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File:Girls Gone Wild Tour Bus (Late 2000s).jpg

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:Girls Gone Wild Tour Bus (Late 2000s).jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.

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This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Image wrapped on bus is copyrighted; no COM:FOP US for images.

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Omphalographer (talk) 04:39, 8 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Notification about possible deletion

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

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Affected:

File:2007 Whale Tail.jpg

And also:

Yours sincerely, Omphalographer (talk) 04:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello Omphalographer,

This is the same reply as on the deletion request so if you've read the other, no need to read this one.

Thank you for getting a conversation started on this topic and thank you for giving me a chance to respond. I am personally against the deletion of these photos and prefer that these photos remain in place both on Wikimedia Commons and on the various articles they’ve been placed.

You note that the potential educational value of these photos are not outweighed by issues of privacy. I will speak to the point about privacy violations later but first I would like to discuss the educational value of the files. The 2000s and the early 2010s, when these photos were taken, was a time when young women in the Western World regularly exposed thong underwear. For those of us who remember the era, I do not think that this is a point of contention (Please let me if anyone reading would like to discuss this further). Regardless of what you believe about the so-called whale tale phenomenon, it was a part of life in Western countries.

We should note that this time period is quickly becoming history to the younger generations. In an effort to help them understand life during this time period, and understand all aspects of this time period, I believe the photos should remain as a visual aid for students to understand that young women “whale-tailing” was a part of life. While I understand reservations regarding these “creep shots,” these photos, and the very fact that they exist, represent a slice of the dynamics of life during this time period. Young women were exposing thong underwear and there were individuals, probably mostly men, taking photos. Eliminating these photos does not change the past.

In terms of the violation of the privacy of these individuals, you are both correct and incorrect depending on what jurisdiction is the focus of our discussion. In the United States, where many of these photos were taken, the act of taking a photo of an individual in a public location is not a violation of one’s privacy. This is also the case in Canada. In other words, if North American standards are being used here, these photos are not violations of privacy.

I would also like to point out in none of these photos, with the exception of perhaps the “2011 Milan Whale Tail” file, none of the women who are inadvertently showing their underwear are identifiable. This was the logic used for the inclusion of another file that shows a woman revealing her thong underwear (link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brianjd/Old#Identifiability).

This then leads to the next point I would like to make on precedence. Speaking further on that same whale tail photo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whale_tail_display.jpg, this photo has been on Wikipedia and has been used and currently is being used by a number of Wikipedia sites. It has, for example, been used by the Russian Wikipedia version of the whale tail article for many years (and no I am not the one who posted it on their Wiki site). At least in this situation, there appeared to have been some agreement that the educational value of the photo outweighed any other issues.

For these reasons, I would like to keep these files up. Thank you for your time. Please allow me at least 24 hours to get back to any responses.

Forgive any grammatical errors, word choice issues, etc please.

CanofCan (talk) 01:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content was recently deleted, or will soon be deleted, in accordance with our process and policies, because it was not, or is not, within our scope. Please review our project scope, but in short, Commons is targeted at educational media files including photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text and video clips. The expression “educational” is to be understood according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge; instructional or informative”. Wikimedia Commons does not contain text articles like encyclopedia articles, textbooks, news, word definitions and such. Each of these other kinds of content have their own projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquote. If the content seems to fit the scope of one of those other projects, please consider contributing it there. Otherwise, consider an alternative outlet. If you think that the deletion was in error because the contribution really was in scope, you can appeal it at Commons:Undeletion requests, giving a reason why it fits our scope to help others evaluate the matter. Thank you for your understanding.

--Yann (talk) 08:55, 18 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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