, let me go back & find out for you. So, I'll look in my
talk page archive and see if I still have the bot notice or any other comments. --
Ssbohio14:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
I checked my talk page archive & couldn't find the fair use notice for this image. I recall there being one, but, because I can't find the evidence, I'll withdraw my claim that it's been reviewed. Did you have specific objections to one or more elements of the fair-use rationale? I'd be happy to address them.
In any regard, the fair use rationale is a classic example of a situation for which fair use is meant. The fair-use rationale was written with the law & Wikipedia policy in mind. The image is not replaceable because it depicts a particular event that can't be repeated, and it's used in an article that discusses the relationship between the two people it depicts. It's a textbook example of what fair use is supposed to allow. In what way do you believe that this illustration of a relationship (of some kind) that doesn't exist anymore, involving 2 people who will never visit together in Mazatlan, Mexico again, is replaceable? Do you want to be the one to ask Justin Berry to put his arm around Ken Gourlay, knowing what we know now about their history? Replacement of this image is an impossibility, both for practical & compassionate reasons. --
Ssbohio19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Non-free image of a living normal football player from a news story on nfl.com. Previously nominated as a replaceable image, but inexplicably kept. There is no fair use justification for the use of this photo - we cannot use news photos and call it fair use. Our use is not at all transformative - it's merely an attempt to not have to pay royalties. Even if we could legally use this photo, it violates our replaceability policy as it is used only to show what the guy looks like and he is still living.
B00:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Weak DeleteDelete This image is clearly replaceable fair use. It is an image of a living person as he currently appears, thus lacking the characteristic of being nonreplaceable. It might arguably be legal
fair use, but it is not within
fair use policy. --
Ssbohio01:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
I've weakened my position based on the claim below that the photo is historically significant due to the issue of the disbanded team. However, the image must be used in an article to be keepable, and it needs to have a clear
fair use rationale for use in that article. --
Ssbohio14:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep while a photo of Sean Morey is potentially findable, it is impossible to replicate this image as Sean Morey no longer plays in NFL Europe. The team he played for The Barcelona Dragons was disbanded after the 2003 season. It is 100% impossible to replicate a photo of Sean Morey in a team uniform that doesn't exist anymore, in a game with a team that doesn't exist anymore, 4 years after said team was disbanded! As such this is a historically significant photo for Morey. Obviously a free image would be better, but until such time as we have one, this should be kept.
ALKIVAR™☢03:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
It's not unused, its currently in the Sean Morey article and has been since it was originally uploaded in 2006, and no its not Speedy Deletable under CSD:I5, because its currently in use.
ALKIVAR™☢23:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)reply
My apologies. I mistakenly checked whatlinkshere instead of the image page, and concluded it wasn't being used in article space. I was clearly wrong about that, so I withdraw my assertion that this qualifies for
speedy deletion. --
Ssbohio23:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Non-free image used to show what a living person looks like, should have been speedied. We don't use a non-free image because free images aren't available if they could be created.
Jay3218301:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is blank. Author/uploader requested speedy deletion via listing the image on this page. Tagged image as {{db-author}} under
CSD G7, which deals with pages for which the author has requested deletion and/or blanked the page. --
Ssbohio04:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Numerous images from this site (listed above) were uploaded under GFDL license based on
this entry at
Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission. However, due to some questions about one of the images,
AnonEMouse did some checking, and the permissions folks apparently
do not feel this is a good permission, because New Millennium Video, an online retailer, likely does not own the copyrights or have the right to release the images under the GFDL, and possibly gave the permission for purposes of self-promotion. Changing the license tag to non-free wouldn't help, as so far as I can see they would all be
WP:NFCC#1 violations if claimed under fair use.
Videmus OmniaTalk14:57, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I checked the image pages of the first five images listed above, and none were tagged on as being part of an IfD discussion. Shouldn't tags have been placed at the start of the IfD? --
Ssbohio14:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Post facto comment This appears to have been a too hasty process with insuffiecient regard for proper procedure. No mention also is made of the fact that there was a previous ifd round on these images not leading to their deletion. __
meco12:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Non-free image that has a fair use rationale that does not explain the specific use of the image within the article. Appears to be used only for decoration.
