File talk:Yunus Nawandish, mayor of Kabul.jpg
explanation
ISAF publishes or republishes photos taken by soldiers in the Armed Forces of various member nations. Something like 60 to 80 percent of the images are taken by American soldiers. So those photos are really in the public domain, and can bear some kind of {{PD-USGov}} liscense.
Lots of times I come across an image published multiple times -- by the ISAF-media flickr-id, by DVIDS, and in other DoD publications.
Why use the flickr version at all?
- Because the flickr is the first version to be found;
- Because flinfo automates some of the steps of uploading;
- Because flickrreview will take care of uploading the highest resolution version;
- Because flickrreview will take care of verifying the image is under a free liscense;
Another contributor excised a populated {{ID-USMil}} template from the description of this image -- because ISAF published this image. As above this does not mean it is not an image from the DoD.
The {{ID-USMil}} template is valuable if we come across a similar image from a DoD site. If the two images have the same military serial number they are obviously be the same image, and one can be deleted. If the serial numbers differ, the two images are probably closely related images from the same photoset.
So I reverted the excision of the template.
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:24, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
