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Giacomo Puccini

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Original – Giacomo Puccini in 1924, the year of his death
Reason
Little smaller than I'd like, but appears to be at around the film grain size, so I don't think there's much lost detail, and Puccini is hard to find good photographs of. First (here) of a set of images released by the Archivio Storico Ricordi.
Articles in which this image appears
Giacomo Puccini
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Attilio Badodi; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Giacomo Puccini (1924) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO003293 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 06:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Rosa Raisa

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Original – Photograph of Rosa Raisa sent to Tito Ricordi.
Reason
A really very nice image. Kind of your standard "bad, but not that bad" restoration: A couple corners to recreate, but just of a bokeh-style backdrop, a couple cracks, that sort of thing. Looks more impressive than it is.
Articles in which this image appears
Rosa Raisa +1
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Herman Mishkin; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 06:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Madama Butterfly

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Original – Set design for the première production of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Reason
How about one of the Ricordi archive set designs? I think this is a particularly stunning watercolour.
Articles in which this image appears
Madama Butterfly
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Alexandre Bailly and Marcel Jambon; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Collina presso Nagasaki, bozzetto di Alexandre Bailly, Marcel Jambon per Madama Butterfly (1906) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000079 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 00:39, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Helena Hill

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Original – Helena Hill (married name: Helena Hill Weed) was an American Suffragette and one of the first female geologists in America
Reason
One of the better-shot photographs of suffragettes. It's quite a nice image, good resolution, and the suffragette is notable enough. Also, yes, I know I have a lot of nominations. A few of them were delayed by various things, so I've been collecting finished ones.
Articles in which this image appears
Helena Hill
FP category for this image
Presuming we're focusing on her suffragette work, most suffragettes have been put in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Harris & Ewing, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Harris & Ewing - Helena Hill Weed.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 22:02, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Green terror

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Oct 2020 at 16:51:11 (UTC)

Original – A green terror (Andinoacara rivulatus), gold morph
Edit 1 – Removed background noise
Reason
Recently unanimously featured on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Green terror
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish
Creator
H. Zell

Promoted File:Andinoacara rivulatus - Karlsruhe Zoo 01 edit1.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 17:05, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Gabrielle Ray

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Original – Gabrielle Ray, popular star of Edwardian-era musical comedies
Reason
A really stunning image of her. Composition is top notch. Going with a local copy out of what is likely an abundance of precaution.
Articles in which this image appears
Gabrielle Ray
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Foulsham and Banfield, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Gabrielle Ray (c. 1910) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002691 - Restored version.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 20:16, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Mount Andromeda from the Athabasca Glacier

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Oct 2020 at 00:16:40 (UTC)

Original – Mount Andromeda from the Athabasca Glacier, geologists studying the glacier are on the left.
Reason
Quality image
Articles in which this image appears
Mount Andromeda (Alberta)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator
Ethan Sahagun
  • Support as nominator – Sahagunethan ( talk) 00:16, 28 September 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment. I'm split on this one. On the one hand, it has a clear view of the whole mountain, unlike File:Mtandromeda.jpg which only shows a closeup of the face and File:Icefields Parkway near Columbia Icefield.jpg where Mount Athabasca is more prominent in the foreground with Mount Andromeda behind it. And it is the lead image of its article. On the other hand the light is dull compared to either of those other two photos and I think the sense of scale given by the people in foreground is a false one (the people are much closer than the mountain causing them to appear much larger in the photo than the features of the mountain behind them). — David Eppstein ( talk) 17:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment – There is loss of sharpness on the left and the right side. I agree with David, the lighting is dull. It reduces the wow factor. Bammesk ( talk) 03:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 02:43, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Tannhäuser, Act III

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Oct 2020 at 01:08:02 (UTC)

Original – Tannhäuser, Act III set design
Reason
A fine, early-production image by notable set designers, and really colourful and lovely to boot. from the same set as the previously-featured File:Max Brückner - Otto Henning - Richard Wagner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung.jpg though I did treat which I nominated differently as the image is on a separate paper to the mount, and was slightly tilted relative to the mount in this case. A CSS crop cannot rotate.
Articles in which this image appears
Tannhäuser (opera)
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Max and Gotthold Brückner, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Tavola 5, bozzetto di Gebrüder Brückner per Tannhäuser (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON011721 - Restoration, crop.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 02:51, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Oct 2020 at 07:09:56 (UTC)