Jay3218323:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the media below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
This is a photograph of a living person claimed as fair use. It is a private photograph of uncertain date and ownership, taken without permission from the personal website of one of the subjects.
The two people depicted were involved together in child pornography websites both before and after the younger turned 18. It is impossible to say whether the younger subject was a minor at the time of this photograph. This means that photograph may or may not depict the younger subject in the act of underage prostitution.
The notoriety of the two subjects was passing, and has not become lasting notability. I have proposed and received support for making the article this image is listed into a redirect.
DanB†DanD00:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep It has never been alleged that the two individuals depicted had a prostitute/client relationship. It is an otherwise unremarkable tourist snapshot taken of two people in a public place. No other image exists to replace it with, and since it was published on the Internet, it can be appropriated under fair use for the article.
Hermitian22:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Boy, I wish I had such a flexible definition of the fair-use policy available to me when my commercial photographs of artists performing were deleted!
Also, sorry for my imprecision of thought! I can see how wrong it is to suppose that someone who is both customer and business associate in your business of live webcam sex shows is in any way engaged with you in prostitution!
DanB†DanD22:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Berry & Gourlay collaborated on Berry's first "mylivewebcam" site, then they collaborated on Berry's (non-pornographic) xPert Creations web development business and on Gourlay's Chain Communications ISP & hosting venture, neither of which involved child pornography or prostitution. Add to that the fact (reported in the New York Times & CounterPunch) that Berry started as a prostitute & pornographer before meeting Gourlay, and I don't see where your allegation against this photo comes from.
Is it your contention that Berry & Gourlay should never be depicted together because you suppose that Gourlay paid Berry for sex? Do you have evidence to back up your accusation? They were business partners; This photo (of an event that happened years ago) cannot be duplicated since neither man is the same as he was then, neither man has the same connection with the other as they did then, and neither man is going to be vacationing in Mazatlan, Mexico with the other. The photo is of a meeting, an event which won't happen again. A musician performing his music is a quantitatively different thing. --
Ssbohio19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep the problems with this nomination are many, some subtle, some so at variance with the facts as to beggar belief.
It is a photograph of a living person claimed as fair use. What Dan leaves out is that it has a valid fair-use rationale that meets
FU and which has previously been reviewed. It is a photo of a living person as he appeared during the period of time for which he is notable along with one of the people he became notable for knowing.
It is … taken without permission from the personal website of one of the subjects. That's the definition of
fair use. Fair use requires no permission. Fair use requires a valid rationale, which this image has.
It is impossible to say whether the younger subject was a minor at the time of this photograph. THe photo is taken in a public place and is not even suggestive, much less salacious. Berry's age is not a deciding factor, unless deciding by
simply not liking it.
The photograph may or may not depict the younger subject in the act of underage prostitution. This is an unfounded accusation against two living people, one which on its face meets the definition of
libel. Nothing in the article or the image suggests that Berry ever prostituted himself for Gourlay. It's hardly
fair or sensitive toward Berry to accuse him of such a thing in order to win a deletion debate.
The notoriety of the two subjects was passing, and has not become lasting notability. I have proposed and received support for making the article this image is listed into a redirect. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the question of deleting this image. If the article is deleted, then the image goes away as fair use content not used in any article. It is not in any way a reason to delete the image separate from the article.
This nomination appears to be a case of
forum shopping when the nominator was unable to gain the advantage in a content dispute in the article. This image has been viewed and reviewed by a number of editors and admins. Its fair use rationale is solidly within policy guidelines. This nomination treads the fine line as to whether it is
in good faith. --
Ssbohio01:18, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Wikipedia doesn't actually publish logs of who views an image. Thankfully, this isn't
trial by ordeal, and I'm not required to jump through hoops to prove the clear claim of fair use that is already evident here. However, let me go back & find out for you. So, I'll look in my
talk page archive and see if I still have the bot notice or any other comments. --
Ssbohio14:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
I checked my talk page archive & couldn't find the fair use notice for this image. I recall there being one, but, because I can't find the evidence, I'll withdraw my claim that it's been reviewed. Did you have specific objections to one or more elements of the fair-use rationale? I'd be happy to address them.
