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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 registered on the English 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).

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	DJI Mini

Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2026 at 17:08:07 (UTC)

Reason

Well-composed photo of a man known for project builds in his workshop. There's a portrait-style photo by the same photographer at the top of Savage's page, but I think this one has higher EV by dint of showing him in his environment.

Articles in which this image appears

Adam Savage

FP category for this image

Either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment depending on whether his work on MythBusters and Tested is more one or the other.

Creator

Christopher Michel

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 17:08, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Oh, those Hasselblad cameras are gorgeous. Great shot.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2026 at 07:03:02 (UTC)

Reason

Featured on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Bengal bush lark

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Tisha Mukherjee

• Support as nominator – Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 07:03, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2026 at 22:59:16 (UTC)

Reason

EV

Articles in which this image appears

Trinity, + …

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Andrei Rublev

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 22:59, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:04, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support excellent image of an artwork of enormous cultural value and theological import. Jahaza (talk) 17:26, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2026 at 02:22:30 (UTC)

Reason

No artifacts as far as I can tell, very high resolution, good quality, just generally seems to capture the vibe of Buddy Holly very well. It truly brings him to life on his page. Falls under public domain, obviously adds value to his article, verifiable per Brittanica. I improved the description. No inappropriate manipulation.

Articles in which this image appears

• Buddy Holly
• Ray-Ban Wayfarer It has since been removed from this article due to there being no source that he was wearing Ray-Bans.
• List of tenors in non-classical music

FP category for this image

People/Entertainment

Creator

Brunswick Records; restored by Hohum

• Support as nominator – 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 02:22, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — The focal plane is about an inch and a half too far forward, so that his nose is perfectly in focus while is face is a touch soft, but all the other technical qualities are good and I love the style. Moonreach (talk) 14:40, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – url at source is dead. which version of the file does it even refer to? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 18:10, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Looking at the revision history, it appears @GDuwen provided the original scan of the front of the photo and provided the source link. Later @К.Лаврентьев uploaded a HQ scan of the same photo but didn't provide the source. The current version of this file is an edit of that upload by @Hohum. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 18:13, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Out of curiosity, why does it need to have a live link? The full version of the photo identifies it as being of Buddy Holly, and taken by Brunswick Records, and Britannica uses it which I would say satisfies the verifiability requirement. 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 19:11, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  The source link doesn't need to be live, it is just needed to know where К.Лаврентьев (K. Lavrentiev) got the HQ scan from per criteria 7 of WP:WIAFP. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:13, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Neutral — @Howardcorn33: Thanks for the ping. Indeed I uploaded the original damaged publicity picture with the writing on the bottom to show that it fulfilled the description for works "in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice". Then someone replaced it with a file of a higher resolution. I'm now trying to locate some archival version of the website that the uploader used so that we at least get to replace that dead link. I'll do some search for its use in press articles in the 1950s since these portraits usually pop up right away.--GDuwenHoller! 20:17, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Looking through TinEye, I found that Lavrentiev's upload exactly matches this version of the file by Hulton Archive via Getty Images (also published on this BuzzFeed article where I got the credit and file from). The image is provided for licensing here at the Getty Images website, and the resolution data there exactly matches the upload by Lavrentiev. Therefore I will add the Getty link to the file description. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:41, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Support: the matter has now been resolved. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:47, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Good job. I expanded the permission field including examples of the use of the picture in the press (besides of the generic explanation as to why that type of works are usually PD). That should suffice.--GDuwenHoller! 22:05, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you so much! I'm sorry, I would've done this myself if I fully understood the criteria. 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 02:43, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Any idea why it says someone has made a copyright claim? It was added in @Howardcorn33's edit but I don't see in the wikitext or the diff. 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 13:29, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  The template I added is merely there to mark that Getty Images has previously made copyright claims on Wikimedia Commons which have been rejected. Similar notices are there, for example, on images sourced from the National Portrait Gallery. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 13:33, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Ah, okay. Thank you. 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 13:44, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - There is a watermark in the lower left corner that reads "James J. Klegman" (if I'm not mistaken). Any idea who that was? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:08, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  It's a very faint watermark so it didn't catch my eye until you mentioned it now. No clue who "Klegman" (I also read "Klugman") is. The usual sources don't provide any information on this name regarding a photographer. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 05:13, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Given how faint it is, is it worth just removing?  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Criteria says FP have to be Wikipedia's "best work", so I suppose so. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:25, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Alright. Hohum, do you perhaps have a lossless version from which we can work, to avoid any further compression? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:03, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I'd say it refers to photographer James Kriegsmann 2, who is likely the actual author of the picture (as it is also the case with this classic portrait of Buddy Holly, see the watermark on the bottom-left). I got the feeling I would be able to prove that that portrait is also in the public domain for the same reason. I was curiously recently thinking about engaging in a second attempt to bring Holy's article to GA, probably a sign to get to work some time this year!--GDuwenHoller! 18:44, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Definitely him, their logos have the same shape (Two extended Js, loopy k, etc.) 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 (Talk to me! · My contribs) 19:13, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Yup, that's enough, I added the credit. Now, leaving his watermark as an original part of the work itself or removing it would be something of an interesting discussion...--GDuwenHoller! 19:20, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  In the past, we kept the watermark for File:Roosilawati, Tati Photo Studios, c. 1960.jpg, File:Suzzanna, c 1963, Tati Photo Studio.jpg, File:Roosilawati, Tati Photo Studios, c. 1960.jpg, File:Indriati Iskak in a promotional still (c. 1960), by Tati Photo Studio.jpg, and File:Gordon Tobing (c. 1960), by Tati Studios.jpg. Mind, these were all embossed and readily visible even at thumb, rather than just barely lighter than the background. I am not aware of any other images with watermarks.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:22, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  With those precedents, I'd leave it in. It's part of the image, and it's not like it's a distraction. Moonreach (talk) 17:10, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2026 at 15:54:31 (UTC)

