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Featured picture candidates

Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures.

Old candidates for featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things

Nominating

Guidelines for nominators

Please read the complete guidelines before nominating.

This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates:

  • Licensing – Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses.
  • Resolution – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information.
  • Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful.
  • General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality.
  • Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive.
    • For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and color/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful color adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison.
  • Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that:
    • almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others,
    • night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime,
    • beautiful does not always mean valuable.
Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject.

Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable.

Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution − for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself.

Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well.

Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable:

  • Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy.
  • Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art.
  • Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject.
  • Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards.

Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs

On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field.

  • Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp.
  • Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element.
  • Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of thirds" is one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image.
    • Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head).
  • Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph.
  • Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF.

On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, color, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc.

  • Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects.
  • Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors are not good.
  • Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch.
  • Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image.
  • Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side.
  • Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales.
Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition.
  • Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph.
Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations …

You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating.

Video and audio

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations

If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types:

  • Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist.
  • A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same).
  • A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes.
  • A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that).


Adding a new nomination

If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate name, quality, image description, categories and licensing, then do the following.

Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button.

All single files:

For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2

All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination".


Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page.

Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list:

{{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}}

Nominations are time-sensitive and for one-time use only. An automatic clock starts as soon as they are created. Do not create them in advance, save them for later or re-activate them.

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters. They should be added by, or at the request of, the nominator.

An 'Alternative' is created by adding a sub-section to the nomination page: ====Alternative==== [[File:Foo.jpg|300px]] *{{info}} A short description.

Voting

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the following templates:

  • {{Support}} ( Support),
  • {{Oppose}} ( Oppose),
  • {{Neutral}} ( Neutral),
  • {{Comment}} ( Comment),
  • {{Info}} ( Info),
  • {{Question}} ( Question),
  • {{Request}} ( Request).

You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator.

A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above.

Unhelpful reasons for opposing include:

  • No reason
  • "I don't like it" and other empty assessments
  • "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image

Remember also to put your signature (~~~~).

Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture.
{{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore.

This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote:

Text to use Displays as Meaning
{{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as a FP.
{{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement.

If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box:


In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include:

  • Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader);
  • A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page);
  • Your reasons for nominating the image and your username.

After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list.

As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose.

General rules

  1. The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome.
  4. Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5):
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have fewer than two support votes.
    2. Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) This does not apply to nominations containing at least one ‘Alternative’ image – because it is possible that another image can overtake the one in the lead during the last days, such nominations are never closed early.
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum.

Featuring and delisting rules

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, they should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page.
  5. Only two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations.

The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5.

The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions of the image as well as FPXed and withdrawn nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules.

Above all, be polite

Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care.

Happy judging… and remember… all rules can be broken.

See also

Table of contents

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

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File:Priegendorf Kirche-20250302-RM-155839.jpg

Voting period ends on 17 Dec 2025 at 09:15:29 (UTC) (unless closed by the 5th-day rule)
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Catholic branch church of St. Anna in Priegendorf

File:Ciudadela, Carcasona, Francia, 2023-01-08, DD 13-15 HDR.jpg

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Porte de l'Aude in the historic fortified city of Carcassonne, Aude, France

File:Roodbruine schijnridderzwam (Lepista flaccida). 14-12-2023. (d.j.b).jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Grabkapelle auf dem Württemberg Stuttgart Rotenberg 2015 02.jpg

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The Württemberg Mausoleum in the Rotenberg part of Untertürkheim, Stuttgart, Germany.

File:Црква „Св. Ѓорѓи Големомеовски“ - Железна Река (стара).jpg

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The old St. George Golemomeovski Church in the village of Železna Reka

File:Koksöfen in der Kokerei Zollverein.jpg

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View along the several hundred coke ovens at the Zollverein coking plant in Essen, Germany.

File:Mero leopardo (Epinephelus quoyanus), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-23, DD 187.jpg

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Longfin grouper (Epinephelus quoyanus), Anilao, Philippines

File:Brown violetear (Colibri delphinae).jpg

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Brown Violetear Hummingbird

File:Wood carving Andijan Jame Mosque Complex (Мечеть Джами в Андижане, Andijon jome masjidi majmuasi).jpg

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Wood carving Andijan Jame Mosque Complex (Мечеть Джами в Андижане, Andijon jome masjidi majmuasi)

File:Санкт-Петербург, телебашня сверху вниз.jpg

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Saint Petersburg TV tower, top down perspective. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

