Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University College School 1978


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. JForget 01:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

University College School 1978

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Article is a picture that purports to show several notable individuals but does not indicate which they are. The article asks people to fill in the blanks to identify individuals. This is obviously going to be very difficult to provide sources for. noq (talk) 18:34, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Transwiki to Facebook. Pburka (talk) 18:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Commnt In addition, the image itself is too small to make out individuals anyway. The full resolution image is broken. noq (talk) 19:02, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 19:06, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as this photo isn't notable and isn't verifiabil. 🇭🇺 Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  19:19, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Noq correctly draws attention to a fault with the image, which is mysterious: it seems to display fine in high resolution on Windows 7 machines, but fails to open in any browser under Windows XP. Since the article is valueless without hi-res access, this problem will either be solved or the article removed, which is why no "Keep" vote is registered now.  On Noq's main point, I have privacy reservations about identifying individuals in such a photograph without their consent.  With one or two exceptions I am not in a position to obtain such consent, which is why I identify only myself. Its publication in Wikipedia will permit those individuals, or editors able to gain their consent, subsequently to identify them in this stub.  Such an article would fully meet notability and verifiability criteria because an original source image is inherently self-verifying, and the notability arises from the growing utility of this stub as a unique reference for many other articles.  Only if the notable faces are not identified in a reasonable period of time in future should this be deleted.  Since this is neither a vanity article nor of limited interest only to a small community of people, it meets the objectives of the Wikipedia community.   Andrew Bud (talk) 22:44, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment "You have privacy issues about naming people" but ask others to name them? As Wikipedia requires WP:verifiable WP:reliable sources I don't think that people claiming to be people you identified would automatically be taken at face value. Someone saying this is me and I am X does not meet the verifiability criteria. noq (talk) 23:52, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. The image doesn't display on Firefox 3.6.7 on Mac OS/X 10.6.2, either. Safari has no problem. However the image should also be deleted from Wikipedia. It is copyrighted and there is no fair use rationale presented nor can I easily imagine one as the image is not notable. Although there may be notable individuals in the image, there is nothing particularly notable or special about the image itself. If the purpose is to provide illustrations of the notable individuals in the image, then we would be better off encouraging them to submit snapshots of themselves than clipping them out of a copyrighted image. Pburka (talk) 22:57, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. While it may be notable (in some sense) that several people notable enough to have Wikipedia articles were all classmates at the same school, that does not necessarily convey notability to their class photo. Nor can I see much value in identifying their numerous non-notable classmates who are also in the photo. In fact, adding that information would make the article worse. Wikipedia is not a school yearbook. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't yet figure out what corrupts the image on some browsers, and so as I said above this article is worthless without it.  Many of the points made above have some validity but I disagree, and sustain that because this image illustrates notable people as youngsters - imagery not otherwise present on Wikipedia - it is in itself notable.. The alternative would be to add the image file as an illustration to the entry of every notable figure.  The image is also clearly of relevance to the history of UCS, which is why it deserves to be a stub.  The benefits to Wikipedia of removing content of objective validity which is not self-promoting, false or of interest only to a single individual, thereby decreasing the sum total of objective knowledge in Wikipedia, has always perplexed me.  However, these point are moot. Andrew Bud (talk) 21:06, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.