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SI cover inclusion

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The 1995 Sports Illustrated cover featuring Wuerffel has been removed twice lately by a well-meaning editor who is misinterpreting the non-free content guidelines. As explained at WP:NFCI:

8. Images with iconic status or historical importance:

  • Iconic or historical images that are themselves the subject of sourced commentary in the article are generally appropriate.

This cover was the first of two SI covers featuring Wuerffel (the other was after the 1996 national championship, which does not mention his name) and marked the first time he received significant national media attention. It was also a last-minute change, as Peyton Manning was supposed to be on the cover until the Gators "swamped" Tennessee in their 1995 matchup, adding further interest. The cover and the story behind it are mentioned in the article. All in all, it obviously meets the criteria for inclusion, so I'm putting it back. (If anyone disagrees, I'd appreciate it if they'd use this talk page to discuss it, as is appropriate. Thx.) Zeng8r (talk) 11:50, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No sources are provided for the claim that the cover image is "historic" or "iconic". There is no discussion of the cover image itself, as required by NFCC. There is no reliable sourcing even for the claim that the cover was "a list-minute change", just a vague "reportedly" comment on one team's booster site. The cover is used onlyto illustrate its own publication, a garden-variety NFCC violation. A nonfree image may be used "only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding". The fact that Wuerffel appeared on the cover is conveyed effectively by text alone, and omitting the cover in no way impedes that understanding. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 12:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There is ample discussion of the cover in the text, the SI cover appearance is iconic both in Florida football history and in Wuerffel's life. I removed the one fan site source and added several more good references to add even more evidence. If you had said that this article is light on substance and full of fluff, I'd agree with you - it needs a complete rewrite, imo, which I'll squeeze into my schedule eventually. But to focus on that SI cover is just silly. The image clearly met NFCC before; further arguments to the contrary at this point would just be for the sake of arguing. --Zeng8r (talk) 14:28, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You are making no argument that the use satisfies NFCC#8. No matter how many reliable sources report that Wuerffel appeared on the SI cover, that fact is effectively conveyed by text alone. Per WP:NFC, "A magazine or book cover, to illustrate the article on the person whose photograph is on the cover" is a paradigm of unacceptable use; the fact that such a use "might be acceptable" in very limited circumstances does not meet the burden of complying with NFCC#8, as well as showing that such limited circumstances exist. Saying that Meryl Streep was photographed in a red dress at the Academy Awards does not justify including a nonfree photograph of Streep in the red dress, The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 14:41, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You totally missed my point. Let me copy a portion of my reply above, which you should perhaps actually read before replying:

...the SI cover appearance is iconic both in Florida football history and in Wuerffel's life.

If you notice, the references I added are spaced out over 20+ years. The cover was deemed important when it was printed in 1995, and it's still being written about today in newspapers, in good online news sources, and in actual books. Clearly, it's iconic and illustrates (pardon the pun) an important moment in Wuerffel's life. It clearly meets NFCC. --Zeng8r (talk) 14:49, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't miss your point; I dismissed it as irrelevant. None of your sources discuss the cover image itself. All they say is that Wuerffel "bumped" Manning off the SI cover. Not only is that point perfectly conveyed by text alone. Being an "iconic" image isn't itself an exemption from the NFCC presumption against using nonfree images to illustrate BLPs; the sources you cite don't even establish the image as "iconic", and they provide no substantive discussion of the image itself (as opposed to the fact of its publication), and therefore this falls short of even the threshold for even considering its exclusion. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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