Reason

Interesting snapshot from an unusual but significant time in the life of one of the most famous people of the 20th century.

Articles in which this image appears

Military career of Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley, 3rd Armored Division (United States), 32nd Cavalry Regiment, Bad Nauheim

FP category for this image

Depending on whether you focus on what Elvis did for most of his life or what he's doing here, either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment. (I personally favor /Military but I could see it either way.)

Creator

Vittoriano Rastelli

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Love it, but there is some significant dust. JayCubby, as you uploaded this, would you prefer to do a restoration? I can work on it later if you can't. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @Crisco 1492, I have the PSD somewhere... JayCubby 17:29, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Thankfully, I didn't put it anywhere inconvenient. It has been made available at https://files.catbox.moe/133jhf.psd JayCubby 18:52, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks muchly. It turns out there were only a few bad things - two large scratches and a large hair on his collar, so restoration wasn't too bad. Uploaded and offered here as an ALT. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:01, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Great. Feel free to overwrite the non-restored copy. Maybe a Commons admin could just do a merge. Support either version. JayCubby 02:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose: as it is, the licensing info is incomplete. Are we supposed to be going off of PD-Italy plus PD-1996; or, if the photo was published in the US within 30 days of its publication in Italy, PD-US-not renewed? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 17:59, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Honestly, that's a a good point... I'll work on a restoration, but we should clear up the copyright status of this image. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:39, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• @Materialscientist, you were the uploader of the first version of this photo. Do you remember why you marked it public domain? We're trying to figure out if it really is. Moonreach (talk) 14:28, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I've asked on his talk page. JayCubby 22:30, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2026 at 04:22:27 (UTC)

