Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/2025

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Delist and Replace: Skull with cigarette by Vincent van Gogh

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Jan 2025 at 01:16:40 (UTC)

Reason: Higher resolution; no yellowish tint
Articles this image appears in: Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Skull with cigarette by Vincent van Gogh
Nominator: ArionStar (talk)

Delist and Replace — ArionStar (talk) 01:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:07, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't enough support to delist this image, which is still used in still used in three articles. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:07, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced

Delist and Replace: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Jan 2025 at 18:47:08 (UTC)

Reason: higher resolution, better quality
Articles this image appears in: Flinders Street railway station, Flinders Street, Melbourne, History of Melbourne, Trams in Melbourne, Portal:Architecture, etc.
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Swanston and Flinders St intersection 1927.jpg
Nominator: Yann (talk)

Delist and replace — Yann (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This was mentioned in Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates, so I thought I could do it. Restoring the broken glass plate version is beyond my competence, but this is already much better than the current FP. Yann (talk) 19:04, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Mind if I have a go at the glass plate? Quite happy to hand back to you after the repair. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 21:07, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: Sure, please do. There is a gap, so it should be cut and move closer. Yann (talk) 16:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tried it some months ago - my attempt got stuck among the people... ;-) --Janke | Talk 14:30, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting for Adam's restoration... --Janke | Talk 17:52, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've gotten some of it done, but between the incident on Commons involving Google Translate, and a 12 hour flight back to Edinburgh that I'm just starting to recover from... it's not as fast as I'd hope. I can show what I've done. It's kind of neat being able to read the destinations for each platform. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 02:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Armbrust Honestly, if you want to promote Yann's, I'll be a little bit finishing, and we can rush Yann's work onto the main page. Means his work is recognised. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 00:51, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam, I don't see the point to promote my version if yours will be ready in a few days. Now if it takes one month to finish the restoration, it may be different... Yann (talk) 20:45, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Yann: I've done about ~~a third~~ ~~half~~ two-thirds of the detailed pass, now that I've finished fixing the crack and other major damage. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 16:15, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

D. & R. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:18, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and Replace –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:52, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delist ~~and replace~~ – it's an improvement. Bammesk (talk) 02:19, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
D and R No doubts. ArionStar (talk) 20:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that Adam's restauration is coming along pretty fast, so I postpone closure on this one. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:39, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Armbrust, Yann, Hamid Hassani, VulcanSphere, Bammesk, and ArionStar: I've finished the restoration. If it matters, I Support my restoration Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 04:10, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, this s the largest rectangle that keeps all verticals vertical. I could try to fill in a little bit on the lower right to allow more at the bottom, or could crop out some of the right side, but this is the largest rectangle without doing that. That's why Yann's restoration - quite rightly: the right hand side building is just all black in that print - has slightly more at the bottom. See File:Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, at the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, 1927 - Glass plate - Uncropped.jpg. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 05:22, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've taken the liberty of doing a very small amount of that. Think any more and we're going to hit questionable territory. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 06:31, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam's restoration from glass plate – That's a lot of work, and well done. Bammesk (talk) 04:41, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam's Restoration Vulcan has affirmed his support for the glass plate restoration. –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:43, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam's restoration -- Great work! Yann (talk) 09:13, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support ArionStar (talk) 12:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced with File:Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, at the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, 1927 - Glass plate.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:12, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted

Delist: Flying mallard duck - female

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Jan 2025 at 04:44:15 (UTC)

Reason: Quite small, subject in shadow, and does not actually show flight feathers as well as some other photos like this one, so it doesn't have much identification value. We have another FP of the same species, though that one does not show the bird in flight (but does show both sexes in one image). We actually have another FP of a male in flight, which is better than this one but not that great either. And there is a fourth mallard FP as well, a female with ducklings.
Articles this image appears in: Flying and gliding animals (where it illustrates "birds," so it is highly replaceable with many better FPs of birds in flight), List of birds of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, List of birds of Colorado, List of birds of Kansas.
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Flying mallard duck - female.jpg
Nominator: blameless

Delist — blameless 04:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist – per reason section above. Bammesk (talk) 02:21, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist – Vinícius O. (talk) 20:45, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist – The image doesn't meet the required size of 1 500 x 1 500 and should not be a featured picture _ZZ^Z 'S 22:50, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist, for the reason which users Blameless & Zzzs mentioned. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:33, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:58, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delist –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 03:23, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:45, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delist: Jimmy Wales

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 22 Jan 2025 at 02:32:53 (UTC)

Proposed nom – CSS image crop

Reason: Currently unused in article space. This was somewhat controversial when nominated due to quality. Astonishingly, despite the existence of a great many free photographs of Wales, I'm not really seeing a good candidate for a D&R; this one's OK but not used in favor of a not very good edit. If you see Mr. Wales about, please take a high quality photograph of him.
Articles this image appears in: none
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jimmy Wales
Nominator: blameless

Delist — blameless 02:32, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jimbo Wales: what about it? ArionStar (talk) 03:23, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What is your questions for Jimbo Wales? He is welcome to comment here, of course, as is any other editor, but the question here is about the image, not really anything about Wales himself. Note that the criteria require that all images be used in articles, so that's something that needs to be addressed regardless. blameless 23:34, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jimbo can give us a better image of himself. ArionStar (talk) 03:06, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not being used in an article is an automatic demote, but Delist in case some minor use appears. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 05:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – This one will do, with a slight crop (see thumbnail). The background is busy but he still stands out. I would support if it's placed in the infobox or elsewhere in the article, and nominated. Bammesk (talk) 17:42, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delist, only. The alternative doesn't depicts a good pose of him, IMHO. Compare with File:Jimmy Wales - August 2019.jpg. @Jimbo Wales: do you agree? ArionStar (talk) 01:38, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:04, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While the discussion is bellow quorum, this unused image can't retain its featured picture status and is delisted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:04, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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