User talk:Rayevsky

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File:Les Stone, Vodou in Haiti, IMG 4253.jpg

I believe the file you uploaded, File:Les Stone, Vodou in Haiti, IMG 4253.jpg, is not a "free" image and therefore cannot be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. It is from http://lesstone.com/Vodou_1126.html . The photographer's main web page, http://lesstone.com/LES_STONE_home.html , clearly states that all images are (c). Absent any evidence that he has released them under a "free" license, the Wikimedia Commons cannot accept the image. Since this non-free image does not qualify as "fair use" in an article about the photographer, I will remove it from en:Les Stone shortly. Davidwr (talk) 05:41, 21 January 2013 (UTC)