Quality image of
Savonia railway line in Finland. It shows a
Sr1 locomotive hauling lumber across an interesting looking drawbridge. Saw this on Commons recently.
Support Surprisingly sharp given how long the train is and the presumption it was moving. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:02, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
No surprise with an exposure time of 1/1600 sec (0.000625)! ;-) Assuming the train moves at 50 km/h, it moves only 8 millimeters during the exposure... --
Janke |
Talk 19:07, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
True, but that also limits the amount of light let in. Basically, I'm impressed at how well focus, exposure, focal plane, and so on were used. There's really not much notable blur until you get right back towards the land in the distance, which is great focal depth. Sure, maybe the smooth concrete structure helps with that, but it's still very well done. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 21:06, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 00:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment – Must have been a dreary day in
Gnesta, the article about which is a 78-word stub. –
Sca (
talk) 12:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Admittedly, like the Marburger Schloss, this would go onto POTD/Unused until the article improved. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 15:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – good restoration, but the article is weak. The
Swedish article has plenty of content (history, buildings, etc.). I added an expand-translate tag
[1].
Bammesk (
talk) 02:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)reply
That street lamp floating in the air is rather a problem. --
Sca (
talk) 19:27, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Admittedly, that's croppable in theory. I just don't like doing that kind of crop. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 20:15, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose - Fails criterion #3, not among Wiki's best... --
Janke |
Talk 14:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Quality image of this marine mollusc. I agree with the comments of User:Poco a poco (who does underwater photography) and User:Ikan Kekek on
Commons nom here about the quality of this photo. It is photographed with a high quality camera and lens (at f/22 and iso160)
Exif here. FP on Commons.
Support – prefer cropped version. Good restoration. Looking at
google images here is there a better image with a suitable copyright license? . . . . I did some checking and couldn't find any.
Bammesk (
talk) 18:42, 28 August 2022 (UTC)reply
A photograph is a work of art. You wouldn't crop The Mona Lisa and so I don't believe it is good practice to crop others' photos. Cropping for specific uses like a newspaper is fine, but not for an encyclopaedia.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 19:31, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
We're an encyclopaedia, not an archival site or an art gallery, so if deadspace is making the encyclopedic value of an image worse, yes, I think we should crop it. What extra value does the shoulder provide? —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 19:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
This was
part of a delist and replace a while back that didn't get enough participation. I think it's a superb image for
chromolithography as it shows the various colours used in it.
Portrait of jazz pianist
Art Tatum by notable jazz photographer
William Gottlieb. Tatum was an innovator in the jazz genre. For details see the lead section of his article. On a sidenote, he lost his left eye in his twenties. FP on Commons.
Support, colours seem a little dull, and it could be a little bigger and sharper, but the challenges of a bird in flight make up for it. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 13:10, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose Can't put my finger on it exactly, but the dull colours, lacking sharpness, and small image make me oppose. I also dislike the angle, it makes the bird look 2d dimensional: e.g. compare it to
this other shot of the bird or
your other FPC nom. —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 20:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Actually, I love to get a good shot of a bird in flight at, or close to, eye level. Many bird shots are looking up at the bird.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 11:27, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support I actually like the dull colors here, the matte emptiness is charming and reminds me of a
Hopper.
RFZYNSPYtalk 00:01, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Struck vote as it was cast after the voting period ended.
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 08:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – White stork (Ciconia ciconia) in flight with a transmitter; carrying plastic to make its nest.
Reason
High quality image. FP on Commons. This, like most flight images, is not in the infobox but has high EV. It shows a bird carrying a transmitter to aid conservation work in Spain. The bird is carrying discarded plastic to use in building its nest.
Support. Feels like it could really benefit articles on transmitters and animal tracking and so on too. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I've added this to
wildlife radio telemetry. Also, I support per Adam Cuerden--the value might be greater in that article than in the species article (though the use of plastic for nest-building is also interesting).
blameless 02:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Portrait of
Marie Curie, a pioneer in
radioactivity, first female Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of
radium and
polonium. See her article for details. The image needs a bit more restoration, to remove small dots and artifacts, which I will do if the nom gets a few supports.
