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These are the candidates for becoming quality images. This is not the same thing as featured pictures. If you want informal feedback on your photos, please ask at Commons:Photography critiques.

Purpose

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The purpose of quality images is to encourage the people that are the foundation of Commons, the individual users who provide the unique images that expand this collection. While featured pictures identifies the absolute best of all the images loaded into Commons, Quality images sets out to identify and encourage users’ efforts in providing quality images to Commons. Additionally, quality images should be a place to refer other users to when explaining methods for improving an image.


Guidelines

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All nominated images should be the work of Commons users.

For nominators

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Below are the general guidelines for Quality images; more detailed criteria are available at Image guidelines.

Image page requirements
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  1. Copyright status. Quality image candidates have to be uploaded to Commons under a suitable license. The full license requirements are at Commons:Copyright tags.
  2. Images should comply with all Commons policies and practices, including Commons:Photographs of identifiable people.
  3. Quality images shall have a meaningful file name, be properly categorized and have an accurate description on the file page in one or more languages. It is preferred, but not mandatory, to include an English description.
  4. No advertisements or signatures in image. Copyright and authorship information of quality images should be located on the image page and may be in the image metadata, but should not interfere with image contents.


Creator
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Proposed wording changes to specifically exclude AI generate media from being eligable for QI see discussion

Pictures must have been created by a Wikimedian in order to be eligible for QI status. This means that pictures from, for example, Flickr are ineligible unless the photographer is a Commons user. (Note that Featured Pictures do not have this requirement.) Photographical reproductions of two-dimensional works of art, made by Wikimedians, are eligible (and should be licensed PD-old according to the Commons guidelines). If an image is promoted despite not being the creation of a Wikimedian, the QI status should be removed as soon as the mistake is detected.


Technical requirements
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More detailed criteria are available at Commons:Image guidelines.

Resolution
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Bitmapped images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) should normally have at least 2 megapixels; reviewers may demand more for subjects that can be photographed easily. This is because images on Commons may be printed, viewed on monitors with very high resolution, or used in future media. This rule excludes vector graphics (SVG) or computer-generated images that have been constructed with freely-licensed or open software programs as noted in the image's description.

Image quality
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Digital images can suffer various problems originating in image capture and processing, such as preventable noise, problems with JPEG compression, lack of information in shadow or highlight areas, or problems with capture of colors. All these issues should be handled correctly.

Composition and lighting
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The arrangement of the subject within the image should contribute to the image. Foreground and background objects should not be distracting. Lighting and focus also contribute to the overall result; the subject should be sharp, uncluttered, and well-exposed.

Value
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Our main goal is to encourage quality images being contributed to Wikicommons, valuable for Wikimedia and other projects.

How to nominate

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Simply add a line of this form at the top of Commons:Quality images candidates/candidate list Nominations section:

File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Nomination|Very short description  --~~~~ |}}

The description shouldn't be more than a few words, and please leave a blank line between your new entry and any existing entries.

If you are nominating an image by another Wikimedian, include their username in the description as below:

File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Nomination|Very short description (by [[User:USERNAME|USERNAME]]) --~~~~ |}}

Note: there is a Gadget, QInominator, which makes nominations quicker. It adds a small "Nominate this image for QI" link at the top of every file page. Clicking the link adds the image to a list of potential candidates. When this list is completed, edit Commons:Quality images candidates/candidate list. At the top of the edit window a green bar will be displayed. Clicking the bar inserts all potential candidates into the edit window.

Number of nominations

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No more than five images per day can be added by a single nominator.

Note: If possible, for every picture you nominate, please review at least one of the other candidates.

Evaluating images

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Any registered user whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits, other than the author and the nominator, can review a nomination. For an easier evaluation you can activate the gadget QICvote

When evaluating images the reviewer should consider the same guidelines as the nominator.

How to review

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How to update the status

Carefully review the image. Open it in full resolution, and check if the quality criteria are met.

  • If you decide to promote the nomination, change the relevant line from
File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Nomination|Very short description --~~~~ | }}

to

File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Promotion|Very short description --Nominators signature |Why you liked it. --~~~~}}

In other words, change the template from /Nomination to /Promotion and add your signature, possibly with some short comment.

