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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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File:Earthset (art002e009288).jpg

Voting period ends on 16 Apr 2026 at 22:55:04 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Earth setting behind the moon during Artemis II flight

File:Street Art, Sanaa, Yemen (10268323116).jpg

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Street Art, Sana'a, Yemen

File:Oktogon-Kuppelmosaik-Aachener-Dom-2026.jpg

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File:Pez globo (Arothron hispidus), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-24, DD 53.jpg

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White-spotted puffer​ (Arothron hispidus), Anilao, Philippines

File:Pez cofre rayado (Ostracion solorensis), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-25, DD 183.jpg

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Reticulate boxfish (Ostracion solorensis), Anilao, Philippines

File:Struthio camelus (captive) in Jardim Zoológico de Curitiba.jpg

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Struthio camelus (captive) in Jardim Zoológico de Curitiba

File:Full Moon Luc Viatour.jpg (delist)

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File:A New View of the Moon.jpg

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File:Praying woman in Evangel Pentecostal Church Quebec City, Canada.jpg

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Praying woman in Evangel Pentecostal Church Quebec City

File:Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz (EACF) - 2011 (52832426870).jpg

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File:Erfurt - Thüringer Zoopark - Rhea americana 01.jpg

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Rhea americana (Burchell, 1817), Greater rhea; Thüringer Zoopark, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany

File:MS Karlsruhe in der Konstanzer Hafeneinfahrt.jpg

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MS Karlsruhe in Konstanz harbour

File:Anshun Bridge Jin River Chengdu night 2026 dllu.jpg

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Anshun Bridge in Chengdu at night

File:Portale della Cattedrale di Messina.jpg

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Portale della Cattedrale di Messina

File:140 Laughing dove in Twyfelfontein Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Laughing dove in Twyfelfontein

File:029 Great tit standing on flowering Wisteria in Glâne District Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Great tit standing on flowering Wisteria in Glâne District

File:Krone-Margarete-von-York-Domschatz-Aachen-2026.jpg

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Crown of Margaret of York, England, c. 1461. Silver gilt, pearls, enamel, gemstones. Donated in 1474 by Margaret of York to the Aachen Cathedral Treasury as a votive crown.

File:Жабенски манастир 2.jpg

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A fresco depicting the Last Supper painted by Giorgios Tsoutas on a wall in the Žabeni Monastery
  • I wasn't shown a printed/electronic document from the monastery, but told that taking free pictures under CC licences for commercial use is absolutely fine. A document can be requested from the Macedonian Orthodox Church, but I don't have the artist's contact so that this is formally done. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad riding the buraq steed - Google Art Project.jpg

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Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad riding the buraq steed

File:Waved Albatross in flight, Española Island 2.jpg

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File:Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.jpg

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Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

File:Chapelle des Crosets et dents du Midi.jpg

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Les Crosets chapel

Orion Nebula multiband study

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  • IHO palette
    IHO palette
  • RGB palette (true color)
    RGB palette (true color)
  • HaRGBOIII palette (similar to above but with enhanced emission features)
    HaRGBOIII palette (similar to above but with enhanced emission features)
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    IR(G+B) palette (if you could see infrared, this would be true color)
  • HaIR(G+B)OIII palette (similar to above but with enhanced emission features)
    HaIR(G+B)OIII palette (similar to above but with enhanced emission features)
  • IHH (Chicago) palette
    IHH (Chicago) palette
  • HOO palette
    HOO palette

File:Moscow - 2026 - Window of the Palace of Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoe.jpg

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Black-necked Stork

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  • Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) male
    Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) male
  • Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) female
    Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) female

File:Half geopende bladknop van een paardenkastanje (Aesculus) 29-03-2026. (d.j.b).jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Sommet du Grammont.jpg

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Summit of Grammont

File:Montpensier et de Galliera, Antoine d'Orléans, duc de, Gallica, Nadar.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Chechia Maker in his shop.jpg

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Chechia maker in his shop: Tunisia is famous with its traditional red hat called Chechia.

File:Great Grey Shrike in Bhigwan August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 02.jpg

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Lanius excubitor (Great Grey Shrike)

File:Cherry blossoms (Somei Yoshino), Nagai Botanical Garden, April 2026 -1488.jpg

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Cherry blossoms (Somei Yoshino)

