File:Thomas Sankara.jpg

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Description	A black and white portrait of Thomas Sankara
Author or copyright owner	unknown, Burkina Faso government
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: http://www.archives.gov.bf/index.php/component/content/article/13-example-category/27-thomas-sankara Immediate source: http://www.archives.gov.bf/index.php/component/content/article/13-example-category/27-thomas-sankara
Date of publication	31 July 2012
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Thomas Sankara
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	No known freely licensed photos of Sankara exist. Most photos were taken of him in the 1980s by press agencies and are still in copyright.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Single use, relatively small file size
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The photo is a simple black and white portrait from the government archives of Burkina Faso. It is used for an educational purpose, to identify the subject of the article.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 15 October 1987
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Thomas Sankara//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Sankara.jpgtrue

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:01, 11 March 2018		275 × 363 (15 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	21:16, 10 March 2018	No thumbnail	283 × 374 (50 KB)	Indy beetle (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Thomas Sankara

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