File:Painted ceiling of the guest pavilion's iwan.jpg

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Painted ceiling of the guest pavilion's iwan. Sitorai Mokhi Khosa palace complex, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

File:Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) 18-01-2025. (actm.) 04.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:South Panorama Taza Morocco Nov25 A7CR 09655-62 PanoC.jpg

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Panorama of Taza from the walls of the old city
I cannot describe the others in words. If you wish, I can make notes on the image (approximate because it is a huge photograph).--Lmbuga (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done @Lmbuga: Thanks for the review. Morocco is a dry, dusty region; while changing lenses in a mirrorless camera it is difficult to keep dust out. I've removed all the dust spots I could find and uploaded a new version. In case you see any more, please place a note on the image. --Tagooty (talk) 03:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see quite a few others in clouds. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done @Ikan Kekek: Thanks -- I've fixed several. Please see the latest version. --Tagooty (talk) 04:48, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I regret to say that there are a large number left, too many for me to try to mark. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:40, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: I found that the opacity setting in LR had inadvertently got reduced; this resulted in only partial removal of spots. I have increased opacity to 100% in all the spots and fine-tuned the removal where needed. Please see the new (final I hope) version. My apologies for the mistake the the extra effort it has caused you. --Tagooty (talk) 09:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Hannover 0321.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Eleutherodactylus planirostris embryos.jpg

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Greenhouse Frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) in Gainesville, Florida, United States
I have the EXIF data, but I don't know how to add it to the file page. Alexander Abair (talk) 22:20, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Alexander Abair, see Template:Photo Information/doc. You could also overwrite the Commons file with the original. Cheers! JayCubby (talk) 23:00, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome! Thank you. I've added EXIF data. Please let me know if any corrections need to be made. Alexander Abair (talk) 23:20, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Schlosskirche in Mannheim (6).jpg

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Ceiling (fresco from Cosmas Damian Asam, 1728) in the Schlosskirche in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

File:Forum et ses annexes vue1.jpg

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

File:Learie Constantine 1930 03.jpg

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Learie Constantine
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Historical/People#1930-1939
  •  Info created by Fairfax Corporation – restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:41, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:41, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question This is not merely restored. Why did you choose to crop out a lot of the original photo and give this version a portrait orientation instead of the original landscape orientation? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:58, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Because you don't write on parts of the image that you intend to be part of the photo as cropped, so there's clear indications of the photographer's intent to crop. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:52, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ikan Kekek: To give a bit more: This is a genre of photographs from the era when travelling by boat was common. Since passengers generally had to wait some time to disembark, newspapers would send photographers onto the ship to photograph anyone famous that was on it. This got you a chatty society article about all the people who were on the ship, and, if they did anything, you had a photograph for the paper. I believe that portable historical cameras generally were rather biased towards shooting in landscape. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:58, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, I appreciate the explanation, but you included some parts of the photo that had writing on them, cloning out the writing. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:05, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    So, to be clear, I'd like more insight into your specific choices of where to crop. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:48, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ikan Kekek: My general rule is use the guides to see intent, but go a little more generous because this firstly maximises reuse potential, and secondly, it helps avoid historic usage from interfering with modern usage (If you look at an image marked for cropping, the crops can be exceedingly tight for newspaper use where the limited size of reproduction and low resolution of halftoning can make a huge difference. Reusers can make secondary crops, but these can only remove material, not add.
    I did consider adding more of the shoulder - the only cropped part in focus - but it made the image really unbalanced: There are certain rules for how portraits get cropped, and including all of the far shoulder at a one-quarter turn.... is not in line with them. To understand why, consider File:Learie Constantine 1930 03 - uncropped.png - the left (for the viewer) shoulder is three to four times the width of the right, vastly unbalancing the image. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Support Thanks. I find myself agreeing with you on these matters of composition. I still think the file description should state more directly that part of the original has been cropped out and is not merely at different dimensions from the original, but it's ultimately probably clear enough. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:32, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      @Ikan Kekek: I've clarified it a bit: put the original dimensions in the more standard width-by-height order, added a thumbnail of the uncropped original, and calculated the approximate dimensions of the crop on the image. Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 11:30, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius podalirius) Afrodisias.jpg

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Scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)

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Romanesco broccoli (Brassica oleracea)

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Artistic composition at the foot of a chestnut shop, designed to attract attention as the shop is not very visible. Sofragal cooperative in Rúa Nova street, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain).

