Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
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Featured pictures are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured picture criteria.
If you believe an image should be featured, create a subpage (use the "For Nominations" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. All users may comment. However, only those who have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and with at least 100 edits will be included in the numerical count. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. Nominations started in December are given three extra days, due to the holidays slowing down activity here. The archive contains all opinions and comments collected for candidate nominations and their nomination results. If you nominate an image here, please consider also uploading and nominating it at Commons to help ensure that the pictures can be used not just in the English Wikipedia but on all other Wikimedia projects as well.
A featured picture can be nominated for delisting if you feel it no longer lives up to featured picture standards. You may also request a featured picture be replaced with a superior image. Create a subpage (use the "For Delists" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. Please leave a note on the talk page of the original FPC nominator (and creator/uploader, if appropriate) to let them know the delisting is being debated. The user may be able to address the issues and avoid the delisting of the picture. For delisting, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers supporting a delist or replace, and the consensus is in its favor, it will be delisted from Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator. Note that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. However, images are sometimes delisted despite having fewer than five in support of their removal, and there is currently no consensus on how best to handle delist closures, except that:If the image to be delisted is not used in any articles by the time of closure, it must be delisted. If it is added to articles during the nomination, at least one week's stability is required for the nomination to be closed as "Kept". The nomination may be suspended if a week hasn't yet passed to give the rescue a chance. Outside of the nominator, all voters are expected to have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and to have made a minimum of 100 edits. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. As with regular nominations, delist nominations are given three extra days to run if started in December.
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Featured picture tools: |
Step 1:
Evaluate Evaluate the merit of a nomination against the featured picture criteria. Most users reference terms from this page when evaluating nominations. |
Step 2:
Create a subpage
To create a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates for your nomination, add a title for the image you want to nominate in the field below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Labrador Retriever) and click the "Create new nomination" button.
To create a subpage for your delist, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button.
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Step 3:
Transclude and link Transclude the newly created subpage to the Featured picture candidate list ( ). |
How to comment for Candidate Images
How to comment for Delist Images
Editing candidates
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Current nominations
[edit]Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2024 at 04:21:09 (UTC)
- Reason
- The picture is of good quality and depicts the centipede well. Although one of its sides appears to be shaking/in motion. I also went for this because I originally wanted to do Chandelure, but its picture is owned by Nintendo, of course, so I couldn't, so I decided to do something else, and I thought of doing the Scolopendra gigantea!
- Articles in which this image appears
- Scolopendra gigantea
Largest and heaviest animals User:The High Fin Sperm Whale/Fact of the day/Archive User:Dronebogus/Basement
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Insects
- Creator
- berichard (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Berichard)
Support as nominator – ILike Leavanny (talk)04:21, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Striking vote: User does not meet the voting criteria (7/100 edits)
- Strong oppose Image is of low resolution, low size, and low quality. Head suffers from motion blur, subject is partially cropped off, parts of the subject is too dark to see, parts of the animals are out of focus, and the detail is too low. (fails criteria #1, #2, and #3). There are better photos of this insect on the web. – ZZZ'S 04:57, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 23 Aug 2024 at 14:15:18 (UTC)
- Reason
- Ivan was a major hurricane and news story in 2004. This is a good shot of a cyclonic eye from above; I believe the parts of the ISS you can see make for an interesting juxtaposition. While the file has some imperfections at full magnification, remember that it's a 20-year-old digital photo. I tracked down and uploaded NASA's original version (minus the white bar at the bottom with the number string) so we could have the best quality copy. If it passes, this would be a good candidate for featured picture this September 11th, since that will be the image's 20th anniversary.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Hurricane Ivan, Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
- Creator
- "Edward Fincke, Expedition 9 Crew, International Space Station, NASA"; originally uploaded by Dodo, reuploaded by me, Moonreach.
