High quality large image. FP on Commons. Illustrates article well. On previous nomination (Jan 2018) received one support vote (Bammesk) apart from mine and no oppose votes.
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Original – White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii), east of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
CSS image crop, to show a possible fix. Could also be cropped in a bit on the sides.
Reason
Endangered and in my experience are normally pretty difficult to approach - they'll take off if you get with 100 meters. I woke at around 4am drove two hours before dawn and set up with a Ghillie suit in what turned out to be just the right place to get the shot.
Comment: Amazing bird with gorgeous beak, great light, but I find the blurry foreground a bit intrusive aesthetically. Why not truncating it over the black area? -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:26, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The use of 'Intentionally', Janke, is accurate, because JJ has said he takes images from a POV close to the ground. A higher POV wouldn't have the blurred foreground in the shot that JJ likes. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:10, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The bird looks great, but the "banding" of the picture is a bit too much for me. JJ's images of birds on the ground or sea tend towards this a bit, and it's usually fine, but, here, it seems particularly overpowering, kind of like it was shot super-widescreen, and then a blurry area was added top and bottom to fill in. The divide between sharp and blurry is such a sudden transition, and perfectly level - maybe the top blurry bit is actually a transition in whatever's behind him, but it's still really distracting. That said, it gives absolutely amazing results for birds in branches, like the ones below, so...
So would I, but with a little more headroom than in the example, and slice off a bit on both sides, this doesn't need to be a panorama... --Janke | Talk13:59, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support – There is an FP in there somewhere. Consider me a full support after some cropping along the lines described above. JJ Harrison seems to be away currently and I hope they return in time. If not, an immediate renomination is certainly warranted. --- Coffeeandcrumbs01:22, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – there is a better image here, it has more resolution on the bird itself, and better lighting IMO. So I am leaning to oppose the nom image in favor of the other image. My opinion on the nom image: I am Ok with the background bokeh, the foreground isn't too distracting, per Basile Morin above I think it would be an improvement if the bottom ~10% of the image is cropped out (the black or darker portion of the foreground). Bammesk (talk) 02:10, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support, either version, but the aspect of the cropped one now looks too elongated, and tight at the top. I would have kept the same ratio W/L and just got rid of the bottom. Well... -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:25, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not quite what I meant - I can see it's in the source, but this is something I've seen appear in edited files, and it's a pretty common type of bad edit on the internet. It's not that major here, though, and delist and replace is an option if we get better. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs04:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow. That is... of its time. Almost uncomfortably so, especially the bit where the narrator all-but-encourages the soldiers to look at the women's breasts during the exercise scene. Amongst others. But it IS useful in many ways as a document of its time. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs11:24, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just to note, I've tried to find and fix all damage, but as it's 8000x6000 px, it's possible I missed something. Tell me if you see anything. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs19:23, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Dean Emma Gillett, the lawyer who founded the Washington College of Law specifically to allow American women to become lawyers while established universities were refusing admission.
Reason
A very nice photograph, and of a very notable person
Wikipedia says so, so it must be true. (But in this case I think it's accurate.) "whilst [is] often considered archaic in American English" ... "The usage of whilst is chiefly British" ... "In American English, whilst is considered to be pretentious or archaic". —David Eppstein (talk) 07:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The plumage is very patchy - possibly a juvenile, but not really good EV in any case. Visible halo from use of the highlight reduction tool to artificially darken the background. Poor quality lighting from mid day sun misrepresents typical appearance because of the harsh shadows, especially the underparts to appear black when they're not. Bird looks weirdly squashed distorting perspective and proportions because the photo is taken from an excessively steep angle, presumably you were looking up too steeply at the perch. Whole image seems to be unsharp, possibly from excessive noise reduction or heat haze or a mixture. Despite this the whole image is noisy for something taken in bright sun, especially in the darker parts and in the background. Cyan cast to white balance. Blown highlights on the feet and the stick. P.S. Did you report the band number to the appropriate authority? You can often find out about the history of birds by doing so. JJ Harrison (talk) 09:55, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comments on image are fair. Analysis is flawed. 1. It's not a juvenile. 2. Highlight reduction tool not used. Background was lightened (not darkened) slightly using faded auto tone. 3. Taken at 10.30am , not midday. 4. Noise is typical of EOS80D body. 5. Since I was with one of the leaders of the [1], the comment on reporting is hardly relevant. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:05, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) in Sämstad Harbor, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. There is some red hornweed (Ceramium virgatum) at the top right.