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the timber framed house at the Waldstraße 44 in Saarbrücken-Burbach, Germany

File:011 Plains zebra eye close-up in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Plains zebra eye close-up in Etosha National Park
  • I prefer the version that wasn't in black and white.. I'm even considering withdrawing my vote.--Lmbuga (talk) 03:38, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The original version (first file in history) was pure black and white as stated in the file description. With the second version in the file history I accidently introduced some colors in the image, which I fixed in the latest version. In any case you can't see the difference in colors in the thumbnail version of each file. The black and white presentation of this image serves a purpose: to better showcase the zebra stripes as I explain their role in the file description -- Giles Laurent (talk) 07:53, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling, 1879, Edward Lear

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Ganden Sumtseling Monastery at Shangri-La, Yunnan, China, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery established in 1679.

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Rue Méjane in Estaing, Aveyron, France

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Wolf-Rayet 134 star and nebula

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Artistically designed front door “Rua de Santa Maria 39” (The arT of oPEn doORs), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

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A hiker on the last meters before reaching the summit of the Schneespitze in the Stubai Alps

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Coscoroba swans (Coscoroba coscoroba) pair with cygnets

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Saint Mathieu Point Lighthouse in Finistère, France

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Autumnal colours

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Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, India.

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Buckingham Palace

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Black-headed gull vocalizing

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Building at Klosterplatz 3a in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Rembrandt - The Abduction of Europa

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Camel at toni's zoo - B&W

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Levada to the trout farm (Viveiros de Trutas), Ribeiro Frio, São Roque do Faial, Madeira, Portugal

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Goldcrest

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Crested tit

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Axis axis (Chital)

@Ikan Kekek: As you recommend I am nominating this image. -- Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 09:14, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
  •  Oppose I would love to support this if at least some of the distortion is corrected, but the leaning building and wall is a bit much. JayCubby (talk) 18:48, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I’m sorry to see the opposing votes here, all of which focus on perspective distortion. From my point of view, this is a rare and outstanding example of the intentional artistic use of perspective distortion. It is a well-considered part of the composition and contributes significantly to the impression of extreme spaciousness in the depicted site. --August (talk) 11:19, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I understand your point about distortion. However, there are also quality issues in general. Look at the sky at 100% zoom. It's very noisy and has moiré. In my opinion, the quality is too low, as i mentored earlier in my vote. -- George Chernilevsky talk 14:20, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Malek Timcheh, Isfahan Grand Bazaar

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Grand Canyon, photographer suspended on climber's rope

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Close-up of a lavender flower

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Decorative Entablatures in Koskinou

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Schematic of chemical and transport processes related to atmospheric composition

File:Gorila de montaña (Gorilla beringei beringei), parque nacional de la Selva Impenetrable de Bwindi, Uganda, 2024-02-02, DD 14.jpg