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 14:15, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 22 Aug 2024 at 11:44:11 (UTC)
- Reason
- a great poster for a great movie
- Articles in which this image appears
- Battleship Potemkin, Russian battleship Potemkin, Culture of Russia, etc.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
- Creator
- Unknown
- Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 11:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Blocky at full resolution, looks like it's been upscaled from a much lower resolution. hinnk (talk) 00:45, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per hinnk. The poster itself is good, though; I'd support a higher-resolution alt. Moonreach (talk) 14:17, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2024 at 09:40:09 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Gray catbird
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Rhododendrites
- Support as nominator – MER-C 09:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Caption? – Sca (talk) 13:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 14:23, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2024 at 09:36:25 (UTC)
- Reason
- Replaced with recently promoted FP File:Seattle I5 skyline dllu.jpg, which is of higher resolution.
- Articles this image appears in
- None.
- Previous nomination/s
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Seattle Skyline at dusk
- Nominator
- MER-C
- Delist — MER-C 09:36, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Caption? – Sca (talk) 13:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose — There isn't anything wrong with this picture. It's also not merely a lower-resolution copy of a file we now have a better copy of. While it's pretty much the same shot as the other, the conditions are different enough that the two pictures tell different stories. (They were also taken seven years apart.) They've both passed muster here and I think it's a false choice to have to pick one as being more legitimate than the other. Moonreach (talk) 14:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2024 at 09:27:42 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons two months ago. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Cethosia biblis
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
- Creator
- Atanu Bose Photography
- Support as nominator – MER-C 09:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Caption? – Sca (talk) 13:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 14:23, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 20 Aug 2024 at 16:59:12 (UTC)
- Reason
- Sharp stacked photo (FP wikimedia)
- Articles in which this image appears
- Succisa pratensis
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
- Creator
- Famberhorst
- Support as nominator – Famberhorst (talk) 16:59, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Caption? – Sca (talk) 01:59, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't know exactly what you mean.--Famberhorst (talk) 04:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Description added.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- You forgot to fill in a caption when creating the nomination, so you'll notice there's some placeholder text beneath the image. hinnk (talk) 05:26, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for your explanation.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- You forgot to fill in a caption when creating the nomination, so you'll notice there's some placeholder text beneath the image. hinnk (talk) 05:26, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 19:25, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 17 Aug 2024 at 17:22:07 (UTC)
- Reason
- Meets the FPC critia. High encyclopedic value since it is our best image of 12P/Pons–Brooks and its going to be difficult to get a replacement since its not due back until 2095. Green colour is due to diatomic carbon and is common in comets despite the media getting rather excited about it at the time.
- Articles in which this image appears
- 12P/Pons–Brooks
- FP category for this image
- Space
- Creator
- Nielander
- Support as nominator – ©Geni (talk) 17:22, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 18:24, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – LGTM ZZZ'S 18:18, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 19:46, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 20:44, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – The Herald (Benison) (talk) 19:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 09:30, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:30, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 17 Aug 2024 at 14:33:14 (UTC)
- Reason
- Quite a nice image. I've sharpened it slightly, removed dust and scratches, and fixed some localised browning.
- Articles in which this image appears
- P. L. Travers and a few new additions and minor pages.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
- Creator
- Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 14:33, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. I have some of the same technical quibbles with this as I did with the portrait of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, from a few days ago, but the fact that you can see the film grain convinces me that the soft areas are authentic to the source photograph rather than a reproduction shortcoming. I have one suggestion: remove a bit of hair that got on the negative around the dress's waist area if you think you can do so cleanly. It's the only thing I see that you missed on your otherwise very thorough restoration. Moonreach (talk) 18:31, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Think that's a hair? I was torn between that and some sort of buckle. Kind of leaning, like, a metal loop holding the flowers on, but... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 19:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- We may be looking at different things. I'm looking at a very thin, irregular white line that curves through a sort of flower design at the waist. If you still think it's part of the costume then leave it; it's not a deal-breaker either way. Moonreach (talk) 13:17, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: Just to note, while looking at it, I spotted a couple more specks and got them. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 19:39, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Think that's a hair? I was torn between that and some sort of buckle. Kind of leaning, like, a metal loop holding the flowers on, but... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 19:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 19:48, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 20:41, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 04:17, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 09:29, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:31, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 17 Aug 2024 at 12:04:24 (UTC)
- Reason
- A Featured Media on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- His Girl Friday
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
- Creator
- Howard Hawks
- Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 12:04, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment I was the uploader on this one. It's worth noting that this video is impacted by phabricator:T362831 (MediaWiki not transcoding HDR properly), so you'll notice the UHD source has HDR but the HD transcodes that MediaWiki produces are in SDR without a proper tonemapping. For cases like this, I'm not sure if it would be better to add a notice to the file page advising readers of the difference or do a UHD upload in SDR. It's a good transfer with encyclopedic value, so if that question can be settled, I'd support. hinnk (talk) 21:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 17:56, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 19:49, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 04:15, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 16 Aug 2024 at 05:07:11 (UTC)
- Reason
- Nosferatu is on our WP:FILM/CORE list and remains one of the best-known silent films. For many years it was officially pulled from circulation (as an unauthorized Dracula adaptation), but it's since been restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Nosferatu
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
- Creator
- F. W. Murnau (director)
- Support as nominator – hinnk (talk) 05:07, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 13:37, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 13:40, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 19:49, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 04:14, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2024 at 10:17:04 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Has stuck (previous nomination was premature).
