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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for featured pictures are listed in the log pages and in the candidate archives. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, PDFs, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).


Adding a new nomination

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate name, quality, image description, categories and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Nominations are time-sensitive and for one-time use only. An automatic clock starts as soon as they are created. Do not create them in advance, save them for later or re-activate them.

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters. They should be added by, or at the request of, the nominator.

An 'Alternative' is created by adding a sub-section to the nomination page: ====Alternative==== [[File:Foo.jpg|300px]] *{{info}} A short description.

Voting

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 100 constructive, stable edits on Commons (excluding user and talk pages) can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture.
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

General rules

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 100 constructive, stable edits on Commons (excluding user and talk pages) can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have fewer than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions (“alternatives”) of the image as well as delist-and-replace nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules. Hint: Until summer 2025, the bot was also not able to process FPXed, FPDed and withdrawn nominations as well as delist nominations; this has been fixed, users do not need to close such nominations anymore.

Above all, be polite

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember… all rules can be broken.

See also

Table of contents

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.


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File:Ponta de Sagres 2024-12-20.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 22:43:39 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Ponta de Sagres

File:Isola del Figarolo e Capo Figari (Olbia) - 2026-06 (GT).jpg

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 18:39:36 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Figarolo Island and Figari Cape

File:Cylindropuntia imbricata July 2026-2.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 15:11:53 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Flower of 'walking stick cane
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Cactaceae
  •  Info Flower of the so-called walking stick cane cactus (Cylindropuntia imbricata), which grows in the southwest United States and Mexico and is considered as an invasive species in other parts of the world. The name comes from the traditional use of its wooden structure. This picture intends to show the contrast between the gorgeous flower and the long and nasty spines, some of them barbed. All by Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:01, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Hungry Scorpion.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 10:57:22 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Arachnida
  •  InfoI noticed that there are no Featured Pictures of scorpions on Wikimedia Commons. I hope this one will be the first. created by Mohdalsaleh – uploaded by Mohdalsaleh – nominated by TOUMOU -- Mounir TOUZRI (talk) 10:57, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Mounir TOUZRI (talk) 10:57, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support The level of detail is a little low, and I think it might be overprocessed, but the composition and subject make up for it LetmeEditit (talk) 11:02, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • We need aditional information about the photo, which is nonexistant either in the image file or nomination. This practise is becoming more common in FPC, but no image should be promoted without a proper documention about the subject.-- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Sorry, impressive in thumbnail but I don't think the level of detail is FP, and agree with Alvesgaspar that the documentation of this picture is poor. Cmao20 (talk) 14:26, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak oppose Almost 17 years old picture of a old a cheaper camera and lens. The parameters of the photo seem correct and I am surprised that it came out of such low quality but looking at this camera with such a small sensor, I think it is a cheap lens. I have gone through this situation of wanting to take good photos but the sensor is simply not enough, my vote of support is to encourage you to continue uploading more photos, although perhaps you should look for the one that best fits your equipment, due to the limitations of my equipment I remember that I took huge panoramic photos --Wilfredor (talk) 15:09, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose This photo unfortunately doesn't meet the quality standards for Featured Pictures in 2026. I doubt it even meets QI standards. Wolverine X-eye 08:53, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  I withdraw my nomination --Mounir TOUZRI (talk) 09:24, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Mandelbrot Set Image 112.png

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 10:32:21 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Fragment of the Mandelbrot set, using perturbation theory. Coordinate X approx -2.0. View size 1.15e-119. Rendered using 8x8 SSAA (Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing). C++ source code included.
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic_media/Computer-generated#Mathematics
  •  Info Deep zoom near the extreme western tip of the Mandelbrot set at X ≈ -2.0 (specifically -1.999995...). View size: 1.15 × 10⁻¹¹⁹. The structure exhibits a striking symmetry resembling a dividing cell, or a stylized infinity symbol (∞). Rendered using perturbation theory with 8×8 SSAA (Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing). C++ source code is included below. CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055, 6 x Сore. Time spent: 21 hours. Created, uploaded and nominated by Aokoroko -- Aokoroko (talk) 10:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Aokoroko (talk) 10:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Wikipedian12512 (talk) 13:17, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment For what it's worth, the top/bottom crop feels too tight. That is, I feel like there should be slightly more "blue" visible. Also, it's impressive that you can render detail at that level of 'zoom', but i'm curious if this particular structure at ('cell division') was already known or if you 'discovered' it while searching for an interesting structure. tyvm Pdanese (talk) 19:43, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
    I'm doing more "blue" now! 21 hours!
    Well, I was looking for interesting structure, yes. Aokoroko (talk) 20:22, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose This color combination is too vibrant and the image itself isn't that good either. Wolverine X-eye 09:00, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Researcher holding a lab mouse - Crimean Federal University - ANDY7392.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2026 at 09:11:02 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Researcher holding mouse
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/People/Work#Scientists
  •  Info created by Andrey Chernogorodov – uploaded by Andrey Chernogorodov – nominated by LetmeEditit -- LetmeEditit (talk) 09:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- LetmeEditit (talk) 09:11, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Not a nice subject but certainly a well composed picture with plenty of value to Wikimedia projects. Cmao20 (talk) 14:26, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose composition trouble: unfortunate cropping at the bottom and especially on the left, half of the main character's head is missing -- George Chernilevsky talk 15:17, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose as per George. The tight crop, especially cutting off much of the researcher's head, weakens the composition. This would be a good candidate for COM:VIC instead. -- Radomianin (talk) 19:09, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Beside illustrating animal cruelty, I don't see much value. Quality is OK, but composition is not really interesting. Yann (talk) 19:21, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Bad crop, bad composition, normal quality and in all honesty not special enough to be featured. Wolverine X-eye 08:50, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per above. It might be valuable for the people in the image who are part of the context, but for viewers, I don't see much value in a poor creature hanging by its tail and the smile of the young lady present at this scene. I'm not very familiar with VIC, but I don't think this is an example of the best image within scope. -- IamMM (talk) 09:26, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment I'm surprised people don't like the composition, that was the reason why I nominated the image: I like the curve of the girls' faces and their gazes looking up at the mouse, which to me is the focal point of the image. I understand being upset at the animal cruelty on display, but I think it is a good illustration of the subject (animal testing), and I think that how upsetting a subject is should not decide whether it is FP or not. I think this image, in its controversial theme, can spark an interesting debate. LetmeEditit (talk) 11:26, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Mount Andromeda at dusk, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.jpg

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Mount Andromeda at dusk, towering over the rocky trail leading to the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.

