Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with Flickr "robert sullivan"

This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.

Files found with Special:Search/Flickr "robert sullivan"

Flickrwashed images. These photos are not the work of the Flickr user - they're mostly the works of non-US governments and military contractors.

• File:RIMPAC 2012 - Flickr - aeroman3.jpg
• File:Operation REASSURANCE - Flickr - aeroman3.jpg
• File:Operation Hudson Sentinel, 440 Squadron.jpg
• File:2018-01-28 StratolaunchAircraft 26071200028 6bbee9a16b o (crop).jpg
• File:MP Rob Merrifield.jpg
• File:2018-01-28 Stratolaunch Aircraft.png
• File:2018-01-28 StratolaunchAircraft 26071200028 6bbee9a16b o.png
• File:MP Rob Merrifield (cropped).jpg
• File:Two Cormorant In Flight.jpg
• File:A CH-149 "Cormorant" helicopter flies over Mount-Washington in preparation to land.jpg
• File:A CF-18 en route to Ottawa to celebrate the 60th anniversary of D-Day - 25524715194.jpg
• File:A CF-18 en route to Ottawa to celebrate the 60th anniversary of D-Day.jpg
• File:General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Turkish.jpg
• File:A CF-18 en route to Ottawa to celebrate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. - 25856638320.jpg

Ytoyoda (talk) 15:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

• Evidence? - The Bushranger (talk) 01:35, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

@The Bushranger: Sure.

1. I'd start with the Flickr user's photostream. It's pretty obvious that the photos are mostly, if not entirely, not his work.
2. Most of them are U.S. military or NASA photos, so they're copyright-free, but they're misattributed to Robert Sullivan.
3. But there were a couple of obvious 3rd party photos that don't belong to the U.S. government, [1], which belongs to DPA, and [2], a Selena Gomez selfie. You can see that the user is less than perfect with assigning the correct license to images.
4. When you clicked on the file links, you probably saw that most of the photos had the metadata intact, with credit explicitly given to members of the Canadian armed forces. To my knowledge, the Canadian government does not release images to the public domain.

So we know that the Flickr user's image credit and licensing are not perfectly reliable, he has labeled copyrighted work as public domain, and that we have images that most likely come from copyrighted sources. Ytoyoda (talk) 04:41, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

That's a wrap, yep. Thanks. Delete, sadly. - The Bushranger (talk) 05:30, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

---

Deleted: per nomination. --Gbawden (talk) 09:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC)