Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with Oanabay04

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Files uploaded originally by ewniki user Oanabay04 claimed as self

User has an extensive history of copyvios on enwiki, so all own work claims are dubious.

• File:George School 10.3.09.JPG
• File:1984 date stamp.JPG
• File:Woodmont2.jpg
• File:Cream chipped beef sandwich.jpg
• File:Manayunk West in 2011.jpg
• File:Newtownsite10309.JPG
• File:Ivy Ridge PRR platform.jpg
• File:Manayunk West in 2010.jpg
• File:Holland platform 10 3 09.JPG
• File:Fox Chase station April 2010.jpg
• File:July 2009 Walnut Hill Trail.jpg
• File:GRiddle Station.jpg
• File:Bethunionstation2010.JPG
• File:Center valley -after.jpg
• File:Center valley - before.jpg
• File:SouthamptonSEPTA042812.jpg

Train2104 (talk) 17:52, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

• Keep. Cutting-and-pasting copyvios are very different from claiming scanned pictures, so while they do call for greater scrutiny to their pictures they don't automatically make them dubious. Looking at the images in this group that have metadata, they are consistent - File:George School 10.3.09.JPG, File:1984 date stamp.JPG, File:Newtownsite10309.JPG, and File:Holland platform 10 3 09.JPG, claimed taken on the same day, don't have a date metadata stamp but the metadata does show them as being taken by the same camera. File:Manayunk West in 2011.jpg, dated two years later, is from a new camera but has metadata date information that matches the claimed taken-on date. The other pictures with metadata also have no glaring inconstencies, or visual appearances, that would indicate they were photographed or scanned from a printed source. - The Bushranger (talk) 19:57, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

@The Bushranger At least one person has claimed to be the proper copyright owner of one of these photos, I can have them get an OTRS ticket number if that'll help. Train2104 (talk) 00:49, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

@Train2104: which photo? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 13:29, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Manayunk West in 2011.jpg Train2104 (talk) 21:38, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

• Comment: the four that The Bushranger (thanks for your research!) mentioned have the same camera metadata as File:Bethunionstation2010.JPG, so those five are likely own work. File:Manayunk West in 2011.jpg and File:GRiddle Station.jpg have matching camera metadata, so they're likely own work as well. Most of the remaining files don't make me suspicious except for File:Fox Chase station April 2010.jpg, which is a pretty mediocre shot regardless, but none of them would be a horrible loss to the historical record if deleted. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:52, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

More thoughts: Adam Moss (User:Mitchazenia) has taken comparable or better shots of several of these (Newtown, Ivy Ridge, Fox Chase, Holland, Southampton) that I can grab from flickr. Walnut Hill and Bethlehem are exactly the same, per Google Maps Street View, so they could be easily replaced with higher-quality photographs. Only George School, Woodmont, and Manayunk West - mostly the latter - would be any real loss to the historical record if deleted per PCP. Also pinging User:Mackensen who's the expert on Oanabay4 copyvios. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:24, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

• Keep. The metadata, as noted above, is consistent with these being legit. I can also say that I've been to many of these places and that is what they look like these days. These aren't old pictures, they're exactly what you might get if you drove there today and snapped a photo. --Coemgenus (talk) 13:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
• Comment. When I went through Oanabay04's photos during the first sweep I left this batch alone because I assumed they were his and lacked proof to the contrary. With the earlier photos (without metadata) I had found enough published in other books that I was comfortable asserting they were all copyrighted. That said these are probably all replaceable and it's difficult to trust anything that user claimed. Mackensen (talk) 07:28, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Keep: A user uploaded some copyvio photos doesn't mean that all of the photos he uploaded are copyvio. Please analyze in detail. --Masdggg (talk) 07:41, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

• We can see the metadata, or search in Google Image, check if it's own work. --Masdggg (talk) 07:48, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

• Keep. Please don't delete "Cream chipped beef sandwich.jpg". The image brings me great joy. 71.161.226.59 23:00, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination and per Mackensen. The history of copyright violations by this person is quite extensive. I have zero trust in the licensing of these images. Metadata can be from whatever place they took them from. Their history makes it impossible to keep these. --Majora (talk) 23:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)