  • If you decide to decline the nomination, change the relevant line from
File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Nomination|Very short description --~~~~ | }}

to

File:ImageNameHere.jpg|{{/Decline|Very short description --Nominators signature |Why you didn't like it. --~~~~}}

In other words, change the template from /Nomination to /Decline and add your signature, possibly with a statement of the criteria under which the image failed (you can use titles of section from the guidelines). If there are many problems, please note only 2 or 3 of the most severe, or add multiple problems. When declining a nomination please do explain the reasons on the nominator’s talk page – as a rule, be nice and encouraging! In the message you should give a more detailed explanation of your decision.

Note: Please evaluate the oldest images first.

Grace period and promotion

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If there are no objections within a period of 2 days (exactly 48 hours) from the first review, the image becomes promoted or fails according to the review it received. If you have objection, just change its status to Discuss and it will be moved to the Consensual review section.

How to execute decision

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QICbot automatically handles this 2 days after a decision has been made, and promoted images are cached in Commons:Quality Images/Recently promoted awaiting categorization before their automatic insertion in to appropriate Quality images pages.

If you believe that you have identified an exceptional image that is worthy of Featured picture status then consider also nominating the image at Commons:Featured picture candidates.

Manual instructions (open only in cases of emergency)

If promoted,

  1. Add the image to appropriate group or groups of Quality images page. The image also needs to be added to the associated sub pages, only 3–4 of the newest images should be displayed on the main page.
  2. Add {{QualityImage}} template to the bottom of image description page.
  3. Move the line with the image nomination and review to Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives March 2025.
  4. Add the template {{File:imagename.jpg}} to the user’s talk page.

If declined,

  1. move the line with the image nomination and review to Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives March 2025.
  • Images awaiting review show the nomination outlined in blue.
  • Images the reviewer has accepted show the nomination outlined in green
  • Images the reviewer has rejected show the nomination outlined in red

Unassessed images (nomination outlined in blue)

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Nominated images which have not generated assessments either to promote nor to decline, or a consensus (equal opposition as support in consensual review) after 8 days on this page should be removed from this page without promotion, archived in Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives March 23 2025 and Category:Unassessed QI candidates added to the image.

Consensual review process

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Consensual review is a catch all place used in the case the procedure described above is insufficient and needs discussion for more opinions to emerge.

How to ask for consensual review

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To ask for consensual review, just change the /Promotion, /Decline to /Discuss and add your comments immediately following the review. An automatic bot will move it to the consensual review section within one day.

Please only send things to consensual review that have been reviewed as promoted/declined. If, as a reviewer, you cannot make a decision, add your comments but leave the candidate on this page.

Consensual review rules

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See Commons:Quality images candidates#Rules

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Nominations

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Due to the Mediawiki parser code ~~~~ signatures will only work on this page if you have JavaScript enabled. If you do not have JavaScript enabled please manually sign with:

--[[User:yourname|yourname]] 14:56, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Please open a new date section if you are nominating an image after 0:00 o'clock (UTC)
  • Please insert a blank line between your new entry and any existing entries
  • Please help in reviewing "old" nominations here below first; many are still unassessed
  • If you see terms with which you are unfamiliar, please see explanations at Photography terms
Please nominate no more than 5 images per day and try to review on average as many images as you nominate (check here to see how you are doing).


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Consensual review

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Rules

These rules are in accordance with the procedures normally followed in this section. If you don’t agree with them please feel free to propose changes.

  • To ask for consensual review, just change the /Promotion, /Decline to /Discuss and add your comments immediately following the review. An automatic bot will move it to the consensual review section within one day. Alternatively move the image line from the main queue to Consensual Review/Images and follow the instructions in the edit window.
  • You can move an image here if you contest the decision of the reviewer or have doubts about its eligibility (in which case an 'oppose' is assumed). In any case, please explain your reasons. Our QICBot will move it for you. When the bot moves it, you might have to revisit the nomination and expand your review into the Consensual Review format and add "votes".
  • The decision is taken by majority of opinions, including the one of the first reviewer and excluding the nominator's. After a minimum period of 48 hours since the last entry, the decision will be registered at the end of the text using the template {{QICresult}} and then executed, according to the Guidelines.
Using {{support}} or {{oppose}} will make it easier to count your vote.
Votes by anonymous contributors aren't counted
  • In case of draw, or if no additional opinions are given other than the first reviewer's, the nomination can be closed as inconclusive after 8 days, counted from its entry.
  • Turn any existing comments into bullet points—add  Oppose and  Support if necessary.
  • Add a comment explaining why you've moved the image here - be careful to stay inside the braces.
  • Preview and save with a sensible edit summary like "+Image:Example.jpg".



