Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/September-2024

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Leland D. Melvin with his dogs

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Reason

Excellent portrait that was previously nominated in 2020. I've added a bit of a blurb on the viral image, and found a higher resolution presentation that was Tweeted by NASA, so all of the criticisms from the first nomination should be dealt with.

Articles in which this image appears

Leland D. Melvin; Dog behavior

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Robert Markowitz for NASA

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:23, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support per my comment from the previous nomination - this is a great photo that illustrates several aspects of the subject's life and is also useful for articles on the relationships between humans and dogs. Nick-D (talk) 01:03, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 03:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 04:32, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – good photo! ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:09, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – A warm and touching picture. —Bruce1ee^talk 23:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Yann (talk) 18:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:00, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Me at the zoo

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Reason

It is true that the original video quality is only 240p, however I think its historical value as the first video ever uploaded to YouTube vindicates it. As far as I am aware, restoration or remastering is unnecessary since this is how the video was originally uploaded. The video was also selected as media of the day on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Me at the zoo, Jawed Karim

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Jawed Karim

• Support as nominator – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:07, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support - I've pulled the link to the archived version and confirmed that the video was under a CC-BY license on the attributed date. This is a historical artifact, with a good article on it, and a very important piece of the internet timeline. We've previously featured File:Trojan Room coffee pot xcoffee.png, which was in its native resolution, so there is precedent for resolutions lower than "minimum" for works such as this.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:07, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 15:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Pivotal moment for the internet. GamerPro64 04:41, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – Purported significance not apparent. Odd content, lacks EV. – Sca (talk) 12:13, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support I disagree. --_ZZ^Z'S 13:05, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Me at the zoo.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Red knot

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Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image. The image has undergone noise reduction since the previous nomination.

Articles in which this image appears

Red knot etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Needsmoreritalin

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 11:13, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support (though it does feel slightly oversharpened).  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:08, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 17:19, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – I was planning on nominating this image. Thanks! _ZZ^Z'S 23:35, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Thanks for the nomination. --Needsmoreritalin (talk) 02:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Rufa red knot (Calidris canutus rufa) in Delaware Bay, New Jersey.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:31, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

La Promenade (Renoir)

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Reason

Good reproduction of a painting with a specific article.

Articles in which this image appears

La Promenade (Renoir) etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• Support as nominator – MER-C 11:07, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 15:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Yann (talk) 18:00, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 15:01, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:La Promenade, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:34, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Lauren Bacall

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Reason

The best picture from this period of her life, and includes the manuscript of her autobiography, which is helpful. Composition is way better than the other image presumably from that same session. Downside: Not the lead image, and the article has many of her, but I think the manuscript helps a lot with EV, as it gives it something unique compared to the other photos.

Articles in which this image appears

Lauren Bacall +1

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers

Creator

Bernard Gotfryd, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 19:54, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Was honestly going to nominate this, until I saw that you were still actively working on it. It's an excellent image, showing her at work on something that was important to her during the period.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:16, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 15:41, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Yann (talk) 17:59, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom and per Chris. Nick-D (talk) 07:56, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 10:32, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Lauren Bacall by Bernard Gotfryd.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:53, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Eastern amberwing

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Reason

Excellent dragonfly image! High EV, good quality.

Articles in which this image appears

Eastern amberwing

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects

Creator

Rhododendrites

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:15, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:50, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 10:34, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 22:34, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Eastern amberwing (75121).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:56, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikipe-tan and Commons-tan

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Reason

A rather masterful illustration of a "fictional relationship that causes controversy", a concept somewhat difficult to illustrate through CC! My friend drew this image on my suggestion for the Shipping discourse article.

Articles in which this image appears

Shipping discourse

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle

Creator

Honemura (Commons user)

• Support as nominator – Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 15:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - I'm torn. On the oppose end, Wikipe-tan and Commons-tan are not prominent figures in the shipping community, and being abstract idealizations of these projects, they don't have set ages that illustrate the age gap in a meaningful fashion. On the support end, we're not going to get free images of the copyrighted characters that dominate the shipping community, and frankly I love the Renoir vibes. This is a useful image... I'm just not sure that it meets the FP threshold.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment – Perhaps it is a personal failure with recognizing emotion in art, but I could not discern that this was meant to be a romantic context without the caption. Even so, I'm not going to vote yes or no on this one. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 17:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

  If anything, this image deserves a "most contested FP nomination" of the year. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• User-generated art tends to get controversial. The lead image at yaoi was similar, over a decade back (and the Commons nom was also contentious) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Comment - it was added to the article today... --Janke | Talk 18:21, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – Beyond the ken of most Eng.-lang. readers. – Sca (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support - It's a beautiful art piece IMO and the image is educationally useful. I'm not sure that I agree with the argument about it being "beyond the ken" of readers, since Wikipedia exists to help people learn and understand subjects they may have had no prior understanding of. FP has also featured technical and scientific charts and diagrams, which I imagine are at least a little difficult for average readers to understand without further reading. Di (they-them) (talk) 01:46, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support I believe it's somewhat using Japanese artistic tropes to dshow the relationship, which suits the characters. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:51, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose This doesn't seem to illustrate the concept well given that it appears to be a fan fiction thing, and I don't think that anyone is writing fan fiction about thse obscure representations of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Nick-D (talk) 05:07, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  @Nick-D: Would it help if I did?