Original – Self-portrait of Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster (1609–1660), painted circa 1630, from the National Gallery of Art.
Reason
Self-portrait of Judith Leyster, a notable woman artist of the Dutch Golden Age, used as the lead image for her article. Typical of her work in composition and execution, showing also one of her unfinished paintings as a scene-within-a-scene. In the National Gallery of Art, with a high-quality scan donated by the National Gallery of Art. (Note that there's also a Google Art Project scan of the same painting, linked from The Proposition (painting); I like the slightly rosier shade of the nominated version from the National Gallery a little better than the slightly greener shade of the Google one, but they're very close and I could go with either. We should certainly avoid the vertically-compressed book scan and the color-corrected version).
Articles in which this image appears
Judith Leyster
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Judith Leyster

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 19:09, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Justice Sukumaran

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Oct 2020 at 04:38:44 (UTC)

Original – Justice Sukumaran
Reason
Portrait of an eminent judge with high quality, good lighting and composition and high EV.
Articles in which this image appears
K. Sukumaran
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Mydreamsparrow
  • Support as nominator – DreamSparrow Chat 04:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Boring composition, but we're hardly oversaturated with images from the Indian subcontinent, so we can add a difficulty-of-acquiring factor Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 18:53, 1 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support good expression -- Muhammad (talk) 11:40, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. MER-C 17:58, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support I'm not a fan of the blank background, but this is a good portrait as it clearly shows the subject and has a hint of character. Nick-D ( talk) 01:59, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - I cropped the image to fix some basic portrait composition problems: subject off-center, eyes below the top-third of image. If you clear your cache, it should look better now. Kaldari ( talk) 20:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment – DreamSparrow, the background has an indistinct vertical line on the right side (dark shade). Is that real? If not, it can be removed. Bammesk ( talk) 14:47, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Bammesk, that is actually a long hair growing from his right ear. I don't think it needs to be removed. DreamSparrow Chat 16:49, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
DreamSparrow, I see the hair, but adjacent to it and to its right, there is a vertical diffused line going all the way to the top. Perhaps that's the paint on the wall?! Bammesk ( talk) 17:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Yes that is shade of wall Bammesk - DreamSparrow Chat 08:45, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Justice K. Sukumaran.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 09:29, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply


La Wally

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Oct 2020 at 20:51:04 (UTC)

Original – Act I costume design for the title character of La Wally (1892)
Reason
A fine illustration, I believe (but cannot 100% prove) from the original production, by noted designer Adolf Hohenstein.
Articles in which this image appears
La Wally
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Adolf Hohenstein, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Wally (soprano), figurino di Adolf Hohenstein per La Wally (1892) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON004639 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 21:04, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Edgar, Act III

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2020 at 03:42:22 (UTC)

Original – Set design for Giacomo Puccini's Edgar, Act III
Reason
Fine illustration of what was probably Puccini's least successful work - and only his second opera - and hence hard to illustrate. Another of the Ricordi images. Didn't think it needed restoration.
Articles in which this image appears
Edgar (opera)
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Giuseppe Palanti [not restored

Promoted File:Vasta spianata presso Courtray, bozzetto di Giuseppe Palanti per Edgar (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000128 B.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 08:22, 12 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Quba Mosque

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Reason
Good quality and EV.
Articles in which this image appears
Quba Mosque
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator – Muhammad (talk) 11:38, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Slight perspective distortion should be fixed. MER-C 17:55, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
    • Sure, can you annotate please? -- Muhammad (talk) 07:32, 5 October 2020 (UTC) reply
      • @ Muhammad Mahdi Karim: Right hand side and background minarets aren't vertical, neither is the building on the right hand side (the inner bit is worse). MER-C 08:20, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Agree with MER-C, but inclined to Support. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 18:33, 2 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - DreamSparrow Chat 07:34, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose, the sky is darker blue when it was taken. Also, there were more white due to exposure. Evan0512 ( talk) 18:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 11:52, 12 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Swami Agnivesh

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Oct 2020 at 07:53:58 (UTC)

