Landmark images is a workshop space for Wikipedia and Commons images. The goal here is to identify material that could become featured and prioritize it for improvement. Images selected for inclusion here should meet the following criteria:
Encyclopedic content: the image has inherent scholarly research value.
Intrinsic importance: the image documents a historic event, or is otherwise significant in ways that would be impractical to duplicate with other images.
Improvability: the image could become featured if it receives proper attention.
What is this about?
Images that don't get selected for featured picture consideration get thrown into general categories - a slush pile. A few of those overlooked images have real potential. They might become feature-worthy with better captioning or artifact cleanup or a higher quality scan.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. Original version was lost in the Commons slush pile and used in zero articles.
Please upload promising material to Commons or Wikipedia and add a thumbnail to this page. And if you find more useful online archives, add them to the list.
Evaluate
Search for images of inherent merit that either meet featured picture criteria or could get there. Comment on material already in the gallery. Help sort the wheat from the chaff. Overall, fewer than 1 in 1000 images I survey is even worth a second look. Far fewer than that get to FPC. For historic images, seek images that are outstanding examples of their type whenever possible.
Improve
Clean up artifacts and fibers, locate better versions of identical or similar files. When doing this I always save under a separate filename so that the original version remains available for research purposes.
From here on down the page, you're at the workshop. Feel free to add, subtract, move, restore, or nominate.
Special Tactics (fix fringing first)
Restored version of
Image:Willow Run airplane inspection.jpg as photographed by Howard R. Holem. There's a color cast in the lower right I don't know how to remove. Any assistance?
Find a Home (Encyclopedic issues)
absent from the Martin Luther King article (also, composition and noise reduction)
Stranded Amtracs on Iwo Jima (also need to address blown highlights on the left)
B-25 bomb bay gas tanks; this is the smaller version of the much larger tif image
1901 movie by Thomas Edison: "What Happened on Twenty-Third Street" (air blowing from a vent catches a woman's skirt)
Address Artifacting
Kiwi bird (will need higher res after downsampling)
Victory over Japan, in Paris (in focus areas are fine, most artifacting is on non-essential and non-subject parts of the picture)
Blackfeet Indian Chiefs (will serve as excellent lead image for
Plains Indians)
Hi-res, but grainy, and there's something funky going on near his right elbow (a stain?)
Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zulu king during the Anglo-Zulu Wars. Done — file history states that
Scott Martin "Removed dust and scratches." as of 06:43, 23 July 2009. I didn't notice any other artifacts. --
Kevjonesin (
talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
U-175 breaks the surface
Picking survivors off U-175
U-175 sinks
Higher Resolution Needed
Civil Rights March on Washington Done — I went back to the .tif original and worked up a higher-res .jpg file. --
Kevjonesin (
talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Soldiers in the trenches before battle, Petersburg, Virginia, 1865.
USS Galena- 1862 early ironclad experimental ship.
U.S. Military Railroad locomotive "W.H. Whiton" (built by William Mason in 1862) and Lincoln's presidential car, later his funeral car.
Charleston, South Carolina, 1865.
Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japanese from a block house on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case Japanese come out. February 4, 1944.
German infantry on the march on August 7, 1914.
World War I: German troops on the Belgian frontier.
Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at NAS Norfolk, Va. September 1942.
Oregon Air National Guardsman performs an inspection survey on a communications tower.
Members of the 166th Infantry in action in Villers sur Fere
USS Wisconsin at sea during Operation Earnest Will
Crewmen perform a foreign object debris walkdown prior to the carrier launch of an FA-18F Hornet
An F-18 launches off a carrier
People's Liberation Army tank crewman
Ambulance crew, United States Civil War.
USS Monitor after battle.
7th Cavalry at Leyte Island, 20 October 1944.
Astronomy
Lovell Telescope, Jodrell bank during the upgrade of the surface. Surface half-replaced, but not painted.
"Christmas Tree Cluster" newly formed stars as taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, at 1:35 a.m. EDT (Sunday, August 24, at 10:35 p.m. PDT).
Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Alco automobile driven by Harry Grant winning the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup.
Nature
Architecture
Umbraculo, Mesto umení a vied, Valencia
Wainwright Building, Saint Louis, Missouri: a forerunner of modern skyscrapers. Subsequent construction across the street obstructs a clear view of this subject.
Pittsburgh skyline panorama.
Construction of the
Empire State Building, 1930. At right, the shot looks down upon the
Chrysler Building, which was the world's tallest completed structure at that time.
Any high resolution photograph of this structure would be a boon: the
Auditorium Building of Chicago, Illinois is one of the forerunners of the modern skyscraper.
