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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things[edit]

Nominating[edit]

Guidelines for nominators[edit]

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents[edit]

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs[edit]

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio[edit]

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations[edit]

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).

Simple tutorial for new users[edit]

Tutorial: Nominate on COM:FPC
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NOTE: You don't need to worry if you are not sure, other users will try their best to help you.

Adding a new nomination[edit]

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate image description and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters.

Voting[edit]

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Featured picture delisting candidates[edit]

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

Featured picture candidate policy[edit]

General rules[edit]

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have less than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules[edit]

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5. There is also a limit of two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions of the image as well as FPXed and withdrawn nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules.

Above all, be polite[edit]

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember... all rules can be broken.

See also[edit]

Table of contents[edit]

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

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Featured picture candidates[edit]

File:Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 23:23:22 (UTC)
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Chief Joseph

File:Maardu Northen lights.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 21:51:50 (UTC)
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Aurora Borealis

File:Treuenbrietzen 50 Pfg 1921 Luther.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 18:36:39 (UTC)
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50 Pfennig Notgeld banknote of Treuenbrietzen, 1921, reverse: Martin Luther preaching under a linden tree.

Image:Compucorp 322G Scientist BW 2024-02-22 18-21-02 Stack.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 16:05:17 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Sour rainbow belts.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 11:58:14 (UTC)
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Sour rainbow belts

File:Galanthus Nivalis, sneeuwklokje. 12-02-2024. (d.j.b.).jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 05:21:34 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:2021 December Tornado - Cayce, KY (51750743572).jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 02:47:15 (UTC)
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A house destroyed by a tornado in 2021

File:Mt Technical from Lewis tops, Lewis Pass Scenic Reserve, New Zealand 06.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2024 at 01:05:42 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Silver-breasted Broadbill 0A2A9641.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2024 at 19:50:00 (UTC)
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Silver-breasted Broadbill
  • Many little-known birds are IUCN Least Concern. IUCN uses data on declining/increasing numbers to move an animal up or down a category. With no data, they cannot act. This occurs in many localities so is unlikely to be threatened with extinction. Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:58, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Buda de Ibiraçu.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2024 at 19:14:25 (UTC)
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B&W version[edit]

I uploaded a new centered version bur I rollbacked myself because it need author approval. If you think that its ok you can just use that version Wilfredor (talk) 14:10, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks! Don't worry, you've permission to improve any of my images without prior request, you're my inspiration. ★ 14:25, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
better not, I feel that that is an abuse Wilfredor (talk) 14:46, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
 Support It's nicer than the version above. ★ 15:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Hydracarina.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2024 at 13:13:21 (UTC)
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Water mite

File:Maddona del Melograno (Collegiata di Santa Maria della Scala - Chieri).jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2024 at 08:47:42 (UTC)
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15th cent. Franco-Flemish sculpture
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Sculptures
  •  Info created by Brigante_mandrogno - uploaded by Brigante_mandrogno - nominated by Brigante mandrogno -- Brigante mandrogno (talk) 08:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Support -- Brigante mandrogno (talk) 08:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Oppose Lighting and technical quality Vignetting. Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:17, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Oppose Hi Brigante mandrogno and welcome to FPC. This is a really interesting motif and I enjoyed seeing this photograph but sadly it is some way short of the technical quality needed for FP. The detail at full size just isn't there as a consequence of the use of an iPhone camera which generally struggles in low light - please have a look at some of the other FPs in the Sculptures gallery and make sure to view them at full resolution to see the kind of image quality that makes an FP. This photo would also be better if the window was centered in the frame, as is it's clearly closer to the left than the right, and that might be enough to preclude it from FP by itself. Please keep trying though - few people get an FP on their first try - and also have a look at the featured picture guidelines, the quality image guidelines, and the previous succcessful candidates in the FP galleries, to find out what the technical requirements are for a featured picture. Cmao20 (talk) 20:19, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    @Cmao20 thank you very much for your kind and thorough response. I sincerely appreciate the time you took to provide me with such valuable feedback. I assure you that I will do my utmost to improve the quality of my photographs and to meet the standards required for a Featured Picture. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow within this community. Thank you again for the support and constructive advice. By the way, I did not use any vignetting filter or any others. Additionally, I intentionally did not center the window in the frame for compositional reasons. I don't particularly like 'perfectly-centered things'. That's all :) Brigante mandrogno (talk) 01:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Wilhelm Steinhausen - Alpine Landschaft, Tränken der Kühe (1879).jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 23:26:12 (UTC)
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File:Rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus) Fogg Dam.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 19:14:41 (UTC)
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Rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus), Northern Territory, Australia

