Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
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Featured pictures are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured picture criteria.
If you believe an image should be featured, create a subpage (use the "For Nominations" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. All users may comment. However, only those who have been registered on the English Wikipedia for 25 days and with at least 100 edits will be included in the numerical count. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. Nominations started in December are given three extra days, due to the holidays slowing down activity here. The archive contains all opinions and comments collected for candidate nominations and their nomination results. If you nominate an image here, please consider also uploading and nominating it at Commons to help ensure that the pictures can be used not just in the English Wikipedia but on all other Wikimedia projects as well.
A featured picture can be nominated for delisting if you feel it no longer lives up to featured picture standards. You may also request a featured picture be replaced with a superior image. Create a subpage (use the "For Delists" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section. Please leave a note on the talk page of the original FPC nominator (and creator/uploader, if appropriate) to let them know the delisting is being debated. The user may be able to address the issues and avoid the delisting of the picture. For delisting, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers supporting a delist or replace, and the consensus is in its favor, it will be delisted from Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator. Note that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets. However, images are sometimes delisted despite having fewer than five in support of their removal, and there is currently no consensus on how best to handle delist closures, except for one point: If the image to be delisted is not used in any articles by the time of closure, it must be delisted. If it is added to articles during the nomination, at least one week's stability is required for the nomination to be closed as "Kept". The nomination may be suspended if a week hasn't yet passed to give the rescue a chance. Outside of the nominator, all voters are expected to have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and to have made a minimum of 100 edits. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. As with regular nominations, delist nominations are given three extra days to run if started in December.
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Featured picture tools: |
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Step 1: Evaluate
Evaluate the merit of a nomination against the featured picture criteria. Most users reference terms from this page when evaluating nominations. |
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Step 2: Create a subpage
To create a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates for your nomination, add a title for the image you want to nominate in the field below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Labrador Retriever) and click the "Create new nomination" button.
To create a subpage for your delist, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button.
To create a subpage for your delist and replace, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button. |
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Step 3: Transclude and link
Transclude the newly created subpage to the Featured picture candidate list (). |
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How to comment for Candidate Images
How to comment for Delist Images
Editing candidates
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Current nominations
[edit]Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2026 at 10:11:47 (UTC)

- Reason
- Featured on Commons without opposition. Infobox image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Jungle bush quail
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Tisha Mukherjee
- Support as nominator – MER-C 10:11, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. Nice bokeh effect to draw attention to the subject. Moonreach (talk) 13:37, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support–Hounaam (talk) 15:09, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support– Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2026 at 10:09:49 (UTC)


- Reason
- Replaced with SVG. The original still retains EV.
- Articles this image appears in
- Warming stripes
- Previous nomination/s
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Warming stripes
- Nominator
- MER-C
- Delist and replace — MER-C 10:09, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- D&R – Moonreach (talk) 13:37, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- D&R – Hounaam (talk) 15:06, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2026 at 10:04:49 (UTC)

- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Adds value to article.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Dipsacus fullonum
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
- Creator
- George Chernilevsky
- Support as nominator – MER-C 10:04, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support as author – George Chernilevsky (talk) 10:09, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support –Hounaam (talk) 15:09, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2026 at 04:21:28 (UTC)

- Reason
- High quality image. Adds EV to article. FP on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- Bronzed drongo
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Tisha Mukherjee
- Support as nominator – Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 04:21, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:21, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hounaam (talk) 15:10, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support– Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 16 Aug 2026 at 11:49:39 (UTC)

- Reason
- High quality large image. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Zhengde Emperor, + ...
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
- Creator
- Unknown Ming artist
- Support as nominator – Min968 (talk) 11:49, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:49, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:54, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:21, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support -- George Chernilevsky (talk) 19:55, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:49, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 13:38, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support Hounaam (talk) 15:08, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 16 Aug 2026 at 11:47:30 (UTC)

- Reason
- High quality large image. FP on Commons.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Hongzhi Emperor, + ...
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
- Creator
- Unknown Ming artist
- Support as nominator – Min968 (talk) 11:47, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:50, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:54, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:18, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support -- George Chernilevsky (talk) 19:55, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:50, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 13:38, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support–Hounaam (talk) 15:08, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 15 Aug 2026 at 07:46:50 (UTC)

- Reason
- High quality image. Adds EV to article. FP on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- Brown parrotbill
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Tisha Mukherjee
- Support as nominator – Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 07:46, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:50, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:55, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:13, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support -- George Chernilevsky (talk) 19:56, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:52, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 13:39, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support– Hounaam (talk) 15:09, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2026 at 16:31:13 (UTC)

