Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:Uhecullen.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.

—Angr 20:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Attention Cortha:

Please address ALL of the contests presented below, not just one as justification for deletion. Thank you. Also, as a side note, if the image vexes you so, why don't YOU capture and propose a replacement instead of stripping the article of the only one available?

And, I find the portrayal of the building in this light IS important: this being a picture of the Central Administration building --a cornerstone of any college--, it is obvious to me you would want a photo that shines a good light on it to represent the campus. A picture with a crowd of people and fountains running obscuring the building would put forth a more "busy" image and not suit the same purpose as this calm and tranquil one does.

Perhaps we should put this to a vote on the University of Houston general talk page? Seeing as how this image is in use in a userbox (User attends or has attended UH) and has survived other zealous efforts to scrub the UH page of images, it is clear that people like the image as-is.

Also: I take offense to your calling me "dishonest and lazy". You don't know me, how dare you insult me! At least I felt it important enough to submit this image to wikipedia for use in this article for it's improvement! INaction is laziness. And I would just like to say that this is probably the one and only image I have uploaded to wikipedia, ever, so excuse my ignorance with the tagging options. If you want to correct the tag to a more proper fitting please do so, and leave the image alone. Why throw the baby out with the bathwater? I have always sited the origin, so don't say "I got away with it until I got caught", the attribution was put there by me since the beginning.

Regardless, I stand by and reiterate my original comments, and am willing to defend them. I have pasted my comments below for your convenience and I await your response.

P.S. Just as a curiosity, what is your interest in this? Do you dislike the image? Do you dislike the school?

--Rgb9000 04:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

This item is contended as fair use for the following reasons:


 * Identification This photo is used to identify a notable building on a public college campus.
 * Significant Contribution to Article The image of the UH Administration building is important to the University of Houston article, as the administration building is an important part of the campus.
 * Low-Resolution The image is of low resolution (A 51kb JPEG) and is not suitable for copyright infringment.
 * The material is not used in a manner that would likely replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media The image does not make it unneccesary to visit the campus, rather it gives an example of what you might find.
 * The image is in use on multiple pages
 * Hard to get another good photo To get another photo that captures the building in this light (Lighting, Mirror-like pool, lack of people etc) would be difficult or impossible.

Furthermore, the image or media description page contains the proper attribution and always has. Therefore, do NOT delete the image but bring it up on the discussion page or change the tags as appropriate.


 * It is emphatically not hard to get another good photo! And to answer your question, I have no dislike for the image or the school, I just don't like seeing Wikipedia, which is supposed to be a triumph of free media, turned into a gallery of copyright violations like much of the rest of the web. For some reason, articles connected with the University of Houston and nearby places seem to be deluged with copyvio images, often tagged inappropriately as fair use. Cortha 21:43, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.