- Articles in which this image appears
- Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, etc.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
- Creator
- David Adams
- Support as nominator – MER-C 10:17, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Old news. – Sca (talk) 12:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 14:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Glad to see this get nominated. It's one that I wanted to nominate myself back when the event was current, but the guidelines were to let the article stabilize, and at some point I forgot about it. Moonreach (talk) 18:49, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Old news, for sure, but quite an extraordinary incident. --Janke | Talk 06:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ―Howard • 🌽33 14:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2024 at 10:09:27 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- White-bibbed babbler
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- JJ Harrison
- Support as nominator – MER-C 10:09, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:15, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ―Howard • 🌽33 14:21, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 14:41, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 20:42, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – TheWikiToby (talk) 17:06, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Nominations — to be closed
[edit]Nominations in this category are older than ten days and are to be closed. New votes will no longer be accepted.
Older nominations requiring additional input from users
[edit]These nominations have been moved here because consensus is impossible to determine without additional input from those who participated in the discussion. Usually this is because there was more than one edit of the image available, and no clear preference for one of them was determined. If you voted on these images previously, please update your vote to specify which edit(s) you are supporting.
Closing procedure
[edit]A script is available that automates the majority of these tasks: User:Jujutacular/closeFPC
When NOT promoted, perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Not promoted| }} --~~~~
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- If the nominator is new to FPC, consider placing
{{subst:NotpromotedFPC|Image name}}
on their talk page. To avoid overuse, do not use the template when in doubt.
When promoted, perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Promoted|File:FILENAME.JPG}} --~~~~
- Replace FILENAME.JPG with the name of the file that was promoted. It should show up as:
- Promoted File:FILENAME.JPG
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Add the image to:
- Template:Announcements/New featured content - newest on top, remove the oldest so that 15 are listed at all times.
- Wikipedia:Goings-on - newest on bottom.
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs - newest on top.
- Add the image to the proper sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on top.
- The caption for a Wikipedian created image should read "Description at Article, by Creator". For a non-Wikipedian, it should be similar, but if the creator does not have an article, use an external link if appropriate. For images with substantial editing by one or more Wikipedians, but created by someone else, use "Description at Article, by Creator (edited by Editor)" (all editors involved should be clear from the nomination). Additionally, the description is optional - if it's essentially the same as the article title, then just use "Article, by Creator". Numerous examples can be found on the various Featured Pictures subpages.
- Add the image to the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on left and remove the oldest from the right so that there are always three in each section.
- Add the Featured Picture tag and star to the image page using {{Featured picture|page_name}} (replace page_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the page_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/page_name). To add this template you most likely will have to click the "create" button on the upper right if the "edit" button is not present, generally if the image originates from Commons.
- If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Featured Picture version, as opposed to the original.
