Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Celebrities

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Files in Category:Celebrities[edit]

This category is a honeypot for catching vanity uploads and copyright violations. Here is a first batch of web-size images without metadata. They are very unlikely to be OK for Commons, either because of lack of proper license and permission, or for being out of scope, or both.

Yann (talk) 14:42, 1 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • To say that images of celebrities are "out of scope" is ridiculous. A celebrity is a person who is well known for being well known. If a person is a celebrity, then an image of them is totally and completely within the scope of Commons. That being the case, evidence must be presented that these images are either of non-celebrities or are copyright violations. Please present that evidence. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I didn't say that. Many images in this category are not of celebrities, that's the point. And most images of celebrities are copyright violation, that's the other point. Yann (talk) 07:46, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I don't understand the use of this category. Should we delete the category, irrespective of which images within it are kept or deleted? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:17, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Who are you arguing with? Trade (talk) 17:50, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • How does that remark look like an argumentative one to you? I don't understand that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:38, 4 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Keep At least for File:Masoud Shafaghi.jpg since he has a Wikidata entry and Wikipedia article. Although admittedly they are clearly promotional, but whatever.  Delete for the rest at least for now since I couldn't find anything about the other people I researched. --Adamant1 (talk) 13:49, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Yes, this may be in scope, but as a 640 × 630 pixels image without metadata, it is very likely a copyvio. Yann (talk) 13:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Maybe, maybe not though. I at least wasn't able to find any evidence of it being used anywhere else when I looked for it with TinEye. I know the site isn't 100% reliable though. So I wouldn't be upset or surprised if the closing administrator just deletes it anyway. Really they probably should anyway, but the evidence (or really lack of it) is what it is and I don't think just because resolution sucks or that it lacks metadata definitively proves anything either way on their own. It's possible your right about it COPYVIO though. Some, if not all, of the other images clearly are. --Adamant1 (talk) 14:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Comment Could you at the very least have excluded images with Wiki articles? --Trade (talk) 17:50, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I checked all images, and removed 4 from the list, which may be OK. I deleted obvious copyvios. The rest are mostly likely also copyvios. Yann (talk) 20:55, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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