Original – Swami Agnivesh
Reason
Portrait of an eminent political leader and social reformer with good quality as per FP standards, good lighting and composition. Very high EV. He passed away last month. Therefore, there is no chance to get a better picture than this in future.
Articles in which this image appears
Agnivesh, Bandhua Mukti Morcha
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Mydreamsparrow
  • Support as nominator – DreamSparrow Chat 07:53, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support, though it you have this at higher resolution, I think it would benefit. Though given its size (an odd number of pixels, indicating a crop to the relevant area), I suspect all the usable photo is there. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 14:57, 4 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support – Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:46, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 12:02, 13 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Platanthera chlorantha

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Oct 2020 at 18:13:13 (UTC)

Original – Platanthera chlorantha, flower
Reason
Was just seen on Commons FPC, where it was featured unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears
Platanthera chlorantha
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator
Ivar Leidus
  • Support as nominator – MER-C 18:13, 3 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment – Rather indistinct due mainly to lack of contrast with BG. – Sca ( talk) 13:58, 4 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support because I don't know if the plant is living or looks like living. Evan0512 ( talk) 18:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • This does kind of seem like your classic Commons-but-not-necessarily-En-Wiki FP. It's very artistic, but the artistry might reduce encyclopedic value (EV) a bit, and EV is much bigger here. File:Platanthera chlorantha LC0225.jpg gives a completely different view that says a lot more about the plant. That said, there's some beautiful detail, so Weak Support Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 20:30, 7 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 19:50, 13 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Marie Stopes

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Original – Marie Stopes in her laboratory at Manchester University, 1904
Reason
I do like photographs of people at work, and this is a nice photo. Second in her article - a more generic head shot forms the lead - but I'd say the best of the two.
Articles in which this image appears
Marie Stopes +3
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science_and_engineering
Creator
Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Marie Stopes in her laboratory, 1904 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 07:06, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Portrait of Wally

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Original – Portrait of Wally
Reason
good quality and EV
Articles in which this image appears
Portrait of Wally
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Egon Schiele

Promoted File:Egon Schiele - Portrait of Wally Neuzil - Google Art Project.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 12:12, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Hope II

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 15 Oct 2020 at 07:19:43 (UTC)

Original – Hope II
Reason
good quality and EV
Articles in which this image appears
Gustav Klimt, Pregnancy in art, Hope II
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Gustav Klimt
  • Support as nominator – Andrei ( talk) 07:19, 5 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 13:56, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. MER-C 18:30, 6 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support, but the references in the article about this painting need improvement. A quick search found Hannah Elizabeth Miller, "A Partner in Their Suffering: Gustav Klimt's Empowered Figure in Hope II", MA thesis, BYU, https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6429/ and Julia F. Dailey, "Reclaiming Gustav Klimt's Artwork Hope II As Vision: Representations of Grief, Maternity and Spirituality", graduate thesis, U Texas at Tyler, http://hdl.handle.net/10950/1331 as possibilities, as well as other scholarly works on broader topics that mention the painting, and a piece in ArtNews involving its provenance [1]. — David Eppstein ( talk) 07:17, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. Josh Milburn ( talk) 18:53, 8 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - DreamSparrow Chat 15:57, 12 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Gustav Klimt - Hope, II - Google Art Project.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 12:13, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply


James Hetfield with Metallica

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Oct 2020 at 20:52:07 (UTC)

Original – James Hetfield performing with Metallica in 2004
Reason
On the upside, it's an excellent photo, especially for the year. Downside, though, is it's usage is on the weaker end of acceptable.
Articles in which this image appears
James Hetfield
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
DallasFletcher
 • From Criterion No. 1: "...has no highly distracting or obstructing elements."
 • Target article doesn't mention the 2004 Ottawa performance outside the photo caption, so I don't see how this 16-year-old pic "adds significant encyclopedic value to [the] article."
 • Hetfield isn't readily recognizable in the pic.
– Sca ( talk) 22:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
My view is that this is a picture of him performing. Pyrotechnics are a regular part of metal concerts, and so it does a good job of showing a typical dramatic moment of such a concert. Just like you ideally wouldn't illustrate a theatrical show by showing actors having a commonplace conversation from it, you'd choose a dramatic moment where there's a lot of action and reaction, you wouldn't try to show "metal musician performing" with a simply-lit sing-into-microphone moment. There's other photographs that cover him not mid-dramatic-performance. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - degree of difficulty is higher than it seems because of the requirement for access. MER-C 18:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Huh? – Sca ( talk) 22:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose, sorry. It's an exciting picture, but I'm not convinced that encyclopedic value is added to the article. Josh Milburn ( talk) 14:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose, performer is not the main subject here. -- Janke | Talk 09:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Good photo of a heavy metal musician at work. I'm honestly baffled by the oppose votes above - this is what big ticket heavy metal performances look like, so there's heaps of EV. Nick-D ( talk) 09:38, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 12:31, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 00:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Jennifer Doudna

