Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by AlexCairns

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Files uploaded by AlexCairns (talk · contribs)

Unlikely to be own work. Taken with multiple cameras, missing metadata, watermarks.

Didym (talk) 21:09, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Which ones have watermarks? Also, he might just have multiple cameras. Félix An (talk) 23:30, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Here are two data points from checking the two images used in the light pollution article:

* File:Light-pollution-sea-turtles.jpg appears to be from here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329174799_Hazard_or_Hope_LEDs_and_Wildlife_LED_Professional_Review

* File:Light pollution solution examples.jpg and slight variations appear all over the Internet. That particular one appears to say "Canadian Space Agency." An equivalent one is available in the public domain from the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/night-skies.htm

This information appears to corroborate the assertion of Unlikely to be own work.

If these are removed, I plan to reach out to the creator of the first to ask if he'd be willing to release it under CC-by or similar.

Should I wait for this deletion process to complete before replacing the File:Light pollution solution examples.jpg with the public domain version that I found? Thanks for guidance. StarTravelerUSA (talk) 01:36, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete All these files are cross wiki uploads from Wikipedia. That seems to be the only link between them. Google searching some of them like File:Monkey bridge.jpg seems to indicate that some, but no means all, have been bouncing around the web for many years. I too doubt that all of these pictures are by AlexCairns. If they are, he is a very well travelled man. He has had a chance to respond and hasn't - delete, no permissions--Headlock0225 (talk) 16:08, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agree with above that these are not the uploader's own work. In addition to the examples given above, a couple more examples with problems are File:Tyler Walker in the Slalom event, Paralympics 2018.jpg which has a watermark crediting professional photogapher Joe Kusumoto, and File:Squirt-Boating-Cheat-River-West-Virginia-Gabe-DeWitt.jpg with filename and watermark crediting professional photogapher Gabe DeWitt. -M.nelson (talk) 23:11, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --Ellin Beltz (talk) 23:13, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by AlexCairns

Files uploaded by AlexCairns (talk · contribs)

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