Support as nominator –
Bammesk (
talk) 17:52, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment A few dust spots and a horizontal scratch (w. 3 white spots in hair at 1 o-clock) need to be addressed. When done, I'd Support. --
Janke |
Talk 19:23, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I noted in the reason section above that I will do additional restoration if/when the nom gets a few supports. I take your comment as a conditional support.
Bammesk (
talk) 19:34, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It looks like a decent image, but it's hard for me to support a restoration "on spec". Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 13:23, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Ok, I will do more restoration and clean it up. Zooming in at say 400% there are lots of small spots and dots that can be cleaned up. I should have it in a day or so. (I didn't/don't want to spend the time if someone has a legitimate oppose rationale)
Bammesk (
talk) 17:37, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support: There's some whitish "clouds" in the lower half of the image that I'd have probably edited out, but it might be some artistic effect. Certainly better than any other Curie image I can find online. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:34, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The
last nomination failed to reach quorum. There was a suggestion of another image of him in that, but it was over a decade before his period of notability, when he was working as an illustrator for a local newspaper, whereas this is literally while doing the thing he was notable for.
Support – shows him performing his profession, technical aspects aren’t significant in historic photos.
Bammesk (
talk) 17:20, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Tentacled flathead, Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. The tentacled flathead is a well camouflaged, ambush predator of fish and crustaceans.
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC last week, where it was featured unanimously.
Comment Image looks pretty good, but the left half of the roof is substantially lower than the right half, and the pseudo-pillar on the left edge isn't very straight. Is there a bit of perspective distortion? It's a high-quality image overall, but if it's able to be made even better, it should be. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 19:55, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
My first reaction was, there's something odd about the perspective, but I couldn't decide what the problem – if any – was. --
Sca (
talk) 12:17, 8 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Le Violon d'Ingres (French for Ingres's Violin) is a black-and-white photograph created by American visual artist
Man Ray in 1924. It shows model
Kiki de Montparnasse from the back, nude to below her waist, with two
f-holes painted on to make her body resemble a violin.
Reason
In May 2022, Le Violon d'Ingres sold for $12,400,000, making it the most expensive photograph. Beyond that, this is one of Man Ray's most famous works and for
surrealist photography.
I'm inclined to clean up the specks a bit. Give me a day. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 23:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Are you sure that makes sense? This is an original Man Ray print, with his stamp on the back--it is not a scan of a negative like some of the photographs in the Featured Pictures collection. If the print is being treated by the museum as a distinct work of art (and, as the nominator notes, another print of it proved extraordinarily valuable), then shouldn't it be represented as it exists?
blameless 03:35, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It's still a print, one of many, I presume. I feel prints should be a theoretical best copy. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 03:45, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Quite likely, as a photo of a photo, the specks are part of the original and certainly reflect the quality of the original process. I'm strongly against cleaning up. If that needs cleaning up then where does one stop - do you edit out the cracks in the Mona Lisa?
ProfDEH (
talk) 06:58, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I really doubt dust specks on the scan and fingerprint smears are intent. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – I prefer the specks removed per Adam Cuerden.
Bammesk (
talk) 01:08, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Bammesk: I'm not going to bother if people are going to go to war over it. Don't think it should pass, though, as it's not a fantastic copy, and almost all uses I can find are better looking. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 02:02, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I see. More detail on her skin in
this print. I wouldn't mind the nom version becoming FP though, with or without touchup.
Bammesk (
talk) 14:31, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If the print is unique or there are even a few copies, all with specks, we shouldn't be trying to imrove the original. Restoration here should be about restoring a print artwork to how it was. Not trying to improve the original.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 11:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support nominated version; I'd consider supporting a scan of a different print. It is clear that the various prints of this photograph are valued and contextualized distinctly by their owners and others (hence the enormous value of one of them cited in the nomination); therefore, I think our FP should correspond to an identified print, not an idealized representation of a putative "original."
blameless 19:10, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:15, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin), 1924, Man Ray.png --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 06:21, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The
last nomination happened during a time we were working out the details of how non-lead images work with FPC. I think we've largely sorted that with our simple criterion that the image should offer some sort of unique insight into the work. As such, probably time this comes back. And, anyway, I've kind of been spending a fair bit of time
making comics out of artworks for the Signpost.
