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This star, with one point broken, symbolizes the featured candidates on Wikipedia.
This star, with one point broken, symbolizes the featured candidates on Wikipedia.

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.

Promoting an image

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.

Delisting an image

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.

  • Note that delisting an image does not mean deleting it. Delisting from Featured pictures in no way affects the image's status in its article(s).
Shortcuts

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Featured picture tools:

Step 1:
Evaluate

Evaluate the merit of a nomination against the featured picture criteria. Most users reference terms from this page when evaluating nominations.
Step 2:
Create a subpage
For Nominations

To create a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates for your nomination, add a title for the image you want to nominate in the field below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Labrador Retriever) and click the "Create new nomination" button.


For Delists (or Delist & Replace)

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.


Step 3:
Transclude and link

Transclude the newly created subpage to the Featured picture candidate list (direct link).

How to comment for Candidate Images

  • Write Support, if you approve of the picture. A reason is optional.
  • Write Oppose, followed by your reasoning, if you disapprove of the picture. All objections should be accompanied by a specific rationale that, if addressed, would make you support the image. If your concern is one that can only be addressed by the creator, and if they haven't nominated or commented on the image, and if they are a Wikipedian, you should notify them directly.
  • You can weak support or weak oppose instead, so that your opinion will be weighed as half of a "full" opinion.
    • To change your opinion, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.
  • If you think a nominated image obviously fails the featured picture criteria, write Speedy close followed by your reasons. Nominations may be closed early if this is the case.
Recommendations added early in the process may be disregarded if they do not address concerns and/or improvements that arise later in the debate. Reviewers are advised to monitor the progress of a nomination and update their votes accordingly.
Prior to giving an opinion, the image should be assessed on its quality as displayed at full size (high-resolution) in an image editing program. Please note that the images are only displayed at thumbnail size on this page. The thumbnail links to the image description page which, in turn, links to the high-resolution version.

How to comment for Delist Images

  • Write Keep, followed by your reasons for keeping the picture.
  • Write Delist, followed by your reasons for delisting the picture.
  • Write Delist and Replace if you believe the image should be replaced by a better picture.
  • You can weak keep, weak delist or weak delist and replace instead, so that your opinion will be weighed as half of a "full" opinion.
    • To change your opinion, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.
Please remember to be civil, not to bite the newbies and to comment on the image, not the person.

You may find the glossary useful when you encounter acronyms or jargon in other voters' comments. You can also link to it by using {{FPCgloss}}.

Editing candidates

If you feel you could improve a candidate by image editing, please feel free to do so, but do not overwrite or remove the original. Instead, upload your edit with a different file name (e.g., add "edit" to the file name), and display it below the original nomination. Edits should be appropriately captioned in sequential order (e.g., Edit 1, Edit 2, etc), and describe the modifications that have been applied.

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Current nominations

Cholatse, Himalayas

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Dec 2023 at 17:00:03 (UTC)

Original – View of Mount Cholatse, Himalayas.
Reason
Quality close-up view of both Mount Cholatse and the adjacent Chola glacial moraine in Chola Valley, Nepal, Himalayas, in good weather and clear sky.
Articles in which this image appears
Cholatse, and on other wikis.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator
Vyacheslav Argenberg
The composition was a deliberate choice as far as I can remember. I like how the curving lines of Cholatse outline, Chola moraine, valley slopes on the right, and the rocky Khumbu/Lobuche river at the bottom interconnect, echo, play and counter-balance each other. And the Cholatse peak when almost scratching the top, nearly spearing the top, looks more imposing and commanding to me. The scene shows the mountain in all its glory, but also provides enough important surrounding context. While reprocessing the image, I was thinking about the crop, and the only crop that worked was a slight 10% crop on the right. However, the original framing looked just as good to me, so I ended up leaving it as it is. --Argenberg (talk) 09:55, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Cholatse Peak, Nepal, Himalayas.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delist and Replace: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2023 at 20:02:20 (UTC)

Current version
Proposed replacement
Proposed replacement, JPEG version of PNG
Reason
Superseded by File:Sir Thomas Lawrence - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - WM.1567-1948 - Apsley House.jpg
Articles this image appears in
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Battle of Waterloo, etc.
Previous nomination/s
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (2), Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Nominator
Wow (talk)
I support converting the current FP from png to jpeg (at the highest quality setting). Bammesk (talk) 04:23, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Yann (talk) 11:03, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:17, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Atari E.T. Dig- Alamogordo, New Mexico