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Oct 2020 at 01:15:08 (UTC)

Original – Jennifer Doudna prior to receiving the Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Reason
Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing", along with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She has received several other awards and is active in the field of COVID testing as well. I saw her name on the main-page yesterday and thought this is a good candidate. The photo is a bit grainy, but given the encyclopedic value I think we can take an exception. (sidenote: ISO is 320, I think the grain is an intentional artistic choice.)
Articles in which this image appears
Jennifer Doudna
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Jussi Puikkonen, KNAW
  • Support as nominator – Bammesk ( talk) 01:15, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose - The lighting is overexposed. GamerPro64 04:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support It's only overexposed in the bokeh behind her, which is acceptable, methinks. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 07:14, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose – Poor composition: lack of centering on subject (grainy at full res), subpar DOF, blown, diffuse BG. – Sca ( talk) 13:24, 9 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - per Adam - DreamSparrow Chat 08:00, 10 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose – a snapshot with technical and artistic deficiencies. -- Janke | Talk 09:58, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 03:38, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Port Hills

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Oct 2020 at 17:33:15 (UTC)

Original – Panoramic view of Port Hills and Lyttelton Harbour from Mt Ada
Reason
Was just seen on Commons FPC, where it was featured unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears
Port Hills
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
Creator
Michal Klajban

Promoted File:Lyttelton Harbour (Whakaraupō) from Mt Ada, Canterbury, New Zealand.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 19:54, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Scarlet robin

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Oct 2020 at 17:35:07 (UTC)

Original – A female scarlet robin
Reason
Was also seen last week on Commons FPC and featured unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears
Scarlet robin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
JJ Harrison
This scarlet robin is apparently an orange one. – Sca ( talk) 13:05, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Scarlet Robin female - Blackheath.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 19:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Persicaria maculosa

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Oct 2020 at 17:52:38 (UTC)

Original – Flower of Persicaria maculosa, Canada, 2019
Reason
Quality image, FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Persicaria maculosa
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator
The Cosmonaut
  • Support as nominator – Bammesk ( talk) 17:52, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. MER-C 18:39, 11 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - DreamSparrow Chat 15:56, 12 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Charlesjsharp ( talk) 12:56, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Would've liked more depth of field, but, given the photographers are giving it a pass on that, I'm guessing that's difficult, so, Support Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 19:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • It went through FP on Commons with 8 positive votes. I didn't vote but respect FP voters' opinions. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 10:29, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Persicaria maculosa.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 20:09, 21 October 2020 (UTC) reply


A basso porto

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 22 Oct 2020 at 06:49:45 (UTC)

Original – Set design for Act I of Niccola Spinelli's A basso porto
Reason
Not every image benefits from restoration, especially relatively recent ones well-stored. As such, moving this from my "to do" queue to here!
Articles in which this image appears
A basso porto, Riccardo Salvadori
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Riccardo Salvadori

Promoted File:Napoli, strada Acquaquilia, bozzetto di Riccardo Salvadori per A Basso Porto (1894) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON002556.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 08:16, 22 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Amilcare Ponchielli

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Oct 2020 at 06:36:35 (UTC)

Original – Composer Amilcare Ponchielli, circa 1870s
Reason
While mainly known for one song nowadays - the Dance of the Hours - that's a song almost everyone knows. Many composers don't even have that. Plus, it's a very nice little cabinet card, I think. If we ever get an article on the photographer, it should definitely appear in it, but the lead image of a notable composer is certainly sufficient.
Articles in which this image appears
Amilcare Ponchielli
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Icilio Calzolari, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Amilcare Ponchielli (before 1886) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO000794 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 08:14, 24 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Street Musicians at the Door

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Oct 2020 at 22:21:10 (UTC)