Reason
Algae are very underrepresented in our FP collection - there's only one other image. Shows this seaweed in its natural environment (shallow water) which makes the execution more difficult. Was featured on Commons this month.
Comment – not sure about the surface reflections and the wow factor. A polarizing filter could have removed the surface reflections. Perhaps better lighting conditions for wow factor? These two [2], [3] have better wow factor, but they have other problems! Bammesk (talk) 14:04, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, the photo is taken at noon on a clear day with the sun blazing down on the wrack, you can't get any more light than that. Unfortunately, the water 'steals' so much of the light and a polarizing filter is not an option for the same reason. I've tried it and I had to go way up high in the ISO then to get a short enough time with a reasonable DoF since things in water move constantly. --cart-Talk14:47, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support But I would have appreciated more sharpness on the tail. But that's such a common thing in bird photography I have to presume it's difficult to get. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs03:14, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – An Atari 2600 console with a plugged-in controller ready to be played on
Reason
Behold, an image of the Atari 2600, a console from the second generation of video game consoles that sold over 30 million units. I believe this photograph is of excellent quality and meets all the featured picture criteria, with a complete composition captured, a forgivable degree of graininess, and an enticing joystick, well worth over one thousand words. Could it use a resolution higher than the current 3,940 × 2,300? Certainly, but there is enough important detail that nobody can be left dissatisfied, right?
Support@Sca: I used to own one of those. The plastic is textured, and what you're seeing as static is just that texture. They have a fairly rough plastic texture, which, when photographed, is going to look kind of mottled, but that's because it is mottled. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs03:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Odd wording, aye. I think they mean it's plugged in. Since there's no game in it, it's not really ready, is it? (For that matter, no visible power or TV cables) Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs20:44, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Another game console floating in space. I don't understand why people remove the backgrounds. It's a lot of work and just makes the photo worse, IMO. Kaldari (talk) 20:26, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Hattie Wyatt Caraway, the first woman to preside over the Senate, and the first woman elected to a full term in the Senate, pictured in 1914.
Reason
This image has two flaws, both of which I think are minor enough to be ignored: The blacks are rather noisy and there's a mostly-unobtrusive white thing poking in from the lower left. Not too noticeable. Secondly, it's from 1914, which is before she was a senator, so it's the second image in the article, not the lead. I think, though, that it's a very strong, striking image, and it's used (by editorial choice) in quite a few articles. (I myself added it to her husband's article, though.)
@Sca and Charlesjsharp: By the way, I figured out the creator. Figured "Har[...] Wa[...] was probably Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. The LoC gave its copyright entry number, so going to the Copyright Entry book for 1914, and checking under Harris & Ewing, I was able to find the same number with the same description. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs17:35, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I prefer to leave on historical copyright notices unless they're so prominent that they're distracting. It's part of the historic image, and help identify the image's history. This one is so barely noticeable that I thought it negligible - no-one was going to notice it unless they were looking for it - but, especially before I worked out the photographer, I didn't want to remove what little helpful info there was. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs02:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Hubertine Auclert, suffragette and campaigner for women's rights in both France and Algeria, as well as campaigner against colonialist practices designed to keep Arabs subjugated.
Reason
A very nice, public domain image of one of the major French feminists. I really like these sorts of photographs in interesting rooms. They add a bit of life to things
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Original – Panorama of Hong Kong's harbour and skyline, as seen from Victoria Peak on a rainy night of June 2019
Reason
This is one of those FP substitution nominations - the intention is to replace the existing FPs File:Hong Kong Skyline Restitch - Dec 2007.jpg and File:Hong Kong Night Skyline.jpg. Has superior resolution and is more up to date and dramatic than the existing FPs. Was seen on Commons FPC last week, where it was featured unanimously.