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2023 at 15:36:58 (UTC)

Original – E.T. and Centipede games packaging from the excavation of the landfill site of the 1983 Atari video game burial
Reason
High quality picture of a pretty historic "archeological" find. Definitely EV as it's featured in many articles relating to video game history.
Articles in which this image appears
Atari video game burial, Video game crash of 1983, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game), History of video games, List of commercial failures in video games +3
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator
taylorhatmaker
  • Support The Atari video game crash of the 80s is kind of a thing of legend in the history of video gaming, and the burying of unsold E.T. games - They made more than there were Atari consoles sold, I believe - was a longstanding urban legend that was proven real by digging up trash like this. Highly notable! "Trash" from this dig is literally in the Smithsonian now. I know I'm probably one of the older contributors here, but still... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.6% of all FPs. 23:30, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – per Adam. Also, I think the nom image would make a better infobox image in the primary article. Bammesk (talk) 04:30, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I remember nominating another picture of the burial excavation years ago and this is a significant moment in video game history. To dismiss it as trash misses the point of a moment in time that was part of the video game crash of 1983. What once was believed to be a myth turned out to be real and for that reason alone is absolutely high EV. GamerPro64 05:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support even though I hate video games. I grew up in the pinball era, when playing an arcade game meant the manipulation of real physical objects in a beautifully designed and carefully engineered physical space, rather than moving tiny pixels around on a flat screen. The rapid growth of arcade video games completely destroyed the pinball arcades that I loved as a kid, and the few home video games I tried seemed to me a stupid and pointless waste of time, as they still do today. But you don't have to be interested in video games to consider the Alamagordo Atari excavation a fascinating story and well worth the coverage it received in the national press. Most archaeology is the study of other people's trash, and I see very high EV here. – Choliamb (talk) 15:27, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per what others have said. While yes, it is quite literally trash, trash can be significant, and when an event as important to the video game industry as this is represented by said trash, I don't think there is any reason why this shouldn't be a featured picture. NegativeMP1 23:06, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as per others. Yann (talk) 23:01, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Atari E.T. Dig- Alamogordo, New Mexico (14036097792).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chevrotain

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2023 at 14:34:22 (UTC)

Original – A chevrotain or Lesser mouse-deer (Tragulus kanchil) roaming almost freely about in the Singapore Zoo.
Reason
High-quality picture of a Chevrotain, an uncommon and interesting-looking animal. So rare in the wild that it's unknown what their population status is.
Articles in which this image appears
Chevrotain
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
User:Uspn

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Street football

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Dec 2023 at 18:54:24 (UTC)

Original – Boys playing street football in Egypt, 2017
Reason
A good action shot of Street football. A popular hobby in many parts of the world. The unedited version is FP on Commons. I edited out the more obvious sharpening halos.
Articles in which this image appears
Street football
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator
Mohamed Hozyen Ahmed

Promoted File:Boys playing street football in Egypt - edit1.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:55, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Naba Kailash Mandir

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Dec 2023 at 11:31:05 (UTC)

Original – Overhead view of Naba Kailash Mandir
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC last year, where it was featured unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears
Naba Kailash Mandir, Kalna City
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
Sudipta Maulik

Promoted File:Concentric temples of Kalna.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bali myna

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Dec 2023 at 11:02:48 (UTC)

Original – Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi). West Bali National Park, Indonesia
Reason
Currently unopposed on Commons FPC. Critically endangered.
Articles in which this image appears
Bali myna
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
JJ Harrison

Promoted File:Bali Myna 0A2A9443.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maybach Mb.IVa

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2023 at 18:31:53 (UTC)

