Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Image:Hawking.jpg


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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:Hawking.jpg
I'm hesitant to list it, since I prefer it to Image:Stephen Hawking 050506.jpg (ours is a better pic imo), but the former lacks licence information. I asked its uploader to give information long time before, but no information has been available yet. So I think now we are better to delete it and replace with another ... perhaps that on commons. --Aphaia 10:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Vote closes at 14:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete --Aphaia 10:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Aphaia on both counts: it's an excellent image, but without a license statement, it should go. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 19:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've been looking around to try to find who does own the copyright. This link from the Royal Society appears to be cropped from the same image, and attributes the copyright to NASA. If so, then it would be a work of a US Federal government institution and free of copyright. This is worth investigating. (I did also find this page which claims the image to be "Hawking © Wikiquote", a contradiction in terms) Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I suspect "Hawking @ Wikiquote" is just Kobinet-Nachrichten's way of saying they got the image from us. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I concur with Jeff. German Wikiquote article has no image. And thank you for your replacement with another lovely photo. Aphaia 02:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Sifting through AlltheWeb's picture search for 20 minutes or so, I found the following images from U.S. government websites (all from NASA's StarChild learning center, as it turns out):
 * http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/scientists/hawking.jpg
 * http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/scientists/hawking_img3.jpg
 * http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/scientists/hawking_img4.jpg
 * http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/scientists/hawking_sm.gif (cartoon drawing)
 * I uploaded the first one (I thought it was the best) to commons:Image:Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg and used it to replace this image in Stephen Hawking. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Definite Delete per Jeffq's most resent statement.  Cbrown1023  talk  03:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


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