Talk:OK Blue Jays

The user below has a request that an edit be made to OK Blue Jays. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. Summary of request: Consider adding non-free historical image of the 1986 gold record presentation The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 476 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

Disclosure: I am posting this request on behalf of a family member of Jack Lenz, one of the song's co-composers, so there is a family connection to the article subject. For that reason, I am asking uninvolved editors to review rather than adding the image directly.

Request: Please consider whether the article should include a low-resolution, locally uploaded non-free image from the contemporaneous RPM item already cited in the article: the photograph and caption accompanying "A&M gold presented to Jays' manager Williams" in RPM, July 12, 1986, vol. 44, no. 17, p. 2. The source is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260519034515/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/RPM/80s/1986/RPM-1986-07-12.pdf

Suggested placement: Next to the paragraph beginning "By 1986, the single had sold over 50,000 copies..." or immediately below that paragraph.

Suggested caption: A&M gold single presentation for "OK Blue Jays" in 1986. From left: Pat Ryan, Tony Kosinec, Gabriel Lenz, Blue Jays manager Jimy Williams, Joe Summers and Bernie Finkelstein.

Why I think this may satisfy the non-free content criteria: The image is not merely decorative. It is the contemporaneous published visual record of the exact historical event discussed in the article: the gold-record presentation for "OK Blue Jays" after sales exceeded 50,000 copies. It shows the physical gold-record plaques, the Blue Jays manager who accepted the award, and the music-industry figures named in the source caption. A free equivalent is not likely to be available because the event was a specific 1986 presentation documented in a trade publication; a new photograph could not recreate the historical event. A low-resolution crop of just the photo/caption would not substitute for the original RPM issue or the archived PDF, and would be used in only this one article to support readers' understanding of the gold-record paragraph.

Possible file/rationale details if an uninvolved editor agrees: The file should be uploaded locally to English Wikipedia, not Commons, because it would be non-free/fair-use content. A suitable filename might be OK Blue Jays 1986 gold record presentation RPM.jpg. The source should identify RPM, July 12, 1986, vol. 44, no. 17, p. 2, with the archived PDF above. The non-free use rationale should be specific to OK Blue Jays and should state that the image is a low-resolution crop used to illustrate the 1986 gold-record presentation discussed and cited in the article.

I have not uploaded the image myself because non-free files should not be uploaded speculatively; if this request is accepted, the upload and article placement should happen together so the file satisfies WP:NFCC#7. ~2026-29868-50 (talk) 16:23, 19 May 2026 (UTC)