Commons:Featured media candidates/What to do after voting is finished

The Bot

Unfortunately, the Bot doesn't work any more and the user who installed it has been blocked indefinitely for fraudulent behavior. All nominations must be processed manually. There are currently no plans to fix the Bot or install a new one.

Manual procedure

Any experienced user may close requests.

1. In Commons:Featured media candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate media, then [edit].
   Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
{{FMC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=("yes" or "no")|gallery=xxx (leave blank if "featured=no")|sig=~~~~}}
(for example see Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Tverskaya Street in Moscow, Russia (May 1896).webm). See also {{FMC-results-reviewed}}.
2. Also edit the title of the candidate media template and add after the media tag
   featured OR not featured
   For example:
   === [[:File:example.ext]] ===
   becomes
   === [[:File:example.ext]], featured ===
3. Save your edit.
4. If it is featured:
   • Add the media to the list of the four most recently featured media of an appropriate category of Commons:Featured media, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
   • Also add the media to one of the Featured media galleries corresponding to the list you just added it to. Place the new FM at the top of a section, unless the sections are sorted by year or some other obvious order.
   • Add the template {{FM_promoted|featured=1}} to the media description page.
     • If it was an alternative media, use the subpage/com-nom parameter: For example, if File:Foo.webm was promoted at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Bar.webm, use {{FM_promoted|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.webm}}
     • If the media is already featured on another wikipedia, just ignore that and add the template.
   • Add == FM promotion ==
     {{FMpromotion|File:example.ext}} to the Talk Page of the nominator AND {{FMpromotedUploader|File:example.ext}} to the talk page of uploader.
     • If the nominator is the uploader, just add {{FMpromotedUploader|File:example.ext}}.
5. As the last step (whether the media is featured or not; including {{FMX}}ed, {{FMD}}ed and withdrawn nominations), open Commons:Featured media candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you've just finished closing. It will be of the form:
   {{Commons:Featured media candidates/File:example.ext}}
   Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured media candidates/Log/August 2026, save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.