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Original – The primary structures formed by phospholipids in aqueous solution; the
liposome (a closed bilayer), the micelle, and the bilayer sheet.
Caption adapted from image caption at
Lipid bilayer.
Reason
This artwork by
LadyofHats provides an incredibly detailed yet concise visualization of the three simplest structures adoptable by phospholipid (bi)layers in an aqueous environment. Phospholipid arrangement is at the foundation of biological study and this image gives a great geometric explanation of why cell and organelle membranes form the structures they do.
Support as nominator –
RFZYNSPYtalk 22:34, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Leaning to support but I like to see a title (or note) on the image itself, something like "Phospholipids in aqueous solution", to make it more complete as a stand-alone image.
Bammesk (
talk) 18:14, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That's what image captions are for. The advantage of having that sort of text as a caption rather than embedded in the image is that you can adapt the caption to the context rather than forcing the same caption to work for all the different articles the image appears in. Do you demand captions embedded as pixels in the photos nominated here? —
David Eppstein (
talk) 19:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Diagrams and sketches aren't photos, so no. But I agree with the adaptive use argument.
Bammesk (
talk) 00:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support This is basic cellular biology. It's the basis for the cell membrane and everything related to it, such as several means of transport into and out of the cell. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 17:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
IMO, cellular biology is a niche subject. --
Sca (
talk) 12:06, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
So are specific bird species and operas. Things taught in high school are less niche. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 17:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Birds in general are a niche in photography. --
Sca (
talk) 12:48, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
And yet we promote them all the time. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:44, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. We should support encyclopedic and well-rendered diagrammatic content in FPC, not just pretty snapshots of charismatic megafauna and postcard views. This is a high-quality example of this type of image, well illustrates an important distinction in biological membrane structures, and is used prominently to do so in multiple articles (among which
Lipid is listed as vital,
Lipid bilayer both vital and Good Article, and
Micelle is high-importance for biology). It is not easy to make these kinds of images both stylized enough to focus on the important aspects of the topic and to render the three-dimensional shape accurately enough for it to immediately stand out to the reader, and the creator of this image has done an excellent job of exactly that. Of note, it is in a vector rather than raster format, making it more widely reusable (for instance, it would be very easy to change the embedded text, unlike in a photographic image with overlaid and pixelated text). LadyofHats has many good diagrams (I had recent occasion to use
File:Wine grape diagram en.svg off-wiki, for instance) and I think we should feature more images like this. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 19:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – per David and Adam. I like to see more nominations like this as well.
Bammesk (
talk) 00:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Princess Elizabeth, later
Elizabeth II, in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, April 1945
Reason
I think it's a fine historical image. If it's passing on the 16th, I'll open a discussion on an
IAR POTD for the queen's funeral. (Edit: I opened it on
Talk:Main Page already, so that there's as much time as possible to talk things over.
Support given the quality of the historical photo. — Red-tailed hawk(nest) 18:02, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support High quality photo, on high quality articles.
Sea Cow (
talk) 18:10, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support.
MER-C 19:15, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I suppose cropping is out of the question. Tempting though, portrait orientation with the princess central.
ProfDEH (
talk) 17:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Hrh Princess Elizabeth in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, April 1945 TR2832.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 17:09, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:12, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It seems a little grainy and out of focus. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:31, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, it's a judgment call. I don't think it is misfocused though. I think it's shot handheld in low light. A tripod would have allowed f/8 and a sharper image.
Bammesk (
talk) 01:29, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I think I'm going to vote "Neutral", as I think it's a good picture, but the artistic choices, while pretty at lower resolution, do substantially affect it at full resolution. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 02:22, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak Oppose The sky is distractingly grainy, even at full-size on my 1080p monitor. —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 13:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
While one could criticise some aspects: the way the poster raises up its lower right corner to accommodate the attribution onto the plate is a little awkward - it's still from the opera's première, and that makes it valuable. An annoying bastard of a poster to clean up - loads of micro-tears and filthy border paper, but I think I did a good job.
Was seen on Commons today and no-one's voted oppose yet! ...Or support. It's early.