Reason

HQ

Articles in which this image appears

Joan Osborne

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Patrick.suechan

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 04:22, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment — I'm borderline on this. The composition is solid but the detail at full magnification shows JPEG artifacts. The full-size image is under a megabyte. The source image it's cropped from is also small in terms of storage size. Moonreach (talk) 16:11, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2026 at 04:16:06 (UTC)

Reason

EV and HQ

Articles in which this image appears

Mandarin orange

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits

Creator

Iifar

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 04:16, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:06, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - I prefer a lighter background, but this definitely meets the criteria.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:07, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 10ploopy10 (talk) 21:50, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:41, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2026 at 22:15:08 (UTC)

Reason

High quality; excellent representation of potato chips

Articles in which this image appears

potato chips +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Food and drink

Creator

Evan-Amos

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:15, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment — These are unquestionably potato chips, but they're oddly noisy up close considering how well lit the picture is. I also wonder if this image alone would provide full context to the hypothetical viewer who had never seen them before; there's no packaging or scale indicator. Moonreach (talk) 16:05, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Could it be the texture? My go at a similar image also has some noise-looking elements. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:03, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Hmm, could be. Moonreach (talk) 18:55, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2026 at 11:48:20 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Infobox image.

Articles in which this image appears

Northern emerald toucanet

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Giles Laurent

• Support as nominator – MER-C 11:48, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Thank you very much for the nomination! ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:03, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:15, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:53, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 07:05, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support JayCubby 15:58, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 25 Feb 2026 at 11:44:28 (UTC)

Reason

Unanimously featured on Commons. Infobox image.

Articles in which this image appears

Spotted hawkfish

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish

Creator

Diego Delso

• Support as nominator – MER-C 11:44, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:15, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:54, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ArionStar (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 24 Feb 2026 at 22:34:54 (UTC)

Reason

HQ, and overall an interesting piece of psychedelic art, and 1960's counterculture.

Articles in which this image appears

Art Nouveau, Psychedelic art, San Francisco Oracle, Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others

Creator

Cinosaur

• Support as nominator – 10ploopy10 (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Very cool, but seems to be rotated; seems because it also seems to be cropped a bit tight. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:45, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — per nomination. This image had to be scanned from a facsimile edition, which explains the tight cropping. Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 03:34, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:55, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Just because it's an excellent image.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:09, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak oppose — I've been looking at this occasionally for the last few days and trying to make up my mind. I like it a lot, both as a historical document and as a work of art. This digital copy is high resolution and captures detail well. But I can't get over the fact that it's crooked, and that artwork is getting cropped off at the edges. I've found other (technically inferior, in other respects) digital copies that don't have these problems. The source document run seems to have been made with ample margins on at least three sides (the exception being the fold, on the left), and whatever hard copy produced this digital version could have been scanned or photographed straighter than it was. In my heart of hearts, I don't think this image meets the technical threshold for FP status, no matter how cool the artwork is. Moonreach (talk) 17:29, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 24 Feb 2026 at 17:37:43 (UTC)

Reason

HQ

Articles in which this image appears

DJI Mini

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air

Creator

Jacek Halicki

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 17:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 10ploopy10 (talk) 21:52, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:10, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 23 Feb 2026 at 21:40:11 (UTC)

Reason

EV. Widely publicized image of Churchill.

Articles in which this image appears

Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill in the Second World War

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Capt. Horton, War Office

• Support as nominator – JJARichardson (talk) 21:40, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:56, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 23 Feb 2026 at 21:22:17 (UTC)

Reason

EV. Iconic image of Churchill.

Articles in which this image appears

Winston Churchill, Victory in Europe Day, Winston Churchill in the Second World War, Post-war Britain (1945–1979)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II

Creator

Major W. G. Horton

• Support as nominator – JJARichardson (talk) 21:22, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 23 Feb 2026 at 20:32:45 (UTC)

Reason

It is a high-resolution, high-quality image.

