Commons:Deletion requests/File:Salticus scenicus closeup blurry.jpg

Previous discussion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Taurens coopinus.jpg

Renominating for deletion as copyvio. The uploader uploaded it solely to place the image in a hoax article about a fictitious kind of spider (see en:Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Taurens), and therefore is untrustworthy - we shouldn't believe their claim that it's their own work, especially with no EXIF data and no other uploads, under the circumstances. I realise that conventionally we trust claims of own work, but I don't think we should where the user has demonstrably engaged in deceptive behaviour. (Strangely, it appeared later on /r/spiders May 2nd of this year, with description "Found this jumper on my shed in Hampshire, GB", but this can't be the source since it happened later). Dcoetzee (talk) 04:28, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. To make this even stranger than it already was: this is an old photo of mine that I took with my first camera, I might still have the original somewhere. It was only ever posted to a few private places, so whoever uploaded it must have taken it from there. Do whatever with the image, I see hardly any educational value with it, being out of focus. If there's actually any reason to keep it, I have no problem with it staying under the current license it's been claimed to be under. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 21:25, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

•  Keep; assuming the above information is correct & this is the author, then that clears up the copyvio issue, & the file is actually IN USE here [1], so it would be good & useful to keep the pic for that purpose, as a matter of record.

also, it's not a bad photo artistically; it could be used to illustrate something about "fear of spiders", dreams/nightmares, or etc. or just as a general "a spider" illustration.

Lx 121 (talk) 10:14, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request withdrawn. I've updated the author per the above. I'm kind of amazed that the original author happened to stumble across this discussion, but they seem like a trustworthy user with quite a lot of contributions, and they created their account several weeks before this discussion began. Dcoetzee (talk) 11:36, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was indeed very surprised when scanning through Category:Salticus scenicus and seeing my own photo. My first thoughts were "Jesus Christ, is that my photo?" so I clicked on the thumbnail, and it turned out to be so. It's safe to say this may be one of the strangest deletion requests yet. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 16:58, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: withdrawn FASTILY 10:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]