Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bile Beans bag

Bile Beans bag

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Oct 2024 at 15:22:31 (UTC)

Reason: Interesting bit of ephemera; it is promotional, but for a product long extinct. It illustrates a few unrelated and now somewhat rare things: Two-color printing, patent medicines and paper bag packaging. (I don't believe this bag originally came with Bile Beans in it, since a Google search found similar bags that just have more advertising on the other side rather than product info like weight.) I feel that I should acknowledge this is literally a piece of trash, but it's a very nice piece of trash.
Articles in which this image appears: Bile Beans, patent medicine, color printing, packaging. The placement on the Bile Beans page has been less than a week, since I only just discovered we had a page for them, but for the others it's been longer.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Bile Beans, exact author(s) unknown

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:22, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't like the CC license. It is most probably in the public domain, so the licensing should be fixed. Yann (talk) 15:46, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree with Yann. This is likely PD-anon-80 and PD-US-URAA, with a CC license for countries with a low TOO (like the UK, where Wellcome is based). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  The source has a scan of the other side of the bag; neither one has a copyright mark, just a trademark for "Bile Beans." (Even that was found to be invalid by a UK court, according to a particularly amusing part of the Bile Beans article.) In the US, that would be confirmation of public domain status but I'm less clear on UK copyright law. Moonreach (talk) 17:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  The UK has, to the best of my knowledge, not required copyright notices with publication. That being said, I've tagged the image PD-UK-anon, as no author is credited, and the work was published well before the cutoff. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Thanks! Moonreach (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The scan would have been better had they used a piece of black paper to prevent bleeding, but overall it's an excellent example of the contemporary advertising. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 10:05, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:51, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I don't love the licensing situation (I don't think our image pages are well set up for an image to be 'both' PD and CC), but I agree with Chris's assessment. Josh Milburn (talk) 07:58, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I know. Used to be I'd tag my scans with a CC license, similar to Adam, so that reusers in countries with a sweat-of-the-brow doctrine were covered... people on Commons kept removing the tags. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:12, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 10:47, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 12:24, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ephemera collection; Paper bag advertising Bile Beans Wellcome L0030503.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:20, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]