Promoted File:Auguste François-Marie Gorguet - poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys (1888).jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 17:44, 22 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
MER-C 19:22, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment – At 220 words, target article seems rather stubby. –
Sca (
talk) 12:04, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support Good. –
Yann (
talk) 21:12, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support An excellent photo, article is short, but, given the subject, not excessively so. Sits in the midst of a constellation of articles that cover subsidiary subjects, e.g.
Mannlgrat and
Kehlsteinhaus. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 01:31, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Bultfonteinite (5.0 × 3.0 × 3.0 cm) with minor datolite (small spherical crystal groupings) from Shijiangshan mine, Linxi, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China.
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC two weeks ago, where it was featured unanimously.
Support as nominator –
Yann (
talk) 21:07, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If the original wasn't North-up, I don't think we should rotate it just because. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 21:25, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – prefer un-rotated version
[2].
Bammesk (
talk) 00:38, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment: This it not the original map by Al-Idrisi, but a 20th century copy by Konrad Miller. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Skimel (
talk •
contribs)
I don't mind that entirely, though the original would have been preferred. Although that said... 1929? ...How is this out of copyright in the US? Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Adam Cuerden thanks for the links, that's very interesting. This makes me wonder if the whole map has ever been done by Al-Idrisi, or if it is a modern recreation.
Skimel (
talk) 10:09, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Currently nominated for deletion on Commons.
MER-C 10:38, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I would greatly prefer one of the source documents (themselves copies, but at a step less removed) used by Miller. I think the latin captions and redrawing are likely to mislead readers about the content of the original. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 16:40, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
Tomer T (
talk) 09:05, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
There's a couple blue specks at the top of the image, otherwise really good. SupportAdam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:42, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Pretty sure the
last nomination - which wasn't opposed but failed to reach quorum - was just unlucky as to timing. I've had bad luck this year with that. It's probably the best known of the
Royal Gallery of Illustration pieces by far, still quite frequently performed to this day and with modern professional recordings and performances.
Passed Commons unanimously.
Support --
Ivar (
talk) 04:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 19:05, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support Very good macro photography. I'm presuming the coppery tone on them is natural. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 01:46, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I'd say it's because of the lighting - a bit unnatural since it is coming from below - maybe reflection from yellow or orange ground? We have a juniper bush in the yard, and there's nothing "coppery" in their berries... OTOH the other picture of berries shows an unnatural purple coloring - the correct color is a dark, slightly greyish and muted, but pure blue, as seen only on the top of the berries in this FPC. If the photographer can be persuaded to do some color balancing, I would support. (BTW, as the berries mature, their color changes from green to pink, then to purplish, and finally to greyed blue.) --
Janke |
Talk 15:45, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support --
Ivar (
talk) 04:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose Unnatural lighting, both tone and direction. This is more like art than information.
ProfDEH (
talk) 09:14, 25 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
ProfDEH: I suspect it's to some extent assumptions: Not so much what angle is the light coming from, but what angle the camera is pointing, since this could just as easily be looking down at a horizontal sprig, for instance. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 23:58, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose since no edit yet made to color balance. --
Janke |
Talk 21:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support -- Color corrected version 2022-09-26. --
Janke |
Talk 18:21, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I think the cleanup went great, despite an imperfect scan. Poster is your typical blocky woodblock or silkscreen print of the time, and you can see slight imperfections on the black border where it didn't quite reach the paper (it's cropped to the edge of the paper, somewhat by necessity as the scan is on some sides). Historical value is what really pushes this into valuable and featurable; this is the kind of artefact that you're surprised still exists.
Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. Significant encyclopedic use as illustration for its article; good quality resto (as always). —
David Eppstein (
talk) 16:35, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Poster by Anna Soós Korànyi for the Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 04:53, 29 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
Bammesk (
talk) 00:22, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. High quality, scenic, and sets the context well, despite not really conveying just how long it takes to walk up all of those stairs, nor the contrast between the huge glass fresnel lens one finds at the top next to the small electric lamp that replaced it. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 00:30, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. Wouldn't mind more pixels dedicated to the lighthouse itself, but the wider view gives important context, and there's always a chance for more images that zoom in, as it were. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 05:02, 22 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Quality image of
Savonia railway line in Finland. It shows a
Sr1 locomotive hauling lumber across an interesting looking drawbridge. Saw this on Commons recently.
