Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ciri Cosplay (The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt) • 2.jpg

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File:Ciri Cosplay (The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt) • 2.jpg, featured[edit]

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@Александр Мотин: I'm sorry but I don't see anything at the beginning or end of the video, or on the page, saying it was posted under a free license. Per COM:COSPLAY one needs to be involved. Daniel Case (talk) 06:10, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: Check under the video using desktop web browser — «License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)». I will add the template {{Costume}} to the image then. Hope that will be enough.--Александр Мотин (talk) 06:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
While the trailer may be published under CC-BY, that seems to apply only to that trailer. Checking at the game's website, under "Contacts & Legal" (which I can't seem to link to directly), it says "The Witcher game © CD PROJEKT S". That applies to all aspects of the game, including the appearance of characters and costumes. Daniel Case (talk) 16:45, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Cosplay images are considered to be lawfull according to this discussion Commons:Deletion requests/Images of costumes tagged as copyvios by AnimeFan.--Александр Мотин (talk) 20:57, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

COM:COSPLAY and its statements are described as superseding that discussion. And although it doesn't come down strongly on my side of this, I honestly don't see any difference between someone cosplaying a character and a statue or action figure of that character. They are all derivative works of the same copyright. So I !vote ...

@Colin: Thanks for the link; I can certainly see situations where you might crop the head. But perhaps since I'm as tall as I am, I get sensitive to this issue since I have so often bumped my head on things the midgets who run the world, at least the world of interior design and architecture , do not imagine any human being could possibly bump their heads on.

As for starting a deletion request, I would note that since there is an entire category devoted to this, it's not as simple as it sounds. It looks to me like all of those images are copyvio

However, I'm heading on up to Wikimania tomorrow, and given that there is often enough downtime between panels, events, get-togethers and random encounters with interesting people, i.e. all the things that make Wikimania great, where I find doing this sort of housekeeping work very relaxing and about up to where my state of mind is, perhaps I will take your suggestion and create that DR. And maybe the one for all the Christmas lighting displays from countries without FoP/with insufficient FoP, and the ones of Cloud Gate, all of which cannot be free images, which I have talked about initiating in the past. Daniel Case (talk) 18:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm the only one who has seemed to notice that we do have this policy. I !voted oppose because an image that is not free cannot be on Commons, much less be an FP. This forum addresses only the latter issue. As I said in my response above, I see that I may have the opportunity to create the deletion request for the entire category this coming weekend, so I will attend to that from Montreal (I hope). Daniel Case (talk) 18:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 15 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:05, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: People
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