User:Jjron/VP Trial

This is a 'sandbox' page for the proposed Valued Picture category on en:Wiki.

If you wish to discuss this proposal please do so at Wikipedia_talk:Picture_peer_review#Valued_Pictures_Proposal.

Refer also to: User:Jjron/VP Trial/PPR-VP Template, User:Jjron/VP Trial/PPR-VP Preload, User:Jjron/VP Trial/PPR-VP Editintro and VP Trial 2.

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Picture peer review is a staging area for potential Featured Picture Candidates (FPCs) and a place where you can have images evaluated as a Valued Picture Candidate (VPC).

You may elect to have your nomination undergo Peer Review as a "spot check" before making a formal FPC nomination, have it evaluated for Valued Picture status, or receive both Peer Review and Valued Picture evaluation.

Picture Peer Review (PPR)[edit]

You may elect to have your nomination reviewed as a potential Wikipedia:Featured Picture, or simply seek opinions on it. You can do this as well as, or instead of, having it evaluated for VP status.

Note: "peer review" usually implies a group of authoritative reviewers who are equally familiar with and expert in the subject. The process represented by this page is not a formal academic peer review in that sense. Images that undergo this process cannot be assumed to have greater authority at FPC than any other.

Valued Picture Candidates (VPC)[edit]

Valued Pictures are images that add significant value to Wikipedia articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or by being a hard to obtain free use image of the content being illustrated. They may possess many of the characteristics of a Featured Picture, but have a greater emphasis on high encyclopaedic value over technical quality. For the criteria against which VPs are judged refer to the Valued Picture Criteria.

For promotion, if an image is listed here for at least seven days with three or more opinions in support (excluding the nominator) it can be added to the Wikipedia:Valued pictures gallery. Note that promotion is ultimately at the discretion of the closer. For example anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.

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Instructions[edit]

Please ensure you have read and understood the VP Criteria and/or FP criteria prior to nominating. For general advice on editing pictures see Wikipedia:How to improve image quality.

To create a Picture Peer Review and/or Valued Picture Candidate nomination, follow these three steps:

Step 1: Create a new subpage named Wikipedia:Picture peer review/ExampleName replacing ExampleName with an appropriate title:

Step 2: Fill in the requested data, including your reasons for nominating, and click Save page.

Step 3: Transclude the newly created subpage to the TOP of the Picture peer review list (direct link).

How to comment[edit]

If the image is nominated for Picture Peer Review only

Place comments addressing FPC criteria or suggesting improvements and opinions in the Peer Review Comments section of the nomination only.
Do not place anything in the Valued Picture Candidate Opinions section on images nominated for PPR only.

If the image is nominated for Valued Picture Candidate only

If you approve of a picture, write Support followed by your reasons in the Valued Picture Candidate Opinions section.
Unlike processes such as FPC, there are no Oppose votes at VPC; any Oppose votes will be removed. You may however be able to provide a comment in the Peer Review Comments section if you disapprove, or wish to suggest improvements.
There are no delist nominations at VPC. However, at times a nominator may suggest an image that they feel should replace a current VP in order to avoid duplication, e.g., a similar image of higher quality or better composition. In that case they will make a nomination, but be clear that they are proposing a replacement for an existing VP. In this case opinions should start with Replace rather than Support, followed by the reasons.

Note: to change your opinion, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.

If the image is nominated for both PPR and VPC

Provide PPR comments in the Peer Review Comments section as described above.
Provide VPC votes in Valued Picture Candidate Opinions section as described above.

The PPR archive contains all opinions and comments collected on this page, and also nomination results.

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

To see recent changes, purge the page cache

Current nominations[edit]

Spinning Dancer[edit]

Reason: testing 1,2,3 :)
Articles this image appears in: The Spinning Dancer
Creator: Nobuyuku Kayahara
Nominated by: Muhammad(talk) 19:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Nomination type: VP only
Peer Review Comments

Valued Picture Supports

Melbourne Docklands[edit]

Reason: This is a quality capture of the Melbourne Docklands region bathed in beautiful winter sunshine. I think it has a good chance at FPC. Some further opinions or input would be welcome.
Articles this image appears in: Melbourne Docklands
Creator: jjron
Nominated by: jjron (talk) 13:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Nomination type: PPR only
Peer Review Comments

Good picture, but check image page. This is already a FP. --jjron (talk) 13:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Valued Picture Supports

Bearded Dragon test 2[edit]

**Original:** Eastern Bearded Dragon in Australia

Reason: This seems to fulfil all the criteria for VP and adds significantly to article. Has been in article since January 2008. Would also like to get opinions for its chances at FPC.
Articles this image appears in: Eastern Bearded Dragon
Creator: jjron
Nominated by: --jjron (talk) 13:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Nomination type: Both PPR and VP

Peer Review Comments

Valued Picture Supports

Shouldn't be a VI because, well, we have to fail something during this test phase. MER-C 12:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Test 1 Tulip[edit]

Reason: It's a good picture of a tulip
Articles this image appears in: Tulip
Creator: jjron
Nomination type: VP only
Nominated by: --jjron (talk) 13:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review Comments

Valued Picture Supports

Support. Good quality, beautiful image. --jjron (talk) 13:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Kaaba[edit]

Reason: Good picture, very rare free use capture of the Kaaba
Articles this image appears in: Kaaba
Hajj
Muhammad
and several others
Creator: Muhammad
Nominated by: jjron (talk) 14:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Nomination type: VP only
Comments

Valued Picture Opinions

Support. Excellent contribution. --jjron (talk) 14:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Support.
Support. Of course.