Support Surprisingly sharp given how long the train is and the presumption it was moving. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:02, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
No surprise with an exposure time of 1/1600 sec (0.000625)! ;-) Assuming the train moves at 50 km/h, it moves only 8 millimeters during the exposure... --
Janke |
Talk 19:07, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
True, but that also limits the amount of light let in. Basically, I'm impressed at how well focus, exposure, focal plane, and so on were used. There's really not much notable blur until you get right back towards the land in the distance, which is great focal depth. Sure, maybe the smooth concrete structure helps with that, but it's still very well done. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 21:06, 24 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 00:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment – Must have been a dreary day in
Gnesta, the article about which is a 78-word stub. –
Sca (
talk) 12:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Admittedly, like the Marburger Schloss, this would go onto POTD/Unused until the article improved. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 15:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – good restoration, but the article is weak. The
Swedish article has plenty of content (history, buildings, etc.). I added an expand-translate tag
[1].
Bammesk (
talk) 02:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)reply
That street lamp floating in the air is rather a problem. --
Sca (
talk) 19:27, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Admittedly, that's croppable in theory. I just don't like doing that kind of crop. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 20:15, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose - Fails criterion #3, not among Wiki's best... --
Janke |
Talk 14:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Quality image of this marine mollusc. I agree with the comments of User:Poco a poco (who does underwater photography) and User:Ikan Kekek on
Commons nom here about the quality of this photo. It is photographed with a high quality camera and lens (at f/22 and iso160)
Exif here. FP on Commons.
Support – prefer cropped version. Good restoration. Looking at
google images here is there a better image with a suitable copyright license? . . . . I did some checking and couldn't find any.
Bammesk (
talk) 18:42, 28 August 2022 (UTC)reply
A photograph is a work of art. You wouldn't crop The Mona Lisa and so I don't believe it is good practice to crop others' photos. Cropping for specific uses like a newspaper is fine, but not for an encyclopaedia.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 19:31, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
We're an encyclopaedia, not an archival site or an art gallery, so if deadspace is making the encyclopedic value of an image worse, yes, I think we should crop it. What extra value does the shoulder provide? —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 19:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
This was
part of a delist and replace a while back that didn't get enough participation. I think it's a superb image for
chromolithography as it shows the various colours used in it.
Portrait of jazz pianist
Art Tatum by notable jazz photographer
William Gottlieb. Tatum was an innovator in the jazz genre. For details see the lead section of his article. On a sidenote, he lost his left eye in his twenties. FP on Commons.
Support, colours seem a little dull, and it could be a little bigger and sharper, but the challenges of a bird in flight make up for it. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 13:10, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose Can't put my finger on it exactly, but the dull colours, lacking sharpness, and small image make me oppose. I also dislike the angle, it makes the bird look 2d dimensional: e.g. compare it to
this other shot of the bird or
your other FPC nom. —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 20:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Actually, I love to get a good shot of a bird in flight at, or close to, eye level. Many bird shots are looking up at the bird.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 11:27, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support I actually like the dull colors here, the matte emptiness is charming and reminds me of a
Hopper.
RFZYNSPYtalk 00:01, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Struck vote as it was cast after the voting period ended.
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 08:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – White stork (Ciconia ciconia) in flight with a transmitter; carrying plastic to make its nest.
Reason
High quality image. FP on Commons. This, like most flight images, is not in the infobox but has high EV. It shows a bird carrying a transmitter to aid conservation work in Spain. The bird is carrying discarded plastic to use in building its nest.
Support. Feels like it could really benefit articles on transmitters and animal tracking and so on too. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I've added this to
wildlife radio telemetry. Also, I support per Adam Cuerden--the value might be greater in that article than in the species article (though the use of plastic for nest-building is also interesting).
blameless 02:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Portrait of
Marie Curie, a pioneer in
radioactivity, first female Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of
radium and
polonium. See her article for details. The image needs a bit more restoration, to remove small dots and artifacts, which I will do if the nom gets a few supports.
Support as nominator –
Bammesk (
talk) 17:52, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment A few dust spots and a horizontal scratch (w. 3 white spots in hair at 1 o-clock) need to be addressed. When done, I'd Support. --
Janke |
Talk 19:23, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I noted in the reason section above that I will do additional restoration if/when the nom gets a few supports. I take your comment as a conditional support.