  Wikipe-tan looked up at Commons-tan, blushing slightly as they sat on the bench. They had worked together in their efforts to protect knowledge for so long, but Wikipe-tan was more of an author, and Commons-tan more of an artist, and their endeavours seemed so different. They were separate in their endeavours, and yet.... they collaborated constantly. As she looked up at Commons-tan, it felt like there was... more there between them. Commons-tan reached over, unsaid words hung in the air, and Wikipe-tan leaned closer, looking down to the hand in her lap, which held a gift... the perfect image for one of her 6.8 million articles from Commons-tan's 108 mllion files. She would treasure it forever, (or at least until the next edit war waged within her, and replaced it with one that had randomly been turned black and white, but that's a conflict for a later chapter). Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Huh? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 22:22, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  And now someone has written romantic fanfiction about them. Proving Nick-D a horrible liar who should be ashamed of himself. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 22:32, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Do note where that linked text goes. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 00:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

  I sure will ;) Nick-D (talk) 10:22, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

  Dangit, that made me laugh. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 11:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

  It seems the image of a fictional relationship that causes controversy has itself caused controversy. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - I agree with NickD. This is not a real-world example. MER-C 18:44, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. It's beautiful art and it fits the article well; I find the opposes somewhat unreasonable, given that the point of the image is to help you understand the subject of the article, and the idea of fanfiction is that it is both art and can sometimes include art—I would consider the work to be that. If the art can be considered a work of fanfiction, I think it fits, and the notion that a character needs to be popular to have works based on it is rather unreasonable, and the notion that the example needs to be "real-world" is even more unreasonable given that it's quite literally an article about fictitious relationships. Neo Purgatorio (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - Per my arguments above. EV is minimal when the characters are not commonly shipped (or even commonly the subject of fan fiction), as it does not represent the general landscape of the subject (not that a landscape where Barry Benson has multiple fan fictions, and "Garfield Effect" exists, can be easily summarized in one image) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:57, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. Too in-universe to be easily understood or representative. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose per Nick and Chris. Josh Milburn (talk) 09:44, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• I was confused by this one, and decided to go through the criteria list to do things by the book.

• "1. Is of a high technical standard." In terms of portraiture, this shows well-developed skill, but it's very low contrast in places. I downloaded a copy and grayscaled it; it doesn't read well at all that way. Ambiguous.
• "2. Is of high resolution." Yes.
• "3. Is among Wikipedia's best work." That's broad, but "It illustrates the subject in a compelling way, making the viewer want to know more" is better. I guess this might. The most I can say is that it doesn't look like the other images I've seen cycle through Today's Featured Picture.
• "4. Has a free license." Yes.
• "5. Adds significant encyclopedic value to an article." I'm doubtful of this; if anything, I think you need to read the article to understand what the picture is showing.
• "6. Is verifiable." No; using Wikipedia's own mascots to illustrate this concept is, if not original research, then at least an aspect that makes the work harder to understand than it otherwise would be. Wikipedia is kind of in a bind on this; an image showing two copyrighted characters the public is familiar with would showcase the concept better but wouldn't be free use.
• "7. Has a descriptive, informative and complete file description in English." While the current description could be more detailed, I think it's sufficient.
• "8. Avoids inappropriate digital manipulation." The image is natively digital; I don't think this applies.

By my count, this picture passes on points 2, 4 and 7; is marginal on points 1 and 3; fails points 5 and 6; and point 8 doesn't apply. I have to say oppose; this is a well-made image, but the concept it's trying to illustrate is complex and innately tied to the world of copyright in ways that are hard to work around. I don't think it's FP quality. Moonreach (talk) 17:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. The drawing itself are very well done in my opinion however i don't think it suits well with the Wikipedia article (it does help me imagining it but doesn't made it easier to understand). What about Picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons? Stvk Công Cuối (VN) (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:32, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

• I struck this vote. Editor has less than 100 edits. See instructions on top of the WP:FPC page. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Jaws film poster

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Reason

High-resolution upload of the iconic film poster for one of the most popular American films, which was the highest-grossing film of all time upon its release.

