Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
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Featured pictures are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured picture criteria.
If you believe an image should be featured, create a subpage (use the "For Nominations" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. All users may comment. However, only those who have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and with at least 100 edits will be included in the numerical count. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. Nominations started in December are given three extra days, due to the holidays slowing down activity here. The archive contains all opinions and comments collected for candidate nominations and their nomination results. If you nominate an image here, please consider also uploading and nominating it at Commons to help ensure that the pictures can be used not just in the English Wikipedia but on all other Wikimedia projects as well.
A featured picture can be nominated for delisting if you feel it no longer lives up to featured picture standards. You may also request a featured picture be replaced with a superior image. Create a subpage (use the "For Delists" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. Please leave a note on the talk page of the original FPC nominator (and creator/uploader, if appropriate) to let them know the delisting is being debated. The user may be able to address the issues and avoid the delisting of the picture. For delisting, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers supporting a delist or replace, and the consensus is in its favor, it will be delisted from Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator. Note that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. However, images are sometimes delisted despite having fewer than five in support of their removal, and there is currently no consensus on how best to handle delist closures, except that:If the image to be delisted is not used in any articles by the time of closure, it must be delisted. If it is added to articles during the nomination, at least one week's stability is required for the nomination to be closed as "Kept". The nomination may be suspended if a week hasn't yet passed to give the rescue a chance. Outside of the nominator, all voters are expected to have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and to have made a minimum of 100 edits. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. As with regular nominations, delist nominations are given three extra days to run if started in December.
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To create a subpage for your delist, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button.
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[edit]Voting period ends on 22 Dec 2024 at 11:55:48 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Lake St. Clair,
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
- Creator
- Sentinel-2
- Support as nominator – MER-C 11:55, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2024 at 16:53:22 (UTC)
- Reason
- Reconstruction of plate tectonics extending one billion years into the past. Good addition to the two articles it is in. Easy to digest animation. Published in peer-reviewed article Here.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Geological history of Earth, Plate tectonics
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
- Creator
- Andrew Merdith, University of Lyon
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Couple comments... a legend would help with this work (what's the difference between the purple and red lines?) Also, why does the 0 MYA end up looking little like the current map? Is it excluding sedimentary infill, or...? Like, New Zealand ends up south of Australia rather than where it should be. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:55, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- The red lines are "convergent boundaries" where two plates slide towards each other. The arrows are pointed toward the plate that rises in height, as the other plate slides underneath it. The purple lines are "divergent boundaries" where two plates slide apart from each other. The black lines are "transform boundaries" where two plates move laterally with respect to each other (neither towards, nor apart). Together the red, purple and black lines show the tectonic plate boundaries. I can add legends for these in the article image captions (similar to the lead image Here). As far as New Zealand, I don't quite get the gist of your point. New Zealand is at the boundary of the Australian plate and the Pacific plate, see here. This animation doesn't really show a traditional map, say of land versus water. It shows crust and upper mantle, I think. The animation shows regions of "dark tan" and regions of "blue-ish gray". I will look into it and find out what they are exactly, and reply later. Bammesk (talk) 02:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Comment - I find it very interesting, but quite confusing, at least on the first viewing. I'd support a version without the flickering boundary lines, and in just one color for the continents. It is of course impossible to exactly represent the earth hundreds of millions years ago, but a more "viewer friendly" version would be nice. --Janke | Talk 09:27, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2024 at 16:09:23 (UTC)
- Reason
- Excellent pose, taken while he was on stage. I'm normally very iffy about my concert photographs because I've been limited to a cell, but this one I think crosses the threshhold. Previously nominated here; failed to meet quorum (3 supports)
- Articles in which this image appears
- Tony Lovato
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
- Creator
- — Chris Woodrich (talk)
- Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:40, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 16:57, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2024 at 15:24:49 (UTC)
- Reason
- Quality lead image of Arctic fox in its winter coat in Iceland.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Arctic fox, +1
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
- Creator
- Jonathen Pie
