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Original – Weekly variation of Arctic sea ice from 1984 to 2019. Younger ice (first-year ice) is shown in darker shades, while older ice (four-year or older) is shown in white.
Reason
Good addition to the Beaufort Gyre article, in the Dynamical mechanisms section. It shows the weekly change in the Arctic sea ice coverage. Younger ice accumulation (first-year ice) is shown in darker shades, while older ice (four-year or older) is shown in white.
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Original – Dress for the Undercover spring/summer 2024 collection, featured in the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reason
Unanimously featured on Commons. Illustrates both articles well.
Lead image in the Atlantis space shuttle article. It shows Atlantis in orbit during the STS-132 mission in 2010. The photo shows the Payload bay area in full, as well as the extended Canadarm (the remote manipulator arm).
Support & Comment - The Internet Archive link is about 50% larger (as cropped). To really nitpick, it could also be slightly rotated CCW... --Janke | Talk06:04, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, the nom and archived image [1] are the same size (except for the crop, and now the slight rotation). Your browser magnifications might be off. CCW rotation is now done, see latest upload [2]. Bammesk (talk) 00:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) is a longhorn beetle, the sole species in the genusTitanus, and one of the largest known beetles, as well as one of the largest known insects, at over 170 mm (6.7 in) in length.
Reason
High res high quality image with excellent EV. Lead image in a very notable article with high readership.
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Original – Giado concentration camp was a concentration camp for Libyan Jews, operated by Italy, in the Libyan Nafusa Mountains. 20% of its prisoners died.
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This is the only known photograph of the Giado concentration camp. Its quality has some issues (it looks like it's been digitally softened), but... this is the only surviving image of a concentration camp, whose structure has since been destroyed.
I think an exception is called for here. It's the deadliest North African WWII concentration camp, and this is the only photo of it. No trace remains of the camp nor of the nearby medieval cemetery where the prisoners buried their dead—so not even a photo of ruins can be taken to replace or supplement it. ꧁Zanahary꧂13:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - I'd be okay with giving this one a pass on resolution, since it's historical and exceeds 1500px on the long axis, but it's both low-contrast and kind of blurry up close. If there were a better copy of this image, I'd support it. Moonreach (talk) 14:21, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Antidorcas marsupialis (Springbok) male
Reason
Unanimously promoted to FP on Commons, as well as the Arabic and Persian Wikipedias. Used in many articles, most importantly being the headline image of its species, which is a FA
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Original – From COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area: "A "safe sleeping village" at San Francisco's Civic Center organized tents into an evenly spaced grid as a safer alternative to the city's usual homeless encampments."
Reason
Good EV for the pandemic (even if it has to compete with a lot of other good-EV pictures on both pages it's on). Aesthetically interesting, contextually illustrative (of the concept of social distancing), and historically important. I'm nominating it under "Other" for a category because it doesn't fit neatly into any of the others. "People" comes closest, since this is a human thing, but there aren't that many people in the focus area of the image, so I'm stumped. Moonreach (talk) 14:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Interesting concept but poor execution. I really doubt the EV because this is a very wide aerial shot that very poorly depicts the social distancing. From this angle, it is nothing more than a courtyard with equally distant rectangles. The shadow on the lower half and the structures on the sides are distracting too. Regretful oppose but good concept. Any other angle resolving those points I raised have my support. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The logic we usually use is that people advocating for change in laws, such as suffragettes, get filed under political. This is a little more subtle, as she's arguably advocating for societal change, but the movement culminated in Prohibition. She was also a religious leader of sorts. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political? I'll let Armbrust decide.
