This star, with one point broken, symbolizes the featured candidates on Wikipedia.
Featured pictures are images that add significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article. Taking the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the images featured on Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article, according to the featured picture criteria.
Promoting an image
If you believe an image should be featured, create a subpage (use the "For Nominations" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section.
For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.
All users may comment. However, only those who have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and with at least 100 edits will be included in the numerical count. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. Nominations started in December are given three extra days, due to the holidays slowing down activity here.
The archive contains all opinions and comments collected for candidate nominations and their nomination results.
If you nominate an image here, please consider also uploading and nominating it at Commons to help ensure that the pictures can be used not just in the English Wikipedia but on all other Wikimedia projects as well.
Delisting an image
A featured picture can be nominated for delisting if you feel it no longer lives up to featured picture standards. You may also request a featured picture be replaced with a superior image. Create a subpage (use the "For Delists" field, below) and add the subpage to the current nominations section.
Please leave a note on the talk page of the original FPC nominator (and creator/uploader, if appropriate) to let them know the delisting is being debated. The user may be able to address the issues and avoid the delisting of the picture.
For delisting, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers supporting a delist or replace, and the consensus is in its favor, it will be delisted from Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-thirds majority in support, including the nominator. Note that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.
However, images are sometimes delisted despite having fewer than five in support of their removal, and there is currently no consensus on how best to handle delist closures, except for one point: If the image to be delisted is not used in any articles by the time of closure, it must be delisted. If it is added to articles during the nomination, at least one week's stability is required for the nomination to be closed as "Kept". The nomination may be suspended if a week hasn't yet passed to give the rescue a chance.
Outside of the nominator, all voters are expected to have been on Wikipedia for 25 days and to have made a minimum of 100 edits. If necessary, decisions about close candidacies will be made on a case-by-case basis. As with regular nominations, delist nominations are given three extra days to run if started in December.
Note that delisting an image does not mean deleting it. Delisting from Featured pictures in no way affects the image's status in its article(s).
Evaluate the merit of a nomination against the featured picture criteria. Most users reference terms from this page when evaluating nominations.
Step 2: Create a subpage
For Nominations
To create a subpage of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates for your nomination, add a title for the image you want to nominate in the field below (e.g., Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Labrador Retriever) and click the "Create new nomination" button.
For Delists
To create a subpage for your delist, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button.
For Delist and replace
To create a subpage for your delist and replace, add a title for the image you want to delist/replace in the field below and click the "Create new delist nomination" button.
Write Support, if you approve of the picture. A reason is optional.
Write Oppose, followed by your reasoning, if you disapprove of the picture. All objections should be accompanied by a specific rationale that, if addressed, would make you support the image. If your concern is one that can only be addressed by the creator, and if they haven't nominated or commented on the image, and if they are a Wikipedian, you should notify them directly.
You can weak support or weak oppose instead, so that your opinion will be weighed as half of a "full" opinion.
To change your opinion, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.
If you think a nominated image obviously fails the featured picture criteria, write Speedy close followed by your reasons. Nominations may be closed early if this is the case.
Recommendations added early in the process may be disregarded if they do not address concerns and/or improvements that arise later in the debate. Reviewers are advised to monitor the progress of a nomination and update their votes accordingly.
Prior to giving an opinion, the image should be assessed on its quality as displayed at full size (high-resolution) in an image editing program. Please note that the images are only displayed at thumbnail size on this page. The thumbnail links to the image description page which, in turn, links to the high-resolution version.
How to comment for Delist Images
Write Keep, followed by your reasons for keeping the picture.
Write Delist, followed by your reasons for delisting the picture.
Write Delist and Replace if you believe the image should be replaced by a better picture.
You can weak keep, weak delist or weak delist and replace instead, so that your opinion will be weighed as half of a "full" opinion.
To change your opinion, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.
You may find the glossary useful when you encounter acronyms or jargon in other voters' comments. You can also link to it by using {{FPCgloss}}.
Editing candidates
If you feel you could improve a candidate by image editing, please feel free to do so, but do not overwrite or remove the original. Instead, upload your edit with a different file name (e.g., add "edit" to the file name), and display it below the original nomination. Edits should be appropriately captioned in sequential order (e.g., Edit 1, Edit 2, etc), and describe the modifications that have been applied.
Is my monitor adjusted correctly?