Bammesk (
talk) 19:34, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It looks like a decent image, but it's hard for me to support a restoration "on spec". Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 13:23, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Ok, I will do more restoration and clean it up. Zooming in at say 400% there are lots of small spots and dots that can be cleaned up. I should have it in a day or so. (I didn't/don't want to spend the time if someone has a legitimate oppose rationale)
Bammesk (
talk) 17:37, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support: There's some whitish "clouds" in the lower half of the image that I'd have probably edited out, but it might be some artistic effect. Certainly better than any other Curie image I can find online. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:34, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The
last nomination failed to reach quorum. There was a suggestion of another image of him in that, but it was over a decade before his period of notability, when he was working as an illustrator for a local newspaper, whereas this is literally while doing the thing he was notable for.
Support – shows him performing his profession, technical aspects aren’t significant in historic photos.
Bammesk (
talk) 17:20, 4 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Tentacled flathead, Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. The tentacled flathead is a well camouflaged, ambush predator of fish and crustaceans.
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC last week, where it was featured unanimously.
Comment Image looks pretty good, but the left half of the roof is substantially lower than the right half, and the pseudo-pillar on the left edge isn't very straight. Is there a bit of perspective distortion? It's a high-quality image overall, but if it's able to be made even better, it should be. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 19:55, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
My first reaction was, there's something odd about the perspective, but I couldn't decide what the problem – if any – was. --
Sca (
talk) 12:17, 8 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Le Violon d'Ingres (French for Ingres's Violin) is a black-and-white photograph created by American visual artist
Man Ray in 1924. It shows model
Kiki de Montparnasse from the back, nude to below her waist, with two
f-holes painted on to make her body resemble a violin.
Reason
In May 2022, Le Violon d'Ingres sold for $12,400,000, making it the most expensive photograph. Beyond that, this is one of Man Ray's most famous works and for
surrealist photography.
I'm inclined to clean up the specks a bit. Give me a day. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 23:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Are you sure that makes sense? This is an original Man Ray print, with his stamp on the back--it is not a scan of a negative like some of the photographs in the Featured Pictures collection. If the print is being treated by the museum as a distinct work of art (and, as the nominator notes, another print of it proved extraordinarily valuable), then shouldn't it be represented as it exists?
blameless 03:35, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It's still a print, one of many, I presume. I feel prints should be a theoretical best copy. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 03:45, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Quite likely, as a photo of a photo, the specks are part of the original and certainly reflect the quality of the original process. I'm strongly against cleaning up. If that needs cleaning up then where does one stop - do you edit out the cracks in the Mona Lisa?
ProfDEH (
talk) 06:58, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I really doubt dust specks on the scan and fingerprint smears are intent. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – I prefer the specks removed per Adam Cuerden.
Bammesk (
talk) 01:08, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Bammesk: I'm not going to bother if people are going to go to war over it. Don't think it should pass, though, as it's not a fantastic copy, and almost all uses I can find are better looking. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 02:02, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I see. More detail on her skin in
this print. I wouldn't mind the nom version becoming FP though, with or without touchup.
Bammesk (
talk) 14:31, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If the print is unique or there are even a few copies, all with specks, we shouldn't be trying to imrove the original. Restoration here should be about restoring a print artwork to how it was. Not trying to improve the original.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 11:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support nominated version; I'd consider supporting a scan of a different print. It is clear that the various prints of this photograph are valued and contextualized distinctly by their owners and others (hence the enormous value of one of them cited in the nomination); therefore, I think our FP should correspond to an identified print, not an idealized representation of a putative "original."
blameless 19:10, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:15, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin), 1924, Man Ray.png --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 06:21, 16 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The
last nomination happened during a time we were working out the details of how non-lead images work with FPC. I think we've largely sorted that with our simple criterion that the image should offer some sort of unique insight into the work. As such, probably time this comes back. And, anyway, I've kind of been spending a fair bit of time
making comics out of artworks for the Signpost.
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Original – The primary structures formed by phospholipids in aqueous solution; the
liposome (a closed bilayer), the micelle, and the bilayer sheet.
Caption adapted from image caption at
Lipid bilayer.