In any regard, the fair use rationale is a classic example of a situation for which fair use is meant. The fair-use rationale was written with the law & Wikipedia policy in mind. The image is not replaceable because it depicts a particular event that can't be repeated, and it's used in an article that discusses the relationship between the two people it depicts. It's a textbook example of what fair use is supposed to allow. In what way do you believe that this illustration of a relationship (of some kind) that doesn't exist anymore, involving 2 people who will never visit together in Mazatlan, Mexico again, is replaceable? Do you want to be the one to ask Justin Berry to put his arm around Ken Gourlay, knowing what we know now about their history? Replacement of this image is an impossibility, both for practical & compassionate reasons. --
Ssbohio19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Non-free image of a living normal football player from a news story on nfl.com. Previously nominated as a replaceable image, but inexplicably kept. There is no fair use justification for the use of this photo - we cannot use news photos and call it fair use. Our use is not at all transformative - it's merely an attempt to not have to pay royalties. Even if we could legally use this photo, it violates our replaceability policy as it is used only to show what the guy looks like and he is still living.
B00:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Weak DeleteDelete This image is clearly replaceable fair use. It is an image of a living person as he currently appears, thus lacking the characteristic of being nonreplaceable. It might arguably be legal
fair use, but it is not within
fair use policy. --
Ssbohio01:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
I've weakened my position based on the claim below that the photo is historically significant due to the issue of the disbanded team. However, the image must be used in an article to be keepable, and it needs to have a clear
fair use rationale for use in that article. --
Ssbohio14:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep while a photo of Sean Morey is potentially findable, it is impossible to replicate this image as Sean Morey no longer plays in NFL Europe. The team he played for The Barcelona Dragons was disbanded after the 2003 season. It is 100% impossible to replicate a photo of Sean Morey in a team uniform that doesn't exist anymore, in a game with a team that doesn't exist anymore, 4 years after said team was disbanded! As such this is a historically significant photo for Morey. Obviously a free image would be better, but until such time as we have one, this should be kept.
ALKIVAR™☢03:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
It's not unused, its currently in the Sean Morey article and has been since it was originally uploaded in 2006, and no its not Speedy Deletable under CSD:I5, because its currently in use.
ALKIVAR™☢23:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)reply
My apologies. I mistakenly checked whatlinkshere instead of the image page, and concluded it wasn't being used in article space. I was clearly wrong about that, so I withdraw my assertion that this qualifies for
speedy deletion. --
Ssbohio23:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete Non-free image used to show what a living person looks like, should have been speedied. We don't use a non-free image because free images aren't available if they could be created.
Jay3218301:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is blank. Author/uploader requested speedy deletion via listing the image on this page. Tagged image as {{db-author}} under
CSD G7, which deals with pages for which the author has requested deletion and/or blanked the page. --
Ssbohio04:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course it's not an image created for encyclopedic use, but as a commercial image released into the public domain it is one of very few non-fair use resources to illustrate erotic/pornographic commercial media. Not originally being of encyclopedic nature doesn't mean it can't have an encyclopedic purpose.
VanTuckyTalk00:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Numerous images from this site (listed above) were uploaded under GFDL license based on
this entry at
Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission. However, due to some questions about one of the images,
AnonEMouse did some checking, and the permissions folks apparently
do not feel this is a good permission, because New Millennium Video, an online retailer, likely does not own the copyrights or have the right to release the images under the GFDL, and possibly gave the permission for purposes of self-promotion. Changing the license tag to non-free wouldn't help, as so far as I can see they would all be
WP:NFCC#1 violations if claimed under fair use.
Videmus OmniaTalk14:57, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment I checked the image pages of the first five images listed above, and none were tagged on as being part of an IfD discussion. Shouldn't tags have been placed at the start of the IfD? --
Ssbohio14:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Post facto comment This appears to have been a too hasty process with insuffiecient regard for proper procedure. No mention also is made of the fact that there was a previous ifd round on these images not leading to their deletion. __
meco12:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Image is a copyrighted cover of a newspaper which was accidentally uploaded under a GNU/CC license. Image was provided to me by the copyright holders to illustrate the subject in question, so it could be changed to a fair-use clause easily. However, there is a new and more suitable image
already in use, so the image becomes redundant. In other words, it's an unused fair use image.
VanTuckyTalk21:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Non-free image that has a fair use rationale that does not explain the specific use of the image within the article. Appears to be used only for decoration.
Jay3218323:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)reply