File:Bloemknop van een Fuchsia cultivar Origami. 28-06-2026 (d.j.b.).jpg

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Flower bud of a Fuchsia cultivar Origami.

File:20260317 Veronica diosmifolia.jpg

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Veronica diosmifolia in the Botanischer Garten Munich-Nymphenburg, Germany

File:Lenin Ленин 01.jpg

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Statue of Vladimir Lenin with goat, Altai Mountains, Mongolia
  •  Comment I don't see any obvious signs of a sky replacement. The sky has clearly been heavily processed, but I cannot find evidence of an artificial replacement. The lighting is consistent, the cloud structure appears natural, and there are no visible masking artefacts, halos or unnatural edge transitions around the statue, the goat or its horns. -- Radomianin (talk) 14:42, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Sorry, a nice capture (putting aside the unpleasant subject) but not FP to me, not exceptional in either detail or light. A worthy QI though. Cmao20 (talk) 13:09, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support: the juxtaposition of the aloof mass-produced Lenin statue and the cute goat looking directly at the viewer does it for me. I'd clone out the distracting half-face of the other goat though. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 13:55, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose The sky has a different color temperature, which suggests potential over-processing; the author also did not clarify whether the sky was replaced. The composition is not convincing, either. --Wilfredor (talk) 15:24, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Putting aside the subject itself, I don't think the sky was replaced, but it has almost certainly been heavily processed. Together with the rather ordinary light and composition, this is more of a QI than an FP. -- Radomianin (talk) 19:25, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I don't think the cloudy sky works with this composition. Wolverine X-eye 08:55, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Fields Yugar Tsarap Phuktal Zanskar Jun24 A7CR 00466.jpg

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Fields of Yugar on the Tsarap River, Zanskar, India
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Other#India
  •  Info Fields of Yugar in the arid Tsarap River valley, well above the tree line. Elevations: fields 3,850 m (12,630 ft), river 3,820 m (12,530 ft), Cho Kirze peak on left 5,650 m (18,540 ft). Zanskar, India}. Created by Tagooty – uploaded by Tagooty – nominated by Tagooty -- Tagooty (talk) 09:38, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Tagooty (talk) 09:38, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Striking composition, good use of light and shadows Cmao20 (talk) 11:42, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support One feels small. --JackyM59 (talk) 15:15, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 16:25, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Maryliflower (talk) 17:05, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 08:18, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment Its quiet unsharp. I would expect a bit better for FF and good lens. --Mile (talk) 09:21, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @PetarM: The distances are deceptive: the peak on left is about 5 km distant. From left-right the range is about 7 km. To me, details of boulders on the distant slope (above the rightward bend in the river) are distinct. --Tagooty (talk) 09:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
Neutral. It needs a reference point. I cannot tell anything about the distances. Wikipedian12512 (talk) 13:19, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Wikipedian12512: Good point - I've geotagged the image file, and added a link to the OpenStreetmap location of Cho Kirze peak. --Tagooty (talk) 15:08, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Mantis baby and ant feeding grasshopper.jpg

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File:Vincent van Gogh - Enclosed Field with Ploughman - Google Art Project.jpg

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Vincent van Gogh: Enclosed Field with Ploughman

File:Grey heron chick.jpg

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Quality image for Grey heron chick (Ardea cinerea), swallowing a small fish at the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Reserve, Bubiyan Island, Kuwait.

File:Saule tétard le long de la Scarpe à Marchiennes.jpg

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White willow along the Scarpe between Vred and Marchiennes, France

File:Coral oreja de elefante (Amplexidiscus fenestrafer), Nosy Kalakajoro, Madagascar, 2025-09-14, DD 90.jpg

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Elephant ear anemone (Amplexidiscus fenestrafer), Nosy Kalakajoro, Madagascar
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals#Class : Anthozoa
  •  Info Elephant ear anemone (Amplexidiscus fenestrafer), Nosy Kalakajoro, Madagascar. The common name is a minomer since this is actually a coral species that is often forming small colony in 5–25 metres (16–82 ft) depth on the top reef in tropical waters Indo-West Pacific area. The visible part of its body corresponds to its oral region and forms a flexible disc, when it is deployed, endowed with cone-shaped tentacles. Its diameter can reach 40 centimetres (16 in) and its diet is highly varied and goes from the production of its zooxanthellae to numerous animals which find themselves trapped by the oral disk as benthic invertebrates, crustaceans, worms, echinoderms and even fishes. Note: there are no FPs on Commons of the whole order Corallimorpharia (containing 11 genera and 46 species). c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 07:06, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 07:06, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support.RH🦋 (talk) 08:03, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Fascinating Cmao20 (talk) 11:38, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 16:31, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support It's creepy, but how can I not open the full size? Our photographers explore from the ocean deeps to far-off galaxies to get these stunning shots and I'm gonna hold back just because it triggers my phobia? No way! -- IamMM (talk) 20:19, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Another fascinating, other-worldly creature, and a very good photo when we consider the difficult circumstances. – Aristeas (talk) 09:33, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Scillonian III July 2026 03.jpg

