Image:Sofia Rotaru.jpg

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Sofia Rotaru. Ukrainian singer.

Source: http://rotaru.com.ru/ Copyright. София Ротару, 2004.


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[edit] Rationale

This photograph is used to illustrate an article about a personality. It has low resolution and is therefore acceptable as free-use. Because it is a celebrity, a free picture is difficult to obtain. Finally, the image is being used for informational purposes only.

The image has historical value. A significant part of the article is devoted to her 55-year birthday when she received high awards from both Presidents of Ukraine and Russia (that is quite a feat actually as Putin and Yuschenko hate each other, imagine Bush and Chavez giving say a Mexican pop star high orders of their countries on the star's birthday). The photograph is from that historical birthday. As far as I know it is impossible to become a Hero of Ukraine twice, so the event in unrepeatable.

With the usual difficulties connected to obtaining celebrities photographs he we have that the star leave in a remote and relatively poor country - Moldova. The number of wiki-photographers is much less there then in the USA or Western Europe. Even free photographs of public buildings from there are difficult to obtain. The last is that we have an ailing (she is almost 60 now) pop-singer with ailing health. Today photographs may not represent correctly her image she was trying to create on the scene.

Bearing all this in mind I think we can remove the "replaceable image" tag. Alex Bakharev 07:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

This media was proposed for deletion as a replaceable non-free content. The result was to Keep the image, as no adequate free-licensed image exists or can be created to fulfill the limited role performed by this image at the time deletion was considered. However, this image may be replaceable by free images in other contexts, and in such cases the free image must take precedence. A discussion of this decision may exist on the image talk page.

Alex Bakharev 05:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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