Articles in which this image appears

Joe Biden

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Adam Schultz

• Support as nominator – وسيم (talk) 20:32, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose: his face looks way too shiny and clean for that not to be edited. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 23:32, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  It's the official portrait, though. It was presented to the world this way by the White House. I would imagine every single official portrait of anyone famous is likely to have some before-the-upload editing; do Wikipedia or Wikimedia have a stance on that? Moonreach (talk) 20:55, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  There is no requirement that the official portrait be used to illustrate a political biography. It's moreso tradition and on-wiki precedent. Even so, we also have precedent against using the official portrait as in Kim Jong Il if it is edited to an unrealistic degree and the criteria 8 of WP:FP? specifically rules out "Any manipulation which causes the main subject to be misrepresented". ―Howard • 🌽³³ 08:36, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The main image on Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election might be a better candidate. More candid and captures Biden during a landmark moment in his presidency. JJARichardson (talk) 22:42, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2026 at 22:46:18 (UTC)

Reason

HQ

Articles in which this image appears

Mike Cruise

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Lucinda Douglas Menzies

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 22:46, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support وسيم (talk) 20:48, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:46, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:00, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 15:57, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2026 at 21:54:24 (UTC)

Reason

high resolution and good reproduction of a notable painting

Articles in which this image appears

Swamp Legend

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Paul Klee

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 21:54, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:44, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 10ploopy10 (talk) 22:01, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:36, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:08, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2026 at 18:40:36 (UTC)

Reason

High quality, featured on Commons

Articles in which this image appears

Hassan Tower +1

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Petar Milošević

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support--باسم (talk) 08:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Thanx for nom. I think its worth to be on Infobox. Colors, compo are just fine. --Petar Milošević (talk) 09:50, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ArionStar (talk) 20:06, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 11:33, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:08, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:13, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2026 at 17:22:41 (UTC)

Reason

Gigapixels reproduction of a notable painting

Articles in which this image appears

Bal du moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• Comment Previous nominations which didn't succeed: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Google Art Project.jpg, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg. I uploaded a downscaled version: File:Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Google Art ProjectFXD.jpg.
• Support as nominator At last, we have a copy with the proper colors and a very high resolution. – Yann (talk) 17:22, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as on Commons.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:22, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Question — Are we being asked to choose between the two versions, or is one simply a rescaling of the other? Moonreach (talk) 19:30, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Moonreach: Only rescaling. Some people have difficulties downloading or viewing the large version. Yann (talk) 21:50, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. MER-C 11:34, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:07, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Moonreach (talk) 20:49, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2026 at 16:06:52 (UTC)

Reason

Saw this in yesterday's featured article (Adolfo Farsari) and was quite struck by it. The painting's physical dimensions are quite small, so I think this resolution does it proper justice. It's a minor element on Farsari's wiki page but a major one on that of the artist who painted it, Louis-Jules Dumoulin, so I've favored that as the place of maximum EV.

Articles in which this image appears

Louis-Jules Dumoulin, Adolfo Farsari

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Louis Dumoulin

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 16:06, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Don't think I saw it when I went to the MFA... would have been happy to! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:51, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:47, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 10ploopy10 (talk) 22:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:07, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:53, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 21 Feb 2026 at 01:39:04 (UTC)

Reason

EV

Articles in which this image appears

Operation Metro Surge and Killing of Renée Good

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/American

Creator

Chad Davis

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 01:39, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Moonreach (talk) 14:52, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 10ploopy10 (talk) 22:39, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support ― Giles Laurent (talk) 12:06, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:52, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Voting period ends on 20 Feb 2026 at 04:11:28 (UTC)

Reason

A very striking image of a totally unique landscape.

