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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for featured pictures are listed in the log pages and in the candidate archives. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, PDFs, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).


Adding a new nomination

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate name, quality, image description, categories and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Nominations are time-sensitive and for one-time use only. An automatic clock starts as soon as they are created. Do not create them in advance, save them for later or re-activate them.

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters. They should be added by, or at the request of, the nominator.

An 'Alternative' is created by adding a sub-section to the nomination page: ====Alternative==== [[File:Foo.jpg|300px]] *{{info}} A short description.

Voting

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 100 constructive, stable edits on Commons (excluding user and talk pages) can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture.
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

General rules

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 100 constructive, stable edits on Commons (excluding user and talk pages) can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have fewer than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions (“alternatives”) of the image as well as delist-and-replace nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules. Hint: Until summer 2025, the bot was also not able to process FPXed, FPDed and withdrawn nominations as well as delist nominations; this has been fixed, users do not need to close such nominations anymore.

Above all, be polite

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember… all rules can be broken.

See also

Table of contents

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

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Gassed - John Singer Sargent

Voting period ends on 4 Jul 2026 at 23:37:33 (UTC)
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  • The painting in 2012, before restoration
    The painting in 2012, before restoration
  • The painting in 2023, after restoration
    The painting in 2023, after restoration

File:Catalina Back Side by Don Ramey Logan.jpg

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Catalina Back Side

File:Mucronella flava - 18 images - Tillamook, Oregon.jpg

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File:Tachyglossus aculeatus – Short-beaked echidna – Kolczatka australijska.jpg

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Wild Short-beaked echidna in eucalyptus forest; Canberra, Australia

File:Désert du Thar.jpg

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Thar Desert, India

File:Ice structure no. 2.jpg

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Ice structure

File:Mykonos harbour at night (53810392194).jpg

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Mykonos harbour at night

File:Echinops-Sitia-Crete-Greece.jpg

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Echinops. Sitia, Crete, Greece.

File:Kop-hals-rompboerderij (Tjepma state) Overijsselsestraatweg 22, Reduzum. 23-03-2026. (actm.) 03.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:La Pedrera Barcelona May 2026-1-2a.jpg

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Stairway of Casa Milá
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Architectural elements#Stairs
  •  Info Here is a risky nomination I can't resist to, due to my fascination for the creations of Antonio Gaudi. I have included two pictures of the stairway of Casa Milá because I found it difficult to make justice to its beauty with a single one. Yes, I do love what the French call Art Nouveau and the Spanish Modernism. All by Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:13, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:13, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support It is a beautiful building notwithstanding several technical flaws of the photographs (such as blown highlights, lack of sharpness, etc -- but you are no doubt already aware). The official regulations prohibit bringing a "professional camera" so probably we can't do much better than the Fujifilm X-T5 (although I am also disappointed in the X-T5, I thought it would be a lot better, but I checked your EXIF data and found your settings to be optimal for the situation). Overall, the harmonious textures and smooth curves are very nice. However, the regulations also mention that photography "requires special authorisation" and that the "Organization reserves the right to take legal action for the publication of any graphic, audiovisual or digital material of La Pedrera without prior authorization", which seems rather at odds with a free license for Commons. Would that be a problem? But I suppose Gaudi died 100 years ago and the copyright has expired so the architecture itself is public domain. dllu (talk) 23:12, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment. The nomination should probably be withdrawn and, I assume, the images deleted. "No photos, video and/or sound recordings may be made or broadcast from the Basilica for commercial, advertising or dissemination (my emphasis) purposes without written authorisation in advance from the Foundation" Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:23, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Escórpora (Scorpaena notata), Catania, Sicilia, Italia, 2025-04-04, DD 32.jpg

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Small red scorpionfish (Scorpaena notata), Catania, Sicily, Italy
  • Thank you for your comment, I wasn't that sure either at the beginning. To me it deserves the star because I've taken tons of photos of scorpionfishes but none like this where I managed a nice POV, a decent quality (it's a small shy fish, they swim away if you get close) and a good separation between subject and environment. Poco a poco (talk) 19:43, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Des femmes berberes marchent le long de la route du Dahar.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Воронцовський маяк Одеса 115.jpg

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Vorontsov Lighthouse in the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukraine.