Neutral. I'm not sure I would replace the previous excellent FPs. I love the Diliff (it has special atmosphere and a more balanced composition) and they show quite a different and unobstructed view. I do agree my picture has a bigger resolution though (but that's stating the obvious). - Benh (talk) 19:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Be bold, you can certainly support your own excellent photo, it won't automatically delist the other (see my comments below). Oops, just noted you don't have the required number of edits to vote... --Janke | Talk12:38, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, for the high resolution. I prefer to retain the other two FP images (different decade, composition, dynamic range). I see more wow factor in the other two images at full screen (not full size). Bammesk (talk) 02:52, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Even though Diliff's photo is better in some respects, this one is definitley worthy to be FP. No need to delist the other, we can well have two somewhat similar FPs. --Janke | Talk12:34, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I think I prefer the rectilinear projection and narrower field of view of Diliff's image, especially as none of these appear in Hong Kong any more, but then there is an argument to say that a newer image that presumably better represents the current skyline has better EV. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:06, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The camera appears to be pointing to the far left corner of the room rather than to its center. That slight asymmetry makes everything look a little twisted even though the verticals are properly vertical. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:22, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think your eyes are playing tricks on you because the turbines are asymmetrical. Following the streak of metal covering on the floor and the middle gear on the turbines leads you straight through the middle of the room to the middle window in the background. More discussion at Commons:Featured picture candidates --- Coffeeandcrumbs05:55, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
True the camera seems to be positioned in the middle of the room, but it isn't pointed perfectly toward the middle of the end-wall. The end-wall windows aren't centered within the frame (horizontally). The asymmetry isn't large, Support. Bammesk (talk) 14:13, 5 October 2019 (UTC) . . . Also: the article is poorly cited.[reply]
My point is that it looks strange to have the perspective corrected in such a way that the lines that are vertical in 3d are all vertical in the frame but so that the big stripe up the middle of the floor is far from vertical. If the camera were pointing exactly down this stripe instead of towards the corner, then the stripe would line up as vertical in the frame as well. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:00, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, the photo is not symmetrical. Not too excessive, for me, not to support though. The middle window of the background end-wall being off center, and the tiles in the foreground are the two things that standout for me. Bammesk (talk) 19:14, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I don't see a problem with perspective. The photographer has shifted his vantage point for reasons of composition and framing. Image illustrates subject well, detail is excellent. The fact that this hydro plant is nearly a century old and still operating makes for an intriguing FP. – Sca (talk) 12:53, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Iris Calderhead, suffragette, daughter of Kansas RepresentativeWilliam A. Calderhead, who travelled extensively to advocate for suffrage, and who was arrested multiple times while protesting against Woodrow Wilson. Also involved with several organizations in fairly important roles, and did some interesting research, but these captions need kept to a certain length.
Reason
Intense gaze, and, while it's numerically near the minimum size for FPs, the composition, while effective, is unusually zoomed in, which means that you're probably getting about as much or more resolution than you'd get with a larger FP. Plus, I don't think there's any more detail that greater resolution would bring out..
@Coffeeandcrumbs: Edited it out as opposed to trimming, but it's gone. Sorry, I crop last, and while I did carefully check to make sure I got everything from the left - where I was cropping closely to try to get as much of her shoulder as possible - I thought I had cropped in enough on the right that I didn't have to worry. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs04:18, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam Cuerden: No explanation necessary but I am afraid there is still some left-over lines on the right side edge: near eye level, chin level, and going further down. On the left side edge also, near her shoulder and a little bit further down. --- Coffeeandcrumbs04:31, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Another courageous but little known contributor to U.S. political history. (Suggest inserting "against" before Woodrow Wilson in caption above.) – Sca (talk) 12:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Though I've never really thought anyone ever bothers to read these captions once the FPC closes. The POTD blurb is substantially longer, and it's not like we move the blurb to the file description. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs16:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – View of Khor Virap, an Armenian monastery and one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia located in the Ararat plain with the Mount Ararat in the background.
