Colorado balloon incident Greetings I reverted your addition of a news photograph of the Colorado balloon incident balloon Unfortunately Wikipedia s use is exactly like the commercial use for commercial news photography As the template you used states Use of historic images from press agencies must only be used in a transformative nature when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts It s intended for images which are themselves iconic works of art so that we can use the images to primarily facilitate discussion of the image Even ignoring the legal problems with using the news photography Wikipedia has a hard requirement for freely licensed images because non free media compromises the freely licensed status of Wikipedia Refer to the first rule at WP NFCC non free images are not to be used unless obtaining a freely licensed could not be reasonably believed to be possible There were undoubtedly thousands of photographs of this balloon taken by amateurs and professionals alike almost any would do for the purposes of the article Wikinews claims that the balloon was low flying and that photographs were captured by area residents The best way to get an image for the article would be to leave a placeholder in the article requesting that the public submit one The effectiveness of such a place holder will probably diminish over time as the attention on this incident dies down I ve been checking flickr and other photo sites but have so far come up dry though sometimes it takes a little while for people to bother uploading their photographs I hope I haven t given the impression that I do not appropriate your contributions to the article as I do especially your efforts to use even and neutral language in the face of a media environment eager to describe the parties unfavourably Thanks for your contributions