Articles in which this image appears

Jaws (film), Roger Kastel

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Roger Kastel

• Support as nominator – –Dream out loud (talk) 12:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 – Iconic image. Yann (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support. It's a classic and iconic poster from one of the most famous American films. The file is indeed in the public domain, which was affirmed by the US Copyright Office, so no IP issues should be present. Di (they-them) (talk) 01:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Lacks current EV. Meh. – Sca (talk) 12:25, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 It's not the best reproduction, but it's good enough for now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 15:03, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
• Two questions:

1) Given Mediawiki's difficulty rendering PNG, is that the best format for this file? EDIT: I note that the source is jpg.

2) The cited reference for public domain status is a dead link. Meanwhile, this copy has a clear copyright notice. How sure are we that this is free?  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:50, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Here is an archived copy. This assessment from the Copyright Office seems to specifically be about the illustration of the shark and swimmer, rather than this poster as a document in and of itself; the report says that the illustration was originally published as the cover of the novel's paperback edition. One could argue that, if the Copyright Office holds the illustration to be public domain, the rest of the poster is, too, since it's just text and simple shapes that wouldn't be copyrightable on their own. That steers closer to original research than I think I'm comfortable with, though. Moonreach (talk) 20:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

• I finally got this one to work. That is... a heck of a read, and I'm curious if Commons/Wikimedia council have explored the implications of this decision (sounds like a lot of book covers may actually be PD). My concern about copyright is quelled - aside from the brief tagline, none of the text really seems to cross the threshold of originality for the United States, and the illustration is free. Still have a question about the format; since the original was a JPG, being PNG only prevents loss during re-use. A JPG would render better on Wikipedia.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

  Oh, I guess I linked the original instead of the archived copy I was reading. Sorry you had to go digging. Moonreach (talk) 22:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

  No worries! It was a good read, and worth digging.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support Alt1 – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 16:57, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
• I've decided to BOLD-ly add ALT1 as a JPG. Support ALT1 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:30, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support Alt1 – Bammesk (talk) 15:54, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support either. MER-C 10:35, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Chris, the Alt1 version has more jpeg artifacts, see the red "JAWS" text area. Easy to see at an enlargment of 150%. Can you reconvert using a larger file size and/or zero compression? Bammesk (talk) 13:14, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• This is the version directly from the source. I can see if Photoshop can clear it a bit.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:20, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I missed that part. Much better now, thanks. Bammesk (talk) 13:45, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• Alright, I added new layers with the three primary colours (red, black, white) and set them at 75% opacity. That has taken care of the artifacting in the wordmark (in both instances).  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Shouldn't we ping Dream out loud, Yann, Di, Carlosmarkos2345, and possibly Sca and VulcanSphere to see if they prefer/also support the alt? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:33, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes. The instructions on top of the WP:FPC page say: "Reviewers are advised to monitor the progress of a nomination and 'update their votes' accordingly." Bammesk (talk) 21:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I'll update my vote, Support for either. Di (they-them) (talk) 23:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Vulcan has affirmed his support towards ALT1. Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I support ALT1. –Dream out loud (talk) 19:02, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Jaws movie poster.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

His Girl Friday

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Reason

A Featured Media on Commons

Articles in which this image appears

His Girl Friday

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Howard Hawks

• Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 12:04, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Support Alt 1 --Carlosmarkos2345 | Talk 12:33, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment I was the uploader on this one. It's worth noting that this video is impacted by phabricator:T362831 (MediaWiki not transcoding HDR properly), so you'll notice the UHD source has HDR but the HD transcodes that MediaWiki produces are in SDR without a proper tonemapping. For cases like this, I'm not sure if it would be better to add a notice to the file page advising readers of the difference or do a UHD upload in SDR. It's a good transfer with encyclopedic value, so if that question can be settled, I'd support. hinnk (talk) 21:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

  I have an alt I'd like to add, but unfortunately I've been trying to upload it since Saturday and gotten nothing but upload errors (seems to be because of phab:T129621). I'd like to ask for the nomination to be suspended until I can get the alt uploaded, so we avoid having to go through a delist-and-replace nomination after this closes. If anyone here's an admin on Commons and can speedy delete c:File:His Girl Friday (1940, SDR).webm, that might help things along. hinnk (talk) 02:50, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

  Just got a fix uploaded to File:His Girl Friday (1940, SDR).webm. It's identical to the original nomination except for the color space, so the playback should have more sensible contrast levels. Support that as alt 1. hinnk (talk) 02:57, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• Support — Moonreach (talk) 17:56, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 19:49, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 04:15, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
• @Carlosmarkos2345, Moonreach, Yann, Vinícius94, and Hamid Hassani: An alternative was added to the nomination. Could you indicate which version(s) you support? Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• I don't really understand the benefit of the new version, specially the advantage of SDR for old films and black and white videos. To me, it seems to have more contrast. Is it really the case, or a side-effect? Which version is more faithful to the original film? Yann (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

  I second this uncertainty. While I can see that the alt has slightly higher contrast, the difference between the two is so slight that I don't feel qualified to say what standards should be used to decide which is superior. Moonreach (talk) 18:06, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

  I agree with Yann that it'd be better to show it in HDR than to not. That said, what's happening is most people will never see an HDR video on Wikipedia because they'll use the default playback, which is always in SDR.