Reason
Picturesque image of this famous monastery. FP on Commons.
It's a very good photograph, high resolution and sharp. It does have some vignetting at the top and sides, but it's minor, and given the paper texture, looks nightmarish to fix. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs21:01, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Leaning to support, but the photo is marred by a strange-looking screen - is it a scan from a printed original, or is it something in the photo itself? --Janke | Talk07:33, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Janke: Pretty sure that's paper texture. This is definitely a scan of a printed copy, but the semi-grid is not as regular as it looks at first glance: It undulates a bit. Looks like paper texture to me. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs12:26, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam Cuerden: If it is a photo of a printed, rasterized copy, that could explain the wavy texture (or moiré). I can't imagine a wavy paper texture like that. But we'll probably never know. --Janke | Talk13:41, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, wait, maybe I'm being stupid. Maybe it's from the deckle, or the paper process included a belt to press it between rollers? I'm able to find linen finishes for paper pretty easily, but historic paper is not my expertise. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs14:10, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, definitely after looking at the original, mounted photo. Thanks for the link, now I know the "screen" is in the original, and not an artefact. --Janke | Talk15:40, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Image is natural, sharp and technically advanced without artificial light or focus stacking. The image has a related image of the whole plant on one wikipedia page. Most plants has trichomes but the combination of trichomes shaped like bear claw on leaf and soft trichomes under leaf is unique for this plant. Some trichomes has a cavity that swell to a circular form when filled with chemical compounds like terpenes and cannabinoids. The reason is unknown. The resin head of the large glandular stalked trichome concentrated around the bracts is 100 µm in diameter. On the lower leaf the smaller trichomes without stalk are visible. Year 1772 Dr.Carl von Linné summarized the plant with the words "Narcotica Phantastica Dementans Repellens" ~Visionary drug (that) repell madness. Skalle-Per Hedenhös05:15, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
ok thanks for opinion. I may agree but with this composition (close-up) more focus reduced the sharpness at the most sharp point. The technical limits are pushed. This may not be the most beautiful image as a thumb but it is best for wikipedia. This plant is about biochemistry. Image represent. Skalle-Per Hedenhös20:02, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor quality image. Limited depth of field should never, per se, be an issue, providing it draws the users eye to a key element of the image. But this fails in that respect, and communicates nothing about the plant, nor does it have much aesthetic value (COI declaration: I'm the author of a botanical Flora (publication) with experience in image selection. I would never choose this one, unless desperate!) Nominator's recent posts at WP:TH (now subsequently blocked per WP:NOTHERE) suggest they are POV-pushing cannabis-related themes. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:16, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Marguerite Durand in 1910. I don't think I can do better in summing her up than the first sentence of her article: "Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, stood for election, had a pet lion and now has the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand named for her."
Reason
It may be a smidgen over-exposed, but it does seem to have all the expected detail.
You could really argue for a lot of categories under People, but I think I'll go with Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political, given she's probably most famous for her suffragette work and political campaigns for feminism.
We don't have many pictures of interiors of religious buildings that aren't churches. Was seen on Commons FPC last month, where it was featured unanimously.
I can Support it now. Though I really wish ITN wouldn't crop images for everyone just so they could not have to upload a new file for themselves. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs21:09, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I think the direct-flash lighting is unnecessarily unflattering. The Bluest Eye portrait Adam C suggests seems like a better choice to me. Or there are several much higher quality but unfree more-recent shots of her visible on a Google image search, if we could somehow acquire the rights to one of those. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:39, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High EV and this image stands out not just among commons images of this gate but on a broader image search. I think the flat lighting helps bring out the detail and the stormy skies work well to add drama (maybe because I remember this place from a stormy day). —David Eppstein (talk) 04:27, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Ada Flatman, one of the leading British suffragettes, who, when the suffrage organisations of Britain agreed to stop work until after WWI, decided to move to the U.S. and joined Alice Paul to become the business manager of The Suffragist.
