Commons:Deletion requests/File:Malin Levanon 2015.jpg
- File:Malin Levanon 2015.jpg
- File:Malin Levanon in 2015.jpg (both pictures by user FrankieF)
The subject (possibly her representative) has expressed her dislike of the pictures at sv:Talk:Malin Levanon. Her opinion, with which I agree, is that the snapshots were taken while the subject was talking and that the face is distorted. Another free picture of about the same technical quality has been supplied: File:Malin Levanon at the Lights Award by Lea Buragiewicz.jpg. While we are never obliged to delete pictures on request of the subjects, I suggest in this case we do so per Commons:Photographs of identifiable people#Removal requests and Commons:Courtesy deletions. /NH (talk) 06:28, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- Objectivity comes on wikipedia - not subjective opinions
If an image is deleted from the Wikimedia Commons it must be of obvious reasons. It doesn´t in the case of File:Malin Levanon 2015.jpg. The criticism that "it is taken in the middle of a sentence and generally unprofessional" is a remarkable statement. Technically there is nothing wrong in the picture. And I always upload images that may not affront or insult the person. File:Malin Levanon 2015.jpg is, in my opinion, a most vivid and positive image of an active and committed person. She exudes vitality, commitment and female strength.
Wikipedia can not transfer to the public figures to subjectively feel that they "do not look good" in some images and thereby control the image perception of the world's largest encyclopedia. It would create an unhealthy practice and open mass nominations and erasures on purely subjective grounds.
In the case of the criticized picture there is nothing in it that can render a deletion. Not a glance or anything else in the appearance. And technically it fulfills by far the basic requirements for wp.
See also a clearer explanation in swedish at sv:Talk:Malin Levanon.
/ With best wiki-greeting --FrankieF (talk) 03:05, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- In both pictures – especially the first – the face is distorted, probably because the exposure was made while the subject was talking. Press photographers often manage to get good pictures under such circumstances --- it is a matter of timing and prediction. These two pictures are not so good examples, and I think most professional photographers would have discarded them. Besides I also feel some aversion to the large microphone (what is that doing there?). Now that we have a good substitution and the subject has requested the pictures to be removed, I see no reason to keep. /NH (talk) 08:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- It seems to me, that file:Malin Levanon at the Lights Award by Lea Buragiewicz.jpg is significantly better photo than those nominated for deletion. But the nominated photos are also used in multiple projects and cannot be deleted on any other reason except copyright violation. Taivo (talk) 20:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion, 1/ the photos does not make affront and don't insult the person 2/there is currently no evidence the requester at sv wiki has a connection with the people in the image, we are in Commons, and request by external peoples should be send via OTRS to verify the validity of the request, although this is not a guarantee that the deletion will be accepted. Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:45, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