File:Portrait of a Carpathian Lynx.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 22:07:24 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

Alt version by Charles[edit]

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File:HabitanteComunidadQoM(CDI-CA-MM-00005)-restored.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 21:24:21 (UTC)
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Fotografía en primer plano, de anciano de la comunidad Qom
Thanks Ikan and Yann, sources of restoration provided now on description and renamed Ezarateesteban 17:09, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I applied more restoration, I find more damaged areas. Thanks!!!Ezarateesteban 12:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Ciudadela, Carcasona, Francia, 2023-01-07, DD 216-218 HDR.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 21:03:51 (UTC)
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Fortified city of Carcassonne, France

File:Catedral Basílica de Salvador Nave 2021-6674.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 16:52:22 (UTC)
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File:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2024 at 10:44:54 (UTC)
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Walt Whitman 1887

File:St. Trudpert Münstertal 04.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2024 at 17:34:11 (UTC)
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  • I think Ikan means that the blue windows are right at the edge of the frame, which is fair enough, but ultimately you have got to make the crop somewhere. Personally I think it is well framed as it is but we will see how the votes go. Cmao20 (talk) 21:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Info You can see a JPG-copy of the original raw file here. The photo was taken with 10mm wide angle. It was not possible to go further back to get the lines more vertical. After perspective orrection there were not many alternatives in cropping in my opinion. I request anyone who has a better suggestion for cropping to upload it using the link mentioned. --Llez (talk) 07:16, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Bildnis der Prinzessin Sibylle von Cleve (1526, Klassik Stiftung Weimar).jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2024 at 14:28:55 (UTC)
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Sibylle von Cleve, 1526.
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KSW_G12/ --Thi (talk) 23:48, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2024 at 10:20:48 (UTC)
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Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas

File:Mayfield KY State Farm CRU -23.jpg[edit]

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2024 at 07:40:59 (UTC)
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For weather-related damage photos, it is very high quality. 99% are not even 2,500 pixels in 1 dimension. Actually, this image is higher quality than any other tornado-related featured photograph, with the current one being 4,032 × 3,024 pixels (File:Low-end EF3 damage to a home in Virginia Beach, Virginia.jpg). WeatherWriter (talk) 02:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Basílica de San Nazario, Carcasona, Francia, 2023-01-08, DD 46-48 HDR.jpg[edit]

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Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, citadel of Carcassonne, France.
 Support OK; you're the author. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Персеид (метеор).jpg[edit]

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A photo of a meteor during the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August taken from Skopje

File:038 Svartifoss waterfall (Iceland) Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg[edit]

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File:Comparison optical telescope primary mirrors.svg[edit]

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Comparison of nominal sizes of primary mirrors of notable optical reflecting telescopes, and a few other objects. Dotted lines show mirrors with equivalent light-gathering ability.
  • I've reviewed the file and fixed all issues I could recognize (I'm speaking English, Russian, and Hebrew, and with some help from translation tools could make fairly educated guesses for other Slavic langs there; for Chinese, I totally relied on Google Translate, and the changes I made were very minor). It would be great if someone could re-generate text2path stuff after Arecibo’s text was updated. Also, I see that the generated PNGs show some issues for James Webb and Gaia – looks like the subscripts there are breaking something. DmitTrix (talk) 09:47, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •  Comment I'm torn, because I love the comparisons of scale, but I don't like the crowding or the overlapping text, so I wonder whether it might be better as a table, though I recognize the problem of FAST and the radio telescope in Arecibo being so much bigger than the others. This is definitely a good VI, but is the usefulness sufficient for it to be featured, or might we decline to feature it, for aesthetic reasons? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:19, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • It is not possible to show that much information in reduced space in another way. While it would be possible to create a table, the information would be lost, and we couldn't see the relative size, so we would miss the point of this file. Yann (talk) 09:58, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Alberto Santos-Dumont, half-length portrait, facing front, sitting, with right arm resting on back of chair LCCN2008676779-Edit.jpg[edit]