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File:Gorila de montaña (Gorilla beringei beringei), parque nacional de la Selva Impenetrable de Bwindi, Uganda, 2024-02-02, DD 14.jpg
No, no. You have little experience of gorilla thinking... She's thinking 'How lucky I am that this Spanish guy with 1200+ FPs has climbed all the way up here just to see me'. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:51, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hahaha, ;) but believe me, it was really challenging to get there with your own year. Good that there voracious amts that motivated you not to make a pause ;). I also thought that we lose one older guy in the way back Poco a poco (talk) 18:14, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We had our own porters carrying our waterproof backpacks. They earned their pay helping us descend in the pouring rain and mud on the way back. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, FP does not recognize any distinction for image location. I recognize you make good images and travel widely. I am sure that going to the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in 2024 was a challenge. However, Giles Laurent traveled there in 2022 and Charles in 2016, both of whom also have FPs for this species.
By my observation, the focus here is two images of the same gorilla taken by the same photographer, at nearly the same time on the same day at the same location. IMO, your other image with the full-frontal view (already an FP and selected for Picture of the Day for June 15th 2026) is a better and unique portrait of this primate
 Support Given all that, I have looked at this image several times over the last couple of days, and am going to support this nomination as well. It has a different emotional feeling from the other one that is also valid and projected in the image. --GRDN711 (talk) 04:49, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Travelling around the world and taking beautiful pictures for Wikimedia is a privilege enjoyed by very few people. In line with Commons' idea of equality for all, this should not be a criterion for evaluating creative contributions. However, if awards for contributions in a particular subject area are handed out too liberally, it reduces the concept of the award to absurdity.
    A good picture is a good picture, and it doesn't matter who took it, when or under what conditions. In my opinion, this photograph is an outstanding picture, if only because of the moment it conveys. You don't need a big experience in gorilla science to understand, when looking at this picture, that everything in nature is also part of us and must be protected. Isn't it? Syntaxys (talk) 04:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I realize this is a positive statement about this picture, but in terms of the difficulty of taking the shot not being proper to take into account, note this in the top section of this page: "A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph." -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I have no problem with the image itself and have only commented positively on it because it impressed me and, above all, appealed to me emotionally. This doesn't happen very often, which is why I find the image extraordinary.
    What bothers me is how this image is being handled. As GRDN711 has already noted, there seems to be an attempt to push every image in a series through as FP. The author does not make a narrower pre-selection along the lines of ‘this is the best image for me, I nominate this one’, but instead selects two, three or more images of the same motif. This not only reduces the value of an individual exceptional image in this series, but also the value of the award in general. In my opinion, this is also disrespectful to everyone else who participates in this quality assessment.
    Furthermore, I find the statement ‘... this is not a picture from the garden or nearby forest’ to be unjustified. What is difficult about this picture? The journey into the jungle? For a young man, this is certainly less of a problem physically than it is for an older man. Would the photograph be less valuable if it were taken by a young man?
    Or to put it another way: suppose you gave a local person the equipment and training to take such pictures, and they took the picture in passing. Would that picture then be worth more or less?
    Or – without any personal connection – another hypothetical case: It can be almost impossible for a wheelchair user to take a macro shot of a mushroom in the nearest forest. If they do manage it, is this picture more valuable than other mushroom macros?
    The difficulty of taking a picture is very relative and can only be taken into account approximately if you can grasp the whole story. Syntaxys (talk) 04:53, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It is hard work to get to the gorillas, but for the (expensive) hour you are with them the photography challenge is minimal. You are very close and they don't move away. Poor light and foliage in the way are two problems. Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 05:29, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support JackyM59 (talk) 11:29, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Lmbuga (talk) 23:38, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 16:40, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:24, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 09:13, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 07:29, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Christian devotee pays respect and offers prayers at the grave of a family member to mark All Souls Day at a Holy Cemetery in Chattogram.

File:012 Great egret fishing during a foggy day at Champ-Pittet Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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Great egret fishing during a foggy day at Champ-Pittet

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Sunset seen through grass in the nature reserve Südliche Fröttmaninger Heide, Munich, Germany

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Small Dome of Devonaboy mosque, Andijan (Devonaboy masjidi, мечеть Девонабой)
  •  Oppose  Thank you. But what becomes obvious now is, that the camera was not centred exactely so the perspective itself is not symetrical. So unfortunately, I think this can't be fixed in post. --August (talk) 17:27, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Double Dragon Bridge in Jianshui County, China, is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese bridge architecture. It was originally built as a 3-arch bridge in the 18th century and was expanded into a 17-arch bridge in 1839.

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False color image of the Milky Way as seen from the northern hemisphere

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Direct Rail Services' 68 007 and 005 haul nuclear flask train 6C44 11:24 Sellafield - Carlisle Kingmoor over the Hugh's Crag Viaduct south of Penrith, England, UK.
  •  Comment Don't read too much into the Hasselblad name. They may have been involved in the development but the camera itself is a cheap plastic thing with poor quality control (seriously, this is my second Mavic 3, the first one was worse). DJI only cares about video quality and for 4K their cameras are good enough, while their photo quality is mediocre at best. Nothing I can do about that, unfortunately. --Kabelleger (talk) 07:59, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Milky Way with the Perseid meteor shower as seen from the Kokino megalithic observatory

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Anraz village in the Western High Atlas, Morocco

File:Rock Bush-Quail in Bhigwan August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01.jpg

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Rock Bush-Quail (Perdicula argoondah) male

Alternative

  •  Info Perdicula argoondah (Rock Bush-Quail)

@Tagooty, Cmao20, Wobbanight, Poco a poco, Ikan Kekek, and W.carter: I have added an alternative and your views are valued to me. I hope you will take a look, thank you. - Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 06:42, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Open wing puddling on dung of Parasarpa zayla (Westwood, 1850) - Bicolor Commodore WLB MG 4914.jpg, not featured

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Open wing puddling on dung of Parasarpa zayla (Westwood, 1850) - Bicolor Commodore WLB MG 4914.jpg
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 07:27, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Timetable (day 5 after nomination)

Wed 03 Dec → Mon 08 Dec
Thu 04 Dec → Tue 09 Dec
Fri 05 Dec → Wed 10 Dec
Sat 06 Dec → Thu 11 Dec
Sun 07 Dec → Fri 12 Dec
Mon 08 Dec → Sat 13 Dec

Timetable (day 9 after nomination, last day of voting)

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Sun 30 Nov → Tue 09 Dec
Mon 01 Dec → Wed 10 Dec
Tue 02 Dec → Thu 11 Dec
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Thu 04 Dec → Sat 13 Dec
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Sat 06 Dec → Mon 15 Dec
Sun 07 Dec → Tue 16 Dec
Mon 08 Dec → Wed 17 Dec

The bot

Note that the description below is for manual closure, this is mostly not needed anymore as there exists a bot (FPCBot) that counts the votes and handles the process below. However after the bot has counted the votes a manual review step is used to make sure the count is correct before the bot again picks up the work.

