Commons:Deletion requests/File:Languages of Africa map.svg

per Commons:Deletion requests/File:Languages of Africa map mk.svg Ellywa (talk) 03:30, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And also these variants:

• File:Languages of Africa map ka.svg
• File:Languages of Africa map EU.svg
• File:Languages of Africa map-ar.svg

Ellywa (talk) 03:34, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep It's not the map, it's according to the map. Seb az86556 (talk) 19:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: The first of these files was File:Languages of Africa map.svg by User:Seb az86556, who in 2010 clearly stated that it is "according to Huffman". The others, including the Macedonian one Fæ put up for deletion in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Languages of Africa map mk.svg, are just versions with the map captions translated. Yes, there are some small deviations in the geographical distribution of the colors/languages, but some details of the file were changed over the years (see the file version history and the file talk page), and there are differences even between the two versions of the "Huffman" map at [1] and [2]. And while one might be of the opinion that maps should be made using original data, it's not a prerequisite for maps here as far as I know, and also not a reason for deletion. One could argue for deletion of grossly misleading and incorrect files, but that does not seem to be the case here. Any inaccuracies can be corrected with newer versions, and if necessary there are templates for factual errors etc.

As for copyright: Yes, the original Huffman map is copyrighted, but the SVG files are not copies of that map, they are maps made using a different base map and Huffman's map as a guide for the geographical distribution of languages. I see those as non copyrightable data/facts. --Rosenzweig τ 21:20, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]