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Suggestions for a few pictures…[edit]

There are some pictures from the NWS office in Charleston that shows the tornado damage. Definitely fits Wikipedia’s copyright guidelines because it is in the public domain. 108.147.10.55 (talk) 17:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’ll also add that while very thoughtful on the editor’s part. Most of these pictures don’t really fit with what one would expect to find on a Wikipedia article about a tornado outbreak. And I think these pictures should be replaced with for example pictures of the damage caused by the tornadoes (or if we can find one, a picture of the tornado itself). But I will suggest to whoever put these pictures on here; that while Wikipedia is probably not the best place to put these. They’d be a perfect picture to put on Wikimedia Commons (that is literally the purpose of Commons is a free media repository). 108.147.10.55 (talk) 02:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are also pictures of the tornado damage on that damage assessment toolkit that at least one editor put a link to in the reference section. 108.147.10.55 (talk) 20:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also PD like all other NOAA images I’ll add. 108.147.10.55 (talk) 20:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, that's my bad. Most of the images (like the hail one) were the only images from the outbreak until a few days ago, and so I used what I could. Feel free to change them. MemeGod ._. (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2024 (UTC) !nosine![reply]

https://www.weather.gov/rlx/2024-April-2-Severe has images. 2601:5C5:4201:68B0:9DD7:3C17:4A32:8F00 (talk) 04:58, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Meme God images still need transferred to commons. NWS Charleston images still need transferred to Wikipedia. 12.75.127.36 (talk) 13:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The Meme God images are now on Commons. They still need to be replaced (on Wikipedia) with images actually showing the full scope of the tornado outbreak (such as images of tornado damage). 2601:5C5:4380:FD80:C5F8:EAF6:E74F:F1B0 (talk) 03:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have since removed MemeGod images (unless someone re-adds them); don’t exactly know what I’ll replace them with. Pending decision by files for upload; there are some hail pics from NWS Jackson, KY. Haven’t found any flood pics yet. 2601:5C5:4380:FD80:994F:43F1:5581:8D85 (talk) 05:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had to restore the hail picture from @MemeGod27 because the files for upload request only accepted the NWS Charleston images. 2601:5C5:4380:FD80:5054:A7C6:AA2D:9AE2 (talk) 18:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But there are images from NWS Jackson that do show large (close to golf ball sized) hail in Kentucky. 2601:5C5:4380:FD80:5054:A7C6:AA2D:9AE2 (talk) 18:45, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I had added those because, at the time, I was one of the only users who had current images and photos that were not NWS-related or copyrighted. I'm honestly surprised they are still on there. MemeGod ._. (My talk page, my contributions and my creations!) 18:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had removed them for a time pending files for upload. When they only added NWS Charleston images and not the NWS Jackson images; I re-added the hail picture. 2601:5C5:4380:FD80:5054:A7C6:AA2D:9AE2 (talk) 19:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

!nosine!