File:Monticello church damages 1974 Super Outbreak.jpg

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For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:

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The NWS credits the Monticello Herald newspaper for this image, but this image does not look like a scan of a newspaper, and may have been an unpublished image from the newspaper archives. Unfortuntely, this period of the Herald has not been digitized, at least not for public access, so I have not been able to search it.

Conversely, although the Herald published a commemorative issue in 2014 and a photo gallery of the tornado damage in 2019, this image is not among them.

I emailed the newspaper asking about the image on September 20, but received no response.

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Description	English: Monticello's Presbyterian Church, Indiana, destruction by the longest F4 tornado on record in USA during the April 3-4, 1974, Super Outbreak. Français : Destruction de l'église presbytérienne de Monticello (Indiana), durant le Super Outbreak des 3 et 4 avril 1974. La tornade F4 qui est passée dans cette ville a le record de la plus longue trajectoire de toutes les tornades aux États-Unis.
Date	4 April 1974
Source	http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/iwx/Events/historical/superoutbreak1974/F4_monticello/Monticello/Studio-D_Inc_White_County_Historical_Sociey/church.jpg ; deal link, archived: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/Superoutbreak_50th
Author	Monticello Herald

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current	22:01, 28 October 2022	1,400 × 704 (57 KB)	Cutlass	Reverted to version as of 17:09, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
	20:02, 30 September 2021	800 × 402 (142 KB)	Flopbean	Color
	17:09, 12 July 2010	1,400 × 704 (57 KB)	LobStoR	reduced palette from 24-bit RGB to 8-bit greyscale
	17:01, 12 July 2010	1,400 × 704 (85 KB)	Pierre cb	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Monticello's Presbyterian Church, Indiana, destruction by the longest F4 tornado on record in USA during the April 3-4, 1974, Super Outbreak.}} {{fr\|1=Destruction de l'église presbytérienne de Mon