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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, 2024 and current month.

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

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

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

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

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

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

Set nominations

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

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

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

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 (~~~~).

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.

General rules

  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 fewer 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

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.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

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.

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

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

Table of contents

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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File:Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Heubach -- 2024 -- 0016.jpg

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2025 at 14:50:57 (UTC)
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Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Heubach -- 2024 -- 0016.jpg

File:Flying-Dragon-Nebula.png

Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2025 at 01:19:52 (UTC)
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Flying Dragon nebula

File:Drilling rig and a digger at a construction site in Tuntorp.jpg

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2025 at 11:54:50 (UTC)
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Drilling rig and a digger at a construction site in Tuntorp

File:Pez ángel (Apolemichthys trimaculatus), Zanzíbar, Tanzania, 2024-05-30, DD 74.jpg

Voting period ends on 4 Mar 2025 at 08:58:07 (UTC)
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Threespot angelfish (Apolemichthys trimaculatus), Zanzibar, Tanzania

File:46-236-0032 Pisky Church RB 24.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 20:11:25 (UTC)
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Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Pisky, Ukraine

File:Dülmen, Kirchspiel, Dernekamp, Getreidefeld -- 2024 -- 0003.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 15:57:41 (UTC)
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Grain field in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

File:Red Arrows Formation Duxford Flying Finale 2024 02.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 14:07:35 (UTC)
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Red Arrows flying the Goose manouvere in evening light at the Duxford Flying Finale.

File:Coral (Leptoria phrygia), Zanzíbar, Tanzania, 2024-06-01, DD 65.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 12:27:40 (UTC)
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Coral (Leptoria phrygia), Zanzibar, Tanzania
  • Thank you for your feedback. IMHO there is no way to get everything sharp for this kind of shot. It's a macro shot, to get this level of detail you have to get close to it and so you cannot expect that areas away from the center gets the same level of detail. Poco a poco (talk) 11:17, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Rue des Anes Brules in St-Clair (1).jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 06:53:44 (UTC)
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Rue des Ânes Brulés in Saint-Clar, Gers, France

File:Etang du Pla de la Font 06.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 06:50:30 (UTC)
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Étang du Pla de la Font in Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises, commune of Auzat, Ariège, France

File:Monasterio de El Escorial en Madrid.jpg

Voting period ends on 3 Mar 2025 at 03:50:10 (UTC)
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El Escorial, Madrid (Spain)

File:Allegory Treaty of the Pyrenees - Giovanni Francesco Romanelli - Louvre, INV 20349.jpg

Voting period ends on 2 Mar 2025 at 20:15:18 (UTC)
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Allegory Treaty of the Pyrenees, Louvre.

File:La Palma - Cuervo Canario.jpg

Voting period ends on 2 Mar 2025 at 19:19:34 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:BiBat QF 3469 QUINTAS Sorginaren Txabola kanpai formako ontzia.jpg

Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2025 at 20:34:21 (UTC)
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w:Bell Beaker culture beaker from the Sorginaren Txabola dolmen, in the Basque Country. The object is on display at the Museum of Archaeology of Araba, in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

File:Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) Moorea.jpg

Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2025 at 17:19:13 (UTC)
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Gold dust day gecko
  •  Support Good point. As you know I always prefer naturual surroundings, but this is unusual. These geckos were introduced acccidentally many years ago from Madagascar and have adapted to live in houses for the wamrth. Apparantly, they are seldom seen outdoors. Thanks for the nom. Cmao20 Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for this info. In this case I think the surroundings add value to the photo because they illustrate the usual setting in which this gecko is found. Cmao20 (talk) 15:25, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I suspected these geckos liked the indoors, and since that suspicion was only based on what I'd seen on TV, I was being cautious. But there are more appealing indoor backgrounds so I'll just tone it down to 'weak s'. --Cart (talk) 16:45, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Panorama Tower at night ICM (60035).jpg

Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2025 at 13:00:43 (UTC)
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Panorama Tower at night (intentional camera movement)
  • Yes, for the diversity of opinions and tastes, I also support the suggestion of perspective correction. Why? Simply because in this type of image, lines and directions have a meaning. And if the image were tilted, the visual aspect would not be the same at all. I think that with these very straight buildings, properly worked horizontals and verticals will give more the impression that the blur is not the result of chance, but intentional in the context -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:01, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Santamartamys, David Valle Martinez.jpg

Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2025 at 12:55:34 (UTC)
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Scientific illustration of mammal Santamartamys, rodent rarely sighted. Illustration made with ocher stain for background, colored pencils and digital retouching. With the advice of Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz scientific translator. This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons as a contribution from an art & design school thanks to a collaboration between EASD Pau Gargallo and Amical Wikimedia. (And Spectacular Mammal Rediscovered after 113 Years - First Ever Photographs Taken; Bogotá, 18 May 2011 / File:Red-crested Tree rat rediscovered after 113 years! (5731461919).jpg is one of the sources.)
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Science#Science
  •  Info Scientific illustration of mammal Santamartamys, rodent rarely sighted. Illustration made with ocher stain for background, colored pencils and digital retouching. With the advice of Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz scientific translator. This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons as a contribution from an art & design school thanks to a collaboration between EASD Pau Gargallo and Amical Wikimedia. (And Spectacular Mammal Rediscovered after 113 Years - First Ever Photographs Taken; Bogotá, 18 May 2011 / File:Red-crested Tree rat rediscovered after 113 years! (5731461919).jpg is one of the sources.)
    Created by David Valle Martínez – uploaded by David Valle Martínez – nominated by Zquid -- Zquid (talk) 12:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I think this is a "Science" picture more than just a nice picture of an animal (if you know what I mean)... so I choosed Scientific Art category... -- Zquid (talk) 12:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I would ask you to reconsider the gallery, since most of the images of animals in Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Others#Animals are scientific art from old books on nature etc. (only 3 out of 28 are not). I think it would look odd to have just one animal image in the gallery that you suggest. --Cart (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It looks like the textured paper has been erased all around the illustration. But the lower left corner is dark with a white background -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with Basile. The conversion from drawing to digital is done a bit haphazardly. This would be better as only a photo of the drawing. Mixing two media needs better post processing. --Cart (talk) 08:56, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Agree with both of you. Well, it would be very difficult to restore the paper texture, but it’s easy to remove the irritating remnants of the texture at the left border and in some other outer areas. This way we get at least a more consistent impression. Here is an attempt to retouch the image. I have also removed some tiny stains here and there which did not look like intentional parts of the drawing (of course it’s hard to say where to draw the line here; if you want to restore some little points or remove another stain just drop me a note). Furthermore, the missing sRGB colour profile has been added, as well as some basic metadata like author, title, short description, and copyright/license. @Basile Morin, Cart: Would you consider this retouched version as a considerable improvement? Then one could nominate it as an alternative … Hope it helps, – Aristeas (talk) 16:18, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Aristeas, the transition in that picture looks better to me. However "one" should not add it, I think it's up to the nominator to decide if it should be entered as an 'Alternative'. You forgot to include Zquid in your question. I'm not a fan of the way people here sometimes just jumps in and tacks on 'Alts' to noms without even asking the nominator first, it's downright rude and disrespectful. Sometimes people want to keep things in their original state. We can suggest, that's all. --Cart (talk) 16:37, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello Cart, I guess we have a misunderstanding here. I did not want to ignore Zquid. I just wanted to ask first the users who have commented on the image quality whether they would see an improvement in the retouched version. I did this because I do not want to bother the nominator with a suggestion to add an alternative version as long as I don’t know whether the people who made out the problems were satisfied with the improvements or not – in the latter case an alternative would make no sense at all. If you and Basile would have agreed with the retouching, I would have in turn asked Zquid whether they would consider to nominate the edited version as an alternative. I would never have added an alternative version myself (or asked you or someone else to do that; and if you look back you will see that I have never added an alternative to nominations by other people, but only suggested possible alternative versions). The “one could nominate it” was meant as a short explanation why I am asking you, and in no way intended as an insult to Zquid or as an insinuation that you should add the alternative. I understand that the wording of that sentence was unclear and unfortunate. I was under the impression that the use of the indirect “one” in such a context was an educated idiom in English, but it seems this was wrong (I may have confused this with German or classical Greek τις phrases). Please consider that my command of the English language, and also my skills in diplomacy, are not on your level. @Zquid: I apologize if my comment has insulted you. That was not my intention. I just wanted to help. – Aristeas (talk) 16:54, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Aristeas, I understand your good intention but I think a nominator should be included in all stages of a discussion about their nom. I reacted this way since I myself have been in Zquid's position, where someone was discussing how to correct my image instead of just asking me as nominator. It was not a good feeling and I did not wish it for Zquid. --Cart (talk) 17:06, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I understand, Cart. @Zquid: I apologize again, it was not my intention to ignore or insult you, I just wanted to avoid to bother you with suggestions as long as I did not even know whether they make any sense at all. But I see this was wrong. So my attempt to be polite was actually quite impolite. I am very sorry for that. I have striken my comment above. – Aristeas (talk) 17:13, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Dias Gomes (sem data) - Restoration.jpg