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RMV Scillion III
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Water transport#Ships
  •  Info RMV Scillonian III arriving in Penzance en route from St. Mary's. Since 1977 Scillonian III operates the principal ferry service to the remote Isles of Scilly and is one of only three ships in the world still carrying the status of Royal Mail Ship (hence RMV – Royal Mail Vessel). In the background St Michael's Mount. The vessel is due to be replaced by the Scillonian IV for the 2027 season.
  • Created, uploaded and nominated by ArildV
  •  Support -- ArildV (talk) 18:46, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Beautiful composition with a happy sunbeam on the boat that contrasts with the background --JackyM59 (talk) 15:33, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Good resolution. There is some type of artifact visible on the back of the ship and the white text of the containers; is it correctable? LetmeEditit (talk) 10:04, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose A lot of CA all around; see antenas, windows and especialy sea. Doing f/5 on MF ArildV ? Thats maybe for μ4/3 format. --Mile (talk) 10:31, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
    •  Comment A slight adjustment has been made to the image. I don't understand the comment about the aperture—the lens is very sharp even wide open (f/1.7), and f/5 is sufficient to get the entire ship in focus at this distance. You don't need to shoot at f/32 just because you have a medium-format camera.--ArildV (talk) 12:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per JackyM59. – The tiny alleged CAs, e.g. on the white text of the container, are mostly wrong colours from the demosaicing of the Bayer pattern of the image sensor; such Bayer moirés often happen when the lens outresolves the sensor, i.e. they are a sign that the area was perfectly in focus. You can remove them in Lightroom/ACR if you carefully paint a mask over them and set ‘defringe’ to a value of +90 or so. Furthermore, the photo once again shows that practice beats theory: the depth of field covers the ship, so Arild has selected the perfect aperture. And this also helps the image because it avoids the negative influence of diffraction which today, with the high-resolution sensors, sets in very early. If we can do with a larger aperture, we should do; if the DoF of ƒ/5 is sufficient, we should use it; for distant subjects sometimes even ƒ/2.8 can be the best aperture. Everything depends on relative distances and reproduction ratio. We should assume less and experiment more, just as classic photography textbooks (e.g. the ones by Feininger) tell us. – Aristeas (talk) 19:45, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 22:51, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 09:10, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Einstellbarer Wandkalender mit Werbung für Fewa BW 2026-07-14 16-54-04 N.jpg

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Adjustable wall calendar featuring an advert for Fewa (short for ‘Feinwaschmittel’), probably from the 1950s, manufactured in the GDR (East Germany)
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects#Others
  •  Info created – uploaded – nominated by -- Berthold Werner (talk) 15:41, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment We might need a new section in ‘Objects’ if the image is FP.
  •  Support -- Berthold Werner (talk) 15:41, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
    Zum Thema ‘new section’: wenn Du einen guten Vorschlag hast, der sich auch für andere Fotos eignet, können wir gerne einen neuen Abschnitt anlegen. An was denkst Du? – Aristeas (talk) 09:07, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment Interesting subject and good quality but I feel that the crop is a bit tight. Cmao20 (talk) 11:37, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Unusual subject, but interesting, especially the historical value LetmeEditit (talk) 10:07, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 13:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per LetmeEditit. – Aristeas (talk) 09:08, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Cypress tree alley at sunset in Asciano, Tuscany.jpg

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File:Vokesimurex mindanaoensis 01.jpg

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Mindanao Murex; length 6.6 cm; Originating from the Philippines
  • No, but this is a very small object (6.6cm in total end to end length) so I think the amount of detail we have is pretty exceptional. Cmao20 (talk) 17:27, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:45, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Parts closer to the camera are out of focus, which should not be the case in a studio photograph. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:36, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
    •  Comment Could you please make image notes, where the parts closer to the camera are out of focus? I checked the Apex (bottom left), the end of the sipho (bottom right), an the tips of the lateral spines, which face the viewer (upper row), and as far as I can see all are in focus. --Llez (talk) 18:50, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure it is out of focus, maybe the overall unsharpness has some other reason. Please check the outline of the three upper photos. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:39, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  • ✓ Done Outline correction --Llez (talk) 05:17, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Esplanade Riel Bridge at dusk, Winnipeg, Canada.jpg

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A twilight view of Winnipeg from the Red River, showing the Esplanade Riel bridge, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and the downtown skyline. Photographed at approximately 11 pm on 12 July 2026, during a period of elevated regional water levels following heavy summer rainfall in Manitoba.

File:Long-billed curlew (52099434724).jpg

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Long billed curlew calling, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Genus : Numenius
  •  Info created by Clint Wirick USFWS – uploaded by OptimusPrimeBot – nominated by Gbawden -- Gbawden (talk) 07:27, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Gbawden (talk) 07:27, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support Great composition, but not quite sharp in my opinion. Cmao20 (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Sharpness is below FP standard. Sorry.--Ermell (talk) 14:10, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Nice lighting LetmeEditit (talk) 10:10, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support Composition, pose, light, subject separation are excellent. And something is sharp – unfortunately it is the corner of the mouth and the edge of the beak, thus the image appears unsharp. But IMHO the eye is still sufficiently sharp, so I think the image still deserves the star. – Aristeas (talk) 20:20, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Jomsom from View Tower.jpg

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An elevated view of Jomsom, administrative headquarters of Mustang District in Gandaki Province, Nepal. The town straddles the Kali Gandaki River in a valley flanked by the Dhaulagiri and Nilgiri massifs.
  •  Info created by Saddam19 – uploaded by Saddam19 – nominated by Saddam19 -- Saddam19 (talk) 05:17, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Saddam19 (talk) 05:17, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Strong oppose Many pixels, but nevertheless lack of details. Looks upscaled. I wonder how this image was promoted as QI, as it does not meet the criteria. --Uoaei1 (talk) 11:51, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose per Uoaei1 -- George Chernilevsky talk 13:22, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I agree that the detail at full size is very poor, however I don't think that's necessarily a fair way to judge the image. I think what it shows is that these phone cameras often promise extremely high resolution but do not actually deliver usable detail at anything close to full size because the sensor size is so small. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra promises to be able to shoot pictures at 200 megapixels, but it clearly can't produce usable pictures at that size. I don't think upscaling has taken place - it's the native resolution of the sensor, it's just that setting this as the native resolution of the sensor is very silly. Anyway, the picture is sharp enough at 11 megapixels. My oppose comes from the fact that I miss an outstanding composition here. The view is nice, but I would like more sky, and I miss the excellent leading lines that make your other nomination so compelling. Cmao20 (talk) 13:42, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Wikipedian12512 (talk) 13:22, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment Sorry, this vote has been struck as the voter does not yet meet the FPC requirements (100+ Commons edits). Please feel free to participate again once eligible. Thank you. -- Radomianin (talk) 19:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Bloem van een Rosa canina 01-06-2026. (actm.).jpg

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Flower of a Rosa canina.

