User talk:Brainandforce

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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

FP Promotion

 ★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

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/FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

FP Promotion

 ★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

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/FPCBot (talk) 13:06, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

FP Promotion
★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

The image File:M42 (infrared, S-II, O-III).jpg which was created by you has been successfully nominated at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:M42 (infrared, S-II, O-III).jpg and is now a Featured picture on Wikimedia Commons. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:06, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Set Promoted to FP
★ This set has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

The set IC 10 (near infrared and visible light), that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/IC 10 (near infrared and visible light), has been promoted. Thank you very much for your contribution! If you would like to nominate another image or set of images, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 21:02, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Telescope photo

Hi! Do you want me to have a go at your photo? As an aurora photographer I'm very used to editing night photos, and I'm happy to help you. Do you have a Dropbox or some other way of sending the RAW file? --Cart (talk) 13:00, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Here you go! —brainandforce [yap] 18:37, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Tnx! I'll see what I can come up with. :-) --Cart (talk) 19:04, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
This is what I managed to do. --Cart (talk) 20:22, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Feel free to upload that as an alternate version or revision to my image - it's definitely better than I managed. (I'm not sure how that affects the FP nomination if you upload it as a revision) —brainandforce [yap] 20:50, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Ok, I can do that. I'll enter it as an 'Alternative' at your nom per the rules. Good luck! --Cart (talk) 21:15, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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/Aristeas-test (talk) 10:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

AI on FMC

New things calls for new guidelines and rules. Should AI-generated media be allowed on Featured media candidates? Share your thoughts and/or vote on Commons talk:Featured media candidates#AI-generated content. You are being asked since you vote on that project. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 17:00, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays...

...and a Happy New Year.

Warm greetings from Italy. Terragio67 (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays and best wishes for 2026!

✨ Happy Holidays
Brainandforce!
🎄 Merry Christmas!
🎉 Best wishes for 2026!
-- Giles Laurent (talk) 20:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)


Happy holidays!

Warm greetings from Rio Grande do Sul! heylenny (talk/edits) 02:21, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

FM promotion
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Cart (talk) 01:17, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Set Promoted to FP
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The set The Trapezium and Kleinmann–Low Nebula as seen by JWST, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/The Trapezium and Kleinmann–Low Nebula as seen by JWST, has been promoted. Thank you very much for your contribution! If you would like to nominate another image or set of images, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:03, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion

 ★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

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/FPCBot (talk) 05:04, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:14, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Set Promoted to FP
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The set Orion Nebula multiband study, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Orion Nebula multiband study, has been promoted. Thank you very much for your contribution! If you would like to nominate another image or set of images, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 21:05, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favourite images featured on Commons during the last year (2025) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of five images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2025.

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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 05:01, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion

 ★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:04, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Announcing the Winners of Picture of the Year 2025!

Hi everyone,

Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.

Here are your top three winning images:

You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results

I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.

Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!

Regards,
ZI Jony
For the POTY Committee 20:02, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:13, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion

 ★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2026 (UTC)