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21 Aug, 2019
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File:Grand Forks Flood Obelisk April 2006.jpg

Do not remove this tag until the deletion nomination is closed.

Reason for the nomination:

These images were all sourced from a webpage of the US National Weather Service but are highly atypical of the kinds of images that NWS staff take in the course of their duties. NWS pages host a mixture of images created by the NWS (and therefore in the public domain) and the work of third-party organizations and individuals under a variety of licenses. We rely on image captions to help distinguish these, but these images are no longer published, and the NWS page that they were originally published on is now lost.

For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:

public submissions to the NWS all entered the public domain and/or
all files hosted on NWS websites were in the public domain unless they carried a formal copyright notice

An extensive review of this rationale in 2024 revealed that neither of these beliefs held up to scrutiny. These findings were confirmed in an RfC conducted from August to October 2024.

Per COM:ONUS it is the responsibility of the person uploading an image to the Commons or anyone arguing for its retention here to provide evidence of permission from the copyright holder. Because of the unusual subject matter of these files, I reached out to the NWS Grand Forks office on September 24 to ask about their origin but received no response (VRT ticket:2024110410009543).

Without more information about the origins of each of these files, we have no reason to think that they are in the public domain or available under free licenses. Therefore, we must delete all the files listed in this request per COM:PRP because as far as we can tell, they all are protected by copyright. --Rlandmann (talk) 21:22, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

If this template was added because you clicked "Mark for deletion" in the left menu (right when using Vector 2022 skin), please make sure that all necessary pages have been created. If they haven't been created after a few minutes, or if you added this template manually, you should complete these steps:

1 Visit the deletion requests subpage and place the following code:

{{subst:delete2|image=Miscellaneous photos hosted by NWS Grand Forks|reason=* File:June 17, 2010 Holmes, North Dakota tornado.jpg

File:Grand forks flood obelisk April 2006.jpg
File:Turkeytornado 60608.jpg

For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:

public submissions to the NWS all entered the public domain and/or
all files hosted on NWS websites were in the public domain unless they carried a formal copyright notice

An extensive review of this rationale in 2024 revealed that neither of these beliefs held up to scrutiny. These findings were confirmed in an RfC conducted from August to October 2024.

2 Go to the deletion requests log and place the following code at the bottom:
{{subst:delete3|pg=Miscellaneous photos hosted by NWS Grand Forks}}

3 Notify the item's uploader or the creator of the page by placing the following code on the user's talk page:
{{subst:idw|File:Grand forks flood obelisk April 2006.jpg|Miscellaneous photos hosted by NWS Grand Forks}} ~~~~

4 Additionally, you may want to check for Wikimedia projects that use this item and then remove or, if possible, replace with a superior item.

For mass deletions: If you want to nominate several related images, please make a mass request by manually adding {{delete|reason=write reason|subpage=write name|year=2024|month=December|day=28}} to each image page and then following the steps hereinbefore. (Help on mass requests.)

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Description	High water mark of Red River Flood of 2006 in Grand Forks, ND as seen on the memorial marker for the 1997 flood.
Date	6 April 2006
Source	http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/fgf/news/Flood2006/Apr6_EGF_view_of_GF_flood_obelisk_zoomed.jpg
Author	National Weather Service
Permission (Reusing this file)	Public Domain - Work of the U.S. Federal Government

Licensing

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A Commons contributor has asserted in good faith that this file is in the public domain either because:

it is a work of the National Weather Service, and as a work of the US Federal Government, ineligible for copyright or
a third party might have submitted it to a National Weather Service regional office under terms and conditions that placed it in the public domain. For example, the La Crosse, Louisville, Norman, Omaha, Peachtree City, and Sioux Falls offices are known to have had such terms and conditions for certain contests and other public outreach at various points in time (see here for a complete list) or
it is free of copyright for some other reason (for example, it contains no copyrightable elements, or its copyright has expired)

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If you cannot verify the terms and conditions that applied to the submission, or these terms and conditions did not contain an explicit release into the public domain, contact the creator of the file and ask their permission to re-use it. If you are unable to verify that this file is in the public domain or available under a free license, please consider nominating this file for deletion.

See below for the original rationale for asserting that this file is in the Public Domain.

Original public domain rationale

This image is in the public domain because it was stored on the web servers of the U.S. National Weather Service. NWS-created images are automatically public domain in the U.S. since the NWS is a part of the U.S. government. However, the NWS sites also host non-NWS images which have been submitted by individuals: these are generally shown as "Courtesy of ...". Such images have explicitly been released to the public domain by the copyright owner as part of the upload process.

As stated at https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer/: "The information on National Weather Service Web servers and Web sites is in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public."

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Thus, all images on NWS servers are public domain (including "Courtesy of ..." and “Photo by ...” images) unless specifically stated otherwise through a copyright (©) watermark.

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Camera manufacturer	SONY
Camera model	FDMAVICA
Exposure time	1/138 sec (0.0072463768115942)
F-number	f/4
ISO speed rating	80
Date and time of data generation	07:59, 6 April 2006
Lens focal length	38.4 mm
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
File change date and time	07:59, 6 April 2006
Y and C positioning	Co-sited
Exposure Program	Normal program
Exif version	2.1
Date and time of digitizing	07:59, 6 April 2006
Image compression mode	2
Exposure bias	0
Maximum land aperture	3 APEX (f/2.83)
Metering mode	Center weighted average
Light source	Unknown
Flash	Flash fired
Color space	sRGB

File:Grand Forks Flood Obelisk April 2006.jpg

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6 April 2006

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80

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0.0072463768115942 second

f-number

4

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38.4 millimetre

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