Reason
This artwork by
LadyofHats provides an incredibly detailed yet concise visualization of the three simplest structures adoptable by phospholipid (bi)layers in an aqueous environment. Phospholipid arrangement is at the foundation of biological study and this image gives a great geometric explanation of why cell and organelle membranes form the structures they do.
Support as nominator –
RFZYNSPYtalk 22:34, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Leaning to support but I like to see a title (or note) on the image itself, something like "Phospholipids in aqueous solution", to make it more complete as a stand-alone image.
Bammesk (
talk) 18:14, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
That's what image captions are for. The advantage of having that sort of text as a caption rather than embedded in the image is that you can adapt the caption to the context rather than forcing the same caption to work for all the different articles the image appears in. Do you demand captions embedded as pixels in the photos nominated here? —
David Eppstein (
talk) 19:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Diagrams and sketches aren't photos, so no. But I agree with the adaptive use argument.
Bammesk (
talk) 00:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support This is basic cellular biology. It's the basis for the cell membrane and everything related to it, such as several means of transport into and out of the cell. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 17:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
IMO, cellular biology is a niche subject. --
Sca (
talk) 12:06, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
So are specific bird species and operas. Things taught in high school are less niche. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 17:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Birds in general are a niche in photography. --
Sca (
talk) 12:48, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
And yet we promote them all the time. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:44, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. We should support encyclopedic and well-rendered diagrammatic content in FPC, not just pretty snapshots of charismatic megafauna and postcard views. This is a high-quality example of this type of image, well illustrates an important distinction in biological membrane structures, and is used prominently to do so in multiple articles (among which
Lipid is listed as vital,
Lipid bilayer both vital and Good Article, and
Micelle is high-importance for biology). It is not easy to make these kinds of images both stylized enough to focus on the important aspects of the topic and to render the three-dimensional shape accurately enough for it to immediately stand out to the reader, and the creator of this image has done an excellent job of exactly that. Of note, it is in a vector rather than raster format, making it more widely reusable (for instance, it would be very easy to change the embedded text, unlike in a photographic image with overlaid and pixelated text). LadyofHats has many good diagrams (I had recent occasion to use
File:Wine grape diagram en.svg off-wiki, for instance) and I think we should feature more images like this. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 19:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – per David and Adam. I like to see more nominations like this as well.
Bammesk (
talk) 00:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Princess Elizabeth, later
Elizabeth II, in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, April 1945
Reason
I think it's a fine historical image. If it's passing on the 16th, I'll open a discussion on an
IAR POTD for the queen's funeral. (Edit: I opened it on
Talk:Main Page already, so that there's as much time as possible to talk things over.
Support given the quality of the historical photo. — Red-tailed hawk(nest) 18:02, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support High quality photo, on high quality articles.
Sea Cow (
talk) 18:10, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support.
MER-C 19:15, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I suppose cropping is out of the question. Tempting though, portrait orientation with the princess central.
ProfDEH (
talk) 17:20, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Hrh Princess Elizabeth in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, April 1945 TR2832.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 17:09, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support –
Yann (
talk) 21:12, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
It seems a little grainy and out of focus. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:31, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, it's a judgment call. I don't think it is misfocused though. I think it's shot handheld in low light. A tripod would have allowed f/8 and a sharper image.
Bammesk (
talk) 01:29, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I think I'm going to vote "Neutral", as I think it's a good picture, but the artistic choices, while pretty at lower resolution, do substantially affect it at full resolution. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 02:22, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Weak Oppose The sky is distractingly grainy, even at full-size on my 1080p monitor. —
PerfectSoundWhatever (
t;
c) 13:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
While one could criticise some aspects: the way the poster raises up its lower right corner to accommodate the attribution onto the plate is a little awkward - it's still from the opera's première, and that makes it valuable. An annoying bastard of a poster to clean up - loads of micro-tears and filthy border paper, but I think I did a good job.
Was seen on Commons today and no-one's voted oppose yet! ...Or support. It's early.
Promoted File:Auguste François-Marie Gorguet - poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys (1888).jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 17:44, 22 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
MER-C 19:22, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment – At 220 words, target article seems rather stubby. –
Sca (
talk) 12:04, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support Good. –
Yann (
talk) 21:12, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support An excellent photo, article is short, but, given the subject, not excessively so. Sits in the midst of a constellation of articles that cover subsidiary subjects, e.g.