Articles in which this image appears

Blood Falls, Taylor Glacier, Antarctic Specially Protected Area, Thiomicrorhabdus arctica, Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured Pictures/Places/Landscapes

Creator

National Science Foundation, Peter Rejcek

• Nominated by – RedRampageRuckusRaider (talk) 04:11, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose - Useful, but soft and rather low resolution. This is a product of its time, but the falls haven't disappeared so a new image can be created.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:11, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per Chris - Rad subject, underwhelming image. Moonreach (talk) 14:51, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose, per Chris. Sorry! — Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:54, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

good reproduction of a notable painting

Articles in which this image appears

Adam and Eve (Valadon), Suzanne Valadon, Geschlechterkampf, List of paintings by Suzanne Valadon

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Suzanne Valadon

• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 20:22, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – I have two concerns. The first is the odd mix of licenses. I think this should be listed as unencumbered public domain, as it is a photograph of a 2D work in the public domain. The second is that there seems to be strong directional light in the photo; the painting is brighter at the top than it is at the bottom. I looked at other versions online, but none of them are particularly good copies, so it's ambiguous. Moonreach (talk) 20:43, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • I personally think the license makes sense. In countries with a sweat of the brow doctrine, that component of the license makes it 100% clear that the image is free to use. Although the Wikimedia Foundation's position is that reproductions of 2D works creates no new copyright (hence {{PD-ART}}), that position has not historically been global. (There are people who go around and remove these double liceneses, which I find frustrating). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Usually one should use the template c:Template:Licensed-PD-Art in these cases, as in File:Scoto (Duns Scoto).jpg. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 02:45, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    My account is 21 years old, and only today I learned that PD-Art supports custom licenses for photography. Good to know - will keep that in mind if I get a chance to do some more photographing of paintings.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:49, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Agree with Moonreach about the lighting.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the license as suggested. Yann (talk) 10:05, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:25, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

EV

Articles in which this image appears

The Master Mystery, Harry Houdini, B. A. Rolfe and Rolfe Photoplays

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

B.A. Rolfe Productions

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Could use a very slight crop, as there is a 1 or 2px white line across the top and along the left side. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:26, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

The current FP was removed from the article and replaced with File:Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.webm. As we cannot keep featured status on an unused image, suggest replacement

Articles this image appears in

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Nominator

 — Chris Woodrich (talk)

• Delist and replace —  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:40, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist and replace — Yann (talk) 21:39, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist and Replace —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:41, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist and replace. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 11:59, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Struck as unregistered users can’t vote. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:01, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Replace. MER-C 10:03, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist & Replace — Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:57, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced with File:Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:47, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High quality and good EV for the mission page

Articles in which this image appears

Artemis II

FP category for this image

Getting there

Creator

NASA/Joel Kowsky

• Support as nominator – — Benison (Beni · talk) 02:38, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The EV is strong here now, but this feels premature given that this space mission is scheduled to launch in a month or so, and photos relating to its launch, trip around the moon and the return will have much stronger EV. Nick-D (talk) 10:20, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I could go either way on this. It's a well-composed photograph, even though it doesn't really distinguish itself from the many other launchpad photos Wikipedia has from NASA, and even though I don't like that one bank of lights that's half cut off at the lower right. It's grainy, not to the point I'd say is a deal-breaker but which doesn't count in its favor, either. I do think it has good EV, but combined with my other misgivings I'm inclined to agree with Nick-D above that we'd be better off waiting for actual mission photos. Moonreach (talk) 18:53, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

EV

Articles in which this image appears

The Grim Game and Harry Houdini

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Paramount Pictures

• Support as nominator – ArionStar (talk) 00:50, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Awfully soft, especially given the resolution. Contemporary film posters had very detailed hatching etc. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:42, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

HR copy of a notable movie

Articles in which this image appears

Animal Crackers (1930 film), a quality article

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Victor Heerman

• Support as nominator Public domain since January 1st. – Yann (talk) 21:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Good to have the Marx brothers in the PD! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:31, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Moonreach (talk) 20:04, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support- Gstaveeiffel314 (talk) 18:52, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:58, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 17:09, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Hooray for Captain Spaulding! Support --Harald Krichel (talk) 11:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Animal Crackers (1930).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:05, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

