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Original – High quality image of Chimborazo, the furthest point from the Earth's center seen from Riobamba - Ecuador
Reason
High quality image. Important for articles.
Articles in which this image appears
Chimborazo
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator
dabit100

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:15, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Reason
While I'm waiting for my Carrie Chapman Catt image to settle into articles a bit, how about this one? It's always been one of my favourites, but the last nomination seemed oddly fixated on personal appearance of her over the encyclopedic value of illustrating her article. She's a scientist, not a model.
Articles in which this image appears
Janet Niven
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Science_and_engineering
Creator
MRC National Institute for Medical Research, restored by Adam Cuerden

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:56, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Night photo of Cyclone Bansi seen from the International Space Station in 2015 shows the calm and clarity inside the eye region.
Reason
Night photo of a cyclone shows the calm and clarity of inside the eye region. Used in the article to depict the eye in the "Eye and center" section. Earth's surface (ocean) is visible and clear through the eye – enhanced because the photo is illuminated by lightening near the eye. It wouldn't be as vivid or dramatic in a daytime photo, examples [1], [2].
Articles in which this image appears
Tropical cyclone
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
Creator
NASA Expedition 42 crew (denoised by Bammesk)
  • Obviously I don't see your points as substantial. 1- It's a night photo, it is not unusual for night photos to be dark. It isn't awfully dark if your screen brightness is set properly, for review purposes, at medium. 2- For science related images, "being readily apparent" is an irrelevant thing to look for. See our FPs here to understand what I mean. Bammesk (talk) 16:59, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Being readily apparent, i.e. generally identifiable, is a necessity for a TFP. The Main Page is not a science portal. Sca (talk) 14:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The FP nom process is for choosing images that best enhance articles, not images that enhance the main page. Read the FP criteria. By the way "apparent" and "identifiable" are two different things, anyway, see our FPs here to understand what I mean. Bammesk (talk) 00:49, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's okay, though not ideal, for the article. On the Main Page it's basically a dark rectangle of little general interest. (I've long disagreed with the criteria on that point, for the obvious reason that the Main Page is pitched to a general audience.)Sca (talk) 15:49, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you disagree with the criteria, propose amending it here, not in individual noms. My opinion: encyclopedias exist to satisfy specific inquiries, not general interest. The main page shows the potential of what's inside, be it of general interest or not. Bammesk (talk) 01:25, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No thanks – I've been down that road. Sca (talk) 14:22, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I get your point if it was just about the calmness and clam waters, etc. Here is one of the best day photos we have showing earth. It is impressive but I think the nom image has more impact, just my opinion. For instance it shows the eye in the overall scale of things. Bammesk (talk) 01:16, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would support a wider view too, as long as the resolution is there to see the details (an inset might help). (Also adjusted the dimensions - the eye is 250x250 but the point still stands.) MER-C 10:43, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wide view and higher resolution means two or more compositions (with or without inset). It would be possible in a day photo, but almost impossible or really hard at night, because of lightening. Just opining on the possibilities. Bammesk (talk) 02:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalStade Français playing Racing Club de France from a 1906 calendar
Reason
A fine example of early-20th-century sporting artwork. Didn't make quorum last time, which is probably because FPC was having numbers issues back then.