Landmark images is a workshop space for Wikipedia and Commons images. The goal here is to identify material that could become featured and prioritize it for improvement. Images selected for inclusion here should meet the following criteria:
Encyclopedic content: the image has inherent scholarly research value.
Intrinsic importance: the image documents a historic event, or is otherwise significant in ways that would be impractical to duplicate with other images.
Improvability: the image could become featured if it receives proper attention.
What is this about?
Images that don't get selected for featured picture consideration get thrown into general categories - a slush pile. A few of those overlooked images have real potential. They might become feature-worthy with better captioning or artifact cleanup or a higher quality scan.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. Original version was lost in the Commons slush pile and used in zero articles.
Please upload promising material to Commons or Wikipedia and add a thumbnail to this page. And if you find more useful online archives, add them to the list.
Evaluate
Search for images of inherent merit that either meet featured picture criteria or could get there. Comment on material already in the gallery. Help sort the wheat from the chaff. Overall, fewer than 1 in 1000 images I survey is even worth a second look. Far fewer than that get to FPC. For historic images, seek images that are outstanding examples of their type whenever possible.
Improve
Clean up artifacts and fibers, locate better versions of identical or similar files. When doing this I always save under a separate filename so that the original version remains available for research purposes.
From here on down the page, you're at the workshop. Feel free to add, subtract, move, restore, or nominate.
Special Tactics (fix fringing first)
Restored version of
Image:Willow Run airplane inspection.jpg as photographed by Howard R. Holem. There's a color cast in the lower right I don't know how to remove. Any assistance?
Find a Home (Encyclopedic issues)
absent from the Martin Luther King article (also, composition and noise reduction)
Stranded Amtracs on Iwo Jima (also need to address blown highlights on the left)
B-25 bomb bay gas tanks; this is the smaller version of the much larger tif image
1901 movie by Thomas Edison: "What Happened on Twenty-Third Street" (air blowing from a vent catches a woman's skirt)
Address Artifacting
Kiwi bird (will need higher res after downsampling)
Victory over Japan, in Paris (in focus areas are fine, most artifacting is on non-essential and non-subject parts of the picture)
Blackfeet Indian Chiefs (will serve as excellent lead image for
Plains Indians)
Hi-res, but grainy, and there's something funky going on near his right elbow (a stain?)
Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zulu king during the Anglo-Zulu Wars. Done — file history states that
Scott Martin "Removed dust and scratches." as of 06:43, 23 July 2009. I didn't notice any other artifacts. --
Kevjonesin (
talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
U-175 breaks the surface
Picking survivors off U-175
U-175 sinks
Higher Resolution Needed
Civil Rights March on Washington Done — I went back to the .tif original and worked up a higher-res .jpg file. --
Kevjonesin (
talk) 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Soldiers in the trenches before battle, Petersburg, Virginia, 1865.
USS Galena- 1862 early ironclad experimental ship.
U.S. Military Railroad locomotive "W.H. Whiton" (built by William Mason in 1862) and Lincoln's presidential car, later his funeral car.
Charleston, South Carolina, 1865.
Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japanese from a block house on Kwajalein Island, while others wait with rifles ready in case Japanese come out. February 4, 1944.
German infantry on the march on August 7, 1914.
World War I: German troops on the Belgian frontier.
Ordnancemen loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at NAS Norfolk, Va. September 1942.
Oregon Air National Guardsman performs an inspection survey on a communications tower.
Members of the 166th Infantry in action in Villers sur Fere
USS Wisconsin at sea during Operation Earnest Will
Crewmen perform a foreign object debris walkdown prior to the carrier launch of an FA-18F Hornet
An F-18 launches off a carrier
People's Liberation Army tank crewman
Ambulance crew, United States Civil War.
USS Monitor after battle.
7th Cavalry at Leyte Island, 20 October 1944.
Astronomy
Lovell Telescope, Jodrell bank during the upgrade of the surface. Surface half-replaced, but not painted.
"Christmas Tree Cluster" newly formed stars as taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, at 1:35 a.m. EDT (Sunday, August 24, at 10:35 p.m. PDT).
Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.
Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Alco automobile driven by Harry Grant winning the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup.
Nature
Architecture
Umbraculo, Mesto umení a vied, Valencia
Wainwright Building, Saint Louis, Missouri: a forerunner of modern skyscrapers. Subsequent construction across the street obstructs a clear view of this subject.
Pittsburgh skyline panorama.
Construction of the
Empire State Building, 1930. At right, the shot looks down upon the
Chrysler Building, which was the world's tallest completed structure at that time.
Any high resolution photograph of this structure would be a boon: the
Auditorium Building of Chicago, Illinois is one of the forerunners of the modern skyscraper.