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If you don't feel ready or qualified to fix the article yourself, please post a message on the article's ]. This will bring the matter to the attention of others who work on that article. There is a "Talk" link at the top of ''every'' article. If you don't feel ready or qualified to fix the article yourself, please post a message on the article's ]. This will bring the matter to the attention of others who work on that article. There is a "Talk" link at the top of ''every'' article.

If you have a better picture, that you have taken yourself, then you can ask at ''']''' or on the talk page of the article on how to use your picture. We need the '''permission of the photographer''' to use them here.


Alternatively you can ''']'''. If it's an article about you or your organization, see ''']'''. Alternatively you can ''']'''. If it's an article about you or your organization, see ''']'''.

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