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Looking for a noticeboard for requesting a photo of a person

Hi Jeff G.,

I was looking for a photo of Judge Wikiquote: Arthur Engoron and t appears that commons does not have any. Just wondering if there is a noticeboard on Commons where one could ask for photos of famous people?

BTW I am not a frequent visitor to Commons so every time I come here I have to re-learn things I knew but forgot. I hope you don't mind me asking you personally since you have been helpful to me in the past. I spent a few minutes trying to locate an appropriate notice board by searching the Help center but could not find what I needed.

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: Please see en:Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial and Commons:File requests. You could also contact him or one of his clerks by searching for the contact information for ARTHUR F. ENGORON here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:40, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Dear Jeff, I need help

Hello Jeff! I have been active on Wikipedia Commons for several years. My activity mainly revolves around Category:Noble families of Poland and concerns taking care of the aesthetics of this category, appropriately placing files in subcategories, etc. Before I started dealing with this category, many names were written in a random form, so for aesthetic reasons I chose the form "XYZ family" in the category naming (example: Category:Ankwicz family).

After some time, I realized that it was my mistake and I shouldn't have named these categories that way. People notoriously confuse families of noble descent with regular families with the same surname and mix up files related to the different types of families with the same surname.

Since changing these categories manually will take me a lot of time, I am writing here to ask you for help. Do you know how I can change the category name from the form "XYZ family" to the form "House of XYZ" (example: Category:Ankwicz family reduced to Category:House of Ankwicz)?

Category:Noble families of Russia has been using the "House of XYZ" provisions for a long time and in my opinion this is the best possible option to achieve order and aesthetics.

Thank you for understanding and for help! Heroldicas Heroldicas (talk) 18:33, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Heroldicas: Hi. You could post that on (empty) Category talk:Noble families of Poland or COM:VP, and if approved, COM:BR.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:31, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) Heroldicas (talk) 10:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@Heroldicas: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:25, 24 February 2024 (UTC)