Testwiki:Deletion requests/Image:Ixchel.png

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Image:Ixchel.png

I uploaded this file and I DON'T want it deleted. I created the image myself and fully believe I have the right to license it as I see fit. However, I would like an expert to confirm this for the following reason: I drew this freehand (not traced) copying out of a book. The original image is obviously public domain, copyright expired over a thousand years ago. The image in the book is copyrighted but they traced the original, so mine is actually more original than theirs. I have more images like this scanned in, could I upload them if I traced them {just as original as original}? Or do I have to draw them all freehand? Or is there some easier way?

• {{subst:vk}} I think that should be OK. — Erin (talk) 08:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

   Delete Now superseded by Image:Ixchel.svg — Erin (talk) 00:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

•  Keep Reproduction of out of copyright material. Note that as pre-Columbian Mesoamerican books are public domain from age, reproductions of them are as well. The book you referenced may be copyrighted for the total layout and the discussion or analyisis of the ancient work, but the reproductions of pages of the ancient codicies-- mechanical reproduction of 2 dimensional out of copyright material-- are themselves PD. -- Infrogmation 14:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Keep You have drawn it freehand and thus it's only a sloppy copy instead of an exact one $\ne$ originality. Take the consequences—your copy is PD-old, too, since it does not contain anything original, just a little bit of random variation. Please upload copies as exact as possible and please don'T claim copyright on things over thousand years old, thanks. --Rtc 18:29, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Deleted, superseded by Image:Ixchel.svg. Thuresson 14:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)