Talk:Football sign

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I'm sorry, but either a picture of the actual football sign should be shown first or no pictures should be shown at all. Showing a picture of an American football for a radiographic sign is misleading and intellectually dishonest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avaron676 (talk • contribs) 21:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it is misleading or dishonest at all. It is not uncommon to see a picture of a dinner fork in textbook side-by-side with a picture of a dinner fork deformity -- in the context of how a Colles fracture typically appears. I think an American football is appropriate to include. In the case of spondylolysis (where one talks of the Scottie dog)... they typically draw on top of x-rays to make the point.[1] Nephron  T|C 04:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Fine. Maybe this is just my lack of knowledge of Wikipedia, but how can an image of the actual sign be included without violating copyrights? Avaron676 23:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

One has to find or create an image that is not copyrighted and where the patient has released it to be published. A few docs are around that do this-- Samir has done this for endoscopic images. Other images, such as the one on aortic stenosis or the one on CABG are public domain... by virtue of someone making 'em PD or them being US government (which per policy doesn't copyright stuff). Nephron  T|C 02:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)