File:Ceriagrion coromandelianum female 26052014.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Mandelbrot Set Image 110.png

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Fragment of the Mandelbrot set, using perturbation theory. Frame width: 1.53 x 10⁻⁶². Rendered at 80,000 × 80,000 pixels and downsampled using 8×8 Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) to a 100-megapixel final image. C++ source code included.
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic_media/Computer-generated#Mathematics
  •  Info Fragment of the Mandelbrot set, using perturbation theory. Frame width: 1.52 x 10⁻⁶². Rendered at 80,000 × 80,000 pixels and downsampled using 8×8 Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) to a 100-megapixel final image. C++ source code included. Most importantly, beyond its technical milestones, the image showcases a striking aesthetic beauty. Created, uploaded and nominated by Aokoroko -- Aokoroko (talk) 14:15, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Aokoroko (talk) 14:15, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment The Mandelbrot set is an endless source of beauty and all we have to do is to choose among thousands of different images generated automatically (or by AI). This is not a critique just a realization that disturbs me a little. Could we compare this situation with the choice we make among the many different views nature has to offer? I feel it is not really the same thing and feel tempted to reject most of these images until something extraordinary comes up. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:40, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    No! Automatically generated (or artificially intelligent) is impossible! Only a HUMAN can do this! And yes, it's extraordinary, but it takes many hours and even days. Aokoroko (talk) 22:26, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Red fan, standing and running

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  • Standing
    Standing
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File:Glenmorgan Landscape Nilgiris May26 A7CR 10849.jpg

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Landscape at Glenmorgan, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India

File:Sacred Heart Station, Dobbins (2026)-L1000752.jpg

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Sacred Heart Station is a historic Catholic mission church located at 10316 Old Dobbins Road, Dobbins, California.

File:Lago di Carezza and Latemar, Carezza, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, 2025 October.jpg

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Lago di Carezza and Latemar, Carezza, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
 Comment I can zoom in to 200% and scroll around in the top right corner but I cannot see any of the claimed artifacts. Also I can't make out any of the claimed chromatic aberrations in the mountains. Granada (talk) 12:06, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. I have noticed this forum growing rather paranoid about CA lately. In the past I've nominated pictures that do have slight chromatic aberrations but are extremely high resolution and otherwise good quality, and they have passed without opposition; lately I've seen opposes for CA that is so minor that I genuinely cannot see any evidence of it whatever. Perhaps standards are changing...I'd appreciate a note to show where this has been noticed. Cmao20 (talk) 12:29, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for nomination! I'm a bit confused about the CA and artefact claims as well. I can't see anything drastic myself. I've definitely had worse examples of CA in some of my other pictures, and tbh I don't personally feel too bothered about a little bit of CA. I think it's quite natural thing, that I sometimes fix a bit if I feel like it. The artefacts, I can't seem to find them on my screen. Surely they can't be that bad, because... uh? The other thing I can address a bit: Yeah, I honestly have a habit of downscaling, and it's purely my preference how I like to view my images when at 100%. I don't want to downscale much, but that's how I like to look at them. (I'm not so interested in evaluating how perfect the lenses are at every situation, or how well camera bodies translate the lens qualities into pixel clusters of varying quality at different corners of image at the full size. Instead, at 100% I like the eye to wander in the details of the landscape itself at that particular resolution, at the level of detail where everything worthy is still there identifiable, if that makes sense.) In short, I just want them to have just the appropriate amount of detail to be "perfect" for Wikipedia articles. The second reason is, i'm still a bit paranoid about where all my pictures might end up, so to ease my anxiety, I still like to have the original files and image sizes in my personal storage as a proof of original ownership. Greetings, --Ximonic (talk) 18:45, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Found some artefact patches and removed them. Looked like different level of pixel noise. They were very faint atleast for me - I had to really look closely to find them. --Ximonic (talk) 19:01, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for dropping in to make improvements and talk about your photo, Ximonic. You are most welcome for the nomination. I can see the artefacts now that I compare the before and after, but agree that they were very faint indeed! Cmao20 (talk) 19:11, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Stunning view and likely a POTY finalist or even winner. There is a very slight CA but only visible at very high zoom, so it is negligible. But I've noticed that original was 6,720х4,480px. Is the photo is cropped or downscaled? Юрий Д.К. 13:18, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you, agree. I have to go to 300% zoom to see anything that looks like colour fringing! Most of Ximonic's pictures seem to be cropped pretty extensively, often from larger panoramas. Cmao20 (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Eakins, Thomas - The Agnew Clinic.jpg