- Notify the nominator or co-nominators by placing {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:file_name.xxx}} on each nominator's talk page. For example: {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
- If the image was created by a Wikipedian, place {{subst:UploadedFP|File:file_name.xxx}} on the creator's talk page. For example: {{subst:UploadedFP|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
- Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}}
to the top of the section. - Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the August archive. This is done by simply adding the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}}
from this page to the bottom of the archive. - If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.
Delist closing procedure
[edit]Note that delisting an image does not equal deleting it. Delisting from Featured pictures in no way affects the image's status in its article/s.
If consensus is to KEEP featured picture status, and the image is used in at least one article, perform the following:
- Check that the image has been in the article for at least one week. Otherwise, suspend the nomination to give it time to stabilize before continuing.
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Kept|}} --~~~~
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Optionally leave a note on the picture's talk page.
If consensus is to DELIST, or the image is unused (and consensus is not for a replacement that is used), perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Delisted|}} --~~~~
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Replace the
{{Featured picture}}
tag from the image with{{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}
. - Remove the image from the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs.
If consensus is to REPLACE (and at least one of the images is used in articles), perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Replaced|}} with File:NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG --~~~~
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Replace NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG with the name of the replacement file.
- Replace the
{{Featured picture}}
tag from the delisted image with{{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}
. - Update the replacement picture's tag, adding the tag {{Featured picture|delist/image_name}} (replace image_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the image_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/image_name). Remove any no longer applicable tags from the original, replacement and from any other alternatives. If the alternatives were on Commons and no longer have any tags, be sure to tag the description page with {{missing image}}.
- Replace the delisted Featured Picture in all articles with the new replacement Featured Picture version. Do NOT replace the original in non-article space, such as Talk Pages, FPC nominations, archives, etc.
- Ensure that the replacement image is included on the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs. Do this by replacing the original image with the new replacement image; do not add the replacement as a new Featured Picture.
Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
- Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}}
to the top of the section. - Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the archived delist nominations. This is done by simply adding the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}}
to the bottom of the appropriate section of the archive. - If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.
Recently closed nominations
[edit]Nominations in this category have already been closed and are here for the purposes of closure review by FPC contributors. Please do not add any further comments or votes regarding the original nomination. If you wish to discuss any of these closures, please do so at Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. Nominations will stay here for three full days following closure and subsequently be removed.
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Aug 2024 at 11:22:56 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality Google Art Project scan of the Renaissance painting with excellent EV in a FA.
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Blind Leading the Blind
- FP category for this image
- Paintings
- Creator
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder/Museo di Capodimonte
- Support as nominator – The Herald (Benison) (talk) 11:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support; and this painting also by Aersten is a FP. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:52, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – I am neutral on voting. The source link says "This painting is an old copy of the original kept in Naples at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte". I assume the original painting is the infobox image in This version of the article. I think the fact that the nom image (which is currently the infobox image) is a "copy of the original" should be stated in the article (and on the file page). Bammesk (talk) 14:09, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – The wording "old copy" is confusing. Often, an artist made several versions of a painting (e.g. Munch's Scream). If this "copy" can be credited to Bruegel, I'll support. --Janke | Talk 06:13, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- The Legacy section of the article has a paragraph on copies, and no mention that "Bruegel the Elder" did a copy. It says his son "Brueghel the Younger" did a copy around 1616 (the father died in 1569). This source says the nom version was done by the son (I am not sure about the reliability of the source though). BTW, the original [1] and the copy [2] have differences, for instance see the lower left corner. Bammesk (talk) 01:17, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Aug 2024 at 18:30:37 (UTC)
- Reason
- Passed all of the criteria & is a high-quality (4,000 × 3,000 pixels) photograph of some damage from the 2024 Greenfield tornado
- Articles in which this image appears
- 2024 Greenfield tornado
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
- Creator
- ChristopherRiske (Wikimedia Commons User)
