Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:John mcloughlin -- publicity photo from yahoo.jpg


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of a fair use image as a replaceable image. Please do not modify it. 

The result was to delete the image.

Meets fair use criteria
This image should be retained, as it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media cannot be found or created that provides substantially the same information. I searched Wikipedia Commons and found no freely licensed image for this John McLoughlin. I did find for a different person of the same name.--Mantanmoreland (talk) 13:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That Wikipedia Commons doesn't have an image of him is no proof at all that such a free image "cannot be found" elsewhere (did you even look on Flickr?). Besides, you also need to demonstrate convincingly that no free photo of him could ever be created. This is most likely not the case, for example just a few weeks ago he made a public appearance and had his photo taken there . Regards, High on a tree (talk) 19:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * There is nothing on Flickr or on the Port Authority website, which I presume would be in the public domain. So I have run out of ideas as to where to find a free picture. If you can think of any others, let me know. However, I do think that it is reasonable to state that a free image cannot be found.--Mantanmoreland (talk) 21:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * As said above, you also need to demonstrate that it is impossible to create a free alternative. By the way, you could also ask them if they would be willing to release this one under a free license (see Example requests for permission for advice on how to do this). Regards, High on a tree (talk) 02:39, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

The subject of this image still exists and could be photographed, and that photograph could be freely licensed. Therefore this image is "replaceable", and fails the first test of our non-free content policy. -- Quadell 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'