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File:Kornhamnstorg March 2026 01.jpg

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Kornhamnstorg
  • Okay, I can see two stitching errors - however, they are so small that in a 120 megapixel panorama I personally think they are not important, so I'm not going to withdraw. Cmao20 (talk) 10:53, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Count 4 ongoing. But i expected such comment. When you find broken line go vertical, if Pano is matrix stitch go both (ver-hor). But that big one in the middle should be solved. --Mile (talk) 11:54, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:SANAA-Gebäude-Morgenlicht-2026-01.jpg

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SANAA-Building at Zeche Zollverein in morning sunlight, architects: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

File:Animal transport on Pernambouc State, Brazil.jpg

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Animal transport on Pernambouc State, Brazil.jpg

File:Стара куќа во Судиќ 3.jpg

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An abandoned house surrounded by barley fields in the village of Sudiḱ
  • @Alvesgaspar: Thank you for your review. I was hesitant whether more sky would be beneficial because the cloudless blue sky is not that interesting as the sunlit barley fields in the foreground, but you’re right that the sky in the upper part should at least balance the foreground in the lower part. I've uploaded a version where the vertical length of the sky equals that of the foreground. How does it look now? --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 15:52, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is better now, thanks. I'm stil undecided on what to do. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:54, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) male female Son Tra.jpg

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Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) male and female

File:Indian elephant in Kaziranga National Park March 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 04.jpg

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Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus)

File:White Fungus Guttation Ooty Jun26 A7CR 11197-217 zsp.jpg

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Fungus on a silver oak (Grevillea robusta) stump, Ooty, Nilgiris, India
  • I understand. Although now the appearance seems like a burnt sky, with blown highlights. Not better. About the concern of "natural looking", I always keep in mind that the eyes perceive far more nuances than a camera. In such a situation, with extreme variations, a fair approach is to adjust locally the intensity, in my opinion. Just my 2 cents -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:01, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Osaka City Central Public Hall main facade 2026 dllu.jpg

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Osaka City Central Public Hall main facade

File:Dark palm dart (Telicota bambusae horisha) underside Xindian.jpg

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Dark palm dart (Telicota bambusae horisha)

File:Canard colvert hybride.jpg

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File:Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art spiral staircase Kobe 2026 dllu.jpg

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Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art spiral staircase

File:Samuel Fernandez Garcia at finish of Stage 5, 2026 Tour of Slovenia.jpg

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Samuel Fernandez Garcia at finish of Stage 5, 2026 Tour of Slovenia

File:Camomille sauvage (Matricaria chamomilla), coquelicots (Papaver rhoeas) au bord d'un champ d'orge (Hordeum vulgare).jpg

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Wild chamomile and cockroaches on the edge of a barley field in Monchecourt (France) in June.

Baia dei Conigli

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    East view
  • West view
    West view
It is, in fact, quite long, it's not a small cove, but that's not the issue. It's certainly possible to make a panorama from one of these viewpoints, but it's not possible to merge the views from the two opposite points into one, hence the set. The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:17, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
thanks for explain Wilfredor (talk) 21:01, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Salimullah.jpg

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A valuable historical image depicting the Zamindar class, sourced from the British Library. Featured is Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur, the 4th Nawab of Dhaka, who was a prominent philanthropist and notable figure in British Indian history.

File:Praia do Tonel 2024-12-20.jpg

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Praia do Tonel

File:Indian Blackbird in Mahabaleshwar August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 02.jpg

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Indian Blackbird (Turdus simillimus)

File:Clibanarius erythropus.Takelsa.jpg

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File:Sepia común (Sepia officinalis), Catania, Sicilia, Italia, 2025-04-04, DD 02.jpg

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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), Catania, Sicily, Italy
  • The Cosmonaut: The first feedback is fixed, thank you. I'm not sure about your second feedback. The cities are usually responsible for the administration of the waters in front of the city, how could be that otherwise? Indepednently of that I cannot find any name of the water in front of the coast that is not named after Catania. Do you have a concrete proposal? Poco a poco (talk) 06:15, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • My understanding is that the maritime areas are generally managed by the Sicilian region, no the adjacent municipalities. Maybe it is better to categorize according to the protected area?.. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 10:30, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Pont Canal Radès - el Mallaha.jpg

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File:Levee at Milliken’s Bend.jpg

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Levee at the Civil War battle site Milliken’s Bend in Madison Parish, Louisiana.