- Reason
- A clear and visually striking image of a sideways launching.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Great Lakes Engineering Works
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology
- Creator
- Unknown, published by the Detroit Publishing Company
- Support as nominator – Akaza [talk] 16:31, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. Some light scratching that would benefit from a cleanup pass, but nothing egregious. I love the dynamism of the shot; you don't see a lot of that in old photos. Moonreach (talk) 20:04, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support per Moonreach. This photo illustrates a ship launch at this facility in an arresting way. Nick-D (talk) 09:51, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Bruce1eetalk 13:18, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose: excellent restoration, but heavily downsampled. JayCubby 20:20, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support—Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:55, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:19, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2026 at 14:39:23 (UTC)

- Reason
- Headline image
- Articles in which this image appears
- In Time of Peril
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
- Creator
- Edmund Blair Leighton
- Support as nominator – Redthreadhx (talk) 14:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I swear I'm seeing JPEG compression in the details, but this picture is over 4MB and that's not usually a problem for files of this size. Moonreach (talk) 20:08, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- 4 MB for an image of this resolution is quite small, so yeah, that's not a surprise. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, alright then. Oppose. Moonreach (talk) 17:19, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I just ran the source image through Dezoomify, and the resulting PNG was 3.54 MB. Conversely, saving this as a "large PNG" format in Photoshop gives 19.8 MB - a fair difference. Putting aside the fact that the algorithms have changed in fourteen years, I suspect that Google may have stored this item in a "lossy" PNG format due to technical considerations when they digitized this years ago. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:59, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, alright then. Oppose. Moonreach (talk) 17:19, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- 4 MB for an image of this resolution is quite small, so yeah, that's not a surprise. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:50, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose per Moonreach. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose per Moonreach. MER-C 18:52, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 13 Aug 2026 at 19:44:34 (UTC)

- Reason
- EV and HQ
- Articles in which this image appears
- Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran and List of religious centers in Tehran
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
- Creator
- Poco a poco
- Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 19:44, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 11:46, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support High quality image that works well as the infobox photo. Nick-D (talk) 09:52, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:51, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:22, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:23, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 12 Aug 2026 at 11:18:17 (UTC)

- Reason
- Unanimously featured on Commons. Adds value to article.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Lilac-breasted roller
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Giles Laurent
- Support as nominator – MER-C 11:18, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support Thank you very much for the nomination! — Giles Laurent (talk) 13:57, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support This is the stand-out photo in a wonderfully well illustrated article. Nick-D (talk) 10:21, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Wow! Amazing photo. Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:16, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 20:05, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 07:47, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:51, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support although the bird's right wing is not as sharp as it could be.©Geni (talk) 23:37, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support -- George Chernilevsky (talk) 19:56, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:26, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 12 Aug 2026 at 11:18:15 (UTC)

- Reason
- Duplicate FP, not used in any articles. The other FP File:Rembrandt - The Abduction of Europa - Google Art Project.jpg is better and more recent.
- Articles this image appears in
- None
- Previous nomination/s
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Abduction of Europa
- Nominator
- MER-C
- Delist — MER-C 11:18, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delist. In solidarity Wikipedian12512 (Talking is fine | contribs) 23:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delist Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:17, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delist - Hounaam (talk) 10:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delist —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:52, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delist — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:29, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period ends on 12 Aug 2026 at 11:18:03 (UTC)