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Yes it was the sharp in the time, however, I did a AI improved version that can be visited here which with confidence the fanatics and purists in restoration will hate --Wilfredor (talk) 17:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, quality is better, but do we have to follow that path? Yann (talk) 23:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Question for @W.carter: Wilfredor (talk) 23:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Not quite sure why you ping me, when it's clearly Adam Cuerden who is our biggest expert on restorations. And I hope that you don't include me in the "fanatics and purists" group you mention above, because that would be very insulting. But I'll try to answer as best I can.
AI can be good for reducing noise in modern photos, if it's handled the right way, but not so good for fixing up old photos. AI simply isn't good enough for such things yet. This is because (as the AI techs put it) "it lacks consequentialist thinking". This is at the moment the big problem that those working on AI in films are dealing with. For example, most AI still have a problem with hair, and therefore it can't see the difference between a hair growing from someone's head or if it's just lint on the film.
The noise in modern digital photos is fairly uniform and predictable since it is made in a digital way. AI can find patterns in it and make calculations about what the missing bits might be, and make the image better. Photos made on glass plates or film are a very different matter. They are made in a more "organic" way with noise and grain more random, which makes it hard for AI to "read" the info in it. AI isn't smart enough either to recognize damage made to a photo by time (scratches, dust, lint, spots, etc.), because "it lacks consequentialist thinking". AI can scan a photo/object in 3 dimensions, but it can't see the 4th dimension: time. It can't see if a line in a photo was there when the photo was taken or if it has been added later. Real, good restoration work is not about making a photo look better (a lot of people misunderstand that part), it is mostly about reversing time for it, trying to make it look like it did when it was new and sometimes doing the same retouching or lighting work a photographer from that time could/would have done. AI is still a blunt tool painting with big strokes using a "digital roller", but good restaurations need to be done with a very fine brush. That is why humans are still the best tool for doing restorations. Sure, AI-aided tools (like all the tools in Photoshop) are great for human-guided micro-work on a photo restoration, but AI is pretty useless for big overall once-over works.
I know how much you like all these new digital inventions, but they are still just tools, and any work is best done if you select the right tool for it. AI is not the right tool for restorations. Yet. --Cart (talk) 09:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comment, I think we could take some points about this and put them in the FPC guideline. When I talked about purists in restoration I was thinking of myself. I think it could have been misinterpreted but I would never think badly of you, on the contrary, I admire you and that is why I invited you to this conversation. And btw, I want cite the Nolan Restoration of 2001 again to compare what is a well done work and something digital alteration that look better but its not a real restoration [1] Wilfredor (talk) 19:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think there's probably cases for generative AI models, but they're for things like "adding in some paper to fit this torn section that matches the other paper, or other cases where the thing being generated is far, far from the focus of the image. The bright spot upper left in File:Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis.jpg where you want to match darkness and pattern might have AI applications, as the randomness screws with the tools you'd normally use. But don't use it to clean up the image. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Cape Barren geese (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) in flight Kangaroo Island 2.jpg[edit]

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Cape Barren geese (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) in flight Kangaroo Island

* Oppose Per SHB2000. Charles, the sharpening mask is wonky, our AI overlords seem to have mistaken some tree branches for birds --Julesvernex2 (talk) 08:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC) Reply[reply]

  •  Comment Čarlton, beside dust spots, which could be cleaned, i dont get trees. They are far further than birds i suppose and yet there are some parts of tree in hyperfocal and much of them out... !? So actually you keep birds, go there exact time on put same EXIF and make trees. Than stitch. Try manual foucs to set trees to similar blur as here. --Mile (talk) 09:56, 21 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:SAARC Fountain 01.jpg[edit]

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Automobile light trails in Bangladesh

File:Wood Sandpiper Safari Park.jpg[edit]

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Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

File:Asher B. Durand by Abraham Bogardus.jpg[edit]

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Asher B. Durand

File:Rufous hummingbird (61556).jpg[edit]

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Female rufous hummingbird

File:Ebakiivrik.jpg[edit]

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Simocephalus sp

File:Great Sphinx of Tanis, Paris.jpg[edit]

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Alternative version proposed by Charles[edit]

File:Karpvähiline.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Ostracod
  •  Comment For my part, I don't think I would even consider featuring a photo of an unidentified creature. I realize that educational value is not always emphasized on FPC, but I think we do have to maintain some minimum standards of usefulness in photos of living things. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
 Comment If we go to some smaller insects and other similar creatures, then exact identification may only be possible based on genetics. I don't know if that is the case here, but for a stuff that small, ordinary approach may no longer work. Kruusamägi (talk) 10:51, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
 Comment Also, the picture may be exploited for educational purposes indipendently from the identification of the species. Besides, the author of the work may not be able to identify the species, but someone else could in the future - in the aim of the collaborative projects that Commons and Wikipedia are. --Harlock81 (talk) 12:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't think that's a good reason for a feature, but Kruusamägi's remarks give me pause. In cases in which it's impossible to identify the genus by sight, wouldn't a higher-level taxonomic category be sufficient? But how would we determine when that's the case? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]