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 15:24, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support - Cute! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:40, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2024 at 10:45:20 (UTC)
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Side view of a granulated sea star, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
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Top view
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline images.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Choriaster
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Echinoderms
- Creator
- Diego Delso
- Support as nominator – MER-C 10:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:00, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:16, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:41, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 20 Dec 2024 at 01:29:53 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality image of notable individual animal
- Articles in which this image appears
- Anchorage White Raven
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Lisa Hupp/USFWS
- Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:29, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Beautiful ―Howard • 🌽33 12:20, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 18:47, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Dec 2024 at 15:16:52 (UTC)
- Reason
- high quality photograph used as lead
- Articles in which this image appears
- Phyllis Diller, Phyllis
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
- Creator
- Allan Warren
- Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 15:16, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Com – Promo-style publicity shot by "society photographer," sez photo info. Scant EV. – Sca (talk) 15:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Exaggerated pose is excellent for a comedienne. Only reason I'm not supporting is that the original photograph appears to have curled when scanned; there is a black triangle about 50 px at its widest at the bottom. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:20, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Chris Woodrich: Ah yes, right. I cut a few pixels at the bottom. Yann (talk) 09:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Support - Excellent portrait, and one can tell she's a comedienne at a glance. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:41, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 18:48, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Wcamp9 (talk) 19:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support This is an great portrait with very strong EV Nick-D (talk) 04:47, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 16:44, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Dec 2024 at 12:15:46 (UTC)
- Reason
- Chicago rat hole
- Articles in which this image appears
- Chicago rat hole
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other
- Creator
- Winslow Dumaine
- Support as nominator – ―Howard • 🌽33 12:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. Boot tip distracting. – Sca (talk) 15:35, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's the original photo, right? So the EV would seem to derive not from its being a photo of the hole--since I agree with Sca that's it not great photography, though I don't know what the best techniques are for photographing a hole--but its being the starting point of a meme. Since so few meme images have been properly licensed, I'm not sure we've had occasion to consider what might make them featurable, have we? blameless 23:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- If an image meets the FP criteria and does a good job of depicting/enhancing/contributing to the subject of the article(s), that should be sufficient I think, or that's how I think of it. Of course some images are a lot more than just sufficient. Bammesk (talk) 19:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support, though I would recommend categorizing in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others as the photograph has notability as a photograph. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:48, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Dec 2024 at 02:01:05 (UTC)
- Reason
- Quality lead image of this species. (currently at Commons FPC)
- Articles in which this image appears
- Haliotis jacnensis
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
- Creator
- H. Zell
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:23, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:41, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Petar Milošević (talk) 12:41, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 17 Dec 2024 at 17:25:10 (UTC)
- Reason
- Great image of a famous galaxy in infrared light. FP on the Hebrew Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia and the Commons. POTW at the Czech Wiki.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey, Conscience
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
- Creator
- NASA/JPL-Caltech and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Support as nominator – EF5 17:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support, beautiful picture.
- Kingsmasher678 (talk) 19:52, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose - functionally obsolete due to JWST. MER-C 19:54, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @MER-C: How does that make this image "bad"? No better version exists.
I got the telescope used wrong, it is the Webb.It's a Hubble/Spitzer collab. EF5 20:00, 4 December 2024 (UTC)- It is clearly not Wikipedia's best work. File:Sombrero Galaxy (MIRI Image) (2024-137).png has higher resolution and is at a longer wavelength (=lower resolution). MER-C 10:06, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- I personally think this is one of Hubble’s best images. Are we going to delist half of all space FPs we have because “the JWST” can replicate them? EF5 13:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- It is clearly not Wikipedia's best work. File:Sombrero Galaxy (MIRI Image) (2024-137).png has higher resolution and is at a longer wavelength (=lower resolution). MER-C 10:06, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- @MER-C: How does that make this image "bad"? No better version exists.