- Reason
- Featured on Commons. Infobox image.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Salema porgy
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish
- Creator
- Diego Delso
- Support as nominator – MER-C 11:18, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Platonic ideal fish (/joke/)Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:18, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 20:11, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 07:48, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:52, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:30, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Nominations — to be closed
[edit]Nominations in this category are older than ten days and are to be closed. New votes will no longer be accepted.
Older nominations requiring additional input from users
[edit]These nominations have been moved here because consensus is impossible to determine without additional input from those who participated in the discussion. Usually this is because there was more than one edit of the image available, and no clear preference for one of them was determined. If you voted on these images previously, please update your vote to specify which edit(s) you are supporting.
Closing procedure
[edit]A script is available that automates the majority of these tasks: User:Armbrust/closeFPC.js
When NOT promoted, perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Not promoted| }} --~~~~- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- If the nominator is new to FPC, consider placing
{{subst:NotpromotedFPC|Image name}}on their talk page. To avoid overuse, do not use the template when in doubt.
When promoted, perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Promoted|File:FILENAME.JPG}} --~~~~- Replace FILENAME.JPG with the name of the file that was promoted. It should show up as:
- Promoted File:FILENAME.JPG
- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Add the image to:
- Template:Announcements/New featured content - newest on top, remove the oldest so that 15 are listed at all times.
- Wikipedia:Goings-on - newest on bottom.
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs - newest on top.
- Add the image to the proper sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on top.
- The caption for a Wikipedian created image should read "Description at Article, by Creator". For a non-Wikipedian, it should be similar, but if the creator does not have an article, use an external link if appropriate. For images with substantial editing by one or more Wikipedians, but created by someone else, use "Description at Article, by Creator (edited by Editor)" (all editors involved should be clear from the nomination). Additionally, the description is optional - if it's essentially the same as the article title, then just use "Article, by Creator". Numerous examples can be found on the various Featured Pictures subpages.
- Add the image to the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on left and remove the oldest from the right so that there are always three in each section.
- Add the Featured Picture tag and star to the image page using {{Featured picture|page_name}} (replace page_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the page_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/page_name). To add this template you most likely will have to click the "create" button on the upper right if the "edit" button is not present, generally if the image originates from Commons.
- If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Featured Picture version, as opposed to the original.
- Notify the nominator or co-nominators by placing {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:file_name.xxx}} on each nominator's talk page. For example: {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
- If the image was created by a Wikipedian, place {{subst:UploadedFP|File:file_name.xxx}} on the creator's talk page. For example: {{subst:UploadedFP|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
- Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}}to the top of the section. - Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the August archive. This is done by simply adding the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}}from this page to the bottom of the archive. - If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.
Delist closing procedure
[edit]Note that delisting an image does not equal deleting it. Delisting from Featured pictures in no way affects the image's status in its article/s.
If consensus is to KEEP featured picture status, and the image is used in at least one article, perform the following:
- Check that the image has been in the article for at least one week. Otherwise, suspend the nomination to give it time to stabilize before continuing.
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Kept|}} --~~~~- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Optionally leave a note on the picture's talk page.
If consensus is to DELIST, or the image is unused (and consensus is not for a replacement that is used), perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Delisted|}} --~~~~- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Replace the
{{Featured picture}}tag from the image with{{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}. - Remove the image from the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs.
If consensus is to REPLACE (and at least one of the images is used in articles), perform the following:
- Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
{{FPCresult|Replaced|}} with File:NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG --~~~~- Do NOT put any other information inside the FPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
- Replace NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG with the name of the replacement file.
- Replace the
{{Featured picture}}tag from the delisted image with{{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}. - Update the replacement picture's tag, adding the tag {{Featured picture|delist/image_name}} (replace image_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the image_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/image_name). Remove any no longer applicable tags from the original, replacement and from any other alternatives. If the alternatives were on Commons and no longer have any tags, be sure to tag the description page with {{missing image}}.
- Replace the delisted Featured Picture in all articles with the new replacement Featured Picture version. Do NOT replace the original in non-article space, such as Talk Pages, FPC nominations, archives, etc.
- Ensure that the replacement image is included on the appropriate sub-page of Wikipedia:Featured pictures and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs. Do this by replacing the original image with the new replacement image; do not add the replacement as a new Featured Picture.
Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
- Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}}to the top of the section. - Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the archived delist nominations. This is done by simply adding the line
{{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}}to the bottom of the appropriate section of the archive. - If the nomination is listed at Template:FPC urgents, remove it.
Recently closed nominations
[edit]Nominations in this category have already been closed and are here for the purposes of closure review by FPC contributors. Please do not add any further comments or votes regarding the original nomination. If you wish to discuss any of these closures, please do so at Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. Nominations will stay here for three full days following closure and subsequently be removed.
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Aug 2026 at 10:50:43 (UTC)

- Reason
- QI, FP on Commons, historic place (last "Alexandria")
- Articles in which this image appears
- Historical Museum of Sughd
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
- Creator
- Petar Milošević
- Support as nominator – Petar Milošević (talk) 10:50, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment — I don't suppose you have a photo that shows the entry from straight on? Moonreach (talk) 21:54, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment No, so it was some reason. Probably this. But got similar from left angle. --Petar Milošević (talk) 08:50, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 11:00, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:52, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – 🌺MEASINA📮 00:31, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:35, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Promoted File:Historical Museum of Sughd region in Khujand, Tajikistan (2025).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Aug 2026 at 10:34:57 (UTC)

