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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Jul 2018 at 07:04:10 (UTC)

OriginalSate kambing is a type of satay or skewered meat made with goat meat and served with soy sauce; this portion was purchased in Jombang, East Java
Reason
High quality image. Framing and lighting are very appetizing
Articles in which this image appears
Sate kambing, satay
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Food and drink
Creator
Chris Woodrich

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:23, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Jul 2018 at 10:55:49 (UTC)

Original – Hollow Horn Bear (1850 – 1913) was a Brulé Lakota leader, who fought in a number of battles, including that at Little Big Horn. He later testified before the US Supreme Court in the case of Ex parte Crow Dog, rode in the inaugural parades of presidents Roosevelt and Wilson, and was featured on the five dollar bank note and a 1922 US postage stamp.
Reason
Never done this before, but I figured I'd give it a go. Found this a while ago while digging through a few hundred, maybe a thousand or more images from this LOC dump on Commons. Just a visually striking image of the type that made me super interested to figure out who this guy was, and then wound up writing his article, and a then a bunch of related articles. Turns out he wasn't just a native but was widely described as the native par excellence, and often lauded in the period papers for his striking physical appearance and stature (the guy was huge). Wound up being the archetypal physical appearance of a native on the 1922 stamp and the five dollar bill, and would have been notable only for his physical appearance even if he had not done a whole bunch of other really interesting things. The image is a completely unedited scan with the exception of a slight crop to remove artifacts of the original glass negative.
Articles in which this image appears
Hollow Horn Bear
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional dress
Creator
Part of the Library of Congress Harris & Ewing collection, almost certainly taken in Washington D. C. in either 1905 or 1913 while Hollow Horn Bear was present for his participation in the respective inaugural parades. Unable to absolutely verify this beyond the context of the biography, and the original LOC description, along with the context of the collection, which is largely made up of period politicians and taken in Washington.
Full support after restoration. --Janke | Talk 06:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
⇒ Looks mighty good to me for a century-old photo. Sca (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hollow Horn Bear LCCN 2016858434 (2) (cropped).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:57, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Kuch nahi , chitiya aurat hai , back button davao! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.248.249.126 (talk) 06:00, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2018 at 10:42:11 (UTC)

Original – Sandhya Jane
Reason
high resolution and high quality portrait used as a lead image
Articles in which this image appears
Sandhya Jane
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Business
Creator
AKS.9955

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:54, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Jul 2018 at 04:32:49 (UTC)

OriginalViburnum × bodnantense buds in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Reason
Nice spring buds of Viburnum × bodnantense in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I like the color and sharpness contrast between subject and background.
Articles in which this image appears
Viburnum
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Plants
Creator
Rhododendrites
  • Red X I withdraw my nomination Personally, I like the composition, contrasting the colors and the sharp lines of the leaves in the background with the softer subject. That said, it's a good point that the composition doesn't add to the EV (probably lessens it, since the leaves are from a different plant), and that the EV is hurt by it being a hybrid. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:04, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:28, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Jul 2018 at 05:04:33 (UTC)

Original – Two juvenile Nubian ibex kids in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Reason
EV, clarity, cuteness :)
Articles in which this image appears
Nubian ibex
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
Rhododendrites

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:28, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Jul 2018 at 16:58:39 (UTC)

Original – “A battalion commander”. Soviet officer leading his soldiers to the assault
Reason
high resolution of an iconic photograph, which has its own article
Articles in which this image appears
Combat (photograph), Max Alpert, Political commissar, Kombat (military rank), Soviet Union in World War II
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator
Max Alpert, last version uploaded by RedAndr

Promoted File:RIAN archive 543 A battalion commander.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]



Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Jul 2018 at 09:03:55 (UTC)

Original – The White House is decorated in rainbow [colors] to celebrate the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling
Reason
The rainbow White House is very beautiful, also it has high EV on the LGBT issue in the U.S.
Articles in which this image appears
Obergefell v. Hodges, Rainbow flag (LGBT movement), Social policy of the Barack Obama administration
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
Ted Eytan, uploaded by
Fine, but the rainbow-colors illumination of the White House isn't mentioned in the text of said article, only in the caption below this picture (which appears to have been added to the article in April 2017). So EV does seem lacking. Sca (talk) 20:14, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have to agree with Matt; there needs to be more discussion for EV. Is there something about the practice of lighting up buildings in commemoration/recognition of things? That seems to common enough these days to deserve an article.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:03, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Such as the Brandenburg Gate being lit in French colors after the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. Nice gesture, but ephemeral and lacking significance. Sca (talk) 14:40, 20 July 2018 (UTC) [reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:50, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Butorides striata javanica @ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1).jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Jul 2018 at 14:56:19 (UTC)

Original – A ripe blood orange
Reason
EV, quality - focus stacked image of a ripe blood orange on white background
Articles in which this image appears
Blood orange
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Food and drink
Creator
Rhododendrites

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]