Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bile Beans bag
Voting period ends on 26 Oct 2024 at 15:22:31 (UTC)
- Reason
- Interesting bit of ephemera; it is promotional, but for a product long extinct. It illustrates a few unrelated and now somewhat rare things: Two-color printing, patent medicines and paper bag packaging. (I don't believe this bag originally came with Bile Beans in it, since a Google search found similar bags that just have more advertising on the other side rather than product info like weight.) I feel that I should acknowledge this is literally a piece of trash, but it's a very nice piece of trash.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Bile Beans, patent medicine, color printing, packaging. The placement on the Bile Beans page has been less than a week, since I only just discovered we had a page for them, but for the others it's been longer.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
- Creator
- Bile Beans, exact author(s) unknown
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:22, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don't like the CC license. It is most probably in the public domain, so the licensing should be fixed. Yann (talk) 15:46, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Agree with Yann. This is likely PD-anon-80 and PD-US-URAA, with a CC license for countries with a low TOO (like the UK, where Wellcome is based). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The source has a scan of the other side of the bag; neither one has a copyright mark, just a trademark for "Bile Beans." (Even that was found to be invalid by a UK court, according to a particularly amusing part of the Bile Beans article.) In the US, that would be confirmation of public domain status but I'm less clear on UK copyright law. Moonreach (talk) 17:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The UK has, to the best of my knowledge, not required copyright notices with publication. That being said, I've tagged the image PD-UK-anon, as no author is credited, and the work was published well before the cutoff. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Moonreach (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The UK has, to the best of my knowledge, not required copyright notices with publication. That being said, I've tagged the image PD-UK-anon, as no author is credited, and the work was published well before the cutoff. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The source has a scan of the other side of the bag; neither one has a copyright mark, just a trademark for "Bile Beans." (Even that was found to be invalid by a UK court, according to a particularly amusing part of the Bile Beans article.) In the US, that would be confirmation of public domain status but I'm less clear on UK copyright law. Moonreach (talk) 17:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Agree with Yann. This is likely PD-anon-80 and PD-US-URAA, with a CC license for countries with a low TOO (like the UK, where Wellcome is based). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support - The scan would have been better had they used a piece of black paper to prevent bleeding, but overall it's an excellent example of the contemporary advertising. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 10:05, 17 October 2024 (UTC)