Original – The Maybach Mb.IVa aircraft engine at the National Air and Space Museum
Reason
An artifact of engineering history. The Maybach Mb.IVa was one of the first aircraft engines designed for a ~6000 foot altitude, a high altitude at the time, 1916. The engine was used during and post WWI. The article lists the many aircraft that used the engine. On a sidenote: it looks like the dark background was edited in post-process, but it can use a touch-up (around the periphery of the engine). I will touch it up if the nom gets a few supports or conditional supports.
Articles in which this image appears
Maybach Mb.IVa
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery
Creator
National Air and Space Museum, Dane A. Penland
I have FPs of 1800-1920 opera singers, obscure suffragettes... it illustrates an article on itself. That's enough. Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.6% of all FPs. 20:51, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support NASM has a bunch of these pics but they usually have important bits blocked by supports or bits of the engine missing. Nice to finally see one that doesn't have those problems.©Geni (talk) 17:45, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Adam. Different readers have different interests; FPC should cast a wide net. And although I have zero interest in the history of internal combustion engines, it's a handsome piece of metalwork and a nice example of early 20th-century industrial design. Choliamb (talk) 14:37, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:13, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That Two-Thousand Yard Stare

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2023 at 07:18:06 (UTC)

Original – That Two-Thousand Yard Stare, also called Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare by Thomas C. Lea III, the work that popularised knowledge of and the name of the thousand-yard stare.
Reason
Probably one of the most famous paintings of its very specific type. And, hey, the folks at WP:MILHIST will be glad to not see my name next to one of their FPs (although Philip IV, below, will also do that. Just trying to avoid any false attribution to me as most of my noms are my restorations).
Articles in which this image appears
Thomas C. Lea III, Thousand-yard stare, three others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II?
Creator
Thomas C. Lea III (no restoration done)

Promoted File:Thomas C. Lea III - That Two-Thousand Yard Stare - Original.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:57, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Philip IV of Spain

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2023 at 01:54:02 (UTC)

Original – Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga by Diego Velázquez, 1644, in the Frick Collection
Reason
High quality and resolution
Articles in which this image appears
Philip IV of Spain, 1660s, 1665, Bapaume, Count of Barcelona, Count of Flanders, Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga etc.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
Creator
Diego Velázquez

Promoted File:Philip IV of Spain - Velázquez 1644.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:51, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thorsten Nordenfelt

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2023 at 01:22:51 (UTC)

Original – Thorsten Nordenfelt, before 1894
Reason
A rather good photo of a somewhat obscure topic: The inventor who created a business selling one of the first machine guns (albeit based on another person's initial idea).
Articles in which this image appears
Thorsten Nordenfelt + a few just added to.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Business (or maybe Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Military?)
Creator
C.M. Bell (Which, as this photo is from just after Charles Milton Bell's death, was a company being run by his wife, Annie Bell, née Colley; and his sons, Charles Milton Bell, Jr. and Colley Wood Bell); restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Thorsten Nordenfelt. Svensk ubåtspionjär.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:47, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pepper No. 30

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Dec 2023 at 20:22:25 (UTC)

Original – Pepper No. 30, one of the best-known photographs taken by Edward Weston
Reason
high quality reproduction of a famous picture
Articles in which this image appears
Pepper No. 30, Edward Weston, List of photographs considered the most important
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
Creator
Edward Weston, uploaded by Toohool, cleaned by Bammesk

Promoted File:Pepper No. 30.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:38, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

JD Vance

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Dec 2023 at 23:16:20 (UTC)

Original – Official Senate Portrait of JD Vance
Reason
This I believe is the highest quality image of a US government official. You can literally see the pores on his nose, go and take a look.
Articles in which this image appears
J. D. Vance
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
United States Congress; uploaded by Politicsfan4

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:12, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely Large Telescope

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Dec 2023 at 20:53:06 (UTC)

Original – Detailed design of the Extremely Large Telescope
Reason
Good quality, high EV image of an important project
Articles in which this image appears
Extremely Large Telescope
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding
Creator
European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Promoted File:The European Extremely Large Telescope.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:45, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nithya Menen Actress

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Dec 2023 at 15:33:06 (UTC)