  The "Source" playback on the original file can be used as a reference. That's in HDR, and if you have a display that properly handles HDR, there'll be a big difference between that and the default "HD 1080p" SDR playback (on that or on a color video, for example). With the transcodes on the original, there's no tonemapping at all, so it looks least like the film. With alt 1, the source file had the tonemapping applied when I converted it from HDR, so the transcodes will look more like the film. hinnk (talk) 18:33, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

  I'll support the alt too, if that's what it takes to get this over the finish line. Moonreach (talk) 15:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

• The vote count is 5 supports for the Original and 3 supports for the Alt 1. There is consensus to promote the Original. In the article, I reverted back to the Original video. Pinging @Armbrust and Hinnk:. Bammesk (talk) 13:05, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Voting stopped <24 hours after alt 1 was uploaded, and neither Vinícius O. nor Hamid Hassani have edited since alt 1 was uploaded. I would suggest (1) opening the discussion to opinions from people who haven't participated, (2) closing as consensus to promote the original and starting a procedural nomination to replace, or (3) leaving the nomination open until Vinícius O. and Hamid Hassani have a chance to weigh in. Otherwise we're stuck presenting (and featuring!) an encoding error for procedural reasons around when the file was uploaded, which I think should be avoided. hinnk (talk) 18:43, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

If the current consensus doesn't change and the Original is promoted, then you or anyone can start a "Delist and Replace" nomination to get consensus for Alt 1. Bammesk (talk) 21:00, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I was hoping to avoid having to make everyone go through a separate nomination but it looks like that might end up being the best route. hinnk (talk) 21:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah. If we close this one then we can give it another go-around with just the alt and I think it'll pass. I don't know how long these things are normally left open, but we're coming up on a month since this nomination was made. Moonreach (talk) 15:18, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:His Girl Friday (1940).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Northrop HL-10

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Reason

nice historical photo, good quality and good EV

Articles in which this image appears

Northrop HL-10 (lead), William H. Dana, +1

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – Artem.G (talk) 17:15, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Titan2456 (talk) 1:51, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support --Argenberg (talk) 21:39, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support A tiny number of dust specks in the shadows really don't hold back much. Good quality for colour film of the era (I've seen better indoor shots with colour film of the era, but outdoor shots with moving objects?). Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:30, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 18:32, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support Dramatic and interesting shot with solid EV. It would be good though if more details could be added to the caption here and at Commons, though the NASA caption is rather sparce. In particular, it appears that the B-52 is probably the aircraft that dropped the HL-10 for its flight (note the equipment under its right wing). Nick-D (talk) 23:20, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 15:28, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:21, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

• While there’s a clear consensus to promotion, an unused image can’t become a featured picture. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:21, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

  hey, I was offline for a ~week, and had no chance to response. the photo was switched during the nomination with a larger version File:HL-10 on Lakebed with B-52 flyby - GPN-2000-000201.jpg. though it is indeed larger, its quality is worse, and it's full of jpeg artifacts. I restored the nominated photo in the articles, and given 8 supports I think it can be promoted. Artem.G (talk) 13:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

• Hi Armbrust, it might be good to revisit the timeline of this nomination and reconsider it's closure. The image was switched Here after the nom had 6 supports and zero opposition. There was consensus for it becoming FP prior to it being replaced in the article. The image was replaced with a technically subpar image and the replacement went unnoticed. If the closure was delayed a few days and the nominator had been notified, the nominator would have caught up with it (as they did on August 2nd ). If it's possible, you may want to reconsider the closure. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 16:04, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Northrop HL-10.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:39, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

• Reclosed per above comments. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:42, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Black-throated green warbler

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Sep 2024 at 10:28:13 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons in June. Headline image.

Articles in which this image appears

Black-throated green warbler, Setophaga

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Rhododendrites

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:33, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 22:34, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 19:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

  Support Luna Cielus (talk) 20:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Support. The image has very good quality and it captures a clear view on the Black-throated green warbler species. Luna Cielus (talk) 20:57, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

• I struck the above votes. Editor has less than 100 edits. See instruction on top of the WP:FPC page. Bammesk (talk) 14:38, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:31, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: There's moderate sexual dimorphism, so the sex should really be identified in the caption (here and in the article). Josh Milburn (talk) 11:21, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Black-throated green warbler in PP (14050).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:15, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Zhuhai Fisher Girl

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Sep 2024 at 10:42:27 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.

