Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Josh Sundquist

Josh Sundquist

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Jun 2010 at 23:40:54 (UTC)

Original - American alpine skier Josh Sundquist racing in the giant slalom event at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin.

Reason: The main subject is in focus, is of sufficiently high resolution, impressive, among the best examples of a given subject that the encyclopedia has to offer.
Articles in which this image appears: Josh Sundquist
Paralympic alpine skiing
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
United States at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Josh Sundquist (from the official website)

Support as nominator --Bib (talk) 23:40, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~. This image is not free for commercial use, I'm afraid. We can't promote it. NauticaShad es 08:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I think what you mean is it wasn't submitted through OTRS. The license on the file is very permissive (and probably legit - uploader's name matches his marketing manager [1]; we could still ask for OTRS confirmation, though). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:30, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - NauticaShades is correct. This licensing is simply not free enough- we would need OTRS permission. I'm tagging the image as lacking permission, if someone wants to follow this up, they can do. J Milburn (talk) 10:52, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - As such, I recommend this nomination is speedy closed- the image can be renominated if/when the permission is forthcoming. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - The copyright holder of this work allows anyone to use it for any purpose including unrestricted redistribution, commercial use, and modification. Doesn't even require attribution, and you're telling me it's "not free enough"? ^^ Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:27, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - No, the problem is that we don't have any evidence that that license applies. If it does, then yes, obviously, it can be considered free. What is said on the source website is very different to that. J Milburn (talk) 13:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - So it would need to be proven that the uploader AliceCCurtin, is the same person as the contact person AliceCCurtin on the source website. She/he does not seem to be mentioned at the new version of the website (contacts). At the Josh Sundquist facebook site, he has written messages only some hours ago. Maybe someone could ask him there? Bib (talk) 16:07, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support (from copyright owner). Greetings, I am Josh Sundquist, both the subject of this photo and its copyright holder. The photo was taken by Ken Watson. I purchased all rights from him for all uses for all time. I would be honored for it to be used for anything associated with Wikipedia. Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure what OTRS is. If someone would like to email me instructions on what I can do to assist in getting this photo approved, please contact me at (email removed, this is not a good idea). JoshSundquist (talk) 3:52, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

(Did anyone ever send that email with instructions to JoshSundquist? I did not.) Bib (talk) 21:51, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS is how we coordinate responses to the emails sent to Wikipedia regarding often sensitive (e.g. biographical, copyright, legal) matters. See WP:OTRS for some general information. In your case, please email permissions-commons at wikimedia dot org with a link to the image (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JoshSundquistSkiing.jpg), reasonable proof that you're the copyright holder and that you want to release it under a free license. MER-C 08:25, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please post here once you've sent that email, and I'll process it. Thanks very much for taking the time to go through our processes, it's appreciated. J Milburn (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional support per nom once the rights issues are cleared up. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:45, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support. Per Spikebrennan. NauticaShad es 18:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support per above. Good action sports shot, we can do with more of these. Being in sporting apparel doesn't detract IMO. Slightly soft perhaps given the size, but nothing to really complain about especially considering action and distances involved. --jjron (talk) 13:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support per above. Nice action shot, with good encyclopedic value in at least the first two articles mentioned. --Avenue (talk) 01:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Suspended pending copyright clarification.~~ --NauticaShad es 10:50, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . Deleted at Commons for missing permission. --NauticaShad es 15:09, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]