Reason
The archives of the National Woman's Party are a treasure trove of material, and, with the 100th anniversary of U.S. suffrage coming up, and the 100th anniversary of U.K. suffrage just past, I want to do what I can (and, yeah, I say that a lot. It's because I can do a lot). This image of Ada Flatman is lovely, and, given the size of the photo, it's about a 500dpi scan. I don't think we're missing any detail. I've added a little more headroom, and removed an egregious stick-on Harris & Ewing label, which was just translucent enough that I could see the tiny bit of dress covered by it through it, so no real detail was lost.
@Coffeeandcrumbs: This one is the original one and the higher res one was upscaled with GIMP. I dont' know clearly what the policy is when it comes to upscaled images so I put the original. Swapping it out would be pretty easy. Taewangkorea (talk) 22:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Clearly oversaturated. The colors are totally fake. The whole image is overprocessed. Very bad image to document the park: it doesn't look natural at all -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:43, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Again, still going through the National Woman's Party records. Alice Park was one of the most important California suffragettes, as well as doing a lot of other good, for instance, she brought Arbor Day to California, and made sure that Californian women had a right to guardianship of their minor children. Article lacked any images of her before this, and I don't imagine anyone is going to try to argue that no image is better than a rather good image. She's roughly in her 50s in this photograph, she lived to 100, and did a lot of notable things around that period of time, so I think the timescale works out well for notability.
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Original – Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, who fought against child labor, convict leasing, and prostitution, and decided political power for women was necessary to push through her progressive reforms.
Reason
Another notable suffragette. Visually, her pleasant face and the layered, complex clothing were really interesting, even if I hated the clothing's complexity while restoring it. I've cropped a little on the top (this era of photos tended to leave a lot of headroom, I believe in part to give space to write notes on), but otherwise, it's the maximum available size. I could see cropping a bit on the right side. Article makes an extremely strong case for notability, including governmental appointments.
This youtube video can explain the subject's significance better than me. This photo was taken a year before the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, his second spaceflight and the first joint American–Soviet mission.
Oppose – Photo illustrates nothing about the reason Leonov was known in the Soviet Union. Just another man in suit & tie at a podium. – Sca (talk) 13:13, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Geoffroi and Sca:, are we going to require that Édouard Manet or Elizabeth Glendower Evans have something in the photograph that demonstrates their notability? Why are you making up a special requirement for astronauts and cosmonauts? This is a good portrait and intended to identify the subject of the article (hence the EV). He was made Hero of the Soviet Union twice, the second time for his work on Apollo–Soyuz mission. What more than a mission pin and Soviet Union flag do you want? --- Coffeeandcrumbs23:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Coffeeandcrumbs: I can't make any new requirement, I can only cast my one vote. This portrait is set up by a pro photog, and dozens of people could've been photographed in quick succession. There's no wow factor. The photo of Miss Evans has a striking and strong pose and facial expression. The painting of a painter is OK, though I would also like to see an FP of Manet at his easel. Geoffroi01:06, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – French painter Édouard Manet, who has failed to have a luncheon on the grass with a naked woman this time... or has he? That look in his eyes could argue otherwise.