Original – Street Musicians at the Door by Jacob Ochtervelt (1665), from the Saint Louis Art Museum
Reason
High-quality museum scan of a notable artwork
Articles in which this image appears
Street Musicians at the Door, Jacob Ochtervelt, Pythagorean tiling
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Jacob Ochtervelt
Alt 1 - new scan from the museum (slight edit to remove some of the white varnish crackling and adjust levels)
  • Support as nominator – David Eppstein ( talk) 22:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment It's a lot brighter than the original image, and that's not documented. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 04:10, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
    • As far as I can tell, it was automatically uploaded by a bot from the museum image. So when you say "It's a lot brighter than the original image, and that's not documented", I think it would be closer to the truth to say "The image that the museum now makes available is a lot less bright than the one they made available when the bot uploaded it, and they have not documented that change." I think the brighter version looks better; whether it accurately reflects the present level of aging and restoration of the original artwork is of course a different question, but one that without access to the painting itself I have little way of answering. I don't think it would be an improvement to replace with the version the museum currently makes available, though, for a different reason: that version is covered by vertical streaks of distracting white dots, for instance across the face of the taller musician, possibly a combination of cracking in its varnish combined with how it was lit for the scan, possibly because the earlier version (the one we have) included some digital restoration which they later decided to omit. Whatever the reason, it looks worse independent of its choice of light/dark balance. (Also the current museum version appears to be higher resolution and with higher saturation levels, to the point where it looks like the maid has heavy mascara, but again I don't know whether the increased saturation is more or less accurate to the physical object.) — David Eppstein ( talk) 04:55, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
I'll check the histogram once I'm not exhausted and see whether it's blown out at all. That'd be the biggest problem. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 06:31, 15 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support either Checked the histogram, seems fine. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 18:32, 16 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support either – Bammesk ( talk) 15:02, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support either. MER-C 18:39, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Slight oppose original, support alt 1 I think the new scan available from the museum site is substantially superior. The white crackles are fairly easy to deal with, and in any case don't appear in properly-resized versions; and when zoomed in it's substantially more detailed, and looks far more like a real painting. I've uploaded an extremely quick edit (light dust and scratch filter, slight level adjustment) of the new scan; I'd be a bit loath to promote that as is, as it's clearly not a full restoration, but equally I think it already exceeds the old version so I think it would also be odd to promote the older scan. TSP ( talk) 16:27, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply
    • As I hinted above, I think the new scan is a bit oversaturated. — David Eppstein ( talk) 17:08, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply
      • Yes, perhaps - I'm never sure how far it is sensible to depart from the judgement of the uploading museum on these questions (though in this case they have provided two very different interpretations). As I say, I'm sure this could be improved upon; I just felt even this 10-minute edit already exceeded the original. TSP ( talk) 13:45, 21 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support alt 1. -- Gnosis ( talk) 18:29, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Street Musicians at the Door - Jacob Octhtervelt (edit).jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 22:41, 24 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Six-banded armadillo

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Original – Six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), the Pantanal, Brazil
Reason
High quality large image. Illustrates articles well. FP on Commons
Articles in which this image appears
Six-banded armadillo, Chlamyphoridae
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
Charlesjsharp
I see eight. – Sca ( talk) 16:07, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Well spotted Sca ! They have from six to eight, but nearly all the pictures I've seen have eight. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 17:59, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
False advertising, then.  ;) – Sca ( talk) 13:57, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 13:35, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Seedeater (Sporophila sp.) female

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Original – Seedeater ( Sporophila sp.) female, in the Pantanal, Brazil
Reason
High quality large image. FP on Commons. Unusually for birds, it is quite impossible to determine the species of many females of the Sporophila genus from a photo.
Articles in which this image appears
Sporophila
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
Charlesjsharp
You're not thinking outside the box. Maybe it's a Tailless Seedeater.
– Sca ( talk) 13:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 13:36, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Hummingbird hawk moth

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Original – Hummingbird hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) in flight, Yastrebets, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
Reason
High quality large image. FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Hummingbird hawk moth
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator
Charlesjsharp

Promoted File:Hummingbird hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) in flight.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 13:40, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, and Leopoldo Metlicovitz