File:Arabian Red Fox with Juvenile.jpg

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This is the second nomination for the photo after the photographer uploaded a new file with higher and better quality. A beautiful shot of a red fox mother with Juvenile in Kuwaut.

File:Мельница в Истре.jpg

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Smock mill from the Kochemlevo village exhibited at New Jerusalem Monastery, Moscow Oblast, Russia

File:Caracol marino (Cypraea tigris), Nosy Iranja, Madagascar, 2025-09-17, DD 95.jpg

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Tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris), Ambalihabe, Madagascar
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals#Class_:_Gastropoda
  •  Info Tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris) with half of its mantle extended, Ambalihabe, Madagascar. Note: there are no FPs on Commons of the whole family Cypraeidae (cowries) that comprises 60 genera and hunderts of species. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 13:22, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 13:22, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Excellent given the challenges of underwater photography. Cmao20 (talk) 16:33, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Too narrow DoF, nothing much is in focus. Background also disturbing. WB questionable - red. --Mile (talk) 17:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Dear friend, it's sharp where it has to be. It's not a studio photo of a sport shoe, things look at the bottom of the ocean like this. WB looks good to me, the areas that should be white are white. Poco a poco (talk) 19:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 15:31, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 12:55, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per Cmao20. – Aristeas (talk) 20:17, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 10:36, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Praia do Submarino 2024-12-19 panorama.jpg

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Praia do Submarino

File:Moscow - 2026 - Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoe.jpg

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Religious buildings#Russia
  •  Info Church of the Ascension (Kolomenskoe) in Moscow, built in 1532. My photo. Юрий Д.К. 12:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Юрий Д.К. 12:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support: nice to see the scaffolding finally gone! --The Cosmonaut (talk) 12:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Very clean and nice colors. --Petro Stelte (talk) 15:05, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 15:52, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support There is a strange dark halo effect around the building, though, particularly on the right hand side. FP for me but it could be improved with some work on that. Cmao20 (talk) 16:32, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment Sky is a bit "fake", remove some Vibrance/Sat on blue. Also highligths should be lowered. Picture is too hard to observe. --Mile (talk) 16:54, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • I will see what I can do with halos. Sky looks natural for me, but I will try to de-saturate a-bit. Юрий Д.К. 17:13, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • ✓ Done Corrections made. Юрий Д.К. 09:01, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:02, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --JackyM59 (talk) 19:06, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 16:21, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support ----Famberhorst (talk) 17:16, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 08:29, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 10:34, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Cabells of small owls in Subiya reserve, Kuwait 15.jpg

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File:Edible fungi in basket 2026 G01.jpg

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Russula vesca (cleared and without a cap skin) in a basket
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Food and drink#Mushrooms
  •  Info created, uploaded, nominated by George Chernilevsky -- George Chernilevsky talk 08:54, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Info The photo shows variations in the flesh color of russula mushrooms. Cleaning russula immediately during collecting allows for the removal of damaged by larvae mushrooms. These damaged russula are common, accounting for up to 70% of all crop. As a result of cleaning, damaged mushrooms remain in the forest for a spores, and as a potential food for insects and other animals.
  •  Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 08:54, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Nice light Cmao20 (talk) 11:24, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 11:57, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support: excellent depiction! --The Cosmonaut (talk) 12:26, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Remarkable detail and composition. I was surprised to see several FPs of "baskets of mushrooms" in the Gallery. --Tagooty (talk) 14:12, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 15:51, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- very nice still life image. I suppose they are edible and you already ate them all! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:10, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:01, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:59, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 17:28, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Wilfredor (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 10:33, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:WLM - 2021 - Zaragoza - 01.jpg

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Bridges#Spain
  •  Info created & uploaded by Moahim – nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 08:46, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 08:46, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support I always think Moahim applies too much noise reduction, but it isn't enough to spoil this well-composed and elegant photograph. Cmao20 (talk) 11:24, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 11:59, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Юрий Д.К. 12:22, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Beautiful colour-composition, and very good detail. --Tagooty (talk) 14:13, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 15:51, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Poco a poco (talk) 19:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Mounir TOUZRI (talk) 22:51, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:00, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment There is a line of darker blue in the sky right above the bridge in its left part see note. What is this? --Uoaei1 (talk) 12:02, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Beautiful composition and excellent light. Regarding the dark blue line in the sky: with a 4-second exposure, it is most likely the light trail of a passing bus, truck or another vehicle crossing the bridge. To me, this is a perfectly natural long-exposure artefact and not a flaw. Great photograph! -- Radomianin (talk) 17:27, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Am I wrong of only the part of the bridge closer to the camera is sharp? I don't care about the water, of course. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:43, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose It’s such a beautiful image, but sorry, I have to agree with Alvesgaspar’s point. Either only a tiny part of the bridge was in focus, or camera shake during the long exposure has blurred most of the image, or large parts of the bridge have been softened by far too much denoising, or all these issues apply at once. The foreground seems to be sharp, but IMHO this is the most uninteresting part of the scene. I really appreciate small DoF when it is used to emphasize the most important thing in a photo, but here I cannot see that it is used for a good reason. – Aristeas (talk) 20:04, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Apricot--Rose-Sitia-Crete.jpg

