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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:20260411 Pulsatilla halleri 03.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 May 2026 at 20:29:09 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Haller's anemone in the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, Austria

File:Cynara-cardunculus-Sitia-Crete-Greece-2.jpg

Voting period ends on 27 May 2026 at 16:06:27 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Cynara cardunculus. Sitia, Crete, Greece.

File:Brown-backed red marsh hawk (Orthetrum chrysis) male La Mesa.jpg

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Brown-backed red marsh hawk (Orthetrum chrysis) male

File:Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) male head Angkor.jpg

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Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) male

File:Grand Canyon West – panoramic view from Guano Point.jpg

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Grand Canyon West – panoramic view from Guano Point

File:168 Banded mongoose in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Banded mongoose in Etosha National Park

File:177 Helmeted guinea fowl figthing in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Helmeted guinea fowl figthing in Etosha National Park

File:الفارس الحر.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:20260516 Linda Lampenius Z09 0506.jpg

Voting period ends on 26 May 2026 at 17:34:42 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen at ESC 2026
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/People
  •  Info created by Granada – uploaded by Granada – nominated by Granada -- Granada (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen in the final moments of their stellar performance in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna. One moment earlier her dress trail was being put over the back of the two chairs she's standing on and another moment later a cameraman would rush into the frame to block this view for us photographers. The photo is not technically perfect, but I hope it will catch you visually as it did me. -- Granada (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Very nice view as you stated, Granada! The flames at the bottom-left corner are clipped. Can any more detail be squeezed out? JayCubby (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    I'm afraid not. In that very moment the light coming from the left was very bright and I've already took down the brights as far as possible inside the RAW file. I have some more shots from that scene before the cameraman rushes in, but they don't offer that dramatic lighting on her front and his back and even the chairs. --Granada (talk) 18:16, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support-- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:25, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support The composition is visually interesting. SomeRailfan (talk) 18:15, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Zierlauch - Allium giganteum.jpg

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File:20250708 Teide 03.jpg

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View from thee Teide on the Pico Viejo, La Gomera and El Hierro in Tenerife, Spain

File:National Theatre London 2026 01.jpg

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Brutalist architectural detail of the National Theatre (NT, officially the Royal National Theatre) on the south bank of the Thames in London.

File:Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Golden Retriever -- 2022 -- 5945.jpg

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Golden Retriever near Hausdülmen, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

File:Wat Kalayanamitr Varamahavihara by Don Ramey Logan.jpg

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Wat Kalayanamitr Varamahavihara Buddha statue Bangkok Thailand

File:Miguel Discart WCL - Catch XL 2025 Battle Royal.jpg

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Miguel Discart WCL - Catch XL 2025 Battle Royal
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports
  •  Info created by Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma – uploaded by Mr.Besya – nominated by ★ -- ★ 05:37, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Abstain I'm not a fan of wrestling but I’m giving this image another chance. -- ★ 05:37, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I do a lot of sports photography and from that perspective this photo does not give me any wow moments. The main subject should stand out more. --Granada (talk) 13:07, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 15:11, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Black-throated Tit in Sillery Gaon March 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 03.jpg

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Black-throated Tit (Aegithalos concinnus)

File:Ring-billed gulls jockeying Forsythe (13775).jpg

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Ring-billed gulls fight over a hunting spot
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Genus_:_Larus
  •  Info Immature ring-billed gulls fight over a prime hunting spot above a salt marsh culvert. all by — Rhododendrites talk |  00:51, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support A technical issue prevented fixing the previous nom. It looks to be resolved now. — Rhododendrites talk |  00:51, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose The bird on the left should have been in focus; then the picture would have been good. Getting both seagulls in focus is almost impossible, but only almost.--Ermell (talk) 13:59, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    • Surprised to hear it's out of focus. The level of detail seems comparable or better than nearly all of the "two birds in flight" FPs we have, nevermind two birds interacting in flight. — Rhododendrites talk |  14:47, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
      •  Support You're right—"out of focus" is incorrect. "Slight motion blur" is probably more accurate. There is a small difference compared to the one on the right. However, the image is good enough.--Ermell (talk) 19:47, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 15:11, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 22:19, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Rjcastillo (talk) 04:17, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:59, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support-- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 07:27, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 08:31, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789 LCCN2007685769-restored.jpg

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A French satirical cartoon from the period of the French Revolution

File:DSC06016 Splavarska Footbridge and Old Bridge in Maribor with Swans, 2026-05.jpg

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Splavarska Footbridge (foreground) and Old Bridge (background) over the river Drava in Maribor, Slovenia.

