Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:Nancy Reagan RRPL debate April 2007.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.

First off, I want to start by saying that I don't want to get into an argument--disagreement: great; argument: bad. I do, however, feel that I have the right to argue against the tag placed on Image:Nancy Reagan RRPL debate April 2007.jpg for two reasons. (1.) I know that the image is not a free-use one, the kind that Wikipedia prefers, but it definitely worth having. I know that you displayed a few examples of somewhat recent pics of Mrs. Reagan, but what I was looking for when search for photos of her was something very recent, as to say something in 2007. We have a picture of her from the funeral in 2004, now I wanted something recent. The pics you listed for me were from 2005, so we would have one from '04 then from '05--I was looking for something more recent, which leads me to the second point. (2.) Recent (2007) free-use pictures of Mrs. Reagan are hard to come by, and I don't know if there's any at all. That's why I'm hoping that fair-use will please be allowed in this case, for 2007 pictures of Nancy Reagan are very rare, if there are any. I hope to give readers a look at Mrs. Reagan right now, something that will not happen if this photo is not allowed to stay.

Please reconsider for the good of the article. Happyme22 05:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Take a look at the non-free content criteria. I don't think the photo meets #1, which says "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose".  We do have free equivalents available, such as the photos from 2005. It's not necessary to have a more recent photo, when suitable free alternatives are available.  Using one of those free images is the best option.  The second best option, from Wikipedia's standpoint, would be to use no photo.  Wikipedia now has a policy of not accepting fair-use images of living people.  Mrs. Reagan is still living, so it's still possible for a free equivalent to be created or provided to us.  If it's important enough, maybe the Reagan Library would be willing to donate something under GFDL, if you contacted them?  Or just be patient.  Surely, Mrs. Reagan will appear again at another government event, with new public domain photos. The fair use justification for the image is simply not valid, given all the possible alternatives. --Aude (talk) 18:36, 21 June 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.'