Commons:Deletion requests/File:Abdul Ahad Momand.jpg
No evidence this is an Afghan work.In all likelihood it is a work of the Soviet space agency, therefore PD-Afghanistan would not be applicable. The author needs to be provided, otherwise the image needs to be deleted. russavia (talk) 18:45, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Keep - In this case the author would be the Afghan citizen in the photo, Abdul Ahad Momand, since it is his personal portrait. It was published in Afghanistan in 1988 under the former PDPA communist regime. PD-Afghanistan would be applicable.--Officer (talk) 22:59, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Delete – Obviously the person in question isn't the author, since he didn't take his own photo himself. He started to his spaceflight from the Soviet Union. Unless they made him wear his spacesuit, flew him into Afghanistan, and then took him back to the SU before he took off into space, this photograph was taken in the SU, not in Afghanistan. It was almost certainly taken by somebody working for the Soviet agency, and it is highly unlikely that it should have been published only in Afghanistan and not also in the country he worked in. Since the source provided is second-hand and doesn't document the original authorship and publication history, exclusive publication in Afghanistan can't be assumed. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:52, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Deleted: While Fut Pef's conclusion is correct, his reasoning is not. It is not a question of where the image was taken, but of where it was first published. It is certainly possible that the first publication was in Afghanistan, but without evidence of that, we must assume it was it was published in the USSR. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 13:27, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
This photograph was uploaded with the tag {{PD-RU-exempt}}, type = logos and emblems, which is obviously incorrect. The source web site states that the photo was taken from Pinterest, so we don't have any real information about the author of this photograph nor about the time and place it was created or first published. Therefore, we cannot establish its copyright status, and the file should be deleted per the precautionary principle. Rosenzweig τ 20:03, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. —holly {chat} 18:30, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
