Grazer Town Hall
Am I the only seeing what could be some sneaky vandalism in one of the lower right windows in this image? Zerak-Tul 20:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Possible socks
Anyone else a little suspicious of QAZ, 66.36.155.198, Babayi who have suddenly popped out to rescue the Baghe Eram Shiraz from opposes? --Fir0002 22:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, I ask the admin to remove these votes if possible, it's probably one of my friends at school who wants to support me. I'll tell him to stop because it's truely unfair and I understand. Thank you for watching these pages. Arad 23:35, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I took the votes of these people off the page, as i felt guilty for what they've done. Arad 23:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
how much
I have read the archive posts on the issue, and there seems to be no consensus on how much modification of an image is too much, and also whether that should be codified or whether it should remain so undefined, for lack of a better term. Cat-five - talk 00:44, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
No one is voting
Why no one is voting for the 2nd and 3rd image on this page? (Hong kong one and the paranoma) 66.36.148.132 14:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Arad's(?) Iran photos
Hi all - just thought I'd draw attention here to my concerns regarding Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arge Bam and the rest of Arad's uploaded photos. As I've said elsewhere, I may be barking up the wrong tree and if I am, I apologise... comments appreciated. --Yummifruitbat 00:52, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
FPs not promoted all the way
Recently, I've found two FPs that did not go through the entire promotion process, Image:Pantheon wider centered.jpg and Image:MarsSunset.jpg. I'm concerned there are more, but I don't have time to comb through the archives and make sure. Perhaps we can get a group of us to do this? Maybe split it up by month so that no one person has to do more than 1-2 month's worth of nominations. howch e ng 16:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Running low on FPs
Just so you all you know, we are running out of Featured Pictures for POTD. As it stands right now, we will run out of new images and have to start repeating POTDs before the end of October. I encourage everyone to step up and find worthy candidates. Thanks. howch e ng 16:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Howcheng, The oldest haven't been displayed in over a year, correct? If so then I think we should just start from the beginning when filler is needed. -Ravedave 21:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
This guy has a very large amount of Featured Picture quality images, many of which could contribute greatly to Wikipedia Articles. Many of his pictures (as shown on his user page)
say, "© This photo is public" orare under Creative Commons liscenses which allows them to be used on Wikipedia. Someone should go through (Arad has a bit already - although it runs out those have copyright issues)) and find the good ones, upload them, add them to their appropriate articles, and then nominate them. Nauticashades 07:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)Featured Picture of Day
I nominated a few pictures which are definitely FP so we're going to be OK for pic of the day when they are accepted. Arad 21:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Delisting
I would nominate Image:IronInRocksMakeRiverRed.jpg for delisting, but I'm afraid I don't know how. Could someone do it for me? Nauticashades 10:50, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Delisting Because of Size
I think we need to make a policy that before a Delist that is mostly about size that the nominator at least attempts to contact the uploader to obtain a larger version. We have too many good pictures that are nominated for size reasons without a single attempt to contact the uploader. AfD's generally ask a user to tag the article and work with it, if it's a workable article, we should asks the nominators to do the same.PPGMD 15:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
The image is not deleted, but it certainly should be standard practice to contact the upload when it is put up for delisting. HighInBC 15:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I can't recall seeing a delisting nom for which the only consideration was size/resolution. Some of Fir's earlier FPs are only 800x600, but are generally left alone because they meet all criteria other than resolution. None of the current delist noms are there solely due to size, and I can't recall seeing one like that either.
This seems like an unnecessary rule/policy that has no real-world applicability. -- Moondigger 20:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Which Pioneer Plaque?
(This discussion was started by User:Janke, copied from FPC discussion.)
- Support original. One of the few artifacts of mankind that have left our Solar system. NOTE: It seems it is not in any article at the moment - some other version, perhaps? Needs to be looked in to. --Janke | Talk 07:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I have no idea, as I'm new at this. Do the elders have an opinion? --Billpg 13:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Victor's photos
Becuase of 4 day periode of waiting, I renominated the photos so everyone can vote. Arad 12:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
User:NegativeNed
I'm pretty sure User:NegativeNed is vadalizing on FPC. He opposes every image with jokes. It's OK if he likes to have fun and make jokes but FPC is not the place.
- To the person who closes the nominations : Please do not count this user's votes on any of the nomination unless they are changed or are credible. Thank you. Arad 03:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- His name says it all: NegativeNed Arad 03:39, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Wow, vadalizing? Jokes? Don't count my votes? What is going on here? What exactly counts as a credible vote? You don't like my name? NegativeNed 04:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Closing Nominations
Anyone out there to close a dozen of nominations? If I knew how exactly, (because I don't want to ruin anything) I would do it. Thank you. Arad 19:59, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
+6 / -3 NOT PROMOTED?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Ciudad_de_las_ciencias_noche.JPG --> Nomination not promoted while the census was in favor of it. +6/-3 = 2/3. How is this working? I want an explanation from Yummyfruitbat. Thank you Arad 23:34, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
So, consensus here now means 75% or thereabouts? Many many moons ago, it used to be a simple majority... enochlau (talk) 08:35, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Metung Wharf was just promoted, but it was far from a 2/3 majority, neither was Janke's definition of Consensus . Did it deserve to be promoted? Nauticashades 16:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- I don't understand the controversy for either image. Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Ciudad_de_las_ciencias_noche.JPG, by pure vote count, was +5.5/-3 . That's short of a 2/3 majority. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Metung Wharf, by pure vote count, was +6/-3 , exactly a 2/3 majority. Now I understand that the closer's reasoning can result in a slightly unexpected outcome when compared to a pure vote count. But that doesn't apply here -- the pure vote count agrees with the closer's decision in both of these examples. -- Moondigger 17:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
(Maximum) size of FPs
From Wikipedia talk:What is a featured picture?
Ok, there is some talk about not choosing an image for FP because it is too big at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Orion_Nebula_mosaic.
The concern of some seems to be that very large images cannot be loaded well in a browser by people or at all by people with slower computers.
My response to this is:
- Large images are not meant to be viewed in a browser, the wikipedia software automatically scales the images for use in a browser.
- A warning at the top of the image page is enough to warn people
- The Download high-resolution version button should do just that
- A featured picture should be the best wikipedia has to offer and more detailed images are better than less
- It is arbritrary, an old enough computer will crash on a 2000x2000 image, while the better computers of today can handle a 18000x18000.
- Not making the larger picture FP will not stop people from clicking on it, only deleti