- Reason
- QI, FP on Commons
- Articles in which this image appears
- Brooks Sports
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Sport
- Creator
- Petar Milošević
- Support as nominator – Petar Milošević (talk) 10:34, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 11:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose The choice of a black textured background for a photo of a black shoe wasn't great, as this makes it hard to see the subject of the photo. Nick-D (talk) 10:23, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose - I think it's a fine enough photo technically, but you really can't get away from the black-on-black background. Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:18, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose, per above. I also don't understand the decision to lift the shoelaces up, since that isn't something that would happen in normal use, and in this case it also prevents the shoe from being centered in the shot. Moonreach (talk) 20:13, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Photo has aura and makes me want to read about the shoe. Gauzecard 00:21, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:32, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:58, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Aug 2026 at 18:49:09 (UTC)

- Reason
- This file is of sufficiently high resolution to allow quality print reproduction. It has good contrast, accurate exposure and neutral colour balance.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Kathakali
- FP category for this image
- Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
- Creator
- Shagil Muzhappilangad
- Support as nominator – Shagil Muzhappilangad (talk) 18:49, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support — A touch soft in close-up and there's a bit too much negative space at the top, but good overall. Moonreach (talk) 17:37, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 11:46, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:52, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support – 🌺MEASINA📮 00:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Weak Support per Moonreach. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Promoted File:MINUKKA, the feminine character of Kathakali.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:49, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
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- Reason
- High EV and reproduction
- Articles in which this image appears
- John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Mauritshuis, Pernambuco, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Margaret of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
- Creator
- Jan de Baen (uploaded by QWerk)
- Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 00:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 12:16, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:53, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
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- Reason
- encyclopedic value
- Articles in which this image appears
- Favela
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
- Creator
- Wilfredor
- Support as nominator – Wilfredor (talk) 02:31, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support — If the EV is supposed to come from what the inside of the room looks like then it would be better to have a wider FOV, but what's here is good. The light propagation is interesting and gives the scene a bit of character. Moonreach (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:38, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:38, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
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- Reason
- Encyclopedic value
- Articles in which this image appears
- Palácio Quitandinha, List of birds of Alagoas
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Wilfredor
- Support as nominator – Wilfredor (talk) 02:30, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Good composition and I like the naturally limited color palette of grays and yellows. Moonreach (talk) 17:43, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support That white patches is distracting. --Shagil Muzhappilangad (talk) 12:06, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose. Limited EV in the two articles in which it is used. Josh Milburn (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
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- Reason
- encyclopedic value
- Articles in which this image appears
- Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
- Creator
- Wilfredor
- Support as nominator – Wilfredor (talk) 20:41, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support - Hounaam (talk) 10:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support — I don't like how the picture above the altar is cut off, but otherwise this is a well-composed shot. Good job lining up the one-point perspective. Moonreach (talk) 17:41, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 10:54, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:18, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:18, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
Suspended nominations
[edit]This section is for Featured Picture (or delisting) candidacies whose closure is postponed for additional editing, rendering, or copyright clarification.
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- Reason
- Featured on Commons, was opposed on quality reasons but would be a better fit here for obvious EV.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Abbey Road, The Beatles etc
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
- Creator
- John Kosh (album design), Iain Macmillan (photograph)
- Support as nominator – MER-C 19:27, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support A high quality render of the The Beatles (album) cover would also make a good FP candidate. JJARichardson (talk) 20:03, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Extremely high EV, obviously, but I'm doubtful of the claim that this is out of copyright in the US given that the source cited on Commons is a random Ebay listing for LPs of the album. As the image was a commercial shot for the album and was used as its cover, a much better source seems necessary. Nick-D (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- No deletion discussions so far (somehow), but image appeared to pass the Commons FA nom without anybody raising doubts about the PD status. If you personally have serious doubts it may be worth considering nominating for deletion. ―Howard • 🌽33 18:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Even within that listing, I don't see anything that says this image is out of copyright. Moonreach (talk) 19:53, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: the rationale is that since the US publication of the cover was simultaneous with the UK publication, and the US cover did not bear a valid separate copyright notice for the cover, it is in the public domain in the US. ―Howard • 🌽33 23:44, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
- I don't have any direct evidence to the contrary,