File:Earth From the Perspective of Artemis II.jpg

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Earth From the Perspective of Artemis II
  •  Support -- GumballNine1Nine (talk) 16:55, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
     Support GioviPen GP msg 17:13, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Inter-rede (talk) 17:53, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose We have already seventeen promotted pictures in the Category:Featured pictures of Earth from space, among them some are far much better, this one is very noisy and not that sharp.--Jebulon (talk) 19:51, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Unique in that this is the night side of the Earth with the sun eclipsed: stars are visible in the background, as well as city lights and aurorae (and maybe some zodiacal light?). Perhaps there will be a better image available soon, but I'd guess we can just delist this one and replace it. —brainandforce [yap] 22:08, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support for historicity, as per B&F. JayCubby (talk) 23:21, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Terrible quality. Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:32, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment File:Artemis II Captures the Terminator Line (art002e000190).jpg is of better quality (but different composition) and from the same source. ★ 05:15, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment That's the bright side of the Earth though, so it is expected that the image is less noisy. dllu (talk) 06:07, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @ArionStar: That image is a lot less interesting. In fact, it's just like any other view of a half-illuminated Earth (unlike the shot in the image which shows the Earth in moonlight). Renerpho (talk) 23:50, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Historical and newsworthy capture. As mentioned by several commenters above, the reason why this was shot at 1/4 s and ISO 51200 is because it is the dark (night) side of the Earth. None of the other photos in Category:Featured pictures of Earth from space have this property apart from some satellite photos that were scanned with specialized cameras. dllu (talk) 06:02, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. I'm not convinced about the quality. Is it really the best possible version of this Nikon D5–taken photograph? It was created literally yesterday, I'm sure we can wait a few days until we figure this out. Yacàwotçã (talk) 06:57, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Too soon. Please wait for some time. NASA may already have better images from Artemis II than this poor copy. And they will certainly have. Yann (talk) 09:13, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Not yet. Not until a higher quality version comes out. TheBritinator (talk) 14:45, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The oppose votes don't take into account that this is a long exposure of the Earth's night side, illuminated by the Moon rather than the Sun (compare File:Artemis II Captures Dark Side of the Earth.jpg for a shorter exposure of the same scene). The "terrible quality" is in comparison to a different kind of photo, and is really comparing apples to oranges. We have never seen an image of Earth quite like this; for example, it is one of the few images that have an exposure time long enough to see stars. The Apollo missions never got a chance to take a photo like this, because they had to launch towards the new Moon (with the fully illuminated Earth behind them). There's so much going on (from city lights on the ground over the planet Venus to the zodiacal light, aurora over the north and south pole, etc.) that makes this a very unusual photo. There will be no higher quality version of this; there was one chance to take that photo, hand-held, with the highest ISO setting and longest exposure time the photographer could manage. NASA talked about the eclipse in the build-up to the launch, and this geometry is unlikely to be repeated in upcoming Artemis launches. In short, I support as a unique photograph. Renerpho (talk) 23:45, 4 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    There's also a disturbing reflection/lens flare in the middle of the image (see the note). ★ 00:01, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @ArionStar: It looks like a reflection to me (something inside the capsule, being reflected in the window). I agree that it's a bit distracting, but again, it's the best that is possible for this kind of shot. We should always ask for images of a reasonably good quality, but I argue that this image meets that criterion -- with all the artifacts it has. Renerpho (talk) 00:06, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    The off-center crop doesn't help… ★ 01:18, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    It's not an off-center crop. It's cropped just so that Venus and the zodiacal light aren't cut off. Renerpho (talk) 14:10, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @ArionStar by nitpicking about the reflection and the off-center crop, you're missing the point that Renerpho is making, which is that this is a unique and irreplaceable photo of historical significance despite its technical flaws. We can all see that the photo is grainy and has reflections and other imperfections. But given the extraordinary circumstances, some of us believe that it should be featured, in accordance with the FPC guidelines which states that "Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low." dllu (talk) 19:25, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    This is probably a high compressed version sent across space. Let's wait for the astronauts coming back home, we will have a better copy. Yann (talk) 13:43, 6 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Yann: If I read the EXIF data here correctly then the photo was created as a JPG file; and what was later processed on the ground in Lightroom was the original JPG as created by the camera. There really is no bandwidth limitation so close to Earth that would have prevented them from sending it "as is". Renerpho (talk) 14:28, 6 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    This means NASA uses out-of-camera JPEG files? OMG, no wonder that the quality is rather poor. If there is no bandwidth limitation, the first thing they must do is to set the camera to use the raw image file format and to send the raw files. There is much, much, much more latitude for editing when you use the raw image file format instead of JPEG, and when it comes to a photo of the night side of the Earth, “illuminated by moonlight of the full Moon”, you need as much latitude for editing as you can get. – Aristeas (talk) 07:09, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
     Oppose Using OOC JPEG images in such a historical situation is incredibly sloppy. – Aristeas (talk) 07:09, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Someone should try to confirm if I read the EXIF data correctly before votes are being based on that. Renerpho (talk) 07:13, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
     Oppose I looked at the Exif data and yes, they seem to indicate an OOC JPEG file, and the file itself looks very much like an edited OOC JPEG file, too. However you are right that it is problematic to base voting on unclear facts. Let’s keep things simple. Sorry, the image quality clearly is not on the level we have often seen from NASA and would expect from NASA in 2026. I absolutely respect if somebody says historicity outweighs quality issues, but sorry, I beg to differ, I don’t see this in this case. – Aristeas (talk) 18:31, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support for historicity. This is not a trivial photo! --heylenny (talk/edits) 19:32, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Greece Chiliadou Euboea boat.jpg

