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Description	This image is a photo of James Bulger. It was released by his Mother to the police and the public in the hunt for her son's killers. It is contended to be in the public domain. There is no replaceable alternative image therefore is eligible for use on Wik.ipedia.Pro
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Article	Murder of James Bulger
Portion used	Full photo as used by James' mother.
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	Educational and informational purposes only.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this image therefore the image cannot be replaced.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:26, 12 June 2024		262 × 380 (89 KB)	Humbledaisy (talk \| contribs)	With respect to those who edited the photo previously, I have restored the image to the original published photograph as can be found online. The previous version utilised AI generation to add new inauthentic data to the image. The original is blurry, but it is real. It is surely not helpful to process images with AI for an online encyclopaedia article about a criminal case and it seems totally inappropriate and unnecessary to digitally distort a widely-distributed photograph of a child mur...
	00:01, 21 March 2022	No thumbnail	262 × 380 (73 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	16:26, 20 March 2022	No thumbnail	968 × 1,400 (437 KB)	Hogyncymru (talk \| contribs)	Improved quality of image by manually restoring details to his face, adding texture, removing blurring by drawing the details, by removing/blurring irrelevant backdrop, without adding false information by keeping the original image as true and accurate to the original.
	12:11, 15 February 2012	No thumbnail	242 × 350 (83 KB)	DrJunge (talk \| contribs)	denoised, white balance adjusted.