so I won't vote against it,but on a gut level I feel like this fails WP:SNOWBALL. I can't seriously believe that one of the most famous images connected to the most famous rock band was accidentally published without copyright. The problem is that I don't know what the image's official name was at the time it was taken, or who the copyright would have gone to (the photographer, the album designer, the record label, the producer?) which precludes me from looking it up in the copyright records. As a picture from 1969, it wouldn't have been subject to the 27-year renewal, which means any records (if they exist) would be in hard-to-search book records. Moonreach (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2026 (UTC)- Yes, that's also my concern here. The image may well be out of copyright in the US due to a stuff up by the record company or whoever originally owned the photo, but this needs to be properly established. Relying on a single Ebay listing as the source for being out of copyright doesn't seem OK for FP status. For instance, how can we be sure that the image hasn't been edited to remove the copyright notice?, how do we know for sure that it's actually a US edition of the album?, etc. Nick-D (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- Like I said, if you either of you have concerns regarding copyright, you should nominate the image for deletion as there doesn't appear to have been a previous deletion nomination. ―Howard • 🌽33 14:18, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- I have concerns but I can't think of a way to verify them, short of Wikipedia getting a cease-and-desist order. I don't like that the permission is still an eBay listing; even if that were a trustworthy resource, which it's not, I couldn't find anything on there that said "the cover of Abbey Road is public domain." Additionally, the copyright tags that have been added since this nomination was made conflict with each other. One says copyright was in South Africa first, another says that it was in the UK and South Africa simultaneously. All of this feels dubious to me, I just don't think I can meet the burden of proof for a deletion nomination. Moonreach (talk) 21:31, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- For what its worth, on Commons the burden of proof for keeping a file typically lies with those supporting to keep the file in the first place. Per c:COM:PCP, even a "significant doubt" about the freedom of the file warrants its deletion. Personally I'm on the fence about the freedom of the album cover, and I don't feel confident in giving my opinion one way or the other about it. ―Howard • 🌽33 21:59, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- I've nominated this for deletion at Commons. I hope that this leads to a strong source establishing that the image is out of copyright becoming available, but if not there are some risks around Commons hosting this image that need to be considered by the community there. Nick-D (talk) 10:09, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for that, I've weighed in there. Moonreach (talk) 15:32, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- I've nominated this for deletion at Commons. I hope that this leads to a strong source establishing that the image is out of copyright becoming available, but if not there are some risks around Commons hosting this image that need to be considered by the community there. Nick-D (talk) 10:09, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
- For what its worth, on Commons the burden of proof for keeping a file typically lies with those supporting to keep the file in the first place. Per c:COM:PCP, even a "significant doubt" about the freedom of the file warrants its deletion. Personally I'm on the fence about the freedom of the album cover, and I don't feel confident in giving my opinion one way or the other about it. ―Howard • 🌽33 21:59, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- I have concerns but I can't think of a way to verify them, short of Wikipedia getting a cease-and-desist order. I don't like that the permission is still an eBay listing; even if that were a trustworthy resource, which it's not, I couldn't find anything on there that said "the cover of Abbey Road is public domain." Additionally, the copyright tags that have been added since this nomination was made conflict with each other. One says copyright was in South Africa first, another says that it was in the UK and South Africa simultaneously. All of this feels dubious to me, I just don't think I can meet the burden of proof for a deletion nomination. Moonreach (talk) 21:31, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- Like I said, if you either of you have concerns regarding copyright, you should nominate the image for deletion as there doesn't appear to have been a previous deletion nomination. ―Howard • 🌽33 14:18, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that's also my concern here. The image may well be out of copyright in the US due to a stuff up by the record company or whoever originally owned the photo, but this needs to be properly established. Relying on a single Ebay listing as the source for being out of copyright doesn't seem OK for FP status. For instance, how can we be sure that the image hasn't been edited to remove the copyright notice?, how do we know for sure that it's actually a US edition of the album?, etc. Nick-D (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- I don't have any direct evidence to the contrary,
- @Moonreach: the rationale is that since the US publication of the cover was simultaneous with the UK publication, and the US cover did not bear a valid separate copyright notice for the cover, it is in the public domain in the US. ―Howard • 🌽33 23:44, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
- Even within that listing, I don't see anything that says this image is out of copyright. Moonreach (talk) 19:53, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- No deletion discussions so far (somehow), but image appeared to pass the Commons FA nom without anybody raising doubts about the PD status. If you personally have serious doubts it may be worth considering nominating for deletion. ―Howard • 🌽33 18:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Yann (talk) 09:49, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support – Gstaveeiffel314 (talk) 18:08, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support ArionStar (talk) 00:19, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support as nominator on Commons. heylenny (talk/edits) 22:53, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
- Weak oppose – image seems quite pixelated looking closely. is this the best scan possible? ―Howard • 🌽33 23:51, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support – RTSthestardust (talk) 03:56, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:30, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose Due to my concerns over copyright as noted above. Nick-D (talk) 23:25, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose due to the same concerns as Nick. I think the technical quality is acceptable, but I worry about legal exposure. Moonreach (talk) 21:33, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
- Postpone closure until the deletion request on Commons concludes. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 21:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)