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Original – Seated: Maria Carrara Verdi (Verdi's adopted daughter), Barberina Strepponi (Verdi's sister-in-law), Giuseppe Verdi, and Giuditta Ricordi (Giulio's wife). Standing: Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari (Verdi's estate lawyer [1]), Giulio Ricordi, and Leopoldo Metlicovitz
  1. ^ This is simplifying a little bit
Reason
Does a nice job at illustrating Verdi in his late life. His companion Teresa Stolz, the Ricordis who helped his career, his adopted daughter Maria Carrara Verdi, his sister-in-law Barbarina Strepponi; Umberto Campanari, brother to Leandro Campanari, and one of Verdi's estate lawyers - every person in this has a strong connection to Verdi, and it's photographed at Verdi's house. Downside is it's a bit busy, and not every person is as relevant to every article it appears in. Arguably a little off-centre, though given the varying elements - the tight group left, loose grouping right; the gap between the trees more left, the statue left, the people stretching further right, and such, the composition feels artistic to me without need of cuts.
Articles in which this image appears
Giulio Ricordi, Giuseppe Verdi, Teresa Stolz
FP category for this image
Probably Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Giulio Rossi, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1900) - Archivio storico Ricordi FOTO003107 - Restoration.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 20:11, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Susan B Anthony

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Original – Susan B Anthony was an American women's rights activist who had a large role in the women's suffrage movement.
Reason
Beautiful drawing of her, high quality.
Articles in which this image appears
Susan_B._Anthony
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Political
Creator
Artist was J.E.Baker of Armstong & Co., Boston, MA.
  • Support as nominator – ButterfliesAreAmazinglyBeautiful ( talk) 12:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose per featured picture criteria: still images should be a minimum of 1500 pixels in width and height. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 12:12, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 13:38, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Wrocław Town Hall

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Original – Wrocław Town Hall. The Gothic town hall built from the 13th century is one of the main landmarks of the city.
Reason
good quality and EV
Articles in which this image appears
Wrocław Town Hall, Wrocław, Gothic architecture in modern Poland
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
Kolossos
  • Support as nominator – Andrei ( talk) 12:29, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Comment – Nom. needs a descriptive caption. In the interest of historical transparency, the text should include the fact that, before 1945, the city was the German Breslau, and that this version of the town hall was built in 1860-1863 as the Breslauer Rathaus. – Sca ( talk) 14:13, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
If they ever used the FPC captions at POTD. Think they usual just grab from an article. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 18:23, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
who are "they" Adam? Someone has to do it and FP noms should have a bit more than three words. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 10:23, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
@ Charlesjsharp: I think there's maybe two or three nominations up at the moment (and one of them is the revised caption to this one) that do much more than simply state what the image is of as briefly as possible. If we all agree this is important and start doing it, fine, but we shouldn't hold a nomination to a standard none of us are holding themselves to. I've listed a couple of my nomination descriptions below. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 23:42, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
POTD is a full, multi-paragraph blurb; no FPC nomination is lengthy enough for that. I'm pretty sure FPC captions are never looked at or used again once the nomination closes. The file description page matters; captions here really don't. Anyway, Support [Edit: Moving this somewhere it can be read more easily] Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 12:38, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
IMO, some summary info about the subject of the pic – no matter what or who – is necessary here for users to make reasonably informed judgments. That seems obvious to me. – Sca ( talk) 14:01, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Well, yes, but how does the link to Wrocław Town Hall not do that? Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 15:30, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Some summary info should be included here for the convenience of users. Quite odd, and unhelpful, to ID the pic with just the name of the file. However, the historical info above was intended also as a suggestion to the nominator. – Sca ( talk) 15:51, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
@ Sca: I don't know. I look down at my and other people's captions below, and, while I might have needed more words to describe historical images, I just don't feel they're really much more detailed. Using only my own work as... you know, I can grant myself permission to do that, I think I am definitely guilty of exactly the same thing you're criticising this nom for:
Those might have a few more words, but do they really provide much more context? And both are passing. Now, whether we should say more might be worth discussion, but it feels odd to only call out this image when, for example, my A basso porto nom had just about as much context, a major typo in the description (just fixed), and is passing without comment. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 23:36, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
@ Adam Cuerden and Sca: As someone who has been doing quite a bit of POTD blurb writing recently, I look at the nomination page and caption, which often provides information not immediately obvious to the observer. The caption is especially important if the linked article is stubby or the image does not have an informative description. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 11:33, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply
@ Cwmhiraeth: Well, I stand corrected! Thank you! Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 20:18, 25 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • This house is original, while there is also a separate "New" building - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neues_Rathaus_(Breslau). I copied a small caption from the main article as well. -- Andrei ( talk) 22:10, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. Good capture of a notable and interesting building, an appropriate choice of lead image for its article, and the human fork adds some flavor of the goings-on in the foreground plaza. — David Eppstein ( talk) 19:07, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Fork? – Sca ( talk) 21:39, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Zoom in on the bottom right. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:46, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Ha! Politics? Selling something? – Sca ( talk) 22:12, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
Fork is amazing, and removing it would be removing a part of the city spirit :) -- Andrei ( talk) 22:10, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support - Just moving my vote here so it's visible. Think it was buried in the conversation above. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Charlesjsharp ( talk) 08:40, 20 October 2020‎ (UTC) reply
someone forgot to sign in above
That was me. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Wroclaw-Rathaus.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 14:09, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Les Burgraves

