Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alphonso David

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Original – Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David in 2019

Reason: High-quality, in-focus image with high EV to Alphonso David. I can definitely see how this image would make people more likely to read the article.
Articles in which this image appears: Alphonso David
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: User:Dude0926

Support as nominator – AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The crop is too tight IMO, and fails the 1500px minimum requirement. I think the original is a better image, with the full logo of the organization he leads as the bokeh. Bammesk (talk) 04:39, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure about the copyright. EXIF data says: "Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved". The uploader doesn't have a track record. Bammesk (talk) 04:58, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oof, I just looked through the EXIF data and the original uploader's talk page, and I'm worried you may be right. The only other message is a previous upload of a different headshot of David, which was deleted as a copyvio. I did run the original image through Google reverse image-search both before cropping and before posting here, but didn't see anything that was labeled as other than an PR photo (which are frequently released into CC by the uploader and put on political BLPs here, and which the tag seemed to indicate) or alternatively a reference to the WP credit itself. Still, if we have reason to believe it's copyrighted by AP and not CC via HRC, then it's worth deleting. (Feeling an insane emotion swing right now to go from posting an FPC to proposing deleting the whole thing.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 07:07, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've had that happen. It sucks. Commisserations. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.8% of all FPs} 07:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
AllegedlyHuman, sorry about that. OTRS volunteers at Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard may be able to give guidance on requesting a Creative Commons license. I am not familiar with the process though. Bammesk (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy close per copyvio. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:20, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:18, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]