Mannlgrat and
Kehlsteinhaus. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 01:31, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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Original – Bultfonteinite (5.0 × 3.0 × 3.0 cm) with minor datolite (small spherical crystal groupings) from Shijiangshan mine, Linxi, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China.
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC two weeks ago, where it was featured unanimously.
Support as nominator –
Yann (
talk) 21:07, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If the original wasn't North-up, I don't think we should rotate it just because. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 21:25, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support – prefer un-rotated version
[2].
Bammesk (
talk) 00:38, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment: This it not the original map by Al-Idrisi, but a 20th century copy by Konrad Miller. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Skimel (
talk •
contribs)
I don't mind that entirely, though the original would have been preferred. Although that said... 1929? ...How is this out of copyright in the US? Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 16:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Adam Cuerden thanks for the links, that's very interesting. This makes me wonder if the whole map has ever been done by Al-Idrisi, or if it is a modern recreation.
Skimel (
talk) 10:09, 15 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Currently nominated for deletion on Commons.
MER-C 10:38, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I would greatly prefer one of the source documents (themselves copies, but at a step less removed) used by Miller. I think the latin captions and redrawing are likely to mislead readers about the content of the original. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 16:40, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
Tomer T (
talk) 09:05, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
There's a couple blue specks at the top of the image, otherwise really good. SupportAdam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:42, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Pretty sure the
last nomination - which wasn't opposed but failed to reach quorum - was just unlucky as to timing. I've had bad luck this year with that. It's probably the best known of the
Royal Gallery of Illustration pieces by far, still quite frequently performed to this day and with modern professional recordings and performances.
Passed Commons unanimously.
Support --
Ivar (
talk) 04:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 19:05, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support Very good macro photography. I'm presuming the coppery tone on them is natural. Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 01:46, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I'd say it's because of the lighting - a bit unnatural since it is coming from below - maybe reflection from yellow or orange ground? We have a juniper bush in the yard, and there's nothing "coppery" in their berries... OTOH the other picture of berries shows an unnatural purple coloring - the correct color is a dark, slightly greyish and muted, but pure blue, as seen only on the top of the berries in this FPC. If the photographer can be persuaded to do some color balancing, I would support. (BTW, as the berries mature, their color changes from green to pink, then to purplish, and finally to greyed blue.) --
Janke |
Talk 15:45, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support --
Ivar (
talk) 04:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose Unnatural lighting, both tone and direction. This is more like art than information.
ProfDEH (
talk) 09:14, 25 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
ProfDEH: I suspect it's to some extent assumptions: Not so much what angle is the light coming from, but what angle the camera is pointing, since this could just as easily be looking down at a horizontal sprig, for instance. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 23:58, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose since no edit yet made to color balance. --
Janke |
Talk 21:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support -- Color corrected version 2022-09-26. --
Janke |
Talk 18:21, 27 September 2022 (UTC)reply
I think the cleanup went great, despite an imperfect scan. Poster is your typical blocky woodblock or silkscreen print of the time, and you can see slight imperfections on the black border where it didn't quite reach the paper (it's cropped to the edge of the paper, somewhat by necessity as the scan is on some sides). Historical value is what really pushes this into valuable and featurable; this is the kind of artefact that you're surprised still exists.
Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden(
talk)Has about 8.1% of all
FPs 16:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. Significant encyclopedic use as illustration for its article; good quality resto (as always). —
David Eppstein (
talk) 16:35, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Promoted File:Poster by Anna Soós Korànyi for the Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.jpg --
ArmbrustTheHomunculus 04:53, 29 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support as nominator –
Bammesk (
talk) 00:22, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. High quality, scenic, and sets the context well, despite not really conveying just how long it takes to walk up all of those stairs, nor the contrast between the huge glass fresnel lens one finds at the top next to the small electric lamp that replaced it. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 00:30, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. Wouldn't mind more pixels dedicated to the lighthouse itself, but the wider view gives important context, and there's always a chance for more images that zoom in, as it were. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 05:02, 22 September 2022 (UTC)reply