File talk:Bath Fesival 1970 ticket reverse.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 pretty blatant failure of WP:NFCC#1. Not only would quoted text serve the exact same purpose, but it would not have to abide by WP:NFCC, which is only for media files. — ξ^xplicit 00:05, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use

Replaceable fair use is being disputed because the file is an ephemera image. It might indeed be hard to find a replacement for such an image if it included some artistic imagery and wasn't just text, but that not the case at all. Number 15 of WP:NFC#UUI reads "An image of a newspaper article or other publication that contains long legible sections of copyrighted text. If the text is important as a source or quotation, it should be worked into the Wikipedia article in textual form, with a citation to the newspaper article." which is exactly the case here. WP:FREER says that "non-free content cannot be used in cases where a free content equivalent, with an acceptable quality sufficient to serve the encyclopedic purpose, is available or could be created". A free equivalent does not necessarily need to be another image; it can also be text and there does not seem to be any reason why the textual information on the back of this non-free image cannot be added to the article as freely licensed textual content either as a direct quote or paraphrased with a source cited as needed. This type of decorative non-free use is not only problematic per NFCC#1, but also per WP:NFCC#8. There is no sourced discussion of this ticket anywhere in the article and its not being used at the top of the article as the primary means of identifying the festival so the context required by NFCC#8 is also lacking. This edit sum says an image paints a thousand words, which is fine except (1) once again this isn't an image at all and (2) WP:THOUSANDWORDS. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:03, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

This is looking like blatant Wikilawyering on behalf of Marchjuly. It is the image that’s important not the text per sa . If he is doing this to my two images what is he doing to other uploads by many other editors? This needs to go first to Wikipedia:Copyright problems. --Aspro (talk) 20:02, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.