- Support — Moonreach (talk) 20:36, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – For use in its primary article. Hopefully the article will get more attention (i.e. be improved). Bammesk (talk) 02:10, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:02, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 16 Dec 2024 at 18:58:39 (UTC)
- Reason
- Gorgeous image of Lower Manhattan,
atwo months before it no longer looked like this. Image is large as well, and I only noted small distortion on a few buildings at the edges of the picture, all the rest are straight from what I've seen. High EV as it depicts a building complex with it's surroundings, justatwo months before they left us. Amazing image overall, especially for 2001. May need slight clean-up, I did notice dust at the top. - Articles in which this image appears
- Architecture of New York City, World Trade Center (1973–2001), (will add to more articles shortly, surprised it isn't used in more)
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban
- Creator
- Carol M. Highsmith
- Support as nominator – EF5 18:58, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose due to a lot of dust & scratches, needs restoration. --Janke | Talk 21:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment — Agree about the dust and scratches. I'd support a restored alt, though. Moonreach (talk) 20:38, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
ConditionalSupport Alt 1 –if the restoration is donenow is done. It would be nice if we could source the "August 2001". Bammesk (talk) 02:49, 5 December 2024 (UTC)- It would probably in her WTC book (ISBN 9780517220924), if someone has access. blameless 02:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- About the restoration, I will do it in the next couple of days. Photo was certainly shot post 1997 because that's when the Museum of Jewish Heritage was completed, in foreground. Close enough to 2001 for me to support. Bammesk (talk) 02:34, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Support Vulcan thinks a restoration will help this image, now waiting and will switch support to Alt 1 if it is ready.–Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:02, 6 December 2024 (UTC)- I added Alt 1, restored it and fixed the perspective/lens distortion (it was visible at far left and far right). And added the image to the World Trade Center (1973–2001) article. BTW, the date of the photo is July 2001. I verified it in Highsmith's book (per User:Blameless), and added a note on the file page, the book says "two months before" the attacks. Pinging participants @EF5, Janke, Moonreach, and VulcanSphere:, @Blameless:. Bammesk (talk) 18:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Looks amazing, thank you! EF5 18:11, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- EF5, you need to vote for the Alt, your earlier vote covers the "Original", not "Alt 1". See my vote above. Bammesk (talk) 18:29, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support ALT1 - EF5 18:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 - Moonreach (talk) 20:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 21:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 --Petar Milošević (talk) 12:42, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 16 Dec 2024 at 05:55:44 (UTC)
- Reason
- Very grainy picture, maybe it's a little bit blurry. It probably would fail today's standards as a FP.
- Articles this image appears
- Frédéric Chopin, Culture of Europe, Daguerreotype, Poland, Romantic music etc.
- Previous nomination/s
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Frederic Chopin photo.jpeg
- Nominator
- Vinícius O. (talk)
- Delist — Vinícius O. (talk) 05:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delist Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delist Low resolution and quality. Yann (talk) 20:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Replace with Alt 1 - This is supposedly the only photo of Chopin. --Janke | Talk 21:27, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- I think the first photo should be delisted and Alt 1 is still in pretty bad quality so oppose both, and the 2005 explanation that "it is old, but so is the Colosseum" being poor reasoning which would definitely not pass in 2024. However, I think the photo has great potential and if a higher quality photo like a scan from Google Arts Project ever comes out, there is a chance it could be restored and I would support it. Wcamp9 (talk) 00:01, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Wcamp9: if you meant to vote above, do it in bold text, otherwise it will be a comment. Bammesk (talk) 02:16, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delist Wcamp9 (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- I say Keep. FP criteria 1, 2, 3 have exceptions for historic photos, also criterion 5 says "A picture's encyclopedic value is given priority over its artistic value". This being a 1849 photo of a very notable person qualifies I think. I would support a "delist and replace" when a better version becomes available. Bammesk (talk) 02:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Keep – Rectangular version has long been extant and is widely used in publishing internationally. (Note: Chopin, one of the most prolific & influential of composers, was only 39 when he died of TB. Also, the bookcase in Alt. 1 is distracting.) – Sca (talk) 15:44, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delist — Below the current pixel target on both axes and blurry up close. As the alt shows, these aren't artifacts of the original photo, this is just a poor transfer. I'm not impressed by the alt, either, it's also a crop and I think the contrast is too much. This version shows a more complete version of the photo than either, but it's too dark and much too small. Moonreach (talk) 18:34, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Delist and Replace with Alt 1: Considering its historical value, I believe the poor quality can be excused. However, I believe it is worth mentioning that a second photo exists which likely shows Chopin.[1] ―Howard • 🌽33 18:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have issues with that one, too. Firstly, the metadata page has a claim that it's not a photo at all but a crop from a painting, with a link to the alleged painting. Secondly, our copy doesn't match the one in the CBC article and has many strange details that make me wonder if it's been AI-upscaled from this copy. Moonreach (talk) 21:34, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'd like to ask keep; per Bammesk and Sca. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:25, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Keep for now, I think. Many of the quality issues mentioned (grainy and blurry) are to be expected from an 1849 daguerreotype--this is not the era of Mathew Brady a decade or so later when there were nice standardized glass plates. There are other issues with the scan and crop, but those would best be addressed with a d&r, and there needs to be another version that can get consensus, which there doesn't seem to be yet. I am hoping that a better scan of this photograph (the other possible photos of Chopin are all of contested authenticity as well as lesser quality) will emerge, and then perhaps a restored version can be brought to FPC for a delist and replace. For now, I don't see a strong need to delist this one, which is of obvious historical importance. blameless 05:41, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ Scislowska, Monika (2017-01-20). "A rare, unknown photo of Frédéric Chopin probably found". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