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Apricot Rose. Sitia, Crete, Greece.
  • All images and creators are welcome at FPC! As well as the honest evaluations of reviewers. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:12, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
    Perhaps I would believe it if someone else told me so. Petro Stelte (talk) 07:53, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support I would to say that the colors a bit dull (very likely shot during an overcast weather), but the flower is quite sharp and nice. Юрий Д.К. 10:07, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --JackyM59 (talk) 19:06, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Sphingonotus sp avec malformation.jpg

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File:Cachoeira Santa Bárbara 02.jpg

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  •  Comment I know how important is Carnaval in Brazil, ★. I'm Portuguese, remember?... But what we see in this picture is just a beautiful lady dancing, with no obvious connection with the particular event in Goiânia. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:23, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 15:29, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 16:21, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support As someone who isn't too familiar with Carnaval, I find this picture interesting and educational; I didn't know there were outfits like this one in Carnaval LetmeEditit (talk) 10:42, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support This year I have (once again) reviewed several 1000s of photos from Wiki Loves Folklore, and this one clearly stands out as well-composed and effective. – Aristeas (talk) 20:09, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per COM:I: should have a meaningful file name. Description says "stilt walker Clara performed with the troupe at Cachoeira Santa Bárbara — located in Cavalcante", which means "Cachoeira Santa Bárbara" is the place, not a meaningful file name. Search engines confirm, unfortunately these kinds of things should be checked before nomination as already repeated numerous times to ArionStar. Now the image at f/2.8 suffers from a shallow DoF, which makes the eyes and body out of focus, and the background noisy -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:44, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I fail to see anything exceptional here. Sorry. Wolverine X-eye 09:06, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:2024 Bazylika w Wambierzycach (06).jpg

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Basilica of the Visitation, Poland

File:Beilstein - Schmidhausen - Müller-Thurgau-Weg - gelb-rote Tulpenblüten mit Regentropfen (RQCD2782).jpg

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Tulips
  • You are very welcome. Cmao20 (talk) 16:21, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Very good composition and colours. I like the shallow dof, in contrast with the now fashionable focus stacking photos. Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:31, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • I agree. I actually thought it might pick up oppose votes for that reason, but I agree that focus stacking was unnecessary in this case and would misunderstand what kind of picture this is supposed to be. Cmao20 (talk) 16:21, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 15:49, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Truly wonderful! Wolverine X-eye 16:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Poco a poco (talk) 19:27, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Da sticht die Auflösung der Kamera gut hervor. Eignet sich prima in dem Ausschnitt, aber gleichzeitig sind die feinen Strukturen der Pflanze klar erkennbar --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 19:44, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Mounir TOUZRI (talk) 22:55, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 13:31, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:54, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support The space between the two flowers creates rhythm over a blurred background that increases subject clarity. --Terragio67 (talk) 04:54, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Drying the cottom silk fabric.jpg

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Drying the cottom silk fabric, Myanmar, 2023

File:Exam tables - France.jpg

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Exam tables, École polytechnique, France, 2020.
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Photo techniques/Styles and Techniques#Texture photography
  •  Info Exam tables, École polytechnique, France, 2020. Created by Jérémy Barande / Ecole polytechnique, uploaded on Flickr – uploaded to Commons by Titlutin – nominated by Zquid -- Zquid (talk) 12:08, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment It looks almost like a black and white photo, but blue spots on several chairs and some small yellow-ish squares on the floor tell us it's not. (zoom in) Zquid (talk) 12:08, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Zquid (talk) 12:08, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Steven Sun (talk) 13:47, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support Good abstract, but not all that sharp. Cmao20 (talk) 14:00, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Deceptively simple, looks like b/w.--Paracel63 (talk) 16:01, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support向史公哲曰 (talk) 16:54, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 18:12, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support lack DoF --Wilfredor (talk) 18:26, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 18:31, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:45, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:01, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 21:37, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Acroterion (talk) 22:22, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support per Cmao20. – Aristeas (talk) 13:58, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support One of the most depressing images I have ever seen, but the striking visual is what brings out the support. Wolverine X-eye 16:13, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Poco a poco (talk) 19:29, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Despite the overall unsharpness, which is mitigated by the composition and creepy subject. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:48, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 16:22, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 04:44, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Pointe de Veret from Lac de Veret (5).jpg

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Pointe de Véret (2122 m) seen from Lac de Véret in commune of Arâches-la-Frasse, Haute-Savoie, France

File:Castle of Vendeuvre-sur-Barse (10).jpg

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Castle of Vendeuvre-sur-Barse, Aube, France

File:Young Macrolepiota Grass Ooty Jul26 A7CR 11715-60 zsd.jpg

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Parasol mushroom in grass, early stage with conical cap, Ooty, India.

File:Mustang Valley, Nepal.jpg

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Aerial landscape view of Mustang Valley, Nepal, showing the arid terrain of the Himalayan rain-shadow region.

File:050 Yellow-billet cardinal under Pink Ipê tree in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Yellow-billet cardinal under Pink Ipê tree in Encontro das Águas State Park

File:141 Dassie rat in Twyfelfontein Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Dassie rat in Twyfelfontein
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Mammals#Family_:_Petromuridae
  •  Info No FP yet of the species, genus and family. Almost no picture of this animal on Wikimedia Commons.
  •  Info created by Giles Laurent – uploaded by Giles Laurent – nominated by Giles Laurent -- Giles Laurent (talk) 20:01, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 20:01, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:39, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --JackyM59 (talk) 08:16, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 14:04, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Paracel63 (talk) 16:00, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Wilfredor (talk) 17:49, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Sorry, but the blurred foreground is too distracting. Yann (talk) 18:34, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
    I personally like having a foreground, subject and background as it gives a nice 3D perspective to the image. Also I very much like how the foreground perfectly echoes the background with the same bokeh smoothness and how foreground, midground and background all perfectly have the same tilt. Moreover when I photographed this shy specimen I had to hide behind rocks to very slowly approach without it seeing me and I could only very slowly bring up the camera from behind the rock and get a few burst shots before it escaped. In any case, even if I would have had the choice to go more up, I would definitely always prefer this composition because as I've said I like having 3D shots and moreover it allowed to perfectly be at subject eye level -- Giles Laurent (talk) 19:09, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:46, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:21, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Acroterion (talk) 00:54, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support – Aristeas (talk) 13:52, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I agree with Yann --Tagooty (talk) 14:18, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support I think the background enhances the image and gives it a cool look. Wolverine X-eye 16:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support mainly for the value of having a high resolution image of a species with no other good images on Commons and indeed few on the internet. However, the composition does not work for me. It's not so much that the foreground is blurred but that the whole surroundings - foreground and background alike - are a blurry featureless blob. I so much prefer animal pictures that put them in context with their surroundings than ones that just focus narrowly on the subject. This is a good identification photo but for me it is not necessarily a great photo. Cmao20 (talk) 16:28, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Neutral Great detail, distracting foreground, too much of it. Poco a poco (talk) 19:40, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I agree that the unsharp foregroung is too distracting. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:50, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

File:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg

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The Last Supper Restored - Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Religion#Christianity – wide
  •  Info created by Leonardo da Vinci – uploaded by Binarystring – nominated by ★ -- ★ 17:25, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support I'm surprised it was not nominated before. -- ★ 17:25, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support:I might have been one of the earliest people to nominate this painting.向史公哲曰 (talk) 11:36, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:00, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Thi (talk) 10:10, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Question Who’s the photographer, or what is the source? The file description page says only “Online Taken on 23 July 2013”, but that’s both ambiguous and meaningless, and the Exif/metadata are rather generic. IMHO we should correctly and clearly credit the photographer(s) or the responsible company in order to appreciate their work, even if this “only” a reproduction of a two-dimensional artwork. In this case this is even more important, because the digital reproduction has been released under CC BY-SA 4.0, and in order to fulfil the conditions of that license people need to know who is/are the creator(s) of the reproduction and how they want to be attributed. No offence, I really like the reproduction, but I can’t vote for a photo with unclear attribution. @Binarystring: Can you please help us here? Is this your own photo, or where does the file come from? Thank you! – Aristeas (talk) 13:51, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose for now and to prevent speedy promotion per Aristeas. “Online Taken on 23 July 2013” is just not adequate documentation of where this photograph came from. Cmao20 (talk) 16:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 16:22, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Mehr Padin

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#Iran
  •  Info Mehr Padin castle is a national heritage in Iran. it's a 14th-century castle in Mehriz. The castle consists of two layers of walls and nine round towers, and the entire castle is surrounded by a large moat. Interior of the castle includes structures like houses, governor's seat, religious buildings, stables and storehouses.
  •  Info created by 10-shahramsalimi – uploaded by 10-shahramsalimi – nominated by محک -- Mrнк (گپ) 13:32, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Mrнк (گپ) 13:32, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose For some important reason, it is supposed to provide some information about the theme depicted in a nominated image. That is not the case here, and in many other recent nominations. Not always images speak for themselves. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:23, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
    • ✓ Done @Alvesgaspar: There is a problem with the pre-made form here. It said "DISCRIB IT" in a line and I did it there, but it was deleted after saving.--Mrнк (گپ) 19:17, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
      • That informative text should be put under the heading  Info, just before the identification of the creator and nominator. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:19, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
        ✓ Done--Mrнк (گپ) 05:19, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 20:22, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:24, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support The two images make for an excellent documentation of an impressive monument. – Aristeas (talk) 13:39, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 15:03, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Maybe 1st should have some rotation to anticlockwise. But good shot. Representive.--Mile (talk) 16:58, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- IamMM (talk) 09:11, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment There is a reason for me to keep the oppose vote: I don't see the reason to add a second picture because the first (and best) contains enough visual information about the subject. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:53, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
The rhomboid shape of the walls is not at all obvious from the first image alone. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 16:02, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Interesting subject. I think the white balance in the first photo (aerial view) is a little bit blue — compare the grey paths in both images. And maybe the second photo (top view) could be flipped to match the orientation of the first photo. LetmeEditit (talk) 10:57, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:MingXianzong1.jpg

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Emperor Hsien-tsung of the Ming Dynasty

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Zhengtong Emperor

File:SELI BOG.tif

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Seli Bog

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Pelargonium zonale. Sitia, Crete, Greece.
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Geraniaceae
  •  Info Photographed in my garden. Everything in this picture is natural: the flower itself, the light, the shadows, and the colors. Created by Petro Stelte – uploaded by Petro Stelte – nominated by -- Petro Stelte (talk) 13:44, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Petro Stelte (talk) 13:44, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Nice colors Юрий Д.К. 14:43, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Details and a nice display --JackyM59 (talk) 19:40, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 05:57, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 09:52, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:10, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Careful composition. Cmao20 (talk) 11:04, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:49, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:48, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per Cmao20. To be honest I consider Pelargonia as rather boring (because they are the dominating petit bourgeois balcony plant here in southern Germany), but you show how to take an attractive and charming photo of them. – Aristeas (talk) 13:16, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Not found of the centered composition and tight crop. I would prefer more generous spacing all around and a larger space in front of the flower. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:37, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
    Okay, but this image will remain on this page until the end of the voting period so that other users can see what kind of images are not welcome at FPC. Petro Stelte (talk) 15:41, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • The picture is likely to pass, I'm not sure it would be justified to say that this vote indicates that these images are 'not welcome at FPC.' Cmao20 (talk) 16:35, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
    I think it's justified after this nomination.Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Black-White-Cat-Sitia-Crete-4.jpg Petro Stelte (talk) 17:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Once again, please understand that all images and creators are welcome here, as well as the opinions of the reviewrs. Critics should always be directed at nominations, not creators! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:17, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
    Perhaps I would believe it if someone else told me so. Petro Stelte (talk) 07:54, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment In the more than twenty years collaborating with FPC, this is surely one of the nastier comments a user made about my honesty and impartiality as a reviewer. This kind of inelegant ad hominem attacks should not be tolerated here. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:02, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
    This way please Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems Petro Stelte (talk) 08:15, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • I think this is exceptionally rude behaviour towards Alvesgaspar, whose reviews I don't always agree with but are always well-reasoned and impartial. He has high standards and that is entirely okay, FPC would go downhill if we did not have reviewers willing to oppose pictures. I have rarely seen anyone take such a passive-aggressive and snarky attitude towards criticism. I will not review your pictures in future. Cmao20 (talk) 13:06, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
    I won't miss Commons and Commons won't miss me, so do whatever you think is right. Petro Stelte (talk) 13:35, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Your pictures are good, so we will miss those, but we will not miss this nasty, snarky, unpleasant behaviour. Goodbye. Cmao20 (talk) 14:28, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