File:AC SO Karlspreis-Europa-Forum 2026 13. Mai Mario Draghi IV.jpg

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Mario Draghi at the Karlspreis-Europa-Event 13. May 2026 in Aachen

File:Catharanthus roseus — flower with water droplets on black background.jpg

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Catharanthus roseus — flower with water droplets on black background

File:Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro Project.jpg

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Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro Project
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#Brazil
  • One of the most widely recognized favelas in Brazil and around the world, Rocinha. This is the highest section of the community’s main hill. The photograph was taken with a 400mm lens from the nearest private building. I believe it would be nearly impossible to capture a similar image from any other location. All by -- Wilfredor (talk) 12:52, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Good quality, high EV, no equivalent. Yann (talk) 19:52, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Good quality, but I think Brazil has so many beautiful places, landscapes, buildings, and monuments, and this isn’t a good one to represent it. --heylenny (talk/edits) 15:15, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    As a Brazilian myself, i understand your point, but IMHO this image should be judged by its educational and documentary value, not only by whether it represents Brazil’s most beautiful places. Rocinha is an important and widely recognized urban landscape, and the photo documents it with detail and quality. Wilfredor (talk) 17:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    @Heylenny: I also think that "ugly subjects" is not a valid reason to oppose (this is not really ugly). Otherwise, we would never feature some animals or places. Yann (talk) 08:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
    It's like preferring to show the garbage in the streets of India rather than the beauty of the Taj Mahal. There are things that doesn't need to be featured here. heylenny (talk/edits) 11:47, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
    FPC is not meant to be a photo generator for travel magazines. There are many FP that show far more uncomfortable or unpleasant realities than this image. As someone who lived in a favela, I find it unfair to describe this place as garbage, that says more about a personal bias than about the actual value of the image or the reality it documents, poverty should not be used as a reason to dismiss, degrade, or disqualify a photograph. I strongly disagree with that kind of characterization. Wilfredor (talk) 15:39, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support I find it very interesting. Kruusamägi (talk) 13:09, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 14:34, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support per Wilfredor. Excellent illustration of a favela. —brainandforce [yap] 20:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --JackyM59 (talk) 20:38, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Music Express at Herbstmess Freiburg 2023.jpg

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Long exposure of music express

File:Traditional Bihu Dance in Assam, India.jpg

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Traditional Bihu Dance in Assam, India
@Joydeep Sorry, this is Satriya a kind of Classical Dance of Assam. Bihu is a folk dance. Nayan j Nath (talk) 11:08, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
Not a reason to oppose I suppose. Should have asked for correction instead. Joydeep (Talk) 11:59, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose The file name is incorrectly represented because this is Sattriya, a classical dance of Assam, not Bihu. -Nayan j Nath (talk)
  •  Support but please do correct the title and description. Ask someone with file mover rights to do so for you. —UnpetitproleX (Talk) 20:49, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    Already did Joydeep (Talk) 04:52, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Very beautiful and unusial colors! Юрий Д.К. 19:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Common wood pigeon – Gołąb grzywacz – Columba palumbus.jpg

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Common wood pigeon with chicks

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Fungus Rock

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Kids performing "Vlachs games", Folklore of Serbia.

File:Harvest mouse and blossom.jpg

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Eurasian Harvest Mouse

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:20260510 Sarah Engels NZ92709.jpg

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Sarah Engels at the Turqouise Carpet

File:Zhuque-2E propellant dump over Wisconsin.jpg

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rocket upper stage propellant dump
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Space exploration#Others
  •  Info This is a very lucky capture! I was observing at a dark site in southern Wisconsin with other astronomers when we noticed a strange glowing cloud in the sky. We later determined it to be a methalox propellant dump from the upper stage of Zhuque-2E flight Y5. Created, processed, uploaded, and nominated by brainandforce —brainandforce [yap] 08:11, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Comment Open to recategorizing if there is a better suited or more specific gallery. —brainandforce [yap] 08:11, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Abstain as author. —brainandforce [yap] 08:11, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 11:00, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Unusual event well-documented. I might reduce noise a little bit and defringe some. Brainandforce, I do like your work. Keep it up! JayCubby (talk) 15:17, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 15:51, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:32, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Aciarium ⚒ (talk) 13:35, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 15:59, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Per JayCubby --Don (talk) 09:42, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 10:05, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:51, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 15:08, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Info For some reason, there was a double vote that distorted the layout. One vote appeared at the top of the nomination and another at the bottom where it belongs. I corrected the error without changing the current voting process. --Petro Stelte (talk) 16:51, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 22:17, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Llez (talk) 08:25, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Юрий Д.К. 19:01, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Pez mariposa salpicado (Chaetodon guttatissimus), Zanzíbar, Tanzania, 2024-05-29, DD 46.jpg

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Peppered butterflyfish (Chaetodon guttatissimus), Zanzibar, Tanzania
JayCubby: I made some adjustments, Poco a poco (talk) 19:57, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
Gracias. JayCubby (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Iglesia de la Santa Trinidad, París, Francia, 2022-10-31, DD 57-59 HDR.jpg

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Church of the Saint Trinity, Paris, France

File:Aerial view of the Pentagon during rescue operations post-September 11 attack.JPEG

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Aerial view of the Pentagon Building located in Arlington, Virginia showing emergency crews responding to the destruction caused when a hijacked commercial jetliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building, during the 9/11 terrorists attacks.

