Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/February-2025

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Reason

High quality image. High EV. FP on Commons. Read more about the subject

Articles in which this image appears

Pocillopora grandis, Pomacentrus pavo

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:00, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Aviafanboi (talk) 13:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support High EV, nice light, excellent sharpness for an underwater picture, at this resolution. Blue fish are an interesting addition to the cohabitation, and enriching in terms of art and wow factor. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Excellent! --Janke | Talk 18:51, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Nice contrast. ArionStar (talk) 20:28, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Yann (talk) 15:27, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support! / RemoveRedSky ^[talk] 20:37, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis) with blue damselfish (Pomacentrus pavo) Moorea.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:18, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Added image to Animals/Cnidaria instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:18, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High quality large image. Illustrates article well with high EV. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

European ground squirrel

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Aviafanboi (talk) 13:54, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Sun shines through the eye. Fair composition, high EV, excellent quality. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:10, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ArionStar (talk) 20:48, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Yann (talk) 20:56, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 12:54, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:18, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:09, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:European souslik (Spermophilus citellus) Obrovisko.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:20, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High quality image. Adds value to article. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Red-crowned woodpecker

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Aviafanboi (talk) 13:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Nice composition and beautiful bokeh. Good quality, and educational image. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:13, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ArionStar (talk) 20:47, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Yann (talk) 20:56, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 12:53, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:06, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus) male Las Tangaras.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:22, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High EV

Articles in which this image appears

Soyuz TMA-2, Soyuz (spacecraft)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

NASA/Scott Andrews (uploaded by Bricktop)

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 22:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – Russ rocket lifts off pad 22 years ago. Meh. – Sca (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Sca: I didn't understand your comment, could you explain it in a better way? ArionStar (talk) 20:19, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Routine, predictable, boring. -- Sca (talk) 15:16, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This image and the other are generic rocket launches. You can take a break from FPC, you nominate multiple images each day Wcamp9 (talk) 21:21, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Question: Is the "wow factor" a factor in enwiki FPCs? ArionStar (talk) 23:52, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know - but I am not changing my mind because this picture along with the other one are not pictures that deserve to be FP as they are not the best photos. I would much rather prefer a picture of Soyuz in the sky, but I suggest you do not nominate another image as I have told you this for the fourth time currently Wcamp9 (talk) 02:00, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's curious because I would imagine that it could pass on Commnons due to the wow factor present in the image, but… different FPs sections… different criteria… 🤔 Get a digital camera and take some pictures are good options… ArionStar (talk) 02:17, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – Beautiful shot! --Alex Van de Sande (talk) 16:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 10:50, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: upon closer inspection the image is rather pixelated and has various artifacts. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 10:52, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
•  I withdraw my nomination ArionStar (talk) 17:55, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:31, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

high quality and resolution image used as lead

Articles in which this image appears

Gene Autry

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Harry Warnecke and Robert F. Cranston, restored by Yann

• Support as nominator I replaced a low resolution version by the same picture in higher resolution with restoration. – Yann (talk) 11:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 19:32, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ArionStar (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support But three red marks for editing? Collar, left sleeve, lower leg. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:51, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Question Am I wrong about the red marks Yann. I don't think my vote a couple of days ago displayed properly? Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ah yes, right. I removed a few more spots. Thanks for checking. Yann (talk) 12:29, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:16, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:20, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Gene Autry, NPG 94 39.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High EV and quality

Articles in which this image appears

Mount Kazbek and Kazbegi Municipality

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes

Creator

MaxBenidze

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 12:13, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment pixelated sky. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:12, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Alhtought there are many other beautiful pictures on the page already --Alex Van de Sande (talk) 16:24, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:14, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:14, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High EV

Articles in which this image appears

National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Supanut Arunoprayote

• Support as nominator Good and useful images of an active collaborator in the wiki community. – ArionStar (talk) 20:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Unremarkable and technically flawed (the very edges of the roof are cut off) photo of an easy to photograph building in central Taipei. The image also seems to have been photoshopped to remove the people in the foreground, which I'm not in favour of: the square here is quite busy during the day, so this is a dishonest representation of the building's surrounds. I suspect that there aren't many people around in the early mornings. Nick-D (talk) 23:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Undescribed modifications are a worrying problem for nominators. I think it's time to buy a camera and visit some cities instead… ArionStar (talk) 03:09, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:41, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

HQ, long time image of Miles David

Articles in which this image appears

Miles Davis, etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Tom Palumbo

• Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 21:29, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose, for a couple of reasons. The first is that I can't track the provenance; the Flickr link in the metadata is dead and the Wayback Machine doesn't have a cached copy, just 404s. The second is that the details look weird to me, like the hair on his forearm and the rumpling in his shirt. I wonder if this was upscaled somehow, although the newer version from early 2021 would seem to preclude the current generative AI boom, which started maybe 18 months later. I quite like the underlying image, though, and if I didn't have these doubts I'd happily support it. Moonreach (talk) 15:09, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:32, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

high quality portrait used as lead image

Articles in which this image appears

Jen Guyton, National Geographic Society

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Fuzheado

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 15:32, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support She does good work. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:49, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Struck this to avoid double counting. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:04, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support ArionStar (talk) 18:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment — To me it seems like there's a bit too much extra space above the top of her head. Moonreach (talk) 14:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Moonreach, Charlesjsharp, Hamid Hassani, and ArionStar: I added an alternative, cropped at the top. Yann (talk) 17:26, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, I think this looks better. Thanks! Moonreach (talk) 17:46, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Alt 1 — Moonreach (talk) 17:46, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Alt 1 –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:35, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Alt 1 I don't think we should be cropping other photographer's photos. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:23, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The original version breathes better. ArionStar (talk) 14:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I have asked the photographer his opinion. Let's wait and see. Yann (talk) 18:02, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support both Original & Alt 1 – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:39, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:22, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust: lack of quorum? ArionStar (talk) 17:30, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The original has only four supports instead of the required five. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is a renomination possible due to the lack of quorum? ArionStar (talk) 21:36, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]