Articles in which this image appears

Zhuhai, Zhuhai Fisher Girl, Pan He

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture

Creator

Dllu

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:42, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - Excellent technical quality, though an article on the statue would cement its EV better than we have now.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

I do see that there is enough for a stub in the Zhuhai article already.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• Working on Zhuhai Fisher Girl now – once I got the Mandarin title, wasn't too hard to get some sources. I note that Pan He is identified as the sculptor.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:33, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – very nice photo and the article has a section on the statue. Bammesk (talk) 13:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support now that we have Zhuhai Fisher Girl — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Zhuhai Fisher Girl statue dllu.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

De Havilland Mosquito

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Sep 2024 at 12:37:47 (UTC)

Reason

Excellent image of a remarkable aircraft; fantastic quality for 1942/1943

Articles in which this image appears

de Havilland Mosquito

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air

Creator

Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Luchtmacht; restored by  — Chris Woodrich (talk)

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:37, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 13:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support A few bright specks upper left, but nothing above filmgrain size. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• I'll have a looksie in a bit. Doing a bit of writing - finally got some inspiration  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• Alright, I think I got them.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Looks good. It's an in-air photo from the 40s, so that forgives a lot of filmgrain. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 00:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support. Deserving lead image for its article, and being in action in wartime makes up for any minor film imperfections. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 13:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:30, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. As an aside, @Chris Woodrich, do we know what location the plane is flying over in this photo? — Matarisvan (talk) 07:35, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, that's not provided by the source.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

This image doesn't look very realistic. It appears to be a highly stylized or edited representation rather than a true-to-life photograph of the De Havilland Mosquito. Luna Cielus (talk) 21:16, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support High quality photo of this important aircraft type. The fact that it depicts an aircraft serving with a front line combat unit adds strongly to the EV. Nick-D (talk) 23:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV Series 2 (restoration).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Olivia de Havilland

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Sep 2024 at 13:04:22 (UTC)

Reason

High technical quality; captures the actress in the twilight years of her career; featured on Commons

Articles in which this image appears

Olivia de Havilland

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Bernard Gotfryd

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:04, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support either  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:43, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose Levels are way off. Even the simplest "Put the brightest red point to 255, darkest to 0, and so on with green and blue, and then do a midpoint and blackpoint can vastly improve it. It's like a film over it gets removed. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 00:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Support alt Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 09:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support: ALT.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 06:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support either, favor alt. Technical precision aside, the original was already quite good; I had to fullscreen them to see the difference. Moonreach (talk) 15:16, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

  I think that the original is not bad, but the edited version is much brighter and clearer. It has a better quality altogether. Luna Cielus (talk) 19:13, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support either – Bammesk (talk) 01:09, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support Alt – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:36, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support alt. MER-C 09:57, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Olivia de Havilland, actress, 1985 - levels adjustment.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:45, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

The Flight of the Prisoners

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 15 Sep 2024 at 15:07:29 (UTC)

Reason

High-resolution of a painting depicting a major event in religious history. A Google search for this painting turns up results with color grading that's all over the place; this copy is from The Jewish Museum's website, and Google says they hold the original.

Articles in which this image appears

Babylonian captivity, Kingdom of Judah, Books of Kings, others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Painted by Jacques Joseph Tissot, this version uploaded to Commons by Opencooper

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:07, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - resolution is a bit smaller than many of our painting FPs, but given that this work is smaller (less than a foot on the long side), it's fine for me.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – but the two source links on the image page are dead. These archive links should be added next to the dead source links, FP criterion #6. Bammesk (talk) 14:12, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:27, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: It probably doesn't belong in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings; although it is a painting, its EV (judging from the articles in which it is used) is as an illustration of the event, not as a reproduction of the painting. Josh Milburn (talk) 11:19, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

  I'd be game for that, but I'm not sure which category it would best suit. Any suggestions? Moonreach (talk) 13:42, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

  I think it will be Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:25, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 16:45, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Tissot The Flight of the Prisoners.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:25, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Wilson Square

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Sep 2024 at 14:22:37 (UTC)

Reason

Good quality and EV

Articles in which this image appears

Wilson Square, Żoliborz

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban

Creator

User:Emptywords

• – EUPBR (talk) 14:22, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:51, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - I note the distortion caused by the wide-angle lens, but overall this is excellent for showing the scale and layout of the square.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:43, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
• Weak support This is rather lacking in wow factor (a photo taken while a tram was passing through would have added a bit more interest and EV, for example), but has good EV and is well executed. Nick-D (talk) 08:45, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – The sharpness on the right corners is subpar. It's an interesting intersection. The first time I see a roundabout with rail tracks going through it! Bammesk (talk) 14:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

• Got one such tram/roundabout intersection 800 meters from my home: see Google maps at 60°12'49.9"N 24°53'02.8"E (direct Google link prohibited...) - but it is not as good looking. Support, by the way... ;-) --Janke | Talk 08:48, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

• Interesting. I figure the rail tracks were there first, and years later the roundabouts were built around them. Bammesk (talk) 16:15, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

• Nope, exactly the other way around, the tracks are just a couple of years old, for a new rapid tram line... --Janke | Talk 18:49, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:29, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support —Bruce1ee^talk 05:40, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - This picture is very accurate since It is real and it is possible to see the square from above Luna Cielus (talk) 19:27, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Plac Wilsona Warsaw 2022 aerial.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:36, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Don't Be a Sucker

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 02:07:11 (UTC)

Reason

I nominated this before years ago and it almost was promoted so I'm nominating it again.