Unconfirmed results: (info)
Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /FPCBot (talk) 21:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Pedestrian overpass in Colatina.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Alternative[edit]

Confirmed results:
Result: 5 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:34, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]


Timetable (day 5 after nomination)[edit]

Thu 22 Feb → Tue 27 Feb
Fri 23 Feb → Wed 28 Feb
Sat 24 Feb → Thu 29 Feb
Sun 25 Feb → Fri 01 Mar
Mon 26 Feb → Sat 02 Mar
Tue 27 Feb → Sun 03 Mar

Timetable (day 9 after nomination, last day of voting)[edit]

Sun 18 Feb → Tue 27 Feb
Mon 19 Feb → Wed 28 Feb
Tue 20 Feb → Thu 29 Feb
Wed 21 Feb → Fri 01 Mar
Thu 22 Feb → Sat 02 Mar
Fri 23 Feb → Sun 03 Mar
Sat 24 Feb → Mon 04 Mar
Sun 25 Feb → Tue 05 Mar
Mon 26 Feb → Wed 06 Mar
Tue 27 Feb → Thu 07 Mar

Closing a featured picture promotion request[edit]

The bot[edit]

Note that the description below is for manual closure, this is mostly not needed anymore as there exists a bot (FPCBot) that counts the votes and handles the process below. However after the bot has counted the votes a manual review step is used to make sure the count is correct before the bot again picks up the work.

Manual procedure[edit]

Any experienced user may close requests.

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
    {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=("yes" or "no")|gallery=xxx (leave blank if "featured=no")|sig=~~~~}}
     (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Bridge (August 2013).jpg). See also {{FPC-results-reviewed}}.
  2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
    featured or not featured
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
  3. Save your edit.
  4. If it is featured:
    • Add the picture to the list of the four most recently featured pictures of an appropriate gallery of Commons:Featured pictures, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
    • Also add the picture to the appropriate gallery and section of Commons:Featured pictures, list. Click on the most appropriate link beneath where you just added it as one of the four images. An image should only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.
    • Add the template {{Assessments|featured=1}} to the image description page.
      • If it was an alternative image, use the subpage/com-nom parameter: For example, if File:Foo.jpg was promoted at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bar.jpg, use {{Assessments|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.jpg}}
      • If the image is already featured on another wikipedia, just add featured=1 to the Assessments template. For instance {{Assessments|enwiki=1}} becomes {{Assessments|enwiki=1|featured=1}}
    • Add the picture to the chronological list of featured pictures. Put it in the gallery using this format: File:xxxxx.jpg|# - '''Headline'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
      • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other noms on that page for examples.
      • You may simplify this if multiple things were done by the same user. E.g.: File:xxxxx.jpg|# - '''Headline'''<br>created, uploaded, and nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the Talk Page of the nominator.
  5. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}ed, {{FPD}}ed and withdrawn nominations), open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you've just finished closing. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/February 2024), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.

Closing a delisting request[edit]

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
    '''Result:''' x delist, x keep, x neutral => /not/ delisted. ~~~~
    (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/Image:Astrolabe-Persian-18C.jpg)
  2. Also edit the title of the delisting candidate image template and add after the image tag
    delisted or not delisted
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] === becomes === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
  3. Move the actual template from Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list to the bottom of the actual month page on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/February 2024.
  4. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
    1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
    2. Edit the picture's description as follows:
      1. Replace the template {{Featured picture}} on the image description page by {{Delisted picture}}. If using the {{Assessments}} template, change featured=1 to featured=2 (do not change anything related to its status in other featured picture processes).
      2. Remove the image from all categories beginning with "Featured [pictures]" (example: Featured night photography, Featured pictures from Wiki Loves Monuments 2016, Featured pictures of Paris).
      3. Remove the "Commons quality assessment" claim (d:Property:P6731) "Wikimedia Commons featured picture" from the picture's Structured data.
    3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in chronological list of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1-6) with (1-6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture in the gallery is not removed.
  5. If this is a Delist and Replace, the delisting and promotion must both be done manually. To do the promotion, follow the steps in the above section. Note that the assessment tag on the file page and the promotion tag on the nominator's talk page won't pick up the /replace subpage that these nominations use.

Manual archiving of a withdrawn nomination[edit]

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    In the occasion that the FPCbot will not mark withdrawn nominations with a "to be reviewed" template and put them in Category:Featured picture candidates awaiting closure review just like if they were on the usual list, put the following "no" template:
    {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=X|oppose=X|neutral=X|featured=no|gallery=|sig=--~~~~}}
  2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
    not featured
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], not featured ===
  3. Save your edit.
  4. Open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/February 2024), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.
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