Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/September-2020

Promoted File:Crowning Tribhuvan of Nepal (1911) (restoration).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mohiniyattam

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Reason

A quality image of an Indian classical dance.

Articles in which this image appears

Mohiniyattam

FP category for this image

Commons:Featured pictures/People

Creator

Shagil Kannur

• Support as nominator – Shagil Kannur (talk) 12:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – Dancer not identified. – Sca (talk) 13:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sca, the dancer is unknown and unimportant here. This photo was taken from a dance competition. --Shagil Kannur (talk) 14:03, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's an established policy not to promote photos of anonymous individuals on the Main Page. – Sca (talk) 16:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Then, nothing to say. This is a fine example of Indian classical dance. Thus, it should be promoted. The performer, a school student, was one among the many participants in a dance competition, not a well known dancer at all. The highlight here is the Indian classical Dance. I hope you consider the above facts.--Shagil Kannur (talk) 17:53, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And let me see where the above mentioned policy has been stated.--Shagil Kannur (talk) 18:10, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Identity is not required for FP. And FWIW, FP and POTD are not the same thing --Muhammad(talk) 07:26, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• There is no such policy. The guidance is the instructions on top of this page and the FP criteria, and neither mention the main page. Bammesk (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Unknown but Support. Evan0512 (talk) 20:07, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose For a dance, a still photo (particularly a still photo only showing a small part of the body) is not terribly educational. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:17, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – the article is about the dance so a full body photo would have more EV (encyclopedic value), FP criterion #5. This photo would meet the EV criterion if the article described (say in a paragraph) this upper body pose, but I don't see that in the article. Also as a technical critique, the crop is too tight on top and left side. Bammesk (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
•  I withdraw my nomination --Shagil Kannur (talk) 04:59, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:46, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:46, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Sep 2020 at 09:51:20 (UTC)

Reason

An unusual image I found looking through the table of the events leading up to the United States Civil War. According to our article on the relevant ship in question, the image is not 100% accurate as it contains omissions and the ship in question is known to have hauled for more slaves then depicted here, however the same article states with citations that "...this image has become the one most used to depict conditions on a slave ship" and asserts that the image "...has become an iconic image of the inhumanity of the slave trade." Submitting here for community consideration of an FP star.

Articles in which this image appears

Brooks (1781 ship), La Bouche du Roi (artwork), Slave Trade Act 1788, Slave ship, Thomas Clarkson, Triangular trade, Zong massacre

FP category for this image

Not entirely sure; best options I think would be Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water, Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others, or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams, depending on how its viewed.

Creator

Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

• Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 09:51, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose - needs restoration. There's also some text on the bottom left that is cut off. MER-C 10:54, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @MER-C: The text is physically cut off in the original, as you can see in the uncropped version. I'm not sure we would want to do a restoration on this as most of the damage is from tears, folds, and stains, rather than dust and scratches that you get on a photograph. Making such substantial alterations might affect the image's role as a verifiable historical document. But I would defer to Adam's opinion on this. Kaldari (talk) 21:52, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Looks like the text is cut off on LOC original too. From seeing several illustrations on Wikisource, the text plausibly contains authorship information so it's important to the historical veracity of the document. MER-C 16:38, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• ...What's the source of this? It doesn't appear to be the LoC.
  FPs 06:34, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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  • @Adam Cuerden: Since the LoC seems to have the physical document (they have 2 different photographs of it and it's housed in their Rare Book Reading Room) and I wasn't able to find another high res version on the internet that pre-dates ours, I imagine the uploader acquired it directly from the LOC Prints and Photographs Division (which you can do for a fee). I've done this myself for images where the version on the LoC website was sub-standard, e.g. File:The Horse in Motion high res.tiff. This would also jive with the uploader's comment: "Higher resolution from LoC source". Unfortunately, the uploader retired many years ago, so we can't find out from them directly. Kaldari (talk) 21:58, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I'd like to know a lot more about this particular print and its significance. The Brooks illustration was widely-distributed in a wide assortment of versions; the first, by Elford in 1788, seems to have simply been a single plan view with accompanying text (possibly this); this was then added to in a 1789 broadsheet. Many subsequent versions were made, of which this undated version seems to be one. Given it's not in great condition, I'd want some reason to believe it is both a historically-significant printing, and that no copy of this printing in better condition can be found. TSP (talk) 15:02, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Emu

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Sep 2020 at 10:32:41 (UTC)

Reason

About to be featured unanimously on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Emu

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

JJ Harrison

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:32, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 03:04, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Muhammad(talk) 07:38, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support
  FPs 02:05, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Kaldari (talk) 21:24, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:18, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Emu 1 - Tidbinbilla.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:46, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Eurasian nuthatch

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Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons last year. This bird is 14 cm long, so difficulty is harder than it seems.

Articles in which this image appears

Eurasian nuthatch

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Isiwal

• Support as nominator – MER-C 10:36, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 03:07, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support but needs a selective denoise on the tail --Muhammad(talk) 07:38, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --Gnosis (talk) 20:11, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support
  FPs 02:08, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Support as the good lead image of a featured article. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Kleiber Sitta europaea-0447.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]