File:View_of_Kathmandu_Valley-070A1871.jpg

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  • Nomination View of Kathmandu Valley --Bijay Chaurasia 12:50, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion  Support Good quality. --Sebring12Hrs 13:57, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
     Oppose Need proper details --A S M Jobaer 15:50, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
     Comment IMO enough details, but half of the sky should be cropped out. And please improve the categorization. --XRay 11:31, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Tamagokake-gohan_001.jpg

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  • Nomination Rice with raw egg and soy sauce. Food culture in Japan. --Ocdp 12:01, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
     Oppose Need proper details --A S M Jobaer 15:25, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
     ActionIn Japan, we eat raw chicken eggs. This is called Tamago kake gohan, and it has been established as a part of our food culture. We proposed this illustration as a reference to the unique culture of eating raw eggs.--Ocdp 15:58, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
     Comment@Ocdp: Please add the description to the image page. An english description is very important for your images as many people aren't able to read japanese letters. Please also add them to Pholiota microspora miso soup 001.jpg and Mekabu 001.jpg --D-Kuru 01:38, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
     ActionOK,already done.--Ocdp 11:39, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
     Comment @A S M Jobaer: Description was added in english. Is that fine for you now? --D-Kuru 12:21, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Coronilla_coronata_RF.jpg

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  • Nomination Coronilla coronata --Robert Flogaus-Faust 10:46, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Oppose Need more details --A S M Jobaer 15:55, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Looks like a QI to me --Poco a poco 18:15, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support The quality of the picture is good, and the species is correctly identified. --Harlock81 09:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 2 support (excluding the nominator), 1 oppose → Promote?   --Harlock81 09:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:"Jumma_Congregation_at_Baitul_Mukarram".jpg

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  • Nomination Jumma Congregation at Baitul Mukarram By User:Rakibulalamkhanbd --Frameofashik 17:06, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
     Support Good quality. --Frameofashik 17:28, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
    Needs some categories --Ermell 22:13, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
    Sorry but you are not allowed to support your own nominations.--Ermell 08:48, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
     Comment Category added. --Harlock81 09:57, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
     Support The picture is a bit noisy, tackling several light conditions. The windows are overexposed, and their borders are partially lost. The few faces which look towards the camera are not discernable. On the contrary, the composition is effective and interesting - for sure the best in its category. The architectural elements are all well represented. The view sight is deep, and well executed. Please discuss, if someone disagrees. --Harlock81 16:44, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
     Oppose The composition is really superb, but overall quality is too low. In addition to all the issues menrioned above it lacks sharpness, especially in the bottom part of image. --Екатерина Борисова 23:45, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Unsharp or noisy. --Sebring12Hrs 13:11, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Западные_врата_и_Троицкая_церковь_в_Смоленском_зимой.jpg

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  • Nomination Holy Trinity church, Yaroslavl (by Чуринъ) --FBilula 14:04, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion Looks underexposed --Imehling 10:23, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
     Support Good and sharp photo under snow weather. --Sebring12Hrs 09:48, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
    Sebring12Hrs Hi, if you don't agree with my vote, put the nomination into the consensual review section, but don't just cancel it. --Imehling 16:39, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
    I didn't cancel anything, you don't vote, you don't put any opposing vote. --Sebring12Hrs 19:04, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
    Yes, the oppose got lost somehow. Sorry. --Imehling 07:44, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Duisburg,_Landschaftspark_Duisburg-Nord,_Hochofen_5_--_2025_--_7384.jpg

