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Does this file fail Wikipedia's first non-free content criterion?

The subject, a notable professional wrestler who competed from 1987-2004 and died in 2006, was a rikishi for 9 months in Japan (Nov '85 to Jul '86), almost entirely an unknown at that level. This tag for "no free equivalent" presumes 9-months in the 1980s was enough time to gestate some random person in Japan taking a photo of Makushita (third division) bout of a the sumo equivalent of a minor-league player. Respectfully, the assumption that there would be a free version of this available from that brief window (on film) seems to be a bit of a reach. In theory, could there be such a photo? Yes. Is it ever likely to surface? Unlikely. I'm not sure if this tag was meant to foreclose all situations where the likelihood of finding a non-free equivalent is possible. I respectfully ask for it to be kept. --Bobak (talk) 03:13, 7 October 2024 (UTC)