Reason
I really like this image, and the image is scanned from an large print, which means it's quite big, although, I'm not so sure that, given film grain size, there's much that would have been lost if it was a little smaller. Still, who cares? It looks great quite large, just maybe it doesn't reward zooming in to 100% as much as some images do, and it's pre-1870 according to Gallica, which does put a limit on what we can expect in the fine detail. If anyone spots anything that needs fixed, I'll deal with it tomorrow, as I'm sleeping now. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7% of all FPs05:57, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I think it's a pleasant enough overview of the place, but I have a couple of concerns, not strong enough for me to oppose but enough that I haven't yet decided to support this one. First, is the EV high enough? It's not (and should not be) the lead image for its article, but buried later in the article among quite a few other images. And second, when I search the same subject on Google Images, I see a number of views that similarly juxtapose the town with the backdrop of the mountain, setting it into its surroundings, but most of them are shot from closer in and take the effort to provide some foreground buildings to draw the eye in and set the scale. This image has no foreground; it's all middleground (the town) and background (the mountain). —David Eppstein (talk) 19:53, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is an encompassing aerial view of the town as compared to other images from a lower elevation. Within the article, it related to the content of the section, and shows the town and surroundings in a way that other images don't. We also have a slightly different composition. Bammesk (talk) 21:20, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Bammesk: I slightly prefer the other composition as it gives a sense of where the camera is, but, if we're adding it as an Alt, we'd have to notify everyone and it could be awkward and screw up the nom. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs23:53, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Adam, I see your point (although some may find the foreground, lower left, distracting). There are pros and cons for either image. I prefer the current nom image (it shows the left side ski slopes clearly, the site of 2026 winter Olympics), but the other composition is a valid option too. You could introduce an alternate or do a delist and replace at a later time. Bammesk (talk) 01:30, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Her being a early female doctor might be enough, but she was also a notable suffragist, and, well, do I need to talk about women's suffrage anniversaries coming up still? I think we all know.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is a major cultural artifact but unfortunately for us it will remain under copyright for another 40+ years. Fred Rogers had a very distinct manner of speech that is difficult to truly understand unless you see and hear it. This video serves to demonstrate that very well. It also offers many encyclopedic details including explaining how his public broadcast show was funded. To boot, Rogers recites the lyrics to one of his songs, lays out in a few sentence his point of view on childhood psychological development, mental health, and how he incorporates that into his programming. Rogers was a great man, ahead of his time, and this video perfectly encapsulates his work. Watch it to the end for a happy ending.
Strong Support - This clip gets me every time -- I didn't realize we had a copy. Great educational value for multiple articles, of course. For anyone who wants to see more of one of the most wonderful human beings, see Won't You Be My Neighbor?. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 19:21, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We're actually surprisingly weak on Canadians, because the Canadian archives tend to be pretty tightly locked. Flora MacDonald Denison was one of the big Canadian suffragettes, and I quite like this image of her, even if removing the writing on it took hours. If I could convince myself it was definitely her signature, I might've kept it, as it is, though...
This is a really nicely framed photograph. Admittedly, she's looking right, and Wikipedia preference would be looking left, but otherwise, it's excellent, and, honestly, it can always be left-aligned in uses outwith her main article. High-resolution, detailed, and well-shot.
Support either – The mind's eye will fill in the cut off hands in the orig, but Alt1 is probably a better composition. – Sca (talk) 14:06, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Geoffroi, MER-C, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Sca: Hate to do this, but every time I scrolled by this, I kept going "...That hat is really big for that crop..." So I've added a bit more into the crop at the bottom as a counter-balance. I'll poke you on the talk pages as well, I just didn't want to push forwards something I'd regret. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs22:26, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Joy Young, later Joy Young Rogers, outside the White House with a basket of flowers in which was a request for suffrage and letters of support.
Reason
Hey, guess who's ill? ...Yep. Have a lot of time to work today, so put, probably about 4-5 hours each into three images and did basically nothing else. Fun! But, on this image: It's a woman doing something of note: Delivering a request for suffrage to the White House (seen behind her).
Would there be any merit in applying an S-shaped contrast curve to increase contrast on the face, which seems the most important part of the photo and is currently rather low-contrast? Or is that too much meddling? TSP (talk) 15:28, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – EV is good and quality fine - might be possible to bring out contrast on the face in an edit, but I don't know how the community here feels about that? TSP (talk) 15:28, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca, TSP, Bammesk, and Geoffroi: I've played around with a few things, and think I can up the contrast in the face slightly, but light hair, light-coloured eyes, and light skin all come together here a bit. I'm going to upload a tweak. Note that more extreme adjustments were running up against the limits of the film, and looked awful. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs11:48, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – French General Georges Ernest Boulanger, whose attempts to bring back monarchism and conservatism to France created a crisis in the republic.
Reason
I think it's a fine image; I mean, it's by Nadar, and the old image was rather degraded and lacked a source, which is always a bad thing. I like it. Nice composition. I mean, he's probably not that good of person: He's part of a failed proto-fascist takeover of France, but I'm the editor of the featured pictures section of the Bugle, and I'm not sure we've had a single MILHIST FP yet this month. Eep. [ETA: Well, we have that WASP documentary, but still...]