Articles in which this image appears
Stade Français, Racing 92, Georges Scott, Pierre Guillemin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Sport
Creator
Georges Scott restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Stade Français history - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:27, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalIda Husted Harper, Indiana-born suffragette, author, journalist, biographer.
Reason
A fine image of a highly notable woman. Suffragette, author of Susan B. Anthony's biography at her request, journalist, and the sort of person every movement needs: someone who knows how to promote the cause, in this case, women's rights.
Articles in which this image appears
Ida Husted Harper
FP category for this image
Probably Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Aimé Dupont's Studio, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Ida Husted Harper photograph by Aime Dupont.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalHDMY Dannebrog is the royal yacht of Denmark.
Reason
This image of the Danish royal yacht was featured unanimously on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
HDMY Dannebrog (A540), Royal yacht
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water
Creator
Colin
  • Support as nominatorMER-C 13:00, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Looks good! Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:55, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support : DreamSparrow Chat 07:35, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose While a useful photo, side on or three quarter views generally produce much better results for photos of ships. This waterline view is a bit awkward, and the ship appears somewhat stretched. I suspect that the colours are also slightly over-saturated. An angle such as the one in this photo of the same ship (but with an uncluttered background) would be preferable. Nick-D (talk) 10:21, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – From a historical point of view it's arguably an interesting vessel, but quite a bit of sky and waves could be cropped out – and the colors do seem overly intense. Sca (talk) 14:05, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose – agree with Nick-D about this photo and the unrealistic projection. Bammesk (talk) 16:14, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support (as creator). Wrt angle of view that Nick-D mentions: you rarely get everything perfect. I took several shots of the yacht as we went past and this is the best. This angle elevates the boat so that it is framed by sky (and water) rather than a cluttered mess of buildings. You can't get that from higher up unless on the open sea or a very featureless stretch of land -- if you examine many of our ship photos, they have cluttered backgrounds. I don't understand Bammesk's point about "unrealistic projection". The lens is an equivalent of 24mm on a full frame camera, which is very standard wide angle, not ultra wide at all. So this is a natural projection and a view of this long thin boat from another boat is surely a natural way to see any boat. On the positive side, the weather is lovely and the low evening sun is angled just right to make this yacht pop out in the frame -- important as that will make the article reader want to click on the thumbnail to look in detail. The white hull is evenly lit and the yellow curved poles and funnels are pleasingly 3D. Compare this photo which has terrible flat light and terrible weather. The image isn't over-saturated, it really was a colourful and beautifully lit evening. As a bonus, the frame includes several Danish flags flying nicely, which the Danes are very proud of, and is an important feature of a photo of a Royal Yacht. -- Colin°Talk 08:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:27, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalGeorge H.W. Bush lays in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol on December 3, 2018.
Reason
This is a well-composed, non-manipulated image that is used on two pages — one of which is high-trafficked — and captures an important historical moment. The last event of this type was in 2006 and did not produce an image of this caliber. The event was well-documented and the content of the image verifiable.
Articles in which this image appears
State funerals in the United States, Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator
Maria I. Alvarez