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  • Nomination Blast furnace 5 (at night), Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany --XRay 05:40, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Oppose Low light image --A S M Jobaer 07:04, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  • @A S M Jobaer: Thank you very much for your review. The photo may be unusual in terms of the shooting angle (low-angle) and the perspective (three-point perspective), but I wouldn't have expected “low light” as comment in a night shot. The lighting situation at night is characterized by darkness and the colors on the industrial plant are not particularly bright. Although the colors are already very bright compared to the actual conditions, I made the red tone a little brighter. --XRay 08:48, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support How else would you capture the mood of a dark night if not with a 'low light' image? I like this one. --Plozessor 06:01, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support It is difficult to properly capture certain colours at night. In this case, most of the structure is enlighted of red, but there is also the upper part which is enlighted of a bright green. All is in focus. Very well taken. --Harlock81 08:15, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Good quality --Robert Flogaus-Faust 19:17, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support I think it's good enough even for FP. -- Екатерина Борисова 23:55, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 4 support (excluding the nominator), 1 oppose → Promote?   --Robert Flogaus-Faust 10:42, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Pučišća_BW_2024-10-04_12-05-10.jpg

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  • Nomination Croatia, harbour of Pučišća on the island of Brač --Berthold Werner 16:42, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Oppose Sorry, too blurry. --Plozessor 04:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Overall good to me. --Sebring12Hrs 09:09, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Also for me: the picture is well composed, a bit blurry mainly on the right-hand side, but overall good. --Harlock81 11:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 2 support (excluding the nominator), 1 oppose → Promote?   --Robert Flogaus-Faust 19:19, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Jesi_-_Palazzo_Pianetti_1847.jpg

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  • Nomination The Palazzo Pianetti in Jesi, Italy. --Phyrexian 14:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Support Good quality. --Plozessor 04:25, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose I disagree, the bottom in completly out of focus. --Sebring12Hrs 09:09, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Agree, and the POV looks randomed, it's tilted Poco a poco 07:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 1 support (excluding the nominator), 2 oppose → Decline?   --Robert Flogaus-Faust 19:20, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

File:At_Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew_2024_194.jpg

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  • Nomination Aloe Jucanda at Kew Gardens --Mike Peel 05:43, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Oppose Nothing so special --A S M Jobaer 14:46, 19 March 2025 (UTC))
  • Sounds like a discussion to me; moving to CR.--Peulle 07:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Good quality. --Plozessor 05:33, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support IMO good enough for QI. --XRay 09:08, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Good also for me. --Harlock81 08:45, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 3 support (excluding the nominator), 1 oppose → Promote?   --Robert Flogaus-Faust 13:08, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Smith's_Cupola_1.jpg

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  • Nomination Smith's Cupola, Qutub Complex, Delhi --Rangan Datta Wiki 05:44, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Support Good quality. --MB-one 12:20, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Some of the lawn at the bottom should be cropped away in my view. --Imehling 21:11, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
Added implicit oppose --Plozessor 15:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per Imehling. --Plozessor 15:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Comment And too much space at left, too cut at right. The perspective needs to be corrected also, look at the left building, it is leaning. --Sebring12Hrs 11:51, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 1 support (excluding the nominator), 2 oppose → Decline?   --Plozessor 15:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Traditional_Floating_Fruit_Markets_in_the_Hill_Tracts.jpg

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  • Nomination Traditional Floating Fruit Markets in the Hill Tracts By User:MOHAMMAD SHAJAHAN Bangladesh --Frameofashik 17:53, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Discussion
  •  Support Good quality and beautiful composition --FlocciNivis 18:57, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Temporary oppose due to the lack of categorization --Екатерина Борисова 00:41, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Oppose No categorization. --Plozessor 15:42, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Good quality and interesting subject, which is well represented by the aereal view. Categories added. @Frameofashik: , please, pay attention to your proposals. This is not the only picture which has not been categorised at all among them. --Harlock81 16:32, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Comment Harlock81, thanks for categorization. -- Екатерина Борисова 20:36, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Good now. --Plozessor 06:02, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Running total: 3 support (excluding the nominator), 0 oppose → Promote?   --Plozessor 06:02, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Timetable (day 8 after nomination)

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  • Sat 15 Mar → Sun 23 Mar
  • Sun 16 Mar → Mon 24 Mar
  • Mon 17 Mar → Tue 25 Mar
  • Tue 18 Mar → Wed 26 Mar
  • Wed 19 Mar → Thu 27 Mar
  • Thu 20 Mar → Fri 28 Mar
  • Fri 21 Mar → Sat 29 Mar
  • Sat 22 Mar → Sun 30 Mar
  • Sun 23 Mar → Mon 31 Mar