Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:Radioactive fallout caesium137 after Chernobyl.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.

A general problem with images on Wikipedia is that the various options given when uploaded don't span everything (see US stamps, Smithsonian institute... all very specific things - this needs fixing). Specifically, several scientific images used on Chernobyl catastrophe have been put on deletion under the pretext that "someone - a Wikipedian - could draw the same map". But it clearly appears that on such a subject, only scientific maps can be used for anything - who would believe a Wikipedian's map? This map comes from a Nature article, and all its legitimity comes from this source. Hence, it is not replaceable. Same goes for the CRIIRAD map which was, I believe, deleted (I've haven't been that much on Wikipedia recently, and the deletion procedure is too fast for me...). In both cases, fair use is legitimate, and no, one Wikipedian can not replace such legitimate scientific sources. Lapaz 15:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * See for other map deleted with few debate if any. Lapaz 15:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If the data are published, any Wikipedian could re-create the map based on those data. I've made maps based on scientific data myself for Wikipedia. —Angr 15:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.

Whoever added "-THIS MAP IS IN ERROR. DOES NOT SHOW NORTHERN TURKEY AS AFFECTED. !" clearly did not recognize that this map is limited to Europe.