HR copy of a notable movie

Articles in which this image appears

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film), 3rd Academy Awards

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film

Creator

Lewis Milestone

• Support as nominator Public domain since January 1st. – Yann (talk) 20:54, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support with a caveat: Remarque only died in 1970, so this is not PD in Germany. Given that this is based on a German novel, we should note that on the Commons page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:45, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:42, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Moonreach (talk) 20:04, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Matarisvan (talk) 14:59, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong oppose – FP criteria 7, as the source information for this video file is unclear. More information is required than simply "All Quiet on the Western Front" in the source description. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 15:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @Hinnk: can you please clarify where you obtained this file? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 15:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @Howardcorn33, added the source from the Internet Archive. Matarisvan (talk) 11:16, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Support: source info is satisfactory now. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 12:32, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, sound version).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:02, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

very good and high reproduction of a notable painting

Articles this image appears in

Original: none
Replacement: Girl with a Pearl Earring and many others

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Girl with a Pearl Earring
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Girl with a Pearl Earring

Nominator

Yann (talk)

• Support as nominator There was a previous nomination (Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Girl with a Pearl Earring) which promoted File:Girl with a Pearl Earring.jpg. But this file is not in the list of FPs now and I can't see a Delist nomination. File:Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) - The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665).jpg may have been a FP, as it is mentioned that it was a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia. The current nomination is obviously much better. – Yann (talk) 13:01, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment D&R will be required, as File:Meisje met de parel.jpg is currently featured.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:08, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

New scan should also replace File:Meisje met de parel.jpg in articles where it is used, if we D&R. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:09, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I was wondering where is the previous D&R. OK, done. Yann (talk) 19:40, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support / D&R - Though there seems to be an even higher resolution scan at the website now... just can't get it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:06, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, here, but the colors do not look so good. A picture made from tiles would be more than 105 Gigapixels. Yann (talk) 20:46, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Replace. MER-C 17:10, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support / Delist and Replace —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:42, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I just fixed up the page, so that it actually looks like a delist and replace nomination. Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:18, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support / D. & R. — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:01, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced with File:1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:25, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

important event in history

Articles in which this image appears

History of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Portal:South Africa, and more

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

World Economic Forum

• Support as nominator Thanks to JayCubby for uploading this. – Yann (talk) 10:10, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support and thank you Yann for nominating it! JayCubby 14:15, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Minor dust spots here and there but otherwise good contrast and depth of field. Moonreach (talk) 20:14, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Not well framed and an awkward photo of Mandela. As Mandela had met with de Klerk and the leadership of the National Party on many occasions before this (he started meeting with de Klerk's predecessor while he was in jail, for instance), I don't see why it's particularly historically important. Photos of their key meetings, important events they attended jointly in South Africa and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize together would have vastly higher EV. Nick-D (talk) 10:24, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Are these free? Pictures from the 1990s aren't usually free, so it is unlikely that we have them. That makes all the difference. Yann (talk) 21:43, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• There don't seem to be any on Commons, but I'd politely disagree that that's relevant here. If you read accounts of this era in South Africa, Mandela and de Klerk met regularly and were at the same events regularly (both as political opponents as well as allies in the broader project of steering South Africa through a transition to democracy), so the noteworthiness of the event seems significant when considering the EV of a not-great photo. The article on de Klerk doesn't mention this WEF meeting and that on Mandela mentions it only briefly in a different context, so it doesn't appear to have particular significance. It is certainly a useful image, but depicts what was by that stage a fairly routine type of engagement between the two men. Nick-D (talk) 09:03, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:44, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

High quality image of a major part of the culture of Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan. The Ford Fireworks have, under various names, been a major draw to the region since 1959. This image shows not only the fireworks but also a major Detroit landmark, the Renaissance Center, giving a sense of scale as well as a definite geolocation.