- Support as nominator – The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 18:30, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sca: I just copied and pasted the image’s original caption in the nomination’s caption. This image is used in the “aftermath” section of the tornado. I may be looking at this through the lens of something who understands weather, but the tornado was very narrow (discussed in the article) and it seems clear where the worst damage path is in the photo. Could you maybe explain what exactly is “not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers”? The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 14:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support Well executed drone photo that clearly shows the destruction this tornado caused to houses. Nick-D (talk) 07:04, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:11, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Aug 2024 at 18:50:59 (UTC)
- Reason
- A really nice portrait - just out of (American) copyright this year - and a huge upgrade on the old lead image. Biggest flaw is the 1920s retouching, which I've done what I could with.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Lucie Delarue-Mardrus +1
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
- Creator
- Henri Manuel restored by Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 18:50, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 14:28, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 13:38, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:50, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:04, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Weak oppose— It has good composition, but up close pretty much everything is slightly blurry (except the underside of the chin, oddly) and the face seems to be nothing but airbrushing. Moonreach (talk) 18:51, 4 August 2024 (UTC)- I mean, the business is pretty normal for this era at this scale. As for the nderside of the chin... That's down to the 1928 image retouching. I don't think it really affected the chin shape much, and the face as a whole - other than some scratches on the cheek - didn't seem abnormal for the era. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 13:32, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, so it should be considered a kind of era-specific limitation, akin to scratch marks? I can see that. I'm not enthusiastic enough to support this, but I'll strike my oppose. Moonreach (talk) 20:51, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- I mean, the business is pretty normal for this era at this scale. As for the nderside of the chin... That's down to the 1928 image retouching. I don't think it really affected the chin shape much, and the face as a whole - other than some scratches on the cheek - didn't seem abnormal for the era. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 13:32, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Lucie Delarue-Mardrus by Henri Manuel.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:21, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- one of the most well know Charlie Chaplin films ever, also, this has earned a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Kid (1921 film)
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
- Creator
- Charlie Chaplin
- Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 17:03, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support - of course! --Janke | Talk 18:29, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 14:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support hinnk (talk) 18:05, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. It's a masterpiece indeed. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:47, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support Moonreach (talk) 13:36, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:The Kid (1921).webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:19, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Battleship Potemkin is a WP:FILM/CORE article on our List of films voted the best. This video is from a 2005 restoration of the original Soviet version, which reinstated the intertitles and shots that had been censored in later international releases.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Battleship Potemkin
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
- Creator
- Sergei Eisenstein (director)
- Support as nominator – hinnk (talk) 19:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Question — Where are the subtitles sourced from? I'm worried they might be separately copyrighted. Moonreach (talk) 20:35, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Russian intertitles are from archived prints (derived from the original Soviet release), and the translated English subtitles I grabbed from this version. If there are any issues, the alternative would be to use Mosfilm's translation (on Commons and YouTube). It's only ~150 titles, so it wouldn't take long to do. hinnk (talk) 21:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'll support, then. I've scrubbed through the film and everything about it looks good. Moonreach (talk) 14:21, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Russian intertitles are from archived prints (derived from the original Soviet release), and the translated English subtitles I grabbed from this version. If there are any issues, the alternative would be to use Mosfilm's translation (on Commons and YouTube). It's only ~150 titles, so it wouldn't take long to do. hinnk (talk) 21:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Matarisvan (talk) 19:21, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 10:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 14:30, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:46, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Battleship Potemkin (1925).webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:10, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Lively demonstration of the Kinemacolor two-color film process, an important milestone in the history of color photography. Apart from imperfections in the original, this is a very good transfer. The frame rate is at or near real-time (often a problem with showing films from the hand-cranked era) and in HD. The source at the Internet Archive (1) says these are the original colors plus a white-balance pass. Kinemacolor was also a sequential color system, which is why some movement has anaglyph-like effects to it.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Kinemacolor, Reedham Orphanage
- FP category for this image
- Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment
- Creator
- Uploaded to Wikipedia by Cesias7 from a copy at the Internet Archive, where it is credited to Natural Color Kinematograph Co., Ltd.