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Support Very attractive image that more clearly shows the size of this church and its location than the boring infobox photo. Nick-D (talk) 09:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Voting period ends on 15 Nov 2025 at 20:09:09 (UTC)
Original – An individual bald eagle at various stages of plumage between nestling and adult. Images show the same bird as a nestling, at 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, and 5 years old. Note the lightening of the eye, the yellowing of the beak, and the whitening of the eponymous head.
Reason
Image is of high quality and educational value. Image was already unanimously promoted to featured picture on Wikimedia Commons
Support I don't think I've seen something like this done for birds before. The EV is clearly very high and technical standards are good. Nick-D (talk) 05:10, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not loving the crop (the frame is not original, so why leave it in?), otherwise, I support. Might be best to do a little cleanup on the right, so that the right side isn't kept really tight because of that big shadow. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs.20:59, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The ground is missing, being below the frame (what appears to be ground are apparently exposition boxes), so EV is impaired in my opinion. Brandmeistertalk13:53, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Tripod is not allowed and this photo has an enormous depth of field, the people are part of the composition of what such a visited museum should be. In particular, I think it is very difficult to find this room empty, I waited for half an hour to see if it was empty but there were always people, unlike this other museum room where in 5 minutes it was already empty Wilfredor (talk) 20:01, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm ok with those few visitors. But, assuming this was shot without tripod, I wonder if taking slightly lower, to include ground, is possible... Perhaps the ceiling would be sacrificed then? Brandmeistertalk09:08, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is a glass structure on the floor that prevents you from moving the camera downwards, as you will find the view completely blocked by those opaque white glass panels. Wilfredor (talk) 02:07, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
These nominations have been moved here because consensus is impossible to determine without additional input from those who participated in the discussion. Usually this is because there was more than one edit of the image available, and no clear preference for one of them was determined. If you voted on these images previously, please update your vote to specify which edit(s) you are supporting.
Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
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If the nominator is new to FPC, consider placing {{subst:NotpromotedFPC|Image name}} on their talk page. To avoid overuse, do not use the template when in doubt.
When promoted, perform the following:
Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
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Replace FILENAME.JPG with the name of the file that was promoted. It should show up as:
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The caption for a Wikipedian created image should read "Description at Article, by Creator". For a non-Wikipedian, it should be similar, but if the creator does not have an article, use an external link if appropriate. For images with substantial editing by one or more Wikipedians, but created by someone else, use "Description at Article, by Creator (edited by Editor)" (all editors involved should be clear from the nomination). Additionally, the description is optional - if it's essentially the same as the article title, then just use "Article, by Creator". Numerous examples can be found on the various Featured Pictures subpages.
Add the image to the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures - newest on left and remove the oldest from the right so that there are always three in each section.
Add the Featured Picture tag and star to the image page using {{Featured picture|page_name}} (replace page_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the page_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/page_name). To add this template you most likely will have to click the "create" button on the upper right if the "edit" button is not present, generally if the image originates from Commons.
If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Featured Picture version, as opposed to the original.
Notify the nominator or co-nominators by placing {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:file_name.xxx}} on each nominator's talk page. For example: {{subst:PromotedFPC|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
If the image was created by a Wikipedian, place {{subst:UploadedFP|File:file_name.xxx}} on the creator's talk page. For example: {{subst:UploadedFP|File:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}.
Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}} to the top of the section.
Add the nomination entry to the bottom of the November archive. This is done by simply adding the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Page name}} from this page to the bottom of the archive.
If consensus is to REPLACE (and at least one of the images is used in articles), perform the following:
Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/delist/subpage:
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Replace NEW_IMAGE_FILENAME.JPG with the name of the replacement file.
Replace the {{Featured picture}} tag from the delisted image with {{FormerFeaturedPicture|delist/''Image name''}}.
Update the replacement picture's tag, adding the tag {{Featured picture|delist/image_name}} (replace image_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the image_name from Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/image_name). Remove any no longer applicable tags from the original, replacement and from any other alternatives. If the alternatives were on Commons and no longer have any tags, be sure to tag the description page with {{missing image}}.
Replace the delisted Featured Picture in all articles with the new replacement Featured Picture version. Do NOT replace the original in non-article space, such as Talk Pages, FPC nominations, archives, etc.
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Then perform the following, regardless of the outcome:
Move the nomination entry to the top of the "Recently closed nominations" section. It will remain there for three days after closing so others can review the nomination. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image name}} to the top of the section.