Original – Portrait of Nithya Menen
Alt – Portrait of Nithya Menen
Reason
Good quality, very smooth lighting, good composition and best available portrait. Rare to get such a picture of a public figure. The photograph was taken when she spotted in a public event at Kochi.
Articles in which this image appears
Nithya Menen and other related articles
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Mydreamsparrow
It is not a studio shot though it looks like one, the photograph was taken during her public appearance at Lulu Marriott, Kochi in connection with her movie promotion. That is why the background comes in that way. I did not feel to remove it thinking that the original character of the photo will be lost. Moreover, getting such a close up picture for the article, as far as I feel, is a luck too since all other public appearance of the actress will be crowded and I am damn sure that I will not get another chance to take a picture of her like this. Do you seriously think the quality and EV are affected by this background Janke, Petar Milošević ? DreamSparrow Chat 06:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Since you ask, I don't think it fulfills FPC criterion #3, i.e. regardless of its EV, it is not among Wikipedia's best work. --Janke | Talk 09:16, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Don't you think it's comparable in quality to political portraits of the Obamas and such? Kymothoë (talk) 13:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Petar that the crop is too loose. Petar's proposed crop, or something similar but looser, is an improvement IMO. Bammesk (talk) 16:58, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have added a cropped version. Removing the distraction as suggested. DreamSparrow Chat 07:37, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt, I prefer a tighter crop. Check this in a sandbox for example: {{CSS image crop|Image = Nithya Menen 2023.jpg|bSize = 300|cWidth = 200|cHeight = 274|oTop = 44|oLeft = 49|Location = right|Description = caption}} Her face is what makes the composition. The surrounding was bland and took away from the composition. I also support Petar's crop suggestion. (on a sidenote: lifting the brightness/shadows on the left side of her face may be an improvement, just a suggestion) Bammesk (talk) 17:40, 26 November 2023 (UTC) . . . . . After looking at this again, I changed my vote to a full support. I think a tighter crop particularly on top would be an improvement. Bammesk (talk) 19:03, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Adam Cuerden, I made necessary corrections in my vote. DreamSparrow Chat 07:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Nithya Menen 2023 Alt.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 00:12, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oscar Wilde

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Dec 2023 at 04:28:31 (UTC)

Original – Oscar Wilde in 1882, perhaps considering having a walk down Picadilly with a poppy or a lily in his mediæval hand.
Reason
A (crappy) version of this has been lead image in Oscar Wilde for years, so having a good copy seems worth it. This is an especially good print for the period. Very smooth, not too much grain.
Articles in which this image appears
Oscar Wilde and many others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Napoleon Sarony, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:47, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sir William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Nov 2023 at 22:15:42 (UTC)

Original – Sir William Thompson, Baron Kelvin, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror
Reason
On a bit of a scientist kick, as you can probably tell. Or, at least, finishing long-standing restorations of scientists. I like this photo. It's dramatic, it was used in the logo of his company, and, while Kelvin's balls seem to have been removed,[1] it's a nice picture of a binnacle and a lovely image of Lord Kelvin.
Articles in which this image appears
Lord Kelvin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
T. & R. Annan & Sons, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin by T. & R. Annan & Sons.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Saladin

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Nov 2023 at 16:13:03 (UTC)

Original – 19th-century depiction of a victorious Saladin
Reason
High quality engraving, good digitalization
Articles in which this image appears
Saladin, Battle of Marj Ayyun, Kurds
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
Creator
Gustave Doré

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:39, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations — to be closed

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  4. Add the image to the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on left and remove the oldest from the right so that there are always three in each section.
  5. Add the Featured Picture tag and star to the image page using {{Featured picture|page_name}} (replace page_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the page_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/page_name). To add this template you most likely will have to click the "create" button on the upper right if the "edit" button is not present, generally if the image originates from Commons.
  6. If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Featured Picture version, as opposed to the original.
  7. Notify the nominator or co-nominators by placing {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:file_name.xxx}} on each nominator's talk page. For example: {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
  8. If the image was created by a Wikipedian, place {{subst:UploadedFP|File:file_name.xxx}} on the creator's talk page. For example: {{subst:UploadedFP|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.

Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:

  1. Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}} to the top of the section.
  2. Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the December archive. This is done by simply adding the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}} from this page to the bottom of the archive.
  3. If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.

Delist closing procedure

Note that delisting an image does not equal deleting it. Delisting from Featured pictures in no way affects the image's status in its article/s.

If consensus is to KEEP featured picture status, and the image is used in at least one article, perform the following:

  1. Check that the image has been in the article for at least one week. Otherwise, suspend the nomination to give it time to stabilize before continuing.
  2. Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
    {{FPCresult|Kept|}} --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
  3. Optionally leave a note on the picture's talk page.

If consensus is to DELIST, or the image is unused (and consensus is not for a replacement that is used), perform the following:

  1. Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
    {{FPCresult|Delisted|}} --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
  2. Replace the {{Featured picture}} tag from the image with {{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}.
  3. Remove the image from the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs.

