Commons talk:Deletion requests/Image:Maria-Kotarba-Auschwitz.jpg
Found a link to Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Maria-Kotarba-Auschwitz.jpg there; it is not known whether or not w:Wilhelm Brasse took this photograph of Maria Kotarba too; but the same problems still relate to this photograph pertaining to the way the w:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum features what it refers to as "unpublished" photographs from its own Photo Archives, which it calls "identification photographs" or "mug shots" credited to the "National Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum" (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Poland), or to other museum archival collections, and/or private donors, and/or with USHMM copyright notices in captions and on Webpages in its searchable Photo Archives. When and where was this photograph of Maria Kotarba "first published"? Please provide a reliable third-party published source to document its "first publication" (if any). More information is posted and linked via the Czeslawa-Kwoka photographs in both Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons. This photograph may need a fair use rational and credit given to the photographer (if known) and/or to the copyright owner of the Photo Archives or publications from which it may be taken by whatever source was used by its uploader(s). Note that in the newspaper caption for the photograph (as per link on image page description), there is credit given to "Muzeum KL Auschwitz". That does not indicate "public domain in Poland"; it indicates ownership of the photo by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, just as such photographs show the same credit in captions in the USHMM and by the Associated Press in newspaper source cited in previous discussions of similar images. --NYScholar (talk) 23:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- Would you quit spamming talk page after talk page with your nonsense? Of course they cite the museum as the source of the photo. A citation of source does not imply copyright. -Nard the Bard 02:46, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Concur. Please see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines for further information: "When writing on a talk page, certain approaches are counter-productive... Be concise: If your post is longer than 100 words, consider shortening it... Long, rambling messages are difficult to understand, and are frequently either ignored or misunderstood." --Poeticbent talk 17:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
