File talk:Vpw fairgame.jpg

Fair use review

 * [Please see the current talk page of Valerie Plame; response to the request for a "fair use review" posted in Talk:Valerie Plame. Thank you. --NYScholar (talk) 09:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC) [added link to talk page. --NYScholar (talk) 09:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)]
 * [I'm copying that material here, as it belongs on this talk page, since the other user posted the template on this image page. --NYScholar (talk) 00:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)]

I have requested a fair use review for Image:Vpw fairgame.jpg - see WP:FUR. In essence we shouldn't be using a copyright photo when a free photo exists to illustrate a living person. Purgatorio (talk) 23:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Please provide the link to this "free photo" that you refer to; I don't know of such a "free photo" of her that exists. The templates in the image page prior to your request for a fair use review are the templates used for publicity photos of a person relating to a book; in this article there is discussion of the book. The illustration relates to material in the article (the book), not simply to Valerie Plame Wilson. An earlier photo from her public relations speakers' bureau agency was removed; that is a different matter. But Wikipedia generally permits a photo from a book cover when the book is pertinently part of the content of the article; in this case, it is (as it is in the article on the book). Fair use rationale pertains to both this article and that one. --NYScholar (talk) 09:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I've now found the "free photo" in the request move link and edited the article accordingly, placing the "free photo" ("free image") in a more appropriate place in the article; the infobox image is, however, still justified, as I explain in response in the request review section. It illustrates content in the lead and in a detailed section of the article (where it used to appear but was deleted by another editor some time ago).  The rationale for its use in Valerie Plame Wilson, the author of the book, remains; it is used within fair use, due to the discussion of the book in the article on her (aka Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson).  --NYScholar (talk) 00:43, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Given the deletion of this image from the infobox in the article Valerie Plame, I've updated the image page. --NYScholar (talk) 00:29, 24 December 2007 (UTC)