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:13, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalCarrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and co-founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women
Reason
I have a vague memory - remembering I have been on wikibreak for two years - that last time I checked, there wasn't anything really good for Carrie Chapman Catt. Now there's loads and loads. I can only presume that the Library of Congress went back and uploaded higher-resolution scans of things. This isn't the lead in her article, because facing right is awkward for a lead image. I might go back and do the lead image as well sometime, but I do think this is the best image of her out there, full of character and liveliness.

I have taken the liberty of changing it from awkward truncated oval to rectangular - given the chiascuro lighting effects popular around 1910-1920, this really doesn't involve much guesswork; everything fades out to darkness at the bottom anyway, and there's basically no detail there anyway.

Articles in which this image appears
Carrie Chapman Catt, National American Woman Suffrage Association. I'm sure it could be used elsewhere.
FP category for this image
Any objections to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political? It's going to be some subdivision of People, anyway.
Creator
Joint Suffrage Procession Committee(?), restored by Adam Cuerden

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:59, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalGeneral in Chief Robert E. Lee
Reason
High resolution and lede image for a key figure in the American Civil War. Taken in 1864.
Articles in which this image appears
Robert E. Lee
FP category for this image
People/Military
Creator
Photographed by Julian Vannerson, restored by Orionist

Not promoted 1 support, 1 oppose..No Consensus..--The Herald (Benison) (talk) 01:54, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalMillicent Fawcett, suffragist, governor of Bedford College, London, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and, 1901 she was appointed to lead the British government's commission to South Africa investigating conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there in the wake of the Second Boer War. Oh, and she was the first woman to get a statue in Parliament Square this year.
Reason
Another fine, well-sourced image that vastly improves on what was there before, to whit, [4]
Articles in which this image appears
Millicent Fawcett and (in no particular order as she seems fairly prominent in all of them) August 1901, Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, International Alliance of Women, List of suffragists and suffragettes, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, South African Wars (1879–1915)
FP category for this image
WP:Featured pictures/People/Political, maybe? She was kind of a lot of things.
Creator
Bain News Service/Elliott & Fry, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Millicent Fawcett.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:20, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – South polar vantage of Enceladus's anti-Saturn hemisphere, using a false color scheme in which fractured areas show up as blue
Reason
Good EV, high resolution
Articles in which this image appears
Enceladus, etc.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:28, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Cherry Resort inside Temi Tea Garden, Namchi, Sikkim
Reason
A high resolution quality image with good composition. Already featured image in Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Indian tea culture, Temi Tea Garden, Namchi, Sikkim, History of tea in India and others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator
by Subhrajyoti07 talk 02:31, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:25, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalJohn Lorimer Worden, with the Tiffany & Co. sword given to him after the battle of the Monitor and Virginia which was stolen from the Naval Academy in 1931.
Reason
Illustrates a major section of his article, providing context not available without this image. By the way, sorry there's a lot of nominations. Part of it is that I am pretty productive, part of it's that having a crazy drunk shouting in your hallway all night gives you a lot of free time to do something with, and part of it's coming back after a long wikibreak, and eyeing over all the nearly-finished projects from before and wanting to clear it out. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 07:56, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Articles in which this image appears
John Lorimer Worden
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator
Mathew Brady, restored by Adam Cuerden

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:27, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Austrian National Championship 2018 in Skibobbing. Skibobbing is a winter sport involving a bicycle-type frame attached to skis instead of wheels and sometimes a set of foot skis. Sarah Gruber from club ASKÖ SBC Linz doing the giant slalom.
Reason
why you think it meets the FPC criteria and should be featured (check criteria first)
Articles in which this image appears
Skibobbing
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Sport
Creator
Isiwal

Promoted File:2018 STM Austria Skibob Hochficht GRUBER Sarah-2779.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:31, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Composite image of a 11x44 LED matrix name tag display using SMD LEDs. Top: A little over half of the 21x86 mm display. Center: Close-up of 0.8x1.6mm LEDs in ambient light. Bottom: LEDs in their own red light.
Reason
Didn't meet quorum last time (ended up as 4-0), but I still feel this merits the star. The original nomination reason was "Very high EV, good quality bellows macro photo (no DOF problem), shows even the minuscule LED chips and gold bonding wires inside the tiny 1.6 x 0.8 mm transparent surface-mount packages. Also shows a wider image of the matrix, as well as LEDs in their own light.".
Articles in which this image appears
Light-emitting diode, Surface-mount technology
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
Creator
Janke

Promoted File:Macro photo of LED matrix.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:39, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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'OriginalAlex White is an American author of science fiction. Their books include a series named The Salvagers, published by Orbit Books, and the Alien novel Alien: The Cold Forge, published by Titan Publishing Group.
Reason
A professional portrait of a notable individual.
Articles in which this image appears
Alex White (author)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Kyle Cassidy
this is a comment rather than a vote. But in reality it's an issue we should consider, IMO, à la WP:ITN/C. (FWIW, this particular nom. strikes me as possibly promotional.)Sca (talk) 16:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's worth saying that articles with featured pictures are often expanded as a result, so I think WP:GNG is a good threshold. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:39, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I definitely don't doubt the nominator's good faith and am not suggesting that this is covert advertising (something which I have quite a lot of experience dealing with as an admin), but I do agree with the concerns raised above. MER-C 16:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I had never come across the subject until I was sent the picture, and I created the article. The photographer, on the other hand, has been donating pictures of notable individuals to Wikipedia for years. The other user who contributed to the article (Proserpine) is an occasional but long-time contributor who, from a glance, has editing interests that match those of someone who would be interested in a sci-fi author. In my view, there's no advertising problem here. The article is short, but could be expanded. The subject isn't famous, but is notable. Josh Milburn (talk) 07:47, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support : I do not feel that its an advertisement. Though the article is a bit small, the person is notable enough I think. DreamSparrow Chat 13:00, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Be that as it may, the flesh tones look a bit too pink, to me anyway. Sca (talk) 21:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:07, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Reason
Good shot, great EV in both the articles used
Articles in which this image appears
Kailash Satyarthi, List of Indian Nobel laureates
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Aditi Mukherji