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2025 at 17:31:06 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

 I withdraw my nomination Kind of thought this was on the border as to size, and that's what I'm getting back. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:41, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Город мертвых.jpg

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2025 at 11:34:13 (UTC)
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Cultural heritage site, Crypt burial site in Dargavs (Russia)

File:Тихая2.jpg

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2025 at 11:35:21 (UTC)
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Hooker Island (Russia)

File:Поглед на селото Горно Косоврасти 3.jpg (delist)

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2025 at 08:17:56
Old version, to be delisted Proposed replacement

Thanks for noting this. I wasn't aware about it as this is my first delist-and-replace request.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:16, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Aristeas, either way is ok since these noms are closed manually and we can ignore the Bot, and having both images is just more "user friendly". --Cart (talk) 13:33, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kiril Simeonovski: No problem! I did not want to criticize you! I just wanted to add the new image for the sake of easy comparison, and wrote the notice mostly in order to discuss this with Cart. @Cart: Thank you! – Aristeas (talk) 16:00, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Old Minneapolis Downtown Post Office on Mississippi River.jpg

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2025 at 01:53:41 (UTC)
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Downtown Minneapolis Old U.S. Post Office building seen from Nicollet Island.

File:Grand Rue de Pera, Constantinople LCCN2004672935 (cropped).jpg

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2025 at 19:09:25 (UTC)
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Rue de Pera, Costantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey, 1912
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Historical#1910-1919
  •  Info A typical view of a street at the beginning of the 20th century... so what's interesting about it? Well... it's Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital ot the Ottoman Empire, in 1912! The most interesting part are the french advertisements on the building in the background, particularly visible the Nestlé one. It's like just being there. /// Created by an Underwood & Underwood photographer in 1912 – uploaded originally by Fæ – cropped (was even a double stereo image) and nominated by LucaLindholm -- LucaLindholm (talk) 19:09, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- LucaLindholm (talk) 19:09, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Restoration is needed for FP, and it must be done from the TIFF file with less compression. Yann (talk) 19:31, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I know. The fact is that I still don't know how to restore an image. I saw that you various times did restore the historical images (I love them) nominated by me, often saving the nomination itself. I am so grateful for all this work done for me and other users. So, how do we proceed? Regards LucaLindholm (talk) 07:30, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Yann @W.carter, sorry, didn't remember to mention you. LucaLindholm (talk) 07:31, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    You could either just let this nom run to its end (it will probably be closed as 'not featured' soon) or 'withdraw' it yourself. Then I suggest you start learning how to restore old images, if you have such a passion for them. When you nominate an image, you are responsible for it and how it looks. If you show up here time after time with images you know are not top notch, just hoping that someone else will do the job for you and save your nom, you are sure to bring down the displeasure of the community on yourself. We've recently had another user with this behavior banned from FPC for life, so patience around here is pretty thin right now. Anyone can browse old archives and find nice photos that needs restoring, the trick is to restore them yourself and by that contribute to improving the quality of the Commons collection. --Cart (talk) 10:53, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I agree with Yann. Since you have made nominations of old photos before, you must know that such photos almost always needs to be restored before having a chance here. So please sort out such things before you make a nomination. When a photo arrives here, everything should be ready and top class, this is actually not a workshop. --Cart (talk) 19:43, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support "A typical view of a street at the beginning of the 20th century" is what is very interesting and educational. Much more interesting than photos of exceptional scenes. --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Support  REAL 💬 ⬆   02:50, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Adi Ness, Last Supper.jpg

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2025 at 17:30:04 (UTC)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
 Oppose  REAL 💬 ⬆   02:52, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Trier, 09-12-2023 (actm.) 04.jpg

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2025 at 05:41:01 (UTC)
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Trier, Caspar-Olevian-Saal, Trier. Beautiful decorated entrance to the Caspar-Olevian-Saal.

File:Zabytkowa cerkiew wpisana na listę UNESCO.jpg

Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2025 at 20:17:17 (UTC)
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St. Paraskevi Church, Kwiatoń

Alternative

Rotated

File:Andromeda Galaxy Hubble M31Mosaic 2025 42208x9870.jpg

Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2025 at 13:16:36 (UTC)
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panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, world's largest photo mosaic, made of photos from the Hubble Telescope.
It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping snapshots that were challenging to stitch together. The galaxy is so close to us, that in angular size it is six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon, and can be seen with the unaided eye. For Hubble's pinpoint view, that's a lot of celestial real estate to cover. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars. That's still a fraction of Andromeda's population. And the stars are spread across about 2.5 billion pixels. The detailed look at the resolved stars will help astronomers piece together the galaxy's past history that includes mergers with smaller satellite galaxies.
NASA, ESA, Benjamin F. Williams (UWashington), Zhuo Chen (UWashington), L. Clifton Johnson (Northwestern); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI).
This is the complete version of File:Andromeda Galaxy M31 - Heic1502a Full resolution.jpg.

File:Esther Bubley - An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar.jpg, featured

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2025 at 01:10:46 (UTC)
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An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar
Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Cmao20 (talk) 11:53, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Historical#1940-1949

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 24 Feb 2025 at 21:52:20 (UTC)
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Castle Square in Warsaw
Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Cmao20 (talk) 11:54, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#Poland


Timetable (day 5 after nomination)

Thu 20 Feb → Tue 25 Feb
Fri 21 Feb → Wed 26 Feb
Sat 22 Feb → Thu 27 Feb
Sun 23 Feb → Fri 28 Feb
Mon 24 Feb → Sat 01 Mar
Tue 25 Feb → Sun 02 Mar

Timetable (day 9 after nomination, last day of voting)

Sun 16 Feb → Tue 25 Feb
Mon 17 Feb → Wed 26 Feb
Tue 18 Feb → Thu 27 Feb
Wed 19 Feb → Fri 28 Feb
Thu 20 Feb → Sat 01 Mar
Fri 21 Feb → Sun 02 Mar
Sat 22 Feb → Mon 03 Mar
Sun 23 Feb → Tue 04 Mar
Mon 24 Feb → Wed 05 Mar
Tue 25 Feb → Thu 06 Mar

The bot

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

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 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.

Closing a delisting request

  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 2025.
  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

  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 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.
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