File:Ireland Cashel BW 2025-09-14 14-10-59.jpg

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Ireland, Cashel, Shop at "Back of The Pipes"

File:Seljuk Iran - Leaf from a Koran - 1939.507 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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One of the most splendid examples of Arabic calligraphy, from a 12th century Quran. Particularly the letter forms and the lively arabesque background.

File:Outer view of Rudreshwar Ganapati Caves at Dakola village in Sillod tehsil of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra, India 23.jpg

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Outer view of Rudreshwar Ganapati Caves at Dakola village in Sillod tehsil of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra, India

File:Vos estis sal terrae.jpg

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File:Kollie - Braunlage 04.jpg

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Dead forest on the Kollie, Braunlage, Lower Saxony, Germany

File:La Pedrera Barcelona May 2026-4a.jpg

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Ventilation towers of Casa Milà

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File:"Hello Mum!" (7124002541).jpg

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Red fox cub

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A traditional house in the village of Peštani

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Church of the Intercession in Mykhailivka, Krasnopilka Municipality, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

File:Agriocnemis pygmaea female, Burdwan, West Bengal, India 17 10 2012.jpg

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File:Вид с горнолыжного комплекса "Амирсой" 25.jpg

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Architectural reliquary for the skull relic of Saint Anastasius of Persia, fashioned as a miniature of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem; partially gilded silver with niello on domes and door surround, Antioch, Byzantium, 969/970; Aachen Cathedral Treasury

File:View of the Ichkeul Park.jpg

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Butorides striata in Bosque Alemao.jpg
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Result: 17 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /FPCBot (talk) 13:02, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]


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Closing nominations manually

The following description explains how to close nominations manually. Normally this is not necessary, as FPCBot takes care of counting the votes, closing and archiving the nominations. When the Bot has counted the votes, a user needs to check and approve the result; everything else is done by the Bot. Therefore, the following instructions are normally only needed for delist-and-replace nominations that the Bot cannot (yet) process, and in case the Bot malfunctions. The closing can be done by any experienced user. If you need help, just ask on the FPC talk page.

