File:The hoax surgeon's photo purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster.jpg
The_hoax_surgeon's_photo_purporting_to_show_the_Loch_Ness_Monster.jpg (379 × 240 pixels, file size: 94 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary[edit]
| Description | This is a photograph published in the Daily Mail in 1934, purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. It was originally attributed to R K Wilson, a London surgeon, who sold the image to the newspaper. It is now known to have been a hoax. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Marmaduke Wetherell (photographer)/Daily Mail (publisher) |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: Daily Mail newspaper Immediate source: Daily Mail |
| Date of publication | 1934 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Robert Kenneth Wilson |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | It is a historically important photograph.
It is generally known as the 'surgeon's photograph' and the article is a biographical account of the surgeon. Although initially attributed to Wilson (died 1969), a confession by Christian Spurling, the conspirator who created the hoax monster, suggested that Marmaduke Wetherell(died 1939) had taken this and used Wilson the surgeon as a 'front man' to give credibility to the hoax. It appears to meet the 10 criteria set out in WP:NFCC |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
This is a unique photograph |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | Used only in single article. Low res version of original. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
It is a low res version of the original used in the single article |
| Other information | It is a historically important photograph.
It is generally known as the 'surgeon's photograph' and the article is a biographical account of the surgeon. Although initially attributed to Wilson (died 1969), a confession by Christian Spurling, the conspirator who created the hoax monster, suggested that Marmaduke Wetherell(died 1939) had taken this and used Wilson the surgeon as a 'front man' to give credibility to the hoax. It appears to meet the 10 criteria set out in WP:NFCC |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Robert Kenneth Wilson//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_hoax_surgeon%27s_photo_purporting_to_show_the_Loch_Ness_Monster.jpgtrue | |
Licensing[edit]
 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). | ||
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