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:28, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalEmma Smith DeVoe
Reason
I should probably mention right now that we're moving towards the hundredth anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution (which passed in 1920), so I'm trying to help us prepare to be a resource beforehand, since all those articles are about to become a lot more trafficked. So.. you know. ANYWAY! Emma Smith DeVoe was one of the big suffragettes in the western states, and one of the leaders of the campaign in Washington that got women there suffrage 10 years before the rest of the country (Suffrage more or less worked its way went west to east). So, important. The state of our articles are actually rather chaotic, by the way. Take Women's_suffrage_movement_in_Washington which is horribly incomplete, or Women's suffrage in states of the United States, which leaves out half the states. Well, as I said, it's a work in progress.
Anyway, my point, efore I got sidetrackked is this appears to be the best image of her, especially as the archives of the Library of Congress collect a lot of the suffrage movement organizations' archives.
Articles in which this image appears
Emma Smith DeVoe
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
James & Bushnell, Seattle; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Emma Smith DeVoe by James & Bushnell - No photographer stamp.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:16, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (green) found both as extracellular particles and budding particles from a chronically-infected African Green Monkey Kidney cell (blue); 20,000x magnification.
Reason
Stunning image with high EV. Featured on Commons this year. Bear in mind that this image was taken at 20,000x magnification before you complain about the noise.
Articles in which this image appears
Ebola virus, 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other (!!)
Creator
BernbaumJG

Promoted File:Ebola Virus - Electron Micrograph.tiff --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:48, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalIda Tarbell, investigative journalist
Alternative – tighter crop
Reason
An impressive amount of detail. Does do the 1900s-1920s thing of the fadeout, but that's the style of the time, and it has superb detail.
Articles in which this image appears
Ida Tarbell, Muckraker, a crop is used in a few more.
FP category for this image
WP:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
James E. Purdy, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Ida M. Tarbell crop.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Indian Rat Snake - Yellow and Grey in one frame.
Reason
A rare combination and very difficult to get both grey and yellow in same frame. There is a slight amount of motion blur at full size due to the low lighting conditions but IMO it does not detract much from the picture. Otherwise good composition and very good encyclopedic value.
Articles in which this image appears
Ptyas mucosa, Ptyas, Colubridae
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator
Mydreamsparrow

Promoted File:Indian Rat Snake (Grey and Yellow).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:25, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Special Forces Soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group patrol a field in the Gulistan district of Farah, Afghanistan with Afghan National Army commandos from the 207th Kandak, April 12, 2009.
Reason
Good quality, striking composition and contrast of both the subjects, their camouflage, the wheat field in the foreground and the mountainous backdrop. Public license. Content wise it shows soldiers on a foot patrol, which I assume is representative of a significant amount of time out in the field in Afghanistan.
Articles in which this image appears
Special Forces (United States Army), United States Army, Gulistan District, MultiCam
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Military
Creator
Spc. Joseph A. Wilson
I was wondering if the color temp was a bit too yellowy, but I don't know. Sca (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That was the one minor question mark I had as well. My first assumption was local lighting conditions (maybe dust in the air, judging from the shadows the sun isn't particularly low), however if you zoom in on the wheat in the foreground, the yellowish haze seems concentrated in the kernel areas, the blades themselves are green (cfr the distinctive wheat patches at knee height to the right of the frontmost soldier). -- MiG (talk) 16:25, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The 'haze' is haloing from excessive use of tone mapping, probably from a highlight reduction tool in an image editing program. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:34, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Juan Aguacate battling in the underworld
Reason
Is a high quality image depicting guacamelee gameplay as well as metroidvania and beat-em-up elements. Its a free image thanks to WP:OTRS
Articles in which this image appears
Guacamelee!
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator
Drinkbox studios via WP:OTRS
PS: – Nominator's user page has been blocked indefinitely as a sock puppet of User:Eltomas2003, which also has been blocked indefinitely. Suggest close. – Sca (talk) 22:11, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 10:15, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalHester C. Jeffrey
Reason
There are two downsides of this image: Firstly, it's froma printed version, and secondly, it's been cut out to the oval shape it was printed in, leaving out the surrounding paper. However, this appears to be the only image of Hester Jeffrey - one of the most important African-American suffragettes - and, so far as I can tell, only the printed versions remain in existance, and this seems to be of substantially better quality than most printings, e.g. An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument: Biographical Facts and Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglas (Guess who worked to make that monument happen, as well as one to her friend Susan B. Anthony? Oh, and guess who was the only non-clergy allowed to speak at Anthony's funeral?). As such, I think it's highly featurable, despite not being ideal. And, hey, if it isn't featureable, it's still worth having been done.
Articles in which this image appears
Hester C. Jeffrey
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People - I'm not sure of subdivision
Creator
unknown, lightly restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Hester Jeffrey.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:34, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – Chartist gathering on Kennington Common on 10 April 1848, by photographer William Edward Kilburn.
Reason
Historic mass gathering for political reform organized by the Chartist movement in 1848 on Kennington Common. Has been the lead image for ten years. Article describes the event here. This is the second nom, the first nom is here.
Articles in which this image appears
Chartism, William Edward Kilburn, and others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator
William Edward Kilburn, restored by Bammesk