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 16:33, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Interesting example of pre-Technicolor movies, amazingly little color strobing in the fast-fluttering flags! (Partly because the red and blue registered only on respective frames...) --Janke | Talk 17:18, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- This does seem to have the frames blended, inasmuch as pausing it in any given place still shows both colors. I checked our copy against the one on the Internet Archive and found that it's the same there; both are 25 fps. While I would have liked to see a version that preserved the sequential color, I'm not sure that would have been possible. I also don't think it would have made a difference as far as the strobing goes. Since a small period of time elapses between the color changes, there's no version of this where the colors would have lined up perfectly. That's an unsolvable problem akin to reconstructing a single frame out of interlaced video - you can get close, but never exact. Although the bitrate of the Internet Archive copy is higher, and maybe we should upload that one just to have it, this is otherwise about as good as it gets. Moonreach (talk) 20:47, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Excited to see this getting nominated, I was just looking through this article last week after going through some predecessor films by William Norman Lascelles Davidson. We only have one other HD example of Kinemacolor, and this video does a much better job of showing how it captures different kinds of motion. hinnk (talk) 19:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- And the sweet peas appear to be shot from a theater screen, hand-held, with a spectator blocking the lowest part of the frame - so that one is definitely not FP material... --Janke | Talk 06:55, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh my god, I didn't even catch that part. I was wondering why they were shifting the image down in the middle of the video. hinnk (talk) 08:37, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hahaha, yeah. I realized about 10 seconds in that I was looking at the back of someone's head and wondered if I should say something. Moonreach (talk) 14:13, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh my god, I didn't even catch that part. I was wondering why they were shifting the image down in the middle of the video. hinnk (talk) 08:37, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- There's more Kinemacolor than just this film, for example on archive.org (a quick sidenote: almost all of these films weren't digitized in HD, including this one - I can't remember why I uploaded it at such a high resolution) Cesias7 (talk) 10:59, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- The IA version is at the same resolution, were you also the uploader there? Considering the alternative examples all seem to be watermarked or super compressed, I'd be fine featuring this even if it was upscaled. hinnk (talk) 22:13, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I uploaded them to IA. This film, the shortest of them all (7 seconds of footage repeated 3x), is the only one which was digitized in HD. The others are all 720x576, except for a few scenes in the Delhi Durbar, which are even lower quality. Cesias7 (talk) 08:23, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Shame it's watermarked, that's a fun piece of footage. I like seeing candid moments from long ago. They make the past feel more real. Moonreach (talk) 13:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I uploaded them to IA. This film, the shortest of them all (7 seconds of footage repeated 3x), is the only one which was digitized in HD. The others are all 720x576, except for a few scenes in the Delhi Durbar, which are even lower quality. Cesias7 (talk) 08:23, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- The IA version is at the same resolution, were you also the uploader there? Considering the alternative examples all seem to be watermarked or super compressed, I'd be fine featuring this even if it was upscaled. hinnk (talk) 22:13, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- And the sweet peas appear to be shot from a theater screen, hand-held, with a spectator blocking the lowest part of the frame - so that one is definitely not FP material... --Janke | Talk 06:55, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Carlosmarkos2345 | Talk 08:00, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 14:31, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:46, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:02, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage 1911 Kinemacolor.webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:04, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- The image has a high technical standard, with no "graininess" or anything like that, I don't know about criteria 2, considering the picture has a resolution of 1,126 × 2,000 pixels. The picture also passes criteria 3, considering the picture is good-looking (according to me). The image has a free license, the description is verified by a source, and the description is also useful in describing the church. The image also does not have digital manipulation considering.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Santa Fe, Leyte
- FP category for this image
- Architecture
- Creator
- TheNuggeteer
- Support as nominator –
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗
11:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC) - Oppose - Indistinct foreground, crooked orientation. – Sca (talk) 12:03, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose - Per above, also only 1126 px wide. Looks like there are fingerprints on the lens of the phone. --Janke | Talk 16:29, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose; per Sca. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:01, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Strong oppose – This is a bad nomination ZZZ'S 03:11, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- To give TheNuggeteer credit, they clearly went through the checklist and tried to satisfy the requirements. I also think a professional photograph taken inside this building could easy drum up enough support to pass; the choice of subject was good. That said, I see a number of flaws that prevent me from supporting this one: Streaking in highlights, low resolution, muddiness in mid-tones, and less-than-ideal framing. There's also no good target article for the church, just one for the town it's in. For these reasons, I also oppose. Moonreach (talk) 15:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment @TheNuggeteer: There's a great tool on Commons called CropTool. If you have a picture like this but want to adjust the size to remove the umbrella at the bottom, it can be very useful. hinnk (talk) 08:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Of course, cropping an already small image kills its chances here...--Janke | Talk 18:32, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:57, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality large image. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Tunisian tortoise
