Commons:Deletion requests/File:Tornado damage Wisconsin.gif
This file is sourced to a National Weather Service website.
Such sites host a mixture of content created by the US federal government (public domain) and content created by businesses and private individuals (a wide variety of free and unfree licenses).
For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:
- public submissions to the NWS all entered the public domain and/or
- all files hosted on NWS websites were in the public domain unless they carried a formal copyright notice
An extensive review of this rationale in 2024 revealed that neither of these beliefs held up to scrutiny. These findings were confirmed in an RfC conducted from August to October 2024.
Per COM:ONUS it is the responsibility of the person uploading an image to the Commons or anyone arguing for its retention here to provide evidence of permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright and licensing details of such third-party files is usually set out in the image captions.
Unfortunately, this image is no longer published by the NWS, and the only source information provided here is the URL of the image itself; we no longer have access to its copyright and licensing information.
Because we cannot verify that it is (or was ever) available under a free license, we must delete as a precaution unless the precise source and evidence of permission can be found.
 | Closing admins should familiarise themselves with the evidence and discussions at this RfC when closing this request. |
Rlandmann (talk) 08:16, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Delete per above. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 19:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. --Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
