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File:Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.svg

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Unlikely that the original uploader was the original creator of this flag. Likely still protected under copyright. Safes007 (talk) 15:25, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep. I think this is in the public domain. If none of you found evidence, then transfer it to English Wikipedia. ErrrrrWhat (talk) 16:44, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you think it is in the public domain? I can't find any evidence for that. As it appears to have been created around the 1980s, it will still be protected under copyright. Safes007 (talk) 00:07, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Depending on source, this flag dates to either 1995, 2003, or 2004. According to some sources, the Administrator formally recognized the flag as official in 2004. 73.75.170.176 21:25, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can you prove that it's not? You've mass-spammed DRs on like a dozen files with weasel-wordy reasonings. NorthTension (talk) 11:09, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think we need to prove a file is free to use in it's home country and the USA for it to remain on Wikimedia Commons, not prove that it is not free. Under the precautionary principle, we should delete if there is significant doubt about the freedom of a particular file. The absence of any information that the designer Mohammed Minkom released the flag into the public domain I believe raises significant doubts that it is public domain. Safes007 (talk) 15:21, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep. This flag is literally part of the country flag emojis on every smartphone in the world, and as such this is a ridiculous deletion request. Lexicon (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have another rationale by any chance? 73.75.170.176 21:25, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
🇨🇨 Lexicon (talk) 21:38, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete. Australian copyright laws apply in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, per Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Cocos (Keeling) Islands. With this in mind, this design is certainly above Australian threshold of originality, taking the Australian Aboriginal Flag as reference, and if even the earliest date given in the messages above (1980s) is true, this is cannot be in the public domain. ⎯⎯⎯ Rubýñ 🇨🇷 (scold) 22:09, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Despite the NT flag being a bit more complex than the Aboriginal flag, it's not protected by copyright. But I'm not sure if this flag qualifies as copyrighted. ErrrrrWhat (talk) 03:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We do not know why the NT flag isn't copyrighted, all we know is that the NT government said that it isn't. I even explicitly asked for reasons, as it would affect other DRs like this very one, but we didn't get any. We can't assume anything, including TOO. I'm maintaining my  Delete. ⎯⎯⎯ Rubýñ 🇨🇷 (scold) 18:09, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per Rubyn. --Abzeronow (talk) 03:42, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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