If consensus is to REPLACE (and at least one of the images is used in articles), perform the following:

  1. Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
    {{FPCresult|Replaced|}} with File:NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG --~~~~
    • Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
    • Replace NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG with the name of the replacement file.
  2. Replace the {{Featured picture}} tag from the delisted image with {{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}.
  3. Update the replacement picture's tag, adding the tag {{Featured picture|delist/image_name}} (replace image_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the image_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/image_name). Remove any no longer applicable tags from the original, replacement and from any other alternatives. If the alternatives were on Commons and no longer have any tags, be sure to tag the description page with {{missing image}}.
  4. Replace the delisted Featured Picture in all articles with the new replacement Featured Picture version. Do NOT replace the original in non-article space, such as Talk Pages, FPC nominations, archives, etc.
  5. Ensure that the replacement image is included on the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs. Do this by replacing the original image with the new replacement image; do not add the replacement as a new Featured Picture.

Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:

  1. Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}} to the top of the section.
  2. Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the archived delist nominations. This is done by simply adding the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}} to the bottom of the appropriate section of the archive.
  3. If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.

Recently closed nominations

Nominations in this category have already been closed and are here for the purposes of closure review by FPC contributors. Please do not add any further comments or votes regarding the original nomination. If you wish to discuss any of these closures, please do so at Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. Nominations will stay here for three full days following closure and subsequently be removed.

Hope (whale)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Nov 2023 at 11:10:58 (UTC)

Original – Hope is the skeleton of a blue whale displayed in the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London.
Reason
Featured on Commons last month, near unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears
Hope (whale)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
Diego Delso

Promoted File:Museo de Historia Natural, Londres, Inglaterra, 2022-11-25, DD 50-52 HDR.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Nov 2023 at 11:08:30 (UTC)

Original – A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark: a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile, surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John Pine, and published in 1746.
Reason
High quality reproduction of this notable map.
Articles in which this image appears
John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1746, John Rocque
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator
John Rocque
We judge images at full size. Bammesk (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mild oppose in current form I like the content, but comparing to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Turgot map of Paris (2), the main image there is an assembled continuous image with the margins between sheets removed, which seems to me the best way to present this content to a general audience. Unless there's some reason the same couldn't be done with this map, I'd suggest that this is not an optimal version of this map to promote, and we should wait for/produce that version. TSP (talk) 19:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the edges line up tightly enough for the stitching to be feasible. Bammesk (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Rocque's map of London and Westminster, 1746, all sheets.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:57, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Jenneria pustulata

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Nov 2023 at 04:38:49 (UTC)

Original – Jenneria pustulata shell, specimen length 2.1 cm
Reason
Quality lead image. Currently passing at Commons FPC.
Articles in which this image appears
Jenneria pustulata
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
Creator
H. Zell

Promoted File:Jenneria pustulata 01.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:51, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sarcophyton glaucum

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Nov 2023 at 04:35:47 (UTC)

Original – Rough leather coral (Sarcophyton glaucum), Red Sea, Egypt
Reason
Quality lead image. This was nominated previously here: [3]. It didn't pass because one editor had less than 100 edits. I should have voted for it. Hopefully it will pass in this renom.
Articles in which this image appears
Sarcophyton glaucum
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Cnidaria
Creator
Diego Delso

Promoted File:Coral (Sarcophyton glaucum), Ras Katy, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 113.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:47, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Nov 2023 at 02:25:00 (UTC)

Original – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the discoverer of what stars are made of
Reason
One could argue some things about composition, but this is probably the best known image of her, to the point of being used as the book cover of her recent biography. I think that says something. There's also... maybe five to six images of her that exist, most much worse. That's the trouble with scientists whose achievements are only recognised later. Also, going back to that book cover: I did a better restoration than they did. (No offense intended, but you can see scratches and other damage clearly if you zoom in on the cover; damage I fixed.).
Articles in which this image appears
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) - Science Service.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:11, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended nominations

This section is for Featured Picture (or delisting) candidacies whose closure is postponed for additional editing, rendering, or copyright clarification.

  1. ^ "Kelvin's balls" are the iron balls that are normally mounted on the "arms" of the binnacle to balance out the magnetic fields from the ship and the like. I couldn't resist.
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