Voting period ends on 15 Dec 2024 at 17:48:35 (UTC)
- Reason
- Amusing, well-composed visualization of the times secrecy is necessary for one's well-being. I think it has a lot of character for such an abstract idea. There are a few light scratches, but I think most of the background noise is authentic to the wooden boards (note, for instance, that the basin of the sink is smooth) and that white line in the upper right is a lamp pull-cord, not damage to the picture.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Self-interest, secrecy
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
- Creator
- Unnamed photographer for Office of War Information
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 17:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- It needs restoration. A white stripe on the right edge (bottom), a stitching error on his side pocket (extends left and right), and several obvious scratches. I will support if that's done. Oppose Original. Bammesk (talk) 03:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 – Bammesk (talk) 18:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Conditional Support – per Bammesk. Looks fine, but restoration is needed. — Benison (Beni · talk) 14:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 – I made a retouched version. Yann (talk) 13:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Yann: there is still a white strip on the (lower) right edge. It's easy to see on a black background (see the thumbnail to the right). I wouldn't crop it out, because the crop is already tight. Suggest cloning it with nearby pixels. Bammesk (talk) 15:21, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done Yann (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:08, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1. Thanks for doing that. - Moonreach (talk) 20:52, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Dec 2024 at 18:34:11 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality large image. Illustrates article well with high EV. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Insular flying fox
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:34, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Janke | Talk 08:41, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:27, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Dec 2024 at 18:38:17 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality image of Samoan endemic. Adds value to article. FP on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- Flat-billed kingfisher
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:38, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:26, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Dec 2024 at 18:43:23 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality image of IUCN Vulnerable species. Adds value to article. FP on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- Brown-banded antpitta
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Charlesjsharp
- Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:43, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:01, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:57, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:16, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Dec 2024 at 12:22:00 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- 2024 Central European floods
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others
- Creator
- Jacek Halicki
- Support as nominator – MER-C 12:22, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Przepraszam, but EV doesn't seem to be there. There's little visual info to explain the context or locale of this weather event. – Sca (talk) 16:17, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:01, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 20:53, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:24, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose in favor of This image which is in the article, is FP on Commons, and should be in the infobox IMO. The nom image doesn't convey a sense of scale, the car tire and the street lamps are too small to convey scale, and the buildings are cut up. Bammesk (talk) 03:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Both are good, but this one feels much more dramatic. Yann (talk) 09:09, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per Bammesk and per Sca: that other image does a much better job of illustrating the scale and impact of this disaster. Nick-D (talk) 04:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- I added the other picture as Alt1. Support either, with slight preference for Alt 1, which is devastating. blameless 05:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also, I'd suggest Natural phenomena/Weather rather than /Other. blameless 05:49, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Alt 1 – better composition per my comment above. Bammesk (talk) 15:27, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support alt 1 - better depiction of the scale of the flooding.:Jay8g [V•T•E] 05:03, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Dec 2024 at 12:17:23 (UTC)
- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Western kingbird
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Rhododendrites
- Support as nominator – MER-C 12:17, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:43, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:22, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:17, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2024 at 03:20:35 (UTC)
- Reason
- Incredibly high quality portrait of a famous actor
- Articles in which this image appears
- Alec Guinness, Alec Guinness on stage and screen
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
- Creator
- Allan warren
- Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 03:20, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Not bad for '73 film. (Too bad about the figures in foreground, tho.) – Sca (talk) 14:59, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 18:06, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – The pixel count is too high for the amount of detail there is. It can easily be reduced in size (down sampled) to 50% and not loose anything. That'd be an improvement when viewed at full size. Bammesk (talk) 15:32, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with this. For once, there are too many pixels. Moonreach (talk) 18:24, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Could be cropped from bottom. -- Sca (talk) 16:19, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with this. For once, there are too many pixels. Moonreach (talk) 18:24, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 18:23, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Sir Alec Guinness Allan Warren.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:39, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality portrait, fitting background for person so important in spaceflight history
- Articles in which this image appears
- Wernher von Braun, Space Race
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
- Creator
- NASA
- Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 03:15, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Govt. publicity shot. Weak colors. – Sca (talk) 15:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – The source of the image is not an issue, but this is not the image used as lead, so EV is low. The crop is too small for FP. Yann (talk) 18:08, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Now is lead photo Wcamp9 (talk) 02:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose This photo has good EV as a depiction of how Wernher von Braun was seen at this time (a heroic type of technocrat) but very poor EV for how he is now seen (an amoral Nazi slave master who the US government cynically adopted). Nick-D (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- That makes sense, but when you look at Guerrillero Heroico you can say the same since it is a photo used as a communist protest and they are almost synonymous with each other. That is a featured pic though. Wcamp9 (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not very familiar with Che and the histography around him, but that's an incredibly famous photo and has strong EV in its own right. I don't think that this photo would have EV in its own right. Nick-D (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- This is not a comment on Nick-D's argument, which I'm still thinking about, but just noting that Guerrillero Heroico has its own long and well-cited article, so the image is quite valuable as a cultural artifact and artwork (or work of notable propaganda if you prefer) regardless of its value as a portrait. It is definitely not "almost synonymous" with von Braun's official NASA portrait. Finally I might note, along the lines of what Nick-D is saying, that a restored version of this uncomfortable photo would be quite useful. blameless 03:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- That makes sense, but when you look at Guerrillero Heroico you can say the same since it is a photo used as a communist protest and they are almost synonymous with each other. That is a featured pic though. Wcamp9 (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – For the record, this was nominated previously at This link. Bammesk (talk) 15:40, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:36, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality image; used in a lot of Big Sky related articles; very beautiful and scenic picture that accurately depicts the mountain and some of the houses of the resort are also visible.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Lone Mountain (Montana), Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, Montana
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
- Creator
- Eric Moreno
- Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 23:21, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- SupportHounaam (talk) 11:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support Wow. Bremps... 07:24, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – I am leaning to oppose. It looks pretty but the EV is poor because the only thing that stands out is the sky. All else (mountain, resort, foreground) is in dim light and serves to highlight the sky. The wide angle view (lens) doesn’t help either because it emphasizes the foreground and the sky (minimizing the mountain and resort). In comparison This is a better photo, but not sharp enough to be FP. Bammesk (talk) 15:51, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – per above. Bammesk (talk) 02:50, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose lighting reduces EV. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:45, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 21:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Lone Mountain Sunset (32727260230).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:47, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality rendition of the cover of a notable magazine, depicting a notable subject. It's also the first issue, which helps
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Young Companion, Hu Die
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment (we have magazine covers in both)
- Creator
- Unknown; restored to remove JPG artefacts by Chris Woodrich
- Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:14, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Grainy, faint. – Sca (talk) 17:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- 1926 halftoning for the first point, consistent with other digital representations of the magazine for the second. They switched to a more ornate style with their second year, then a full size image in year three. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:34, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Shows the subject well. It's the cover of a 1920s magazine. It is what it is. Historic images don't have to be up to today's standards, FP criterion 1 and 3. Bammesk (talk) 16:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:04, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support - EF5 03:20, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Promoted File:Liangyou 001 cover - Hu Die.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High quality, shot is composed alright, general in front of a map is thematically fitting, and is also in full color, which is unusual for 1945 or so
- Articles in which this image appears
- Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
- Creator
- U.S. Department of War
- Support as nominator – Bremps... 01:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Low quality. File size is 204KB, that's small. A larger less compressed file would have shown more fine details. It needs a restoration to remove spots and dust. Also there is a large out of focus patch on his shirt (on his left chest and his left upper arm), it's easy to see when zoomed in, say at 150% size. It looks abnormal (looks like a cut and pasted patch, or maybe the scanner messed up for some reason). Good composition and good EV though. I would support This image if it's restored from its original tiff Here. Bammesk (talk) 02:32, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment - I tried and failed to find a better copy of this. There wasn't one among the National Archive's online collection for him. Moonreach (talk) 18:26, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- I should add that I would support a higher-quality copy of this; I think it's an excellent photo. But tracking down the exact provenance led to a bunch of dead ends and stock photo websites, and I can't say I'm fully convinced this is actually a government photograph rather than one from a news agency that might still be copyrighted. Moonreach (talk) 18:33, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- I too support a higher quality version of this. Bammesk (talk) 02:25, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @PequodOnStationAtLZ, who may be able to shed some light on where the photograph was first found. Bremps... 04:25, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly it was a copyright fraud case on Getty Images PequodOnStationAtLZ (talk) 05:01, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Getty has no credibility: [1] on copyright of older images. Bammesk (talk) 02:25, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly it was a copyright fraud case on Getty Images PequodOnStationAtLZ (talk) 05:01, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- I should add that I would support a higher-quality copy of this; I think it's an excellent photo. But tracking down the exact provenance led to a bunch of dead ends and stock photo websites, and I can't say I'm fully convinced this is actually a government photograph rather than one from a news agency that might still be copyrighted. Moonreach (talk) 18:33, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Suspended nominations
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