I see that the user uploaded quite a few images on the same date, which are similar in their quality:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E8%99%8D

They are taken from a variety of websites, several from the same Megnin one; some are probably legitimate but others not so much. From the sample I looked at, none were in actual use. Many are in this category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lehnert_%26_Landrock

Thanks for looking into it, Beria.

Risker/Anne

On 25 March 2012 23:06, Béria Lima <beria.lima@wikimedia.pt> wrote:
03:01, 26 March 2012 Beria (talk | contribs) deleted page File:739 - Type d'Orient.jpg (Copyright violation: copyright © Michel Mégnin, 2002 - 2010)

I think that solves the problem, no?

Risker, if there are more images from this site on commons, please let me know
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On 25 March 2012 20:46, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:
Of note, I question the copyright status of this (and other) images.  In particular, there's no evidence at all that the photo was taken in the 1910s, and there is the fact that the copyright and appropriateness of these images is already in question when one looks at the website referred to as the source of the image. 

Of course, I don't go near Commons if I can avoid it - and I usually can - so I'm not going to take up this fight.  However, if *I* can see a problem with an image copyright, there's probably a problem.

Risker/Anne

(And thanks to Andreas and whomever else removed the images from other projects.)

On 25 March 2012 09:38, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
This edit to the article on the niqab worn by Muslim women


was pointed out on the Wikipediocracy forum the other day (http://www.wikipediocracy.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=122; I'm a mod there).

The edit has stood for five days now. The same image was also inserted in a bunch of other Wikipedias (and may still be present in them).

Interestingly, in the German Wikipedia, it was stopped by the pending changes function. (I've reverted it in the German Wikipedia.)

Andreas

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