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File tagging File:Derrick Evans (West Virginia politician).jpg
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Hekerui (talk) 21:24, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
- User:Hekerui email sent. I'm a little confused by the West Virginia state legislature's approach to image licensing, but their website says that "photos...can be downloaded and printed at home, posted to social media, or shared with your local newspaper". In fact, online news articles have used quite a few official West Virginia legislative photos (usually with attribution) to illustrate articles about Delegate Evans -- presumably deriving commercial use from the photos -- so I can't imagine Wikipedia would be any different, though identifying the specific license is a bit of a poser. Let me know if there's anything else I can do, I'm not very experienced with Commons stuff. RexSueciae (talk) 22:10, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! Hekerui (talk) 17:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)