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Original – Set design for the original production of Les Burgraves (1843), Act II
Reason
It's one of Cambon's prettier illustrations, and it's Victor Hugo's last play, so notable!
Articles in which this image appears
Les Burgraves +1
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Humanité René Philastre and Charles-Antoine Cambon, restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 15:04, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Question is this a substantive enough article? Interested to know where we draw the line as many wildlife articles are very short. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 10:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
It is a fair point. I know that an inufficient article rightly blocks POTD, though I think that there's also the argument that more eyes can be good for getting an article improved. Perhaps I should have nominated this as an example of Cambon's art, or get it into Hugo's article. Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 23:47, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
I expanded it a tiny bit--there's more in the same sources, particularly Affron. I also ran up against a problem: while English-language sources all seem to describe the play as a failure (as does our article), I saw several French-language sources that insist it wasn't (as does fr:Les Burgraves). I'm not sure how to resolve that--my French isn't good enough to evaluate the reliability of the contrary information. blameless 01:48, 21 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Humanité René Philastre and Charles-Antoine Cambon - Set design for the second part of Victor Hugo's Les Burgraves, première production.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 18:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Oct 2020 at 18:58:37 (UTC)

Original – The Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro
Reason
Was seen on Commons FPC last month, where it was featured without opposition. We don't see this part of the world often at FPC.
Articles in which this image appears
Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro, Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator
A.Savin
  • Support as nominator – MER-C 18:58, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. Image quality is good enough to make out much of the detail of the tiled patterns, something I think is important for this subject. — David Eppstein ( talk) 19:10, 17 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Question is this a substantive enough article? Interested to know where we draw the line as many wildlife articles are very short. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 10:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose – An interesting structure, but at 130 words the article is really too short for Main Page promotion. – Sca ( talk) 13:52, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
    • I expanded the article a little, from stub-class to start-class. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:57, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
    Support thanks. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 08:35, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support – Bammesk ( talk) 14:55, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support. -- Gnosis ( talk) 08:43, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 09:36, 19 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support -- A.Savin ( talk) 13:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply
  • Support -- DreamSparrow Chat 15:49, 20 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:PK Hyderabad asv2020-02 img24 Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 20:10, 27 October 2020 (UTC) reply


Frontonia

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Oct 2020 at 16:36:09 (UTC)

Original – Frontonia specimen. The colorful features are swallowed cyanobacteria, the mouth ( cytostome) is on the bottom right.
Reason
Quality lead image and used in several articles. Photo also illustrates the mouth ( cytostome, bottom right) and swallowed cyanobacteria.
Articles in which this image appears
Frontonia, Marine protists, Zooplankton, Marine microorganisms, Marine life
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other lifeforms/Protists
Creator
Wiedehopf20

Promoted File:The ciliate Frontonia sp.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 18:13, 28 October 2020 (UTC) reply


I vespri siciliani

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Oct 2020 at 13:14:34 (UTC)

Original – Act V set design for Giuseppi Verdi's I vespri siciliani by Filippo Peroni
Reason
It's a high-quality image from the Ricordi archive. I do, however, need to give a couple notes: This image is undated, which, unfortunately, does reduce the EV, and, as an Act V set design, this appears well down the article. I think it's still valuable, but that does need noted to the voters.
Articles in which this image appears
I vespri siciliani
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Filippo Peroni, restored by Adam Cuerden

Not Promoted -- Armbrust The Homunculus 13:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC) reply

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