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:12, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:41, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 02:23, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:00, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 08:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 09:56, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Tunisian tortoise (Testudo graeca nabeulensis) male Cap Bon 2.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality large image. Adds EV to article. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Palla ussheri
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:07, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support - Not entirely enthused with the stem, but for some reason the ants on it really add to the picture (maybe for scale?) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 02:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:59, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 08:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 09:56, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Ussher's palla (Palla ussheri ussheri) underside Nyamebe Bepo.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality large image. Adds EV to article. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Neurothemis fluctuans
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:56, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 02:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:59, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 08:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 09:54, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Red grasshawk (Neurothemis fluctuans) male Phuket 2.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:57, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons last month. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Grey-headed honeyeater
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- JJ Harrison
- Support as nominator – MER-C 11:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:54, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:43, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – ZZZ'S 02:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:58, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Grey-headed Honeyeater 0A2A3929.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:44, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons a month ago. To replace existing FP File:SeattleI5Skyline.jpg.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Transportation in Seattle etc.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban
- Creator
- Dllu
- Support as nominator – MER-C 11:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support as creator. dllu (t,c) 18:58, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – well done (too bad the stars didn't pose for the camera). Bammesk (talk) 01:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:43, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Seattle I-5 skyline dllu.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:41, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Great quality and detail, adds EV. Unanimously promoted to FP, QI, and VI on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Dunnock
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – ZZZ'S 04:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Thanks for the nomination. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:54, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:44, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 11:43, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Dunnock (Prunella modularis) 3.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:43, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Extremely high EV for one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded, and the third highest wind speed ever measured on earth (Tornado records#Highest winds observed in a tornado). Tornado was also academically studied (Research on tornadoes in 2024#Greenfield tornado) by several organizations. High EV public domain photograph no less as well.
NOTE: The image barely fails the second FP criteria, as it is 2,048 × 1,366 pixels. However, per the criteria, "Exceptions to this rule may be made where justified on a case-by-case basis, such as for historical, technically difficult or otherwise unique images
", so this is being nominated under the grounds of an exception to FPC #2. - Articles in which this image appears
- List:
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
- Creator
- Isaac Polanski, uploaded by TornadoLGS
- Support as nominator – The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:12, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – one time event, and very nice composition. I agree with taking an exception per above. Bammesk (talk) 01:26, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Agree as per above; an excellent photo considering how fast the conditions were shifting. Moonreach (talk) 15:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Question - The source credits Isaac Polanski via Twitter. His post corroborates this. However, I'm not seeing if he is working for the US Government; rather, he is a "stringer" for a storm media licensing company (Their Twitter). Are we sure that the NWS had the right to release the image into the public domain? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:50, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Crisco 1492:Yes. Per Template:PD-NWS on the Commons. The NWS actually has this clause stated for users submitting images to them: "
By submitting images, you understand that your image is being released into the public domain. This means that your photo or video may be downloaded, copied, and used by others
". One of the other tornadic Featured Pictures (File:Lincoln, NE EF3 tornado.jpg) is under the same license on the Commons as well. Tons of discussions on the Commons have determined it is valid. To not clog this FPC up, I won't link them all here, but if you want me to, I can link you several discussions on the Commons surrounding the PD-NWS guidelines. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:58, 29 July 2024 (UTC)- No, that works for me. Support. This is an image we'd never be able to take again, and the quality is excellent. When the creator even says that it's one of the few times he's been intimidated by a tornado, we have something special. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:45, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Crisco 1492:Yes. Per Template:PD-NWS on the Commons. The NWS actually has this clause stated for users submitting images to them: "
- Support – ZZZ'S 02:18, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:56, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 14:33, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Greenfield IA tornado 2024.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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