Anyone into hairy women? Options

[EricBarbour]

I have to wonder if he obtained the permission of his Iranian-girlfriend-back-in-1989.

(He's a real comedian.)

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Thu 26th August 2010, 12:28am

[carbuncle]

I may as well do this here and see if anyone decides to pick it up at Commons.

The hairy woman image was originally uploaded by Commons user "The Duke of Geography" on 8 July 2008. The original file name was"IRAN-01.JPG" and a Google search will find copies of it under that name.

It is obvious to me from the vertical banding that the source of the image is a printout or older colour photocopy. The cropping of the face has also cropped out a red dot in the upper left hand corner. That red dot is a push pin. This is an photo of a printed image tacked up to something. That may be more apparent when one sees the original uncropped version where part of the surrounding are visible (not the one that was uploaded to Commons and subsequently cropped to remove the face). While this may not have been known to Commons editors at the time, it should be sufficient now to get the image deleted. Oh wait, this is Commons we're talking about, of course that won't be enough!

Let's look at the source, then. The Duke of Geography uploaded a number of copyvio images of American football players, all of which were deleted. Odd that anyone would trust the user's claims on subsequent image upload but again, this is Commons. Over on WP, that same user was blocked briefly (never to return) after this outbursts like this and:

What the fuck is your fucking problem you damn bitch. The dude is a member of the Chicago Bears roster, he on a professional fucking football team for crying out fucking loud. I'm trying to make the article better. This shit don't happen overnight. Look at the Cody Balogh article. This one is gonna look just like that. I authored both. Give me a fuckin break. I just started editing and you wanna delete it. Damn. --[[User:Duke of Geography|Duke of Geography]] ([[User talk:Duke of Geography|talk]]) 17:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

So, a valued contributor. What about the user's other uploads of hirsute women? All taken from an article in a dermatological journal. If everything else uploaded by the user is a copyright violation, even Commons admins may be able to overlook the fact that it's an image of a naked woman and bring themselves to delete it. If not, let me know - there's more where that came from.