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I posted this over at the help desk at commons, but since there is a lot of potential material to be mined from this source, I want to be doubly sure. The [[United States Geological Survey]] operates the National Wildlife Health Center, which publishes several fact sheets and pamphlets, and also the [http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/index.jsp Field Manual of Wildlife Disease — General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds], which is a wealth of photos of diseases in birds. There is usually a photo credit, but it is to the same two or three people consistently, and from doing a google search I know for absolute certain that at least one of them is an employee of the USGS. I am nearly 100 percent certain the images are in the public ___domain since it is a publication by a federal organization, but I am likely to use a lot of these photos, and I want to be sure. Thanks. --[[User:Joelmills|Joelmills]] 00:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

== Use of image from a fan site ==

I would like to post an image to the Ford Econoline article that needs a 2nd generation picture for reference. As a courtesy to the owner, I requested via email use of the image and I received a immediate failure of Delivery as the address is no longer functioning. I took it a step farther and joined a message board that was linked from the web site and tried contacting the administrator though that with the same error in emailing and I was not able to PM him as this function was disabled by the Admin.

The image in Question:

http://home.earthlink.net/~econoline74/MVC-004F.JPG

The last time the page was updated was 1999 and the page master even stated on the site that he is only keeping the page up for pictures and information and the is not much updating anymore.

Can this Image be used under Fair use Policy ?? [[User:LSX|Yours]] 04:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)