Articles in which this image appears

Don't Be a Sucker, American propaganda during World War II, Unite the Right rally

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

United States Department of War

• Support as nominator – GamerPro64 02:07, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Just as relevant today, as it was then. --Janke | Talk 07:44, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 12:39, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 14:25, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 17:51, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Don't Be a Sucker (high resolution 35mm transfer).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:07, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Finsteraarhorn

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 10:02:23 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Finsteraarhorn etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes

Creator

Carsten Steger

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Seems slightly oversharpened, but not to the point of haloing, so I'm good. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:59, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – agree that it's oversharpened. Bammesk (talk) 14:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – per above _ZZ^Z'S 16:48, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Carsten Steger (talk) 20:02, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Aerial image of Finsteraarhorn (view from the south).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:59, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Bar-tailed lark

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 10:26:33 (UTC)

Reason

Featured on Commons. Headline image.

Articles in which this image appears

Bar-tailed lark

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

El Golli Mohamed

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:26, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 16:48, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment — Not visually grabbing, but I suppose that's the curse of trying to photograph a small animal that's evolved to blend in with its environment. The composition is excellent, though; overall, I'm neutral. Moonreach (talk) 17:55, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Agree with previous. Lack of contrast may interest ornithologists, but detracts from visual accessibility for general readers. – Sca (talk) 13:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. Shows the bird's coloration in relation to its natural habitat. Why wouldn't that interest general readers? blameless 02:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:01, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:01, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Boeing Crew Flight Test

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 15:22:08 (UTC)

Reason

Quality lead image in Boeing Crew Flight Test. The first crewed launch of the Boeing Starliner in June 2024.

Articles in which this image appears

Boeing Crew Flight Test, Boeing Starliner, United Launch Alliance

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

NASA/Joel Kowsky

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 17:51, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Rocket lifts off pad. Predictable. – Sca (talk) 12:57, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:18, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 22:42, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch (NHQ202406050029).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:07, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 15:29:11 (UTC)

Reason

high EV historical image used in many articles

Articles in which this image appears

Auschwitz Album, The Holocaust in Poland, etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II

Creator

Unknown photographer from the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst. Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, restored by Yann

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 15:29, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 17:50, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 00:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 23:04, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:31, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1b.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Mandelbulb animation

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2024 at 17:42:57 (UTC)

Reason

High-resolution, visually engaging flyover of a mandelbulb, a 3D fractal. Already featured on Commons and the Persian Wikipedia. The video is slightly brighter at the very top and bottom of the frame and I'm not sure why, but otherwise I see no deficiencies. We do already have a featured picture of a mandelbulb, but I believe this is artistically distinct enough to stand alongside it, as it does on the mandelbulb article.

Articles in which this image appears

Mandelbulb

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Mathematics

Creator

PantheraLeo1359531

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 17:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support What an honor, thank you :) --PantheraLeo1359531 (talk) 17:44, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - Love fractals.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:49, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support - A giant piñata! --Janke | Talk 20:09, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:28, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:23, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 03:30, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – This is the first successful FP nom in the mathematics category in 12 years! Bammesk (talk) 00:58, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

• I'm seeing eleven, but still... that's a long time! Good to have some new material. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:33, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Visit of the Mandelbulb (4K UHD; 50FPS).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:15, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Portland Vase fragments

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Sep 2024 at 18:34:08 (UTC)

Reason

Unusual media reflecting an unusual problem: A 19th century technical watercolor of a smashed vase prior to reconstruction. The original image includes a test pattern for calibration (as does the first Wikimedia upload, since cropped), so I believe these colors are faithful and the uniform browning is simply an aspect of the paper's age (contrast it against this photo of the image when it was new). I know some people here have well-developed opinions about what image margins should look like; these look okay to me, but I'd also support alternate versions if they're a sticking point.

Articles in which this image appears

Conservation and restoration of glass objects, Portland Vase, Vandalism of art, John Doubleday (restorer) (FA)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams

Creator

Thomas H. Shepherd, uploaded and cropped by Usernameunique

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 18:34, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - JPG artifacting is pretty bad, as expected at 300 kb for a file this size.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:16, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

  I confess I didn't notice anything until you mentioned it. To me, the colored areas look pretty good, but I missed how it was portraying the areas around lines. I did a reverse image search just now to see if I could find a larger file copy to propose as an alt, but sadly had no luck. Moonreach (talk) 13:46, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

  Same, and the British Museum is now saying that they don't have a digital copy of the image. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:20, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Geologic time scale

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Oct 2024 at 22:19:10 (UTC)

Reason

Quality lead image for its article, informative, good EV.