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Shouldn't this be categorized under the "religious figures" as Hubbard is primarily known as the founder of the Church of Scientology? ―Howard • 🌽3308:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The "writers" category felt more appropriate for Hubbard given Scientology is heavily derived from his works of science fiction. I wouldn't object to him being put under the "religious figures" category however. JJARichardson (talk) 14:38, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JJARichardson and Howardcorn33: I've restored it. File upload history was a mess, so I've replaced with the restoration universally so I could have the original visible. Will try to figure out what to do about the mess of uploads Support Restoration anyway. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs. 04:06, 30 October 2025 (
Support I'm not sure what quality one should expect from this, but it looks pretty good, so unless someone has a good reason not to promote... Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs.03:39, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:President Kennedy and his brothers. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, President John... - NARA - 194238 - Restoration.jpg --ArmbrustTheHomunculus18:15, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Nov 2025 at 13:41:16 (UTC)
Original – I Am Happy Because Everybody Loves Me, c. 1928 by Louis Wain, best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Painted by Wain after he was transferred to "more comfortable" conditions at Bethlem Hospital.
Reason
EV for its place in the life story of a popular British outsider artist.
Comment: it is ironic considering I was the one who uploaded this file, but are we sure now if it's in the public domain in the US? Wain died more than 70 years ago, so it's public domain in the UK, but in the US it would have to have been published before 1930 and I can't find direct evidence this painting in particular was published. According to this source, the painting was given to a nurse at the hospital he was staying at. Perhaps it could have been publicly displayed before then in an exhibition of his works in October 1925, which this article mentions. The exhibition had an associated catalog, but I am unable to find any full versions of the catalog publicly available online. I would support this picture only if the copyright situation is cleared up. ―Howard • 🌽3321:18, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I nominated it less for artistic quality and more for its encyclopedic value in Wain's life story, where his popularity and auctions of his artwork led to his more desirable hospital conditions. JJARichardson (talk) 22:29, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Howardcorn33: From the article's lead: "The site was the subject of an archaeological excavation ... in ... 2010 which focused on the structures on the site, believed to have been slave cabins. ... The location became known as the Best Farm, and many of its structures remain extant ..." This appears to be the largest extant structure at the site, I'd say that satisfies EV, no? UnpetitproleX (talk) 12:14, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Changing vote to neutral after reading below, which I believe proves the EV of a photo of the house. But although others have praised the visual value of the photo in the Commons nomination, it does not have an effect on me. ―Howard • 🌽3322:56, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support as creator and original author of the article. Those digs were filled in 15 years ago and are just grass now. The house that is depicted is the Big House where the slave masters lived, and where the enslaved domestic servants worked. It is relevant because the Vincendrieres came from Saint-Domingue to Maryland and tried to set up a Caribbean-style plantation that relied on large-scale slave labor in contrast to local practice, to the extent of building a French Caribbean-style house in central Maryland that owes little to the prevailing local architecture at that time. The barn in the background likewise departs from anything seen in the area at the time, and was a site of slave labor as well. As at nearly all surviving plantations, no visible trace remains of the places inhabited by the slaves themselves - they were ephemeral. Only the Big House remains, and its alien character in the landscape and its known history of the Vincendriere family's cruelty gives the place a strongly haunted quality, which I tried to capture in the image. The shadows of the trees are captured for that purpose. As the article notes, a version of that slave-based economy continued under the next owners, the Bests, and the house, barn, and site are known under National Park Service ownership as the Best Farm. The extant structures are a lasting, distinctive trace of this experiment in industrial slavery. Acroterion(talk)13:38, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's very grainy, really. There's no part of it that's perfectly sharp, and, comparing the current version to the original version, there's a massive increase in graininess without any real increase in sharpness. I'd probably be fine with the original, but this is the definition of overprocessed. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs.11:25, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Nov 2025 at 05:43:06 (UTC)
Original – A c. 750–800 CE gray schist three-headed Shiva from Kashmir, with a three-eyed yogi-king front facing form, his consort Parvati as the left head, and three-eyed Bhairava as right head. His sons Ganesha and Kumara stand at his feet, and a three-eyed Vrishabha, his mount, stands behind.
Reason
high resolution and quality; typical of its region and era; EV covered in multiple scholarly works
Support nom image; the group shot is striking but I think the colours are more realistic here, and also big difference in the resolution (this one much higher). UnpetitproleX (talk) 00:16, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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