  1. On Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the nomination, then [edit].
    • Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
      {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=(“yes” or “no”)|gallery=xxx|sig=~~~~}}
      (You can leave the gallery parameter blank if the image was not featured. If the nomination contains alternatives, you must add the alternative=xxx parameter with the name of the selected image between the gallery and the sig parameter. See {{FPC-results-reviewed}} for examples and more explanations.)
    • Edit the title of the nomination and add featured or not featured after the link – for example:
      === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
      becomes
      === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
    • Save your edit.
  2. If it is featured:
    1. Add the picture to the list of the four most recently featured pictures of an appropriate gallery of Commons:Featured pictures, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
    2. Add the picture to the appropriate featured picture gallery page and section. Click on the most appropriate link beneath where you just added it as one of the four images on Commons:Featured pictures, list to find the gallery page, and search for the correct section. (An image should only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.)
    3. Add the template {{Assessments|featured=1}} to the image description page.
      • If it was an alternative image or part of a set nomination, use the com-nom parameter. For example, if File:Foo.jpg was promoted in the nomination Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bar.jpg, use {{Assessments|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.jpg}} You also need the com-nom parameter if the image gets renamed.
      • If the image is already featured on another Wikipedia, just add featured=1 to the {{Assessments}} template. For instance, {{Assessments|enwiki=1}} becomes {{Assessments|enwiki=1|featured=1}}
    4. Head over to the structured data for the image and add the “Commons quality assessment” claim (P6731) “Wikimedia Commons featured picture” (Q63348049).
    5. Add the picture to the chronological archives of featured pictures. Place it at the end of the gallery using this format:
      File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Title'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]<br> {{s|xxx}}, {{o|xxx}}, {{n|xxx}}
      • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other entries on that page for examples. (If you want to do everything perfectly, link that number to the nomination subpage, just like FPCBot does this. It allows users to jump directly to the nomination.)
      • The Title should be replaced by the bare name of the featured picture, without the ‘File:’ or the file extension (such as .jpg .tif .svg).
      • The x in {{s|x}}, {{o|x}}, {{n|x}} should be replaced by the count of support, oppose, and neutral votes respectively.
      • If the nomination was a set nomination, use this format:
        File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Set: Title (Z files)'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]<br> {{s|x}}, {{o|x}}, {{n|x}}
        Replace the Z in (Z files) by the count of images in the set, and use the name of the first image from the set instead of File:xxxxx.jpg and for the title.
    6. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the nominator. For set nominations, use:
      == Set Promoted to FP ==
      <gallery>
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      </gallery>
      {{FPpromotionSet2|YYYYY}}      , using the names of the set files instead of the XXXXXX and the title of the set instead of YYYYY.
    7. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedUploader|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the user who has uploaded the image, if that user is not the same as the nominator.
    8. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedCreator|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the creator, if the author is a different Commons user than nominator and uploader.
  3. Add candidate archive categories to the nomination so that people can easily find and evaluate past nominations (this applies also to unsuccessful, {{FPX}}-d, {{FPD}}-d and {{Withdraw}}-n nominations). It’s best practice to wrap all these categories in a <noinclude>...</noinclude> section because they apply only to the nomination itself, not to the log page etc. which transclude it. You need three or four categories:
    1. A category for the month and year, like Category:June 2026 featured picture candidates for the current month.
    2. A category for the type and result of the nomination, like Category:2026 successful candidates for featured picture status; replace “successful” by “unsuccessful”, “FPXed”, “FPDed” or “withdrawn”, depending on the final result of the nomination (see the supercategory for common values).
    3. A category for the subject of the nomination, like Category:2026 featured picture candidates of plants. Replace “plants” by one of the possible subject keywords like “animals”, “architecture”, etc.; see the base category for all common keywords. Basically the subject keywords correspond to the first part of the gallery link.
    4. If the nomination is a set nomination, add Category:2026 featured picture set nominations.
  4. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}-d, {{FPD}}-d and {{Withdraw}}-n nominations), you have to move the transclusion (the {{ }} and the text within those) of the nomination to the current log page.
    • To find the current log page, visit the first page of the log for this month. If the header of that page contains a link with the text “Next part of this month”, the log for this month has been split into several parts because it contains too many entries. Click on the “Next part …” link and repeat this until you reach a page where the header does not offer a “Next part …” link; that’s the last and current log page.
    • Now open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you are closing. It will be of the form: {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}} or: {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/XXXXX}}.
    • Copy that line to the bottom of the current log page and save that page. Then remove the same line from the candidate list and save that page.

Closing a delisting nomination

  1. On Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
    {{FPC-delist-results-reviewed|delist=x|keep=x|neutral=x|delisted=yes/no|sig=~~~~}}
    (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Ensifera ensifera (22271195865).jpg)
  2. Edit the title of the delisting nomination and add delisted or not delisted after the image title; for example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
  3. Add candidate archive categories to the nomination; this works the same way as described above for featured picture nominations. The only difference is that the category for type and status must be of the form Category:2026 successful candidates for delisting from featured picture status, or Category:2026 successful candidates for delisting and replacing featured pictures if this is a delist-and-replace nomination. Substitute “unsuccessful”, “FPXed”, “FPDed” or “withdrawn” for “successful”, depending on the final result of the nomination.
  4. Move the transclusion of the nomination to the current log page; please see above for an explanation how to find the current log page and how to move the nomination to it.
  5. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
    1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
    2. Edit the picture's description as follows:
    3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in the chronological archive of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1–6) with (1–6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture must not be removed from the chronological archives.
  6. If this is a Delist and Replace, the delisting and promotion must both be done manually. To do the promotion, follow the steps in the section above. Note that the assessment tag on the file page and the promotion tag on the nominator's talk page won't pick up the /replace subpage that these nominations use.

Archiving a withdrawn nomination

If a nomination has been withdrawn by the nominator by using {{Withdraw}} or is cancelled with {{FPX}} or {{FPD}}, wait 24 hours after the nomination was last edited. If there has been no objection to the cancellation within this time, the nomination can simply be archived. Just add candidate archive categories to the nomination itself, then move the transclusion of the nomination to the current log page; please see above for an explanation how to find the current log page and how to move the nomination to it.

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