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Featured Media Candidates is media that is up for selection as Featured Media. Featured media adds significantly to articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or being interesting to the point where users will want to read the accompanying article. Media featured on Wikipedia:Featured media should add significantly to a Wikipedia article in accordance with the criteria for the type of media:

• Featured Picture Criteria
• Featured Video Criteria
• Featured Diagrams Criteria
• Featured Audio Criteria

If you believe a piece of media should be featured, please add it below to the current nominations section. Conversely, if you believe that a piece of media should be unfeatured, add it to the nomination for delisting section.

For promotion, if a nomination is listed here for seven days with four or more supporting votes (including the nominator), and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured media list. Consensus in Featured media candidates is generally regarded to be a two-third majority in support. Note however that anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are votes of sockpuppets. If necessary, decisions about close votes will be made on a case-by-case basis.

The archive contains all votes and comments collected on this page, and also vote tabulations.

To see recent changes, purge the page cache

Featured content:

• Featured articles
• Featured media
• Featured lists
• Featured portals

Featured media tools:

• Wikipedia:Featured Media
  • Featured Picture Criteria
  • Featured Video Criteria
  • Featured Diagrams Criteria
  • Featured Audio Criteria
• Media peer review
• Featured picture candidates on Wikimedia Commons
• Featured media thumbs
• Featured media archive
• Picture of the day
• Picture of the day archive

[edit] Nomination procedure

If you wish to nominate media please see Wikipedia:Featured media candidates/Nomination Procedure

[edit] Supporting and opposing

• If you approve of a nomination, write Support followed by your reasons.
• If you oppose a nomination, write Oppose followed by your reasons. Where possible, objections should provide a specific rationale that can be addressed.
  • To change your vote, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.

Votes added early in the process may be disregarded if they do not give any reasons for the opposition. This is especially true if the media is altered during the process. Editors are advised to monitor the progress of a nomination and update their votes accordingly.

Prior to voting, the image should be assessed on its quality as displayed at full size (high-resolution). 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.

Please remember to be civil, not to bite the newbies and to comment on the image, not the person.

[edit] Is my monitor calibrated correctly?

In a discussion about the brightness of an image, it is necessary to know if the computer display is properly adjusted. Displays differ greatly in their ability to show shadow detail. There are four dark grey circles in the adjacent image. If you can discern three (or even four) of the circles, your monitor can display shadow detail correctly. If you see fewer than three circles, you may need to adjust the monitor and/or computer display settings. Some displays cannot be adjusted for ideal shadow detail. Please take this into account when voting.

On a gamma-adjusted display, the four circles in the color image blend into the background when seen from a few feet away. If they do not, you could adjust the gamma setting (found in the computer's settings, not on the display), until they do. This may be very difficult to attain, and a slight error is not detrimental. Uncorrected PC displays usually show the circles darker than the background.

Note that on a LCD display (laptop or flat screen) the viewing angle strongly affects these images. Click on the images for more technical info.

[edit] 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 (eg, Edit 1, Edit 2, etc) and describe the modifications that have been applied.