Weak support; weak solely because when I opened it, my partner said "Has that bird got a big crest?" - perhaps the leaf is regrettable. I'm willing to strike the weak if this is a bird that is particularly shy. Josh Milburn (talk) 19:05, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gorgeous. Maybe a little bit of blown highlights, but only slightly if so, as there's a lot of texture even in the bright whites. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs07:42, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Sahar Moghadass is an Iranian vocalist, musician and dancer.
Reason
High quality image of an Iranian singer. Actually government of Iran bans women singers and find a high-quality image of them in commons is very difficult!
About copyright please see photographer's description; About corresponding article I have to say the Persian Wikipedia has strict policy about musicians (Bahram Nouraei is one of the most famous Persian rappers, but I've been trying for a long time to make his article on the Persian Wikipedia!); In addition as I said Iran bans women singers and most of the sources can't write about women singers! --Maometto97 (talk) 20:38, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support The BBC and Tehran Magazine sources probably push her above WP:GNG, and the deletion discussion has been closed as kept, after the uploader gave a good explanation of their appearance elsewhere. I'm AGFing on the Persian-language sources, and the article sourcing is, indeed, crap, but I think we need to seperate article reviews from FPC reviews to SOME extent. I'll throw the article to WP:WikiProject Women in Red. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs19:47, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Looking at other uploads from the uploader, their photos appear to be heavily photoshopped. We should not promote photos edited to remove natural imperfections present in the main subject. I am fine with using them on articles but not for FP. --- Coffeeandcrumbs00:27, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I agree with both MER-C (we should not reward undisclosed paid editing sockpuppet rings with front-page exposure) and Sca (this is a generic-looking publicity/glamour shot). —David Eppstein (talk) 19:44, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Cleaning up some stuff in the Nadar article. There's a few options to restore from for this image, but this one seemed to have the best combination of detail, and lack of missing parts. The damage didn't require any massive reconstruction work, letting this be more accurate and less replaceable.
Given that one has so little detail in the lower half due to damage, I suspect that it wouldn't be that profitable. I think the film grain size is decently above the pixel level with this copy, so I don't think there's much real detail to be lost by using this as a source. Thank you for your careful analysis, I'll get to it. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs00:25, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The other one I've been working on today. A fine image of the Persian Shah, from one of his visits to France. I really doubt I can keep up this rate of creation much longer, by the way: It's eating up literally whole days while I've been ill.
I'll get that sorted as soon as Mott's up. This is the trouble with colour adjustment after restorations. Might bring something out. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs00:38, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will say that this was the best of Nadar's photos of him. Whether through degredation or otherwise, some of them looked a lot worse. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs21:14, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Eileen Collins at the commander's station on SpaceShuttleColumbia during the first day of STS-93. This was her third space flight and the first of two missions as commander.
Reason
Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a Space Shuttle and the second to command any space mission on STS-93 which launched on 23 July 1999. She is pictured here on the first day of flight at the commander's station.