Articles in which this image appears

Windsor–Detroit International Freedom Festival, Detroit International Riverfront, Culture of Detroit, Windsor, Ontario, Tourism in metropolitan Detroit, List of festivals in Ontario

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle

Creator

Chris Woodrich

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:45, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Yann (talk) 10:02, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 20:18, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 04:43, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:02, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ford Fireworks from Riverside near Pierre, Windsor, Ontario, 2025-06-23 26.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason

The former has since been replaced with a higher quality scan on the main George Washington article.

Articles this image appears in

George Washington, Presidency of George Washington, Protectionism in the United States, Tariff of 1789b

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/George Washington by Gilbert Stuart

Nominator

―Howard • 🌽³³

• Delist and replace — ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:10, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support delist, suggests replacement for another file The currently used lead image looks slightly too blue and far too remastered (I also want to add that the currently used file is not cropped properly). I believe that the scan I have suggested below it looks slightly better. That being said, I believe that ‘George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, 1803.jpg’ should be used as the lead image instead. GuyMan529 (talk) 22:28, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Support this also. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 00:40, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I would support a high resolution version with the colors of the alternative. Yann (talk) 09:59, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - What is the source for the proposed ALT? Completely different colours, different resolution... hard to verify its accuracy without a valid source.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:14, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Actually you're right. I didn't look too hard into it but this is not the same image provided at the source.

  @Auspiciouswastaken: can you please clarify where you got the file from? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 08:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  The second replacement is not a high-resolution scan, and I do not have a record of where the replacement (1) image was sourced from, due to the reason that I had purchased a new laptop as my old one (which had the source of the image noted down) was destroyed beyond repair. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 11:21, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I may have a higher-quality scan with a warmer tone closer to the alternative scan stored on my Google Drive. I will provide it if I can locate the file. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 11:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @GuyMan529 I noticed that the images were updated on every single page before a clear consensus was reached and prior to the close of the voting period. Could you clarify the basis for implementing the change at this stage?  As I understand it, changes following a nomination or vote should generally wait until discussion concludes and consensus is established. If I am mistaken about the procedure, please let me know, and I will be replacing the image with the previously used lead image 'til consensus is reached. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 11:24, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Auspiciouswastaken Oh yes. I believe I made those edits because the 1st replacement image had no consensus to begin with (I posted those edits during midnight, so I don’t exactly know why, so I apologise.) But that being said, until consensus has been reached, I believe we should keep the original image (Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington.jpg) as the lead image for the George Washington article. GuyMan529 (talk) 11:41, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I likely have a higher-quality scan in that tone and will upload it as a new version if I can find it. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 11:43, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Auspiciouswastaken I had reverted the images back to the originally used image as no consensus has been made about the 1st replacement image in the first place. Please note that this is temporary. GuyMan529 (talk) 12:13, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GuyMan529 i've found the image which has a tone closer to your replacement? May I present it to you here? Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 12:34, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. GuyMan529 (talk) 12:36, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Auspiciouswastaken GuyMan529 (talk) 12:37, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

sorry i didn't notice, let me js upload to wikimedia commons Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 17:11, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GuyMan529 Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.png Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 04:49, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GuyMan529 I used compression software to reduce the image size, which may have affected the colors. This is the original, uncompressed image. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 04:54, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Auspiciouswastaken: can you please provide the url of the website where you obtained these HQ scans? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 12:06, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't remember the specific website where I found the HQ scans. It's been a while, and I lost a record of the source, by the way the HQ Scan for the alternative replacement is my original replacement but uncompressed. Auspiciouswastaken (talk) 13:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw nomination: without a complete file source this fails FP criteria 7. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:42, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. The exact source for this exact image is still not provided. And even if we want to replace it (unlikely due to false referencing), I find that the one that I have suggested looks more ideal because, again, the ones you have suggested look too blue and look too remastered, still better than the 1st replacement suggestion.GuyMan529 (talk) 13:58, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:24, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:24, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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