File:CarmenColonWandaWalkowiczMichelleMaenzaRochesterNY1971to1973a.jpg

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description This image depicts the three subjects to whom the article in question is devoted to. Sole file usage intention is to illustrate the infobox of this Wikipedia article pertaining to the deaths of the individuals in question.
Author or
copyright owner
Photographs are school portraits, taken in 1971 and 1973
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original publication: Originally published successively in the Democrat and Chronicle between 1971 and 1973

Immediate source: Immediate source: unsolvedcasebook.com. Direct link here

Date of publication 1971
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Alphabet murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
* Individuals have been deceased since 1971 and 1973
  • This low quality, skewed, cropped reproduction photograph here can be reasonably described as "irreplaceable", and meets the Non-free content criteria.
  • No free equivalent image of subjects in question exist
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * Per NFCC3 guidelines: "An entire work is not used if a portion will suffice." The portion of the image used here is cropped from that used upon the source from where the image is taken. In addition, the source itself uses a tinted low quality reproduction of the actual original image
  • The image is of a low resolution quality, and is 268 x 146px in size as opposed to original source image which is 687 x 374px
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
* This image can easily be found both online, and in printed format. Has been extensively reproduced, in much better visual quality than the version used here, since the 1970s
  • The image is of a low resolution quality, and is 268 x 146px in size as opposed to original source image which is 687 x 374px
  • Image has been slightly cropped from original, in addition to being tinted with "slate" and "mercury" resolution
Other information The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1971 (Colon). 1973 (Walkowicz & Maenza).


  • Image has no free equivalent; therefore meeting the Wikipedia guideline (NFCC1)
  • The intended content of this reduced size, cropped and tinted, lower quality, 268 x 146px image is NOT intended for any use in a manner detrimental in any way whatsoever to the original copyrighted media (NFCC2)
  • Precise name I have given to the file, plus the nature of the content, make any ambiguous usage of the image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)
  • Also, having specifically named and credited the website from where I captured this image, plus my having specifically named the now deceased original author of the image in question, as well as meeting the specific criteria outlined, this image does meet the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (NFCC10)
  • Unique name given to file, also makes any incorrect or ambiguous usage unlikely
  • Strongly believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate the infobox of the article relating to the persons depicted, falls under the "Non-profit and educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alphabet murders//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CarmenColonWandaWalkowiczMichelleMaenzaRochesterNY1971to1973a.jpgtrue

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current22:32, 28 December 2019Thumbnail for version as of 22:32, 28 December 2019267 × 145 (33 KB)Kieronoldham (talk | contribs)Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard
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