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:13, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalJeannette Pickering Rankin
Reason
A very high-quality image, with loads of detail, of literally the first American congresswoman. Before the 19th amendment passed. She literally said that she wished to be remembered as the only woman who voted for women's suffrage.
Articles in which this image appears
Jeannette Rankin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Bain News Service, restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominatorAdam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 20:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Pretty decent for 1917. Did you consider a tighter crop, or is the environment important to the overall theme? Sca (talk) 14:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Sca: I mean, you could crop at the top... but only width really matters on Wikipedia.... you could crop it in towards her on the sides, but you'd lose her legs and knees, or make her uncentred... I think, if we're not using it in galleries or lists, this is a nice, natural-looking crop, and it would be less so if it were tighter. And it's a rather nice, relaxed pose, which you tend not to get so much at the time. And if we're talking about reuse off Wikipedia, the wider focus makes it a lot easier to crop to fit arbitrary dimensions in a layout. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 15:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You're the restoration artist. My brutal journalist's instinct would be to get rid of some of the indistinct jumble at the top, but ... either/or. I do appreciate these historic portraits of women and 'others' – ha! Sca (talk) 15:39, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Other thing to consider is that we have {{css image crop}} - or whatever it is - so we can make arbitrary crops anyway. Admittedly, the top bit had text notes on it before this, so it's probably not as meaningful. But then, File:Jeannette_Rankin_LCCN2014704010.tif - an alternate photograph of the same pose exists, so... who knows, really? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 15:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca: Honestly, it was a realisation about mid-2016: I looked at my featured pictures, and noticed how overwhelmingly white and male they were, and, well... you know. It's in my power to do something about that. And if it means my list is heavily biased to women and people of colour for a while, I'm fine with that. Hell, given I was on wikibreak for most of 2017 and 2018, I've barely started. For comparison, for the 48 FPs of 2015, I had five women, and two people of colour. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 17:21, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I find portraits of certain Native Americans captivating. Faces of character. (Recommended reading: I Will Fight No More Forever, the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.)Sca (talk) 18:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jeannette Rankin, Bain News Service, facing front.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:45, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Original – 73, Chiappini Street, Bo-Kaap (aka Malay Quarter), Cape Town, South Africa.
Reason
A former township, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.
Articles in which this image appears
Bo-Kaap
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
Moheen

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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OriginalSue Gardner in February 2013
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Reason
I think the only objection I could see to this excellent photograph is whether it's too Wikipedia-focused. This is easily dismissed: A. She's had othe major positions outwith Wikipedia. B. She was ranked the 70th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. C. We have a fucking featured picture of Jimbo, so, that's an objection now?
Articles in which this image appears
Sue Gardner, Criticism of Wikipedia, Gender bias on Wikipedia
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Business
Creator
Victoria Will

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 23:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]