Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates

Diliff
Just a pointer to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents since he was one of our prolific FP creator. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 11:42, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I see one of Diliff's images was nominated for delisting, so I'll elaborate here on what's been going on over on Commons. What we know is that Diliff works with Pixsy, which has a rather bad reputation among free culture communities for "copyleft trolling". It's a process that exploits the "please use this!" signal that Creative Commons licenses communicate by subsequently demanding money anyone who doesn't comply with every aspect of the license. From Diliff's own words, this applies to minor violations and to independent/small-time reusers, and not just e.g. unattributed use by for-profit companies. It's a practice that Creative Commons itself has explicitly condemned as out of line with the principles of the license. There are multiple discussions on Commons about this, and it's unclear what there will be consensus for. Forced watermarking a la Larry Philpot's images (example) is possible, which would itself raise questions for FPC (do we want FPs with big destructive watermarks). But at least as likely is no action, in which case it will be up to this FPC community to decide if this sort of behavior should factor into the promotion/delisting of images here. I don't see much point in delisting one in particular, unless I guess it's being used as a test case for future nominations. As a related aside, anyone interested in this subject is welcome to provide feedback on a draft document about copyleft trolling on Commons: commons:User:Rhododendrites/Copyleft trolling. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 17:54, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Nominating two images?
Is it possible to nominate two images to be 'one' featured picture? The images in question are shown at Fight-or-flight response. I understand I could edit the images to be a single image but that'd worsen the article quality. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:56, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes. You can nominate them as a featured picture set. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The only problem with nominating those two images are that their resolutions are too small. See Featured picture criteria. —Bruce1eetalk 09:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * You're right, I took it to mean 1,500 pixels eg 500 by 300 pixels would be appropriate. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:52, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you nominate your own image?
Can you nominate your own image? TheNuggeteer (talk) 02:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, you can nominate your own images. However, they must be under a comparable license. For more info, see WP:FP?. ZZZ'S 02:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Two Gibson's albatrosses
Hello all

We appear to have two FPs for the Gibson's albatross in flight – File:Gibson's Albatross 0A2A4153.jpg and File:Gibson's Albatross 0A2A8124.jpg. They look slightly different to me too, although I'm no expert... Could they be male and female? No idea. The former one is no longer used in the article... Please advise on what should happen here? &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * When I nominated the second FP, I didn't notice (forgot) the first FP. I think we should delist one of them. I don't have a preference and would support delisting either one. Pinging the other nominator . One image shows more of the feathers, the other is in the infobox, so it's a tie as far as I am concerned. Bammesk (talk) 15:04, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * They're still both used in at least one article. Doing nothing is acceptable. MER-C 16:42, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That's fine with me. Bammesk (talk) 17:17, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Higher resolution version of existing featured picture
Hi, not sure whether to raise this on the English Wikipedia or Commons. Anyway
 * File:Swanston and Flinders St intersection 1927.jpg was successfully nominated as a featured picture in 2006
 * this picture has resolution of 1,115 × 885 pixels
 * as time passed by better resolutions of the same image have become available, its now 2024
 * I searched through the many pictures that Public Records office of Victoria holds looking for a better resolution version and found several copies of the same image
 * I found one that is better resolution (6,000 × 4,344 pixels, picture B) but shows that the featured picture had the cathedral cropped https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c9/20240706153615%21Swanston_and_Flinders_St_intersection_1927.jpg
 * I found one that is even better resolution but has a crack (its a glass plate) (11,716 × 8,608 pixels, picture C) and also shows the cathedral https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c9/20240706153811%21Swanston_and_Flinders_St_intersection_1927.jpg
 * Not sure what to do as:
 * The picture in its original form was nominated successfully as a featured picture.
 * Picture B is better resolution so you could argue it is a minor change but it includes the cathedral.
 * Picture C is even better resolution but has an obvious crack in it and the cathedral.

If there was no crack and no cropping of the cathedral then the answer would be C. Alternatively if there was originally no cropping of the cathedral then the answer would be B. Any clues as to what should be done?

P.S. Zoom in on the pictures, there is a lot of fascinating detail. Alex Sims (talk) 12:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Alex Sims, the best version is This. It needs restoration. The crack can be removed, and the borders should be removed. Then we can do a "delist and replace" nomination. That's the norm in situations like this. Bammesk (talk) 03:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Removing the crack I think is beyond me. I can see the crack is clean and somehow the irregular shaped piece needs to be moved a bit closer to close the crack. Where can I appeal for someone with more skills and expertise to make this repair? Alex Sims (talk) 02:22, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Editors at Commons:Help desk or at WP:GL/PHOTO might be willing to do it. Some editors at WP:FPC can do it too (including me), and they visit this talk page occasionally. I am not inclined to restore this image myself. Generally I don't do restorations by request. FYI, sometimes restorations can be daunting and time consuming chores. Bammesk (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2024 (UTC)