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Chiliadou Beach in Euboea, Greece, is known for the beautiful coastline of the Egean sea, and for a (hidden) nudist small beach (here, behind me, the photographer). In this composition we have several levels, from the foreground to the background. I find it not that bad.

File:Boeing 747 Jumbo front cockpit windows.jpg

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Cockpit window of a Boeing 747-400 of ANA Airline

File:Lower Gate Stairs Bab Jemaa Taza Nov25 A7CR 09666.jpg

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Bab Jemaa wall around old city, stairs leading down to new city. Taza, Morocco

File:Lesser grass blue (Zizina otis) on Hibiscus flower Koror.jpg

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Lesser grass blue (Zizina otis) on Hibiscus

File:Portage III.JPG

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Place du Portage III

File:(Polsterdatud) mööblit konserveerimas.jpg

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The daily work of an upholstery conservator

File:Question mark nebula.jpg

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Question mark nebula

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Seville, Plaza de España
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:12, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Exteriors#Spain

File:Decorated one-humped Camel, Camelus dromedarius, at Puri Sea Beach, Odisha, India.jpg

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Decorated one-humped Camel, ‘‘Camelus dromedarius’’, at Puri Sea Beach, Odisha, India.

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Picture of a woman harvesting tea in Rwanda
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Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:14, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ireland Cliffs of Moher BW 2025-09-11 13-46-22.jpg

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O'Brien's Tower at the cliffs of Moher

File:Поранешно училиште во Бељаковце.jpg

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A granary in the former school building in the village of Beljakovce
  • @Jebulon: I don't think it's just a 'squared recent ruined house'. This picture has a strong social component and testifies how demographic decline changes social institutions over time. As a result of the decreased number of children in the village (the population declined from 807 in 1961 to 54 in 2021), the school was closed and re-purposed from an educational to a commercial institution. In my opinion, we don't have enough featured pictures with simple compositions that tell such stories. I apologise if the brief description wasn't enough to get the overall picture of this motif, so I've expanded the info section at the beginning of this nomination. Anyway, your opinion is fair. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 07:04, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Kiril Simeonovski: I understand very well your meaning. We have in France many and many abandoned buildings like this one or similar, due to the same civilization changes (I own one). I guess that if you nominate it as FPC, you imagine that it deserves the FP label, for reasons ! I hope I did not hurt you. anyway, this one will be promotted soon, so, no offense. this is my feeling, for archives.--Jebulon (talk) 12:55, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

File:Mustard Growing in a Terraced Field in Ladakh, India (edit).jpg

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Mustard Growing in a Terraced Field in Ladakh, India

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File:Tuscan landscape with lonely tree.jpg

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Blackstripe cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus nigrofasciatus), Red Sea, Egypt
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Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:19, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Fish#Family : Apogonidae (Cardinalfishes)

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Black dotted sand perch (Parapercis millepunctata), Anilao, Philippines
  • I wouldn't have called it "pronounced" but ok, I removed it Poco a poco (talk) 06:33, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Often I need to go further than 1:1 zoom to find CA to complain about, hence pronounced here. JayCubby (talk) 14:01, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:18, 7 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Fish#Family : Pinguipedidae (Sandperches)

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors#China


Timetable (day 5 after nomination)

Fri 03 Apr → Wed 08 Apr
Sat 04 Apr → Thu 09 Apr
Sun 05 Apr → Fri 10 Apr
Mon 06 Apr → Sat 11 Apr
Tue 07 Apr → Sun 12 Apr
Wed 08 Apr → Mon 13 Apr

Timetable (day 9 after nomination, last day of voting)

Mon 30 Mar → Wed 08 Apr
Tue 31 Mar → Thu 09 Apr
Wed 01 Apr → Fri 10 Apr
Thu 02 Apr → Sat 11 Apr
Fri 03 Apr → Sun 12 Apr
Sat 04 Apr → Mon 13 Apr
Sun 05 Apr → Tue 14 Apr
Mon 06 Apr → Wed 15 Apr
Tue 07 Apr → Thu 16 Apr
Wed 08 Apr → Fri 17 Apr

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:April 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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