Articles in which this image appears

Geologic time scale

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology

Creator

Jarred C Lloyd

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 22:19, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - Too messy to clearly comprehend, with lots of important dates missing, e.g. periods, epochs, ages - even eras. Too flashy! Upside-down text makes it difficult to read. I would much prefer a linear, scrollable "panorama", of course also logarithmic... (This image was added to the article on 2024-04-16, before that, there was a linear version.) --Janke | Talk 10:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – Unfortunately, the graphics are not easily readable. –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Reluctant oppose — I like creative data visualizations, but this one gives up too much to look the way it does. The sideways and upside-down text would be a dealbreaker for me even if all the other problems mentioned above were fixed. A chart you can't read fails its only purpose. Moonreach (talk) 17:09, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Ok, I withdraw this nomination. Bammesk (talk) 00:44, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

• Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Machu Picchu in 1912

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Sep 2024 at 01:55:07 (UTC)

Reason

This is one of the first images taken at Machu Picchu during the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1912, following the clearing work. It may be the first published photo of the classic view of Machu Picchu.

Articles in which this image appears

Machu Picchu

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others

Creator

Hiram Bingham III

• Support as nominator – JustEMV (talk) 01:55, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 10:36, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:06, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 08:14, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Machu Picchu.png --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Arc-eye hawkfish

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Sep 2024 at 10:44:34 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.

Articles in which this image appears

Arc-eye hawkfish

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish

Creator

Diego Delso

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:44, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:17, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 13:22, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 15:16, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pez halcón (Paracirrhites arcatus), Zanzíbar, Tanzania, 2024-05-29, DD 65.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:48, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

European spruce bark beetle

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Sep 2024 at 10:53:29 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Headline image.

Articles in which this image appears

European spruce bark beetle

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects

Creator

Gilles San Martin

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:12, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 13:20, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 15:18, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Ips typographus (female).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:53, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Black Eagle Silver Certificate

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Oct 2024 at 01:55:06 (UTC)

Reason

Excellent and high quality scan of currency; high EV

Articles in which this image appears

Black Eagle Silver Certificate

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Currency/USA banknotes

Creator

Bureau of Engraving and Printing; digitized by User:Godot13

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:55, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Appears in today's (9/22) DYK. – Sca (talk) 12:37, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Question How is this different than File:US-$1-SC-1899-Fr-226.jpg, which is already featured, and appears in Silver certificate (United States)? Yann (talk) 13:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

• Looking at the articles, it appears that the existing FP is from the first run of the bill, while the current nomination is a later run with different signatures and little else different. Given that, I'll withdraw this nomination.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:46, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

• I find the serial number very strange; "H1A" - shouldn't it be a multi-character number if this is a normally issued certificate? --Janke | Talk 06:52, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

• Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

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Reason

Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 recorded in Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada. The traffic flow shows the short time scale, i.e. minutes, not hours. The brightness of the sky at horizon shows the unnatural nature of the event. There is slight camera movement, but not too distracting IMO.

Articles in which this image appears

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others

Creator

Gabriel Picard

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 15:09, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - the swaying motion is very disturbing. Was this shot from a drone or a swaying mast, and later stabilized? It is impossible to remove the swaying due to perspective change. Besides, it does not show the eclipse, just the darkening. (I once shot a similar timelapse on 16mm film, evening-night-morning, and it looked almost the same... Admittedly, the motion of the vehicles was totally different.) --Janke | Talk 10:02, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

• Yeh you live close to the north pole! For the rest of us the night's horizon is never that bright (if any). Bammesk (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose, per above. Moonreach (talk) 14:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Woman smoking, man leaning

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Reason

Satirical cartoon with a lot of character, depicting "women's emancipation" by way of smoking. Portrayed here as an inversion of gender roles, this challenge to social norms was framed as liberating by the Torches of Freedom marketing campaign, the article for which is a very entertaining read. The file appears to be 1-bit color, which is to say that every pixel appears either white or black (although it's not quite; I checked the levels). I consider this acceptable is because the source image is a black-and-white engraving, a process that can't produce grays, and therefore true to how it would have appeared on the page. This is also a static GIF, so it doesn't show the compression a JPEG of the same file size would. I tracked down the exact page of the book this came from - that took ages - and, while I don't think this specific scan is where this copy originated, it does confirm the image's provenance. Lastly, the picture is a bit under 1500px on the short axis, something I hope will be forgiven given its age.

Articles in which this image appears

Torches of Freedom, History of public relations, The Jewel of Seven Stars

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle

Creator

The signature on the source page is unreadable to me (and doesn't seem to match the name "A. Guillaume" at the bottom); the book itself is by C.E. Jensen. Image uploaded to Commons by Haabet.

