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Wikipedia:Featured articles/Image survey

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The purpose of this featured articles image survey is to better organize the images on our Wikipedia:Featured articles. This is important to ensure Wikipedia's status as a free content resource (including images) and to comply with criterion #3 of Wikipedia:Featured article criteria.

Survey goals

Although our featured articles are generally of quite high quality, image issues have often been neglected in the past. The main goal of this project is to ensure that every featured article has at least one free content image and that none abuse fair use restrictions.

Instructions

Your aim is to make a report on a featured article (any you choose), that you should sign with the date. The report should include the number of images and their free/non-free statuses. Fair use images employed in critical comment should be distinguished from eye candy images, as the latter may be restricted in future. Any potential abuses of copyright or fair use should be reported. Recommendations for possible free images would also be helpful.

It would be a good idea to also leave a brief report at the article's talk page, especially if there are any problems.

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  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Adi Shankara}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Angkor Wat}}
  • All free content images, including a couple of nice user-generated maps. Includes one image whose source website (the French foreign ministry, actually) had a copyright tag, but that is clearly PD due to age (from 1866).--Pharos 03:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Anno Domini}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Baháʼí Faith}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Clement of Dunblane}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Early life of Joseph Smith}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|George Fox}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Greek mythology }}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Gregorian chant}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|History of Buddhism}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|History of the Jews in Poland}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Hebrew calendar}}
  • Jocelin
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Kitsune}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Knights of Columbus}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Mosque}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Noah's Ark}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Nostradamus}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Operation Auca}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Pope Pius XII}}
  • Presuppositional apologetics
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Shroud of Turin}}
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Sikhism}}
  • Joseph W. Tkach
  • {{FA/BeenOnMainPage|Xenu}}
  • The "e meter" image in the template is GFDL. The "Xenu space plane" is problematic not for its copyright status (clearly free), but for its speculative nature and that its creator apparently made it "cheesy" on purpose (or perhaps that's a joke). The volcano pic is free and illustrative. The fair use BBC Panorama image (which is not apparently based on any "authentic" image of Xenu) is not used educationally; indeed the program is not discussed at all. The South Park screenshot, by contrast, is justified well by fair use. The two Dianetics book covers have very good fair use justification, as the specific images on their covers are related directly to the Xenu story. The fair use Sea Org logo is also used with its symbolism being commented on. The Hubbard handwriting sample is marked fair use, but is no more educational than would be a simple statement that Xenu writings written in his hand are known.--Pharos 03:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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