User talk:Winterboxblues

Image:Piano fm.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Piano fm.png, has been listed at Images and media for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel (talk) 18:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC). Gustav von Humpelschmumpel (talk) 18:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Cltcl guitar.png
Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Cltcl guitar.png. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

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Fair use rationale for Image:Freddie41.jpg
Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Freddie41.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

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Freddie Mercury
Please don't add unfree images to the article they will just be removed because there are free ones available. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 08:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I will help out here by adding a non-free rationale. These rationales are not at all uncommon, and I talk about this a lot on the Freddie Mercury talk page. In fact, you will notice that some pages even have little clips of copyrighted music on them. As long you can make that case that profits could not be made from this, then there is no real problem. By the way, as the person designated to maintain the Freddie page (I pretty much made it into a Good Article), I agree with your decision to remove that UGLY 1984 image. As fans, I think that we can all agree here that the photo does not look like Freddie and that it has no educational purpose whatsoever. Good call. Boab (talk) 19:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Freddie41.jpg
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Replaceable fair use Image:3187113 tml.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:3187113 tml.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:


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Image on Freddie's Site
Hi Winterboxblues, You have made some nice images for the Freddie site. I also share many of the same concerns as you do about the poor quality of the 1984 photo. I also just added a lengthy discussion of the non-free use rationale, so that should help. Unfortunately, I think that a lot of people mistakenly think that non-free images can never be used. Others incorrectly believe this to be a very rare thing, when it is in fact quite common. This is true also on Featured Articles, and I show a whole lot of examples in my discussion on the Freddie page. Finally, many people are not aware that the primary criterion for using non-free images involves EQUIVALENCE rather than whether the image could conceivably be replaced with one that is vastly inferior. Hopefully we can work together in order to get something up there that has some kind of educational purpose to it. If not, then I say that we remove that ugly thing that does not even resemble the Freddie that we know and love. Boab (talk) 01:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)