Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates

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13 day voting periods

Why are voting periods 13 days?! they have always been 10 days. Bammesk (talk) 01:37, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Never mind, December periods are 13 days. Bammesk (talk) 02:02, 16 December 2016 (UTC) sidenote: good question, and good answer! :-)

WikiCup 2017

Season's greetings! This is just a quick note to let you all know that the 2017 WikiCup will begin on January 1st. The WikiCup is an annual competition to encourage high-quality contributions to Wikipedia by adding a little friendly competition to editing. At the time of writing, more than eighty users have signed up to take part in the competition. Interested parties, no matter their level of experience or their editing interests, are warmly invited to sign up. Questions are welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:47, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Unique "movie" of exoplanets

Gif file

in infobox on page HR 8799.

This was uploaded just two days ago - first time I've ever seen a moving image of planets outside our solar system! Someone please nominate it ASAP ("stable" after 7 days, IIRC), since I'm not too familiar with the nomination process...

Here's an interesting description: [1] --Janke | Talk 16:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Music

A clarinet.

Hi! Together with some other German Wikipedians, I have created a project called Wiki Loves Music to improve the quality of musical instrument images on Wikipedia. As part of this project, the image on the right was recently donated to Wikimedia Commons by Yamaha. Before formally nominating it, I would like to hear from you to see if it has any change of being accepted. The reason for this is that I have no previous experience with images on Wikipedia. Also, is there another place on English Wikipedia where I can reach out to Wikipedians interested in high-quality photographs of objects like this one? Thank you, --Gnom (talk) 14:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

@Gnom: The Featured picture criteria says that "Still images should be a minimum of 1500 pixels in width and height", but this image is only 776 pixels wide and thus fails the size criteria. I think you're looking for Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:45, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Commons has a gallery for musical instruments. Jee 12:53, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Armbrust, thank you for your reply! Since clarinets are extremely narrow objects by nature, don't you think this rule can be bent here? I have already found the WikiProject and left a message there.--Gnom (talk) 12:55, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Well, it's possible that an exception could be warranted, but in that case you really have to make a compelling argument in the nomination statement. It all depends on whether the users reviewing your nomination agree to make an exception or not. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:01, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Hm. --Gnom (talk) 16:40, 4 February 2017 (UTC)