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:51, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - this scan looks way over-filtered - I'm pretty sure the faces on the original printed page don't look as blobby as they do here. A woodcut or engraving should be scanned at a much higher res if it is intended to be just 1-bit. (BTW: Access to the page you tracked down is not allowed...) --Janke | Talk 17:08, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

• Interestingly, "publication right" for this very image is also sold for 20€ on a stock image site... (In Denmark, copyright is life +70 years.) --Janke | Talk 17:18, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

  I wouldn't read too much into the fact that it's for sale as a stock photo; that's not uncommon for material in the public domain. The fact that I was able to trace it to a document outside of copyright should be proof enough. I'm not sure why you can't see the page I linked, though; I got it to load just fine on multiple browsers, one of which (Safari) has no add-ons. The only thing I can think is that it's blocked in whatever area you are. I'm in the United States. Moonreach (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

  Oh, I missed the bit about copyright being life +70 years. That may be a problem, since I genuinely cannot read the signature of the artist on the page this came from. Given that this is from 1905 at the latest, and that 70 years ago was 1954, I think it's likely the author (who could be reasonably assumed to be at least 20 in 1905) was dead by then, but not certain. I'm not going to withdraw this immediately, though; perhaps someone else will have an insight that gives us a definite answer one way or the other. Moonreach (talk) 17:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

  That can be solved with a local upload; EN-Wiki only requires a work to be free in the United States. I've done it before for File:H J Lovink sketch, 1926.jpg, for example.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:15, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

  Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not disputing that it is Public Domain! I'm just surprised that anyone actually would pay anything for PD material, since a reverse image search (which I used) will give you many free alternatives... I'm opposing because of the low quality of the 1-bit image. --Janke | Talk 15:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

  It shouldn't be an issue at all. The licensing tag should probably be {{Template:PD-old-assumed-expired}} if the image was made in the 1890s and C.E. Jensen wasn't the original author. And then if the author is identified and it turns out to still be under copyright in the EU, then we transfer it to enwiki like Chris Woodrich said. hinnk (talk) 18:47, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:28, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Capitoline Wolf

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Reason

high quality image with high EV used in many articles

Articles in which this image appears

Capitoline Wolf, Romulus and Remus, etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture

Creator

Wilfredor

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 19:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 20:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:12, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 16:16, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 10:44, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:23, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Yann for this nomination Wilfredor (talk) 02:37, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Lupa Capitolina, Rome.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

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Reason

Good photo of the entrance to the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, since destroyed by fire, taken either shortly before or after it closed in the 1970s. I believe this is the best photo we have of it; an earlier photo from the 1950s shows it during its heyday, but I think the angle is too steep to do justice to the facade.

Articles in which this image appears

Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Art Deco in the United States, several others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Source photo by the National Park Service, restoration by Yann.

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 20:53, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - I see hairs, dust. Could use some light restoration.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:13, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

  I don't trust my editing skills well enough to attempt a restoration myself, but if someone else is willing, I'd be grateful. Moonreach (talk) 15:07, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

  I did it. Yann (talk) 20:53, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks! Moonreach (talk) 14:16, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 20:53, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – but the right edge has a very narrow dark streak. It can be removed (improved). Moonreach, FYI in the Creator section of nominations, we don't credit uploaders and editors who do crops, level adjustments, minor edits and such. We do credit photographers, which in this case is Marvin Rand, and restorers, in this case User:Yann, and editors who performed major (nontrivial) edits, and associated institution if any and if relevant (like museum, gov. agency, research org., etc.). Bammesk (talk) 16:14, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Agree with Bamm - that looks like a curling of the page. Yann, do you have an uncompressed file? Otherwise I can do a quick fix.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
    • Fixed. You have a sharp eye. ;o) I had to zoom to 400% to see it. Yann (talk) 13:12, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

  Noted, thanks. Moonreach (talk) 17:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:01, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 10:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:23, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pan-Pacific Auditorium entrance.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:30, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

The Roar of the Night

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Reason

Excellent example of the artist's style, highlighting the high levels of realism and the lighting techniques that he developed after studying Western and Japanese art.

Articles in which this image appears

Gao Qifeng, Lingnan School

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art

Creator

Gao Qifeng

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:22, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
• Comment IMO this could replace the current lead image on Lingnan School, which is only 500 × 880 pixels. Yann (talk) 19:50, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• Might be worth doing a side-by-side. Gao Jianfu seems to have been more prominent. I'd need to see if Chen's works are PD too. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:21, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

• Alright, made a triptych to better display examples of works by the school's founders. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:21, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 06:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:52, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:00, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – hell yeah ―Howard • 🌽³³ 19:54, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Moonreach (talk) 20:58, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Gao, Qifeng; The Roar of the Night; Dated 1916.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:32, 29 September 2024 (UTC)