Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates

This page works similar to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, only the other way around: If a page is listed here for at least a week with no objections, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. If there are objections, they have to be worked out, until a nearly unanimous consensus is reached.

If you nominate a page to which you have contributed all or a large majority of content, then it must be seconded by at least one more person in order to be accepted. Some people may object to self-nominations on principle.

Also, be sure to sign (with date/time) your nomination ("~~~~" in the editor).

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Current nominations

Current nominations without objections (so far)

• image:Epicyclic gear ratios.png by Wapcaplet. --snoyes 23:29, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Brilliant! DanKeshet 19:51, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • I wish I could draw that well. fabiform | talk 22:46, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Me too. Kokiri
  • Difficult to imagine how this could be imprved on. Excellent work! Tannin 22:49, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
• Image:Eastern Yellow Robin.jpg by Tannin --Gaz 14:23, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Marvelous! DanKeshet 19:51, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Beautiful. fabiform | talk 22:46, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Agreed. Kokiri
• Image:Moon_merged_small.jpg by Mkfairdpm --Bevo 19:38, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • A bit big, but wonderful anyway! DanKeshet 19:51, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Exactly what I thought. Nice one. Kokiri
  • Big images can always be thumbnailed where appropriate. This sort of thing looks easy - but it certainly ain't! Good one. Tannin 22:49, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Current self-nominations (need to be seconded)

• Image:Ph_physical_map.png --seav 11:02, Nov 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • I second it. —Noldoaran (Talk) 02:12, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)
  • Brilliant! Kokiri 22:25, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Yantriple.JPG - Vancouverguy 01:15, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • I second it. —Bevo 20:29, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Ancient-temple-athens-city-320px.jpg - Optim 10:12, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • I can't find that image file. Bevo 20:29, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Images uploaded between 24th/28th January are missing due to a hardware failure, hopefully they will be restored at some point (users can re-upload files right away if they prefer)

• Image:Greekflag-syntagma-south-2004jan19-320px.jpg - Optim 10:12, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Athens-glassbuilding.jpg - Optim 10:12, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Bankofgreece-320px.jpg - Optim 10:12, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Chocolate.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Nice one (but is this a typical form of chocolate?) Kokiri 22:25, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC) (hungry ;-)
    • No it's not the typical form, but it still a picture to illustrate the article Chocolate. --Chmouel Boudjnah

• Image:Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Chichicastenango.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • second, fabiform | talk 22:58, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Machu-Picchu.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Beautiful picture! I second it. —Bevo 03:17, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Florianopolis-Main_Church.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Chile-Atacama.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Nice one. Kokiri 22:25, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Chile-Atacama-Ghost.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Mekong.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Kho_Pippi-Maya_Beach.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Australia_sydney-404.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:operahouse.arp.600pix.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 20:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Korea south kangnung kyongpodae.jpg - Kokiri 22:25, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Switzerland canton flag tg.png - Kokiri 22:29, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Indonesia-Bull.jpg - Chmouel Boudjnah 10:27, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Suggestion for replacement

• I don't know exactly where to put this, I hope it is o.k. to bring it up here. The image Image:USS_Port_Royal_CG-73.jpg is listed on the "featured pictures" list and to be honest I don't quite agree with that because it contains a lot of noise. The image itself was never formally nominated--it was added in May 2003 when the nomination process for images did not exist. I tried removing some of the noise with a brilliant tool I found a couple of days ago [1] (if you don't know it already you really should have a look at this--it's amazing). To make a long story short: I don't want to replace a featured picture, therefore I would like to have a go from you first. A comparison of both images can be found on User:Marco_Krohn/USS_Port_Royal_CG-73 the first one being the current one, the second one my suggestion. -- mkrohn 23:21, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC) -- update: I just replace the image. -- mkrohn 10:18, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • it's look way better !!! i second the replacement --Chmouel Boudjnah 00:26, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Thirded. I downloaded the tool you pointed to but couldn't install it, it didn't find some .dll file? I'll have to wait until the computer techie comes home I guess. fabiform | talk 00:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Oh, and if there are featured photos which didn't go through due process, perhaps we should vote on them all like they're doing at the moment on featured articles. fabiform | talk 00:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I use the linux version and this one works very good though the image inpainting is limited to mono(!) images :-( -- mkrohn 10:18, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Move to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates

I have placed a propsal to merge this page with Wikipedia:Featured article candidates on that page, if you have anything to add to this idea (agree, object, etc) then go to that page and have your say. It has been requested that the pages not be merged until after February 20th, when Featured articles candidates will have worked through a backlog of votes taking place on articles from the old Brilliant Prose page (which were added before the current system of voting was implemented). fabiform | talk 00:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)