Support Super-crowded, but it's an action shot, and I can accept that as part of the EV of her doing something notable for the first time. Colour balance typical of 90s film. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs01:25, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Coffeeandcrumbs:Support "before", but oppose "after" version; the paper and grey instrument panel are blueish in the edited version - check RGB pixel values! Also, the original color is typical of early digital cameras, IMO we shouldn't mess with that... PS: Can't get the original to display, someone please fix, thanks! --Janke | Talk18:07, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Janke: Impressive! It's clearly imitating 90s film. though: it has that kind of pseudo-Technicolor-colour balance, which is very 90s. It's not exactly natural, but I'm not going to vote against a historical shot because it uses historical colour balance. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs15:38, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam Cuerden: Impressive indeed! But in 1995, the camera cost US$35,600! See: Kodak_DCS_400_series - My own Canon bought in 2000 for about $2000 only had a 2 Mpix sensor... back then, the color balance was very similar to this, and the other digital cameras at the time. Now, they all are significantly better; photos taken with my current 24 Mpix, $1000 Canon are well-nigh perfect in that respect. Better Bayer filters, perchance? --Janke | Talk17:43, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very high EV, which overcomes marginal byte count. Good quality and sharpness; clutter adds to the 'you-are-there' impact. DonFB (talk) 04:12, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The high EV of this in-action shot makes up for cluttered composition. I don't have a strong preference between the before and after versions but the comment that the color balance is "typical of early digital cameras" tips me towards the untweaked colors. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:45, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - poor sharpness, lacking detail. Smartphone cameras are highly unlikely to produce photos that meet FP standards. MER-C09:57, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The softness is enough to oppose by itself, but I'm also not convinced that the purple sky is real. There's a band of bluer sky near the horizon that looks a bit more natural; it makes me suspicious that the colors have been altered and that the green water (which really can be seen in some other images of the same place) has also been boosted. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:25, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – The dinosaur ridge at Seoraksan
Reason
In my opinion, this image provides the best representation of Seoraksan and the dinosaur ridge, out of all the images around Commons. Getting a good picture of the dinosaur ridge is difficult due to heavy fog created when the evaporated water from the eastern sea of Korea meets the cold air at the top of the ridge, creating large amounts of fog (from the article). This is partially why parts of the image is obscured and hazy. This was taken at the same point and time as my previous nomination, but without as much jpg artifacts, and minor processing. (I am in the process of expanding the dinosaur ridge article to take it to a dyk sometime soon).
Weak oppose. The color is much better this time around but the lighting is a bit flat and drab, the detail soft, and the high-contrast edges too haloed from unsharp masking. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:56, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Anti-slavery and women's rights campaigner Lucretia Mott.
Reason
On the downside, this is very late in her life. She's probably over 80 in this photo. On the upside, she was still working right up to the end of her life. As the article quotes Jacobs as saying, "When Mott died in 1880, she was widely judged by her contemporaries... as the greatest American woman of the nineteenth century". Signature is pretty obviously hers, when compared to other examples.
Oppose for now - Photo's alright; not the best of Charles' work, but a good, identifying shot - as you'd expect from him, frankly. Mediocre Charles is still pretty darn good. But the article being literally a sentence and an infobox just kills this nom for me. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs22:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Crystal Eastman, suffragette, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, her work also resulted in the first workmen's compensation law amongst a string of other successes.
Reason
The co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union is pretty notable, and I like this dynamic photo of her. And, hey, insomnia. May as well do SOMETHING with that, if I'm going to be woken up at 5 a.m.
Get up, take an acetaminophen, go back to bed and relaxxxzxzzz. – Sca (talk)
I don't like asking this, but are we okay as to copyright with this? I thought that at least most of the US lacked Freedom of Panorama, but the case feels a little more ambiguous than most - based off of an out of copyright original, anonymous, owned by the city... Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs17:27, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In the U.S., any photograph taken on public property or of (a subject on) public property is fair game, unless it's been published in a copyrighted medium. European laws may be more restrictive, as Google's 'Street View' found out in Germany – where Datenschutz (information privacy) law is strict with regard to people's faces. – Sca (talk) 13:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't know about the panorama rule, which seems minor and obscure. But I see the target article is stub-ish and sketchy, which leads one to question EV. – Sca (talk) 13:05, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Freedom of Panorama is not a minor issue for photos of artworks nor even (e.g. in France) for photos of modern buildings. I agree that this image seems to be problematic with respect to that issue. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:31, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Poster for Enrico Guazzoni's 1913 film, Quo Vadis, one of the first ever blockbusters.
Reason
A nice poster for a short, but rather good film article, which includes the film in question. Fun fact: This was actually easier than some of the suffragettes. Took a while, though. It was kind of divided into six by cracks caused by folding. Which I had to fix.
This is one of the requests I got. Not particularly hard, but I think the results are worth it. Typical 1910s-1920s fadeout at the bottom, which I think is fine; nothing too awful to fix. I did spend some extra time on the face, as that always seems to pay dividends. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs23:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca: Insofar as it helps, this is kind of an era where soft focus was considered artistic. I believe it's the best image we're likely to get of her, but I do see your point. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs09:24, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]