Manual procedure

Any experienced user may close requests.

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
    {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=("yes" or "no")|gallery=xxx (leave blank if "featured=no")|sig=~~~~}}
     (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Bridge (August 2013).jpg). See also {{FPC-results-reviewed}}.
  2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag featured or not featured – for example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
  3. Save your edit.
  4. If it is featured:
    • Add the picture to the list of the four most recently featured pictures of an appropriate gallery of Commons:Featured pictures, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
    • Also add the picture to the appropriate gallery and section of Commons:Featured pictures, list. Click on the most appropriate link beneath where you just added it as one of the four images. An image should only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.
    • Add the template {{Assessments|featured=1}} to the image description page.
      • If it was an alternative image or part of a set nomination, use the com-nom parameter. For example, if File:Foo.jpg was promoted at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bar.jpg, use {{Assessments|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.jpg}}
      • If the image is already featured on another Wikipedia, just add featured=1 to the Assessments template. For instance {{Assessments|enwiki=1}} becomes {{Assessments|enwiki=1|featured=1}}
    • Add the picture to the chronological list of featured pictures. Put it in the gallery using this format: File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Headline'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
      • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other noms on that page for examples.
      • You may simplify this if multiple things were done by the same user. E.g.: File:xxxxx.jpg|# '''Headline'''<br>created, uploaded, and nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the nominator. For set nominations, use:
      == Set Promoted to FP ==
      <gallery>
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      File:XXXXXX.jpg
      </gallery>
      {{FPpromotionSet2|YYYYY}}      , using the names of the set files instead of the XXXXXX and the title of the set instead of YYYYY.
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedUploader|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the user who has uploaded the image, if that user is not the same as the nominator.
    • Add == FP promotion ==
      {{FPpromotedCreator|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the talk page of the creator, if the author is a different Commons user than nominator and uploader.
  5. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}ed, {{FPD}}ed and withdrawn nominations), open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you've just finished closing. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/December 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.

Closing a delisting request

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line):
    {{FPC-delist-results-reviewed|delist=x|keep=x|neutral=x|delisted=yes/no|sig=~~~~}}
    (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Ensifera ensifera (22271195865).jpg)
  2. Also edit the title of the delisting candidate image template and add after the image tag
    delisted or not delisted
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] === becomes === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
  3. Move the actual template from Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list to the bottom of the actual month page on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/December 2025.
  4. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
    1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
    2. Edit the picture's description as follows:
      1. In the {{Assessments}} template on the image description page, change featured=1 to featured=2 (do not change anything related to its status in other featured picture processes). If the image description page uses the old {{Featured picture}} template, replace it with {{Assessments|featured=2}}.
      2. Remove the image from all categories beginning with "Featured [pictures]" (example: Featured night photography, Featured pictures from Wiki Loves Monuments 2016, Featured pictures of Paris).
      3. Remove the "Commons quality assessment" claim (P6731) "Wikimedia Commons featured picture" from the picture's Structured data.
    3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in chronological list of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1-6) with (1-6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture must not be removed from the chronological list.
  5. If this is a Delist and Replace, the delisting and promotion must both be done manually. To do the promotion, follow the steps in the above section. Note that the assessment tag on the file page and the promotion tag on the nominator's talk page won't pick up the /replace subpage that these nominations use.

Manual archiving of a withdrawn nomination

  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
    In the occasion that the FPCbot will not mark withdrawn nominations with a "to be reviewed" template and put them in Category:Featured picture candidates awaiting closure review just like if they were on the usual list, put the following "no" template:
    {{FPC-results-reviewed|support=X|oppose=X|neutral=X|featured=no|gallery=|sig=--~~~~}}
  2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
    not featured
    For example:
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
    becomes
    === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], not featured ===
  3. Save your edit.
  4. Open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination. It will be of the form:
    {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
    Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/December 2025), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.
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