File:Gypaetus barbatus in Alpenzoo Innsbruck.jpg

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Gypaetus barbatus in Alpenzoo Innsbruck

File:Erfurt - Krämerbrücke 2 - 8.jpg

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4 - 8 Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
  •  Comment In Germany you never get full sunlight on the north sides of houses, they are always in shadow (see Google maps) --Llez (talk) 05:20, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 11:03, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per Poco a poco. The lack of metadata is also disappointing. TheBritinator (talk) 15:45, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Info Metadata added --Llez (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Stellar dendrite snowflake.jpg

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File:DSC01644 Boats at the Port of Menton, 2024-12.jpg

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Boats at the port of Menton (France) during a mild, sunny day in late December. The calm water reflects the few clouds in the sky.

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Western Massif, Asturias
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Mount Revelstoke National Park
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File:Chrysis sp 05-2026.jpg

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File:Large Grey Babbler in Saswad August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 02.jpg

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Large Grey Babbler (Argya malcolmi)
OK, then I  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 07:15, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 09:11, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I think the resolution is too low (the picture is just 1705 px high). Also, I find the hatched area mentioned by the Cosmonaut strange. --Aciarium ⚒ (talk) 13:38, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 20:06, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

File:The camel driver and the dromedary.jpg

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File:Passion of Jesus (Pieta from 1400−1410, Narodna galerija Slovenije).jpg

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Passion of Jesus (Pieta from 1400−1410, National Gallery Slovenia.
  •  Comment @Yann Not in bottom, croped was just above. --Mile (talk) 09:00, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 00:36, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support--Micha (talk) 16:43, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --Petro Stelte (talk) 17:59, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support: while I also wish for a more generous bottom crop, the overall composition with seemingly floating crucifix and the choice of shallow depth of field make it a worthy candidate on artistic merits. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 21:46, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 04:19, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Durbuy - L'Ourthe et le château.jpg

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The Ourthe River, which flows through the town of Durbuy in Belgium at the foot of the castle

File:Put van Nederhorst in de mist. 01-04-2026. (d.j.b) 19.jpg

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File:(Map of the complete island of Cuba). LOC 2003623399.jpg

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File:Inland Sea 2025-05-02.jpg

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Inland Sea
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Malta
  •  Info: Inland Sea, the saltwater lagoon on the island of Gozo; all by -- The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:49, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:49, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Weak oppose QI for sure but the light isn't as nice as your other nomination and also I think the image quality is borderline - I can see posterisation on the bright reds and blues, and the sharpness isn't as good as I'd like. So overall this tips me into oppose, sorry. Cmao20 (talk) 02:54, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
  • ✓ Done: thank you for the feedback; new version uploaded with improved sky appearacne. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:50, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish#Family : Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)
  •  Info I totally agree with Sir David Attenborough’s comments about ‘exchanging a glance with a gorilla’. But as Michael Palin didn’t say during last night’s 100th birthday celebration at the Albert Hall, being face-to-face with a shark is something completely different. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:28, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:28, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  conditional support. Amazing capture and well-deserved VI. Charles, there is some posterization visible that could be fixed. JayCubby (talk) 14:42, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
     Comment There is, but I don't have the skills to get rid of it without losing details of the bits and pieces in the water. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:18, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
     Question Very cute shark portrait :) Regarding the posterization: Are you sure you have exported the picture with 100 % quality? That might be the lowest-threshold solution to the problem. --Aciarium ⚒ (talk) 15:36, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
    Yes. Charlesjsharp (talk) 19:13, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
    @Charlesjsharp, I was able to reduce most of the posterization with a surface blur and slight noise addition. JPEGs are limited to 8 bits/channel, and it just might be that the blue water is perfect for banding to show. JayCubby (talk) 21:06, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
    Thank you very much. Could you overwrite my file please. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:54, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
    ✓ Done. File size increased fourfold :) JayCubby (talk) 22:49, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Cool Cmao20 (talk) 19:12, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support Wow! --Yann (talk) 20:36, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:09, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose: sorry, but the artifacts are still very obvious not only in the background, but on the shark as well. This is a stunning capture deserving much better post-processing. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 12:31, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I cant open in on full, but even on those smaller i see artefacts from edition. --Mile (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Although Jay's editing has provided significant improvement, I'm sadly still not convinced by quality (and on second look DoF). --Aciarium ⚒ (talk) 19:00, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
    ✓ Done Careless of me. I hadn't noticed that the white spots were not water debris on the RAW file, but as you have pointed out - processing artefacts. Grateful if you can have another look @JayCubby, @The Cosmonaut, @Mile, @Aciarium ⚒ . Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:43, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
    Definitely better. (I think they were water debris, just brought out by the sharpening program.) Given the photo is not easy to retake, I'm still supporting it. JayCubby (talk) 21:29, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
    It's an improvement, but the artifacts are still quite visible even at half the resolution. Of all the versions, I'd be much more inclined to support the original. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:55, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
    So I can see what you are getting at, can you bear to highlight one or two artefacts please. Sorry to ping again @The Cosmonaut: . Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:05, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
    Posterization is most noticeable on the shark's body, its reflection and pretty much all over below the shark. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support An underwater shot of a subject moving very fast. It’s not a stationary fish; it’s a hunter. --Wilfredor (talk) 14:09, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
  •  Support --heylenny (talk/edits) 00:44, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
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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:
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      === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
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  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:May 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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