Talk:Konstantin Chernenko

Rfc on Infobox Image

The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

WP:NFCCP#1 applies and is not open to discussion: an RfC is completely inappropriate.

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This Rfc is being opened to determine which image should be used in the infobox. The images up for review are as follows:

• #A (Current image)
• #B

Image A is a non-free image whose use on Wikipedia is governed by fair use. Conversely, Image B is a copyright-free image with no conditions on its usage. Emiya1980 (talk) 19:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

I have changed the images to links per WP:NFCCP#9. I shall terminate this RfC shortly. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:20, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@Emiya1980: You don't need a full-blown thirty-day formal WP:RFC for this. WP:NFCCP#1 is clear: non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. You have shown that there is a free equivalent, so the current image cannot stay. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:28, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• A as per my edit summary. GreatLeader1945 ^TALK 14:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
• @Redrose64: GreatLeader1945 just reverted your edit. See what I'm dealing with here? Emiya1980 (talk) 18:33, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
• Withdraw Agree with Redrose64. Nemov (talk) 23:34, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
• B since it's a free image, and an actual photograph of him and not a drawing. Some1 (talk) 00:13, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Note that File:Cernenko (upscale).jpg is not "an actual photograph" of Chernenko, it's an AI upscaled version of a much grainier image at File:Černěnko.jpg, where the AI has made a guess at what his eyes, nose and mouth might have looked like at a higher resolution. Per MOS:IMAGES I've replaced the image with the original historical photograph. --Belbury (talk) 11:53, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

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• Konstantin Ustinovič Černěnko, 1973.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 16:40, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

File:Konstantin Chernenko official portrait.jpg

@Emiya1980: From the Commons source this appears to be a contemporary bit of 1980s Soviet airbrushing, rather than the kind of modern AI upscale mentioned above. I don't know how appropriate it is for the infobox, based on that, it may still be that a photo is preferable. Belbury (talk) 10:56, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

The article's current lead image is a high quality photo that depicts Chernenko as he appeared in real-time. It doesn't seem appropriate to replace it with an airbrushed portrait designed to lionize him. Emiya1980 (talk) 11:34, 14 December 2025 (UTC)