File:River Teesta taken from Teesta Bridge.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/India#West Bengal

  •  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Joydeep -- Joydeep (Talk) 11:28, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Joydeep (Talk) 11:28, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Nice composition --JackyM59 (talk) 19:42, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak oppose Sorry, QI for sure but I'm not seeing any tension or dynamism in the composition to elevate this to FP. It's a pleasant picture but I would want outstanding light or a more unusual composition. Cmao20 (talk) 11:03, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support I find the composition convincing and the colours (especially of the river) pleasing, I do wish for more detail but good enough for FP overall. —UnpetitproleX (Talk) 11:26, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I'm with Cmao20. I wouldn't call it a striking composition. I definitely miss something here to consider this shot among our finest images Poco a poco (talk) 19:52, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Black-winged Kite

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  • Not a valid comparison IMHO because in all 3 explamples you show a closed and complete set of images for a certain succession (towers stand --> are fallen, wahle starting/ending the deep dive, lion bathing with mud). This set may be a succesion of images but I don't see how to include them under a common title. Poco a poco (talk) 11:37, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
    I see nowhere in the rules that a set of passage of time should be "closed and complete". As for the common title for this succession of images I think that "Black-winged kite in flight" or something in these lines fits perfectly -- Giles Laurent (talk) 14:43, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Cmao20 (talk) 11:02, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Ermell (talk) 21:42, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per Giles and LetmeEditit. – Aristeas (talk) 13:11, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Bulfinch Crossing, August 2024.jpg

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Bullfinch Crossing is a mixed-use development in Boston. Replacing the old Government Center Garage, the most notable buildings in the development are One Congress which is the current corporate headquarters for the State Street Corporation, and The Sudbury which is a luxury residential tower.
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes/United States#Boston
  •  Info created by Fletcher – uploaded by Fletcher – nominated by Wobbanight -- Wobbanight (talk) 02:57, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Wobbanight (talk) 02:57, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support Good quality and nice light but maybe a bit low wow for FP and it's a shame about the cut off boat at the bottom Cmao20 (talk) 11:24, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Good quality, no magic. Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:59, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Good light but crop too tight at the bottom. Unexceptional buildings -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:17, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak oppose Sorry, there’s something interesting in this view, namely the contrast between the boats and the high-rise buildings, but this would work only if we had a more generous crop at the bottom and maybe a slightly different perspective and light. – Aristeas (talk) 13:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

File:Indian grey mongoose in Rabindra Sarobar June 2024 by Tisha Mukherjee 04.jpg

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Indian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii)
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Carnivora#Family_:_Herpestidae_(Mongooses)
  •  Info All by -- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:18, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:18, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Юрий Д.К. 09:29, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 09:40, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Details and the surrounding environment --JackyM59 (talk) 09:55, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 10:00, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Wilfredor (talk) 12:34, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 13:29, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Sorry but composition is poor, partially because of the unfocused elements in the foreground. Also, the nose of the animal, which should obviously by sharp, it is not. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:42, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support - Krigore (talk) 10:08, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Paracel63 (talk) 16:01, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 08:19, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support I like the composition overall but it is a shame about the out of focus nose. Maybe not your best, but FP in my opinion. Cmao20 (talk) 11:20, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
    I nominated this for I never saw another Indian grey mongoose in water before and among the rest of my images I like this frame best. Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose A bit of a messy setup, but my main concern is the low detail of the subject, sorry. Poco a poco (talk) 11:47, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support technical shortcomings but nice scene, overall FP to me. Though I think a slight crop in the top to center the mongoose may be nice. —UnpetitproleX (Talk) 11:31, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:49, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak support per UnpetitproleX. I don’t care about the sharpness of the nose; just like in portraits of people, the eyes or at least the frontmost eye must be sharp, and this is the case here. – Aristeas (talk) 13:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Timetable (day 5 after nomination)

Tue 14 Jul → Sun 19 Jul
Wed 15 Jul → Mon 20 Jul
Thu 16 Jul → Tue 21 Jul
Fri 17 Jul → Wed 22 Jul
Sat 18 Jul → Thu 23 Jul
Sun 19 Jul → Fri 24 Jul

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

Fri 10 Jul → Sun 19 Jul
Sat 11 Jul → Mon 20 Jul
Sun 12 Jul → Tue 21 Jul
Mon 13 Jul → Wed 22 Jul
Tue 14 Jul → Thu 23 Jul
Wed 15 Jul → Fri 24 Jul
Thu 16 Jul → Sat 25 Jul
Fri 17 Jul → Sun 26 Jul
Sat 18 Jul → Mon 27 Jul
Sun 19 Jul → Tue 28 Jul

Closing nominations manually

The following description explains how to close nominations manually. Normally this is not necessary, as FPCBot takes care of counting the votes, closing and archiving the nominations. When the Bot has counted the votes, a user needs to check and approve the result; everything else is done by the Bot. Therefore, the following instructions are normally only needed for delist-and-replace nominations that the Bot cannot (yet) process, and in case the Bot malfunctions. The closing can be done by any experienced user. If you need help, just ask on the FPC talk page.