Comment. Charles, are you certain that this is Scolia hirta unifasciata? I know very little about scoliid wasps, but the fact that the antennae are bright yellow rather than black doesn't seem to match that species, and the two separate yellow spots on the abdomen (rather than a single yellow band, as the Latin name implies) gave me pause. There are over 900 photos labeled Scolia hirta on Flicker (including some of the subsp. unifasciata), and I scrolled quickly through all of them looking for a parallel. While I did find a some individuals in which the abdominal dots had not fully fused into solid band, I didn't find a single instance of yellow antennae. When I widened my search to other Mediterranean scoliids, however, I came across a number of photos of Megascolia bidens that seem to match your wasp exactly. The female of that species has four yellow abdominal spots and short reddish antennae, but the male has only two spots and long bright yellow antennae. Compare these photos: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. All of these are identified as Megascolia bidens, and all of them seem to me to be a better fit for your wasp than Scolia hirta. I also found this paper, which confirms that M. bidens is found in Tunisia, where your photo was taken, and describes the distinguishing features of the species, including the yellow antennae and two abdominal spots on the male. I'm no expert, and I don't want to substitute my judgment for yours, but take a look at the photos and the paper and see what you think. Choliamb (talk) 21:11, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much Choliamb for your hard work and correct analysis. There is a great danger in relying on others' identification and I fell into this trap. Charlesjsharp (talk)
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Original – The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation. In this interpretation, every event is a branch point. The cat is both alive and dead — regardless of whether the box is opened — but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the universe that are equally real but cannot interact with each other.
Reason
High quality educational illustration in vector format
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Original – NASA animation portrays global surface temperature changes from 1880 to 2023. The colour blue denotes cooler temperatures and red denotes warmer temperatures.
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Good visual depiction of global surface temperature changes from 1880 to 2023. Good addition to the "Total warming and trends" section of the Instrumental temperature record article.
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Dorsal side – Morpho rhetenor, the Rhetenor blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South America, especially in Amazon rainforest.Ventral side
Reason
Excellent images with great EV, illustrating the topic very well.
Support No, quality is actually not so great (from Medium format) - probably flat scanner. But span of dynamic range is great and since it is film i support. --Petar Milošević (talk) 10:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This wasn't shot on film, and no scanner. See EXIF data. It was shot with a digital camera back. It's a digitial photo. Not so sharp at full size, but the large pixel count makes up for it. Bammesk (talk) 15:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Photographer Russell Lee, in about 1942.Alt 1
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Another in a series of photographs of photographers. There are a couple other options (e.g. File:Russell-Lee-FSA.jpg), but this one was by far the most widely used, and the one that looked the worst in the old version. I'd say the crop is fairly conservative: I didn't crop any of him (except maybe a few pixels at the bottom: edges aren't perfectly straight), but did take a smidgen more off the right to centre him, and cropped the weird... reflection? damage? intruding lights? at the top, which still has more than ample headspace. (Compare File:Portrait of Russell Lee, FSA (Farm Security Administration) photographer - Original.tif)
Haha. But that out of focus areas really do bother me. It's an excellent shot with good EV. But since we don't have a time machine lying around in a hot tub to fix that focus issues, Oppose. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:45, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair, but, y'know, sharpening doesn't really work with film grain, and Charles would be here to oppose if I crop his legs out. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs.05:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah. There are some much sharper studio portraits from decades earlier, many of them seen here at FPC... Here, too, the focus seems to be in the wrong place. The eyes need to be in perfect focus, even if the Depth of field is shallow. --Janke | Talk20:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Decades earlier was a very different camera technology. The increase in film speed was met with a decrease in focus for a while. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs.00:37, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, I suspect there's somewhat of an issue in the 40s of them knowing what images were being used for. No need to get an amazing perfect focus in an image that's never going to be seen bigger than about 6" (15cm) tall at most, or is going to be halftone printed. 1910-1950 is kind of a nadir of photography, so I'd say the second, especially, is decent for the era. Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs.12:02, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Original – Astronaut training in the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located in the hangar at Langley Research Center. This position meant that a person's legs experienced only one sixth of their weight, which was the equivalent of being on the lunar surface.
Support. This belongs in a gallery with other photos of people walking on walls, like Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding and Adam West and Burt Ward in the 1960s Batman TV series. Choliamb (talk) 20:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I found the same photo with higher resolution, updated the file here and in the article. New file is 5,690 × 4,546 pixels, old one is 3,000 x 2,395. Artem.G (talk) 13:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the oldest surviving feature-length animation. It's the best-known work by German director Lotte Reiniger and showcases her unique visual style, which used a novel multiplane camera setup to recreate the look of a shadow play.
Support; Note: The picture is fine and I supported it; but some spots are seen in the background when you zoom in. If there will be a good Alt, I'll prefer to support it indeed. Thank you MER-C. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:42, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On the left side, there is a rider on a brown horse (in the river). Adjacent and behind that brown horse there are two white horses. You counted those two as one. Bammesk (talk) 03:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]