Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1944 German Military Mark

1944 German Military Mark[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Jan 2011 at 18:40:42 (UTC)

Reason: It is high dpi and high resolution. There are less wrinkles than the original upload.
Articles in which this image appears: Reichsmark
FP category for this image: History/World War II
Creator: Sumsum2010

Support as nominator --Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me! 18:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The image page is not very informative. Please document the history of this image. Did you scan the bill yourself? Did you touch it up digitally? Also, the license is incorrect--the copyright that matters here is that of the original bill, not the scan of it. My understanding is that Third Reich currency is public domain, but that needs to be confirmed, and it certainly isn't CC 3.0! So please clear all of that up--thanks. Chick Bowen 22:48, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, this is either public domain or non-free, certainly not CC. Until shown definitively to be PD, it has to be considered non-free. J Milburn (talk) 01:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I believe I have fixed the concerns brought up thus-far. Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me! 05:09, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Are we certain that that license applies to money? J Milburn (talk) 22:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - I am certian it would fall under the "official decree" portion. At this category on Commons of currency from Germany the same licencing is used. Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me! 23:22, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Assuming others are satisfied that the copyright is OK. The creases are annoying but everything is still clear. JJ Harrison (talk) 11:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't replied above because, despite reading as much as I could on it, I'm still not sure that the template on it is accurate, even though it is, as Sumsum2010 says, the one used on other German currency images. The Deutsche Bundesbank has said that there are no legal restrictions on reproducing Deutschmarks, which is not quite the same as saying they're in the public domain but perhaps close enough. However, Nazi-era currency would be a different issue. After the war the copyrights on work-for-hire done for the Third Reich government reverted to the authors, but something like this would obviously be collective authorship, in which case its copyright would not be held by anyone (since the Nazi government was considered an illegal entity after the war, it couldn't hold copyright). So I feel confident in saying that no copyright claim could be made on this image, but less confident in endorsing the particular template that's currently on it. Still, since there's no way it would be deleted from Commons, I'd say it's suitable to be featured if voters think the quality and historical value are sufficient. Chick Bowen 04:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Jujutacular ^talk 22:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]