Pedro Sanchez wrote: Fair use depends on what specific use it is being put to, so there's no one universal "yes" or "no" answer. However: Fair use of images on user pages is never permitted, in accordance with item number 9 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use#Policy]. This image appears to be so widespread in userspace because it was in a userbox at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:1ne/Userboxes/User_abstractions] so I've removed it from there. The image appears to have been deleted two days ago so I suppose this issue is moot. To be valid fair use the article should be about that specific image in some significant way. If there was a paragraph or section of the article addressing it, perhaps - though in that case it would make more sense to have the image presented individually in that paragraph or section. I'd say it's best to assume not when the case is in doubt. Some editors are hypersensitive about this sort of thing. I still can't figure out why the original image of the O RLY? owl isn't fair use in the article [[O RLY?]], but endless battle isn't worth it. I'd say that [[Terror bombing]] and [[Aerial bombing of cities]] aren't fair use, since those articles aren't about the painting itself in any significant way, but that a reasonable case could be made for [[Around the World in 80 Treasures]] since it's used specifically to reference the painting itself. I'm not a lawyer, but unfortunately even if I _were_ a lawyer I wouldn't be able to give any sort of objective yes-or-no answer. As I understand it the law in this area is subjective and the only way to get a clear-cut answer on whether something is fair use or not is to actually go through with a court case over it. The painting is not extensively discussed, so it's a bit questionable. But there aren't a lot of other Picasso paintings in the article so it might be reasonable to keep as an exemplar of his work. Mentioned in passing in a single line, not enough to be fair use here IMO. Mentioned in passing in a single line, and not even by name. Not at all fair use here. There's a whole section of this article that's about the painting so it looks fair use to me here. If it's fair use anywhere then it's fair use here. As with [[Pablo Picasso]], it's not discussed in any detail but it might be reasonable to keep it here as an exemplar of his work. It's currently the only Picasso painting illustrated here. As mentioned above, a case could be made for fair use here but it's a bit iffy. I expect someone else will probably remove it now that it's been raised here on the mailing list and I wouldn't spend effort to keep it in. Looks like the full extent of the mention of the painting is this line: "While Picasso was worried that if he copied Velázquez's painting, it would be seen only as a copy and not as any sort of unique representation, he proceeded to do so, and the enormous work—the largest he had produced since Guernica in 1937—earned a position of relevance in the Spanish canon of art." This isn't even about the painting itself, it's about some _other_ painting Picasso did. Not fair use.