  1. On Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the nomination, then [edit].
    • Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
      {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=(“yes” or “no”)|gallery=xxx|sig=~~~~}}
      (You can leave the gallery parameter blank if the image was not featured. If the nomination contains alternatives, you must add the alternative=xxx parameter with the name of the selected image between the gallery and the sig parameter. See {{FPC-results-reviewed}} for examples and more explanations.)
    • Edit the title of the nomination and add featured or not featured after the link – for example:
      === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
      becomes
      === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
    • Save your edit.
  2. If it is featured:
    1. Add the picture to the list of the four most recently featured pictures of an appropriate gallery of Commons:Featured pictures, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
    2. Add the picture to the appropriate featured picture gallery page and section. Click on the most appropriate link beneath where you just added it as one of the four images on Commons:Featured pictures, list to find the gallery page, and search for the correct section. (An image should only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.)
    3. Add the template {{Assessments|featured=1}} to the image description page.
      • If it was an alternative image or part of a set nomination, use the com-nom parameter. For example, if File:Foo.jpg was promoted in the nomination Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bar.jpg, use {{Assessments|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.jpg}} You also need the com-nom parameter if the image gets renamed.
      • If the image is already featured on another Wikipedia, just add featured=1 to the {{Assessments}} template. For instance, {{Assessments|enwiki=1}} becomes {{Assessments|enwiki=1|featured=1}}
    4. Head over to the structured data for the image and add the “Commons quality assessment” claim (P6731) “Wikimedia Commons featured picture” (Q63348049).
    5. Add the picture to the chronological archives of featured pictures. Place it at the end of the gallery using this format:
      File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Title'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]<br> {{s|xxx}}, {{o|xxx}}, {{n|xxx}}
      • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other entries on that page for examples. (If you want to do everything perfectly, link that number to the nomination subpage, just like FPCBot does this. It allows users to jump directly to the nomination.)
      • The Title should be replaced by the bare name of the featured picture, without the ‘File:’ or the file extension (such as .jpg .tif .svg).
      • The x in {{s|x}}, {{o|x}}, {{n|x}} should be replaced by the count of support, oppose, and neutral votes respectively.
      • If the nomination was a set nomination, use this format:
        File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Set: Title (Z files)'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]<br> {{s|x}}, {{o|x}}, {{n|x}}
        Replace the Z in (Z files) by the count of images in the set, and use the name of the first image from the set instead of File:xxxxx.jpg and for the title.
    6. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the nominator. For set nominations, use:
      == Set Promoted to FP ==
      <gallery>
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      </gallery>
      {{FPpromotionSet2|YYYYY}}      , using the names of the set files instead of the XXXXXX and the title of the set instead of YYYYY.
    7. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedUploader|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the user who has uploaded the image, if that user is not the same as the nominator.
    8. Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedCreator|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the creator, if the author is a different Commons user than nominator and uploader.
  3. Add candidate archive categories to the nomination so that people can easily find and evaluate past nominations (this applies also to unsuccessful, {{FPX}}-d, {{FPD}}-d and {{Withdraw}}-n nominations). It’s best practice to wrap all these categories in a <noinclude>...</noinclude> section because they apply only to the nomination itself, not to the log page etc. which transclude it. You need three or four categories:
    1. A category for the month and year, like Category:July 2026 featured picture candidates for the current month.
    2. A category for the type and result of the nomination, like Category:2026 successful candidates for featured picture status; replace “successful” by “unsuccessful”, “FPXed”, “FPDed” or “withdrawn”, depending on the final result of the nomination (see the supercategory for common values).
    3. A category for the subject of the nomination, like Category:2026 featured picture candidates of plants. Replace “plants” by one of the possible subject keywords like “animals”, “architecture”, etc.; see the base category for all common keywords. Basically the subject keywords correspond to the first part of the gallery link.
    4. If the nomination is a set nomination, add Category:2026 featured picture set nominations.
  4. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}-d, {{FPD}}-d and {{Withdraw}}-n nominations), you have to move the transclusion (the {{ }} and the text within those) of the nomination to the current log page.
    • To find the current log page, visit the first page of the log for this month. If the header of that page contains a link with the text “Next part of this month”, the log for this month has been split into several parts because it contains too many entries. Click on the “Next part …” link and repeat this until you reach a page where the header does not offer a “Next part …” link; that’s the last and current log page.
    • Now open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you are closing. It will be of the form: {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}} or: {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/XXXXX}}.
    • Copy that line to the bottom of the current log page and save that page. Then remove the same line from the candidate list and save that page.

Closing a delisting nomination

  1. On Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
    {{FPC-delist-results-reviewed|delist=x|keep=x|neutral=x|delisted=yes/no|sig=~~~~}}
    (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Ensifera ensifera (22271195865).jpg)
  2. Edit the title of the delisting nomination and add delisted or not delisted after the image title; for example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
  3. Add candidate archive categories to the nomination; this works the same way as described above for featured picture nominations. The only difference is that the category for type and status must be of the form Category:2026 successful candidates for delisting from featured picture status, or Category:2026 successful candidates for delisting and replacing featured pictures if this is a delist-and-replace nomination. Substitute “unsuccessful”, “FPXed”, “FPDed” or “withdrawn” for “successful”, depending on the final result of the nomination.
  4. Move the transclusion of the nomination to the current log page; please see above for an explanation how to find the current log page and how to move the nomination to it.
  5. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
    1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
    2. Edit the picture's description as follows:
    3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in the chronological archive of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1–6) with (1–6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture must not be removed from the chronological archives.
  6. If this is a Delist and Replace, the delisting and promotion must both be done manually. To do the promotion, follow the steps in the section above. Note that the assessment tag on the file page and the promotion tag on the nominator's talk page won't pick up the /replace subpage that these nominations use.

Archiving a withdrawn nomination

If a nomination has been withdrawn by the nominator by using {{Withdraw}} or is cancelled with {{FPX}} or {{FPD}}, wait 24 hours after the nomination was last edited. If there has been no objection to the cancellation within this time, the nomination can simply be archived. Just add candidate archive categories to the nomination itself, then move the transclusion of the nomination to the current log page; please see above for an explanation how to find the current log page and how to move the nomination to it.

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