Promoted Image:Kaaba mirror edit jj.jpg --jjron (talk) 14:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Flower of Alpine Saxifrage[edit]

Reason: The Saxifrage family is known as being specially adept at surviving in cracks of cliffs. The particular species shown here is furthermore specially adept at coping with a medium to high arctic oceanic environment. A plant, which exists despite all odds. The flowers are very small and you barely notice them in passing. I estimate the diameter of the flower on the photo was about 6mm. The flower is not yet fully developed. There are no other contributions of this species on Commons except this image of mine of the whole plant.
Articles this image appears in: Saxifraga nivalis
Creator: Slaunger
Nominated by: Slaunger (talk) 21:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Nomination type: Both PPR and VP
Peer Review Comments

Valued Picture Supports

Valued Picture Criteria[edit]

The criteria for Valued Picture Candidates are based on those for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates; for the specific criteria against which FPCs are judged, see Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria.

The key difference is that Valued Pictures place primary emphasis on the picture's encyclopaedic value to Wikipedia. Thus standards for this are higher at VP (e.g., the image must have been in its article for at least one month, and it must be a significant addition to its article). By contrast Featured Pictures place higher emphasis on 'technical quality'.

Note: an image cannot be both a VP and an FP. Therefore you cannot nominate an existing FP at VPC. You may nominate existing VPs at FPC, but if a VP is promoted to FP, it will have its VP tag replaced with the FP tag, and will be removed from the VP Gallery.

The criteria for VPCs are:

The image is encyclopaedically valuable to Wikipedia and has been suitably illustrating an article for at least one month. Images that only make a minor contribution, such as a gallery image, would not be considered to have high encyclopaedic value.
The image is accurate and has an appropriate caption in its article.
The image is of a suitable size for its purpose. In general this means it should have acceptable resolution at image page size.
The image is of acceptable technical quality, without excessive digital manipulation. Technical quality covers such things as composition, lighting, colour balance, and sharpness. In general the image should have acceptable quality at image page size.
The image has a free license.

Note: to view an image at image page size, click on the thumbnail version displayed in the nomination on this page.

Closing Procedure[edit]

For PPR nominations[edit]

Move the nomination entry to the top of the Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Archives for the current period. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Image name}} from this page to the top of the currnet archive.

For VP nominations[edit]

When NOT promoted, perform the following

Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:PPR/subpage:
- {{VPCresult|Not promoted| }} --~~~~ [[Category:Ended valued picture nominations]]
Do NOT put any other information inside the VPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
Move the nomination entry to the top of the Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Archives for the current period. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Image name}} from this page to the top of the currnet archive.

When promoted, perform the following

Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:FPC/subpage:
{{VPCresult|Promoted|Image:FILENAME.JPG}} --~~~~ [[Category:Ended valued picture nominations]]
Replace FILENAME.JPG with the name of the file that was promoted. It should show up as:

Promoted Image:FILENAME.JPG --Username

Do NOT put any other information inside the VPCresult template. It should be copied and pasted exactly.
Move the nomination entry to the top of the Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Archives for the current period. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Image name}} from this page to the top of the archive.
Add the image to the Valued Pictures Gallery - newest on top
Update the picture's tag by adding {{ValuedPicture|image_name}} (replace image_name with the nomination page name, i.e., the image_name from Wikipedia:Picture_peer_review/image_name).
If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Valued Picture version.
Notify the nominator by placing {{subst:PromotedNominationVPC|Image:Image.ext}} on the nominator's talkpage. For example: {{subst:PromotedNominationVPC|Image:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}
If the image was created by a Wikipedian, place {{subst:PromotedCreatorVPC|Image:Image.ext}} on the creator's talkpage. For example: {{subst:PromotedCreatorVPC|Image:Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}

VP Promotion Template[edit]

This is added to the image page of the promoted image.

Option 1:

This is a Valued Picture, which means that it has been evaluated at Picture peer review and is considered to be of high value to the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its article.

Option 2 (shamelessly stealing the Commons VI seal):

This is a Valued Picture, which means that it has been evaluated at Picture peer review and is considered to be of high value to the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its article.

VP Nominator Template[edit]

Template:

[[{{{1}}}|75px|center|]]

Your nomination for Valued Picture status, [[:{{{1}}}]], gained sufficient support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Picture peer review. If you would like to nominate either this or another image for Featured Picture status please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --~~

Usage: {{PromotedNominationVPC|Image:Image.ext}}

Example usage:

Your nomination for Valued Picture status, Image:Kaaba mirror edit jj.jpg, gained sufficient support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Picture peer review. If you would like to nominate either this or another image for Featured Picture status please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --jjron (talk) 17:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

VP Creator Template[edit]

Template:

[[{{{1}}}|75px|center|]]

An image created by you, [[:{{{1}}}]], was nominated for Valued Picture status, gained sufficient support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Picture peer review. If you would like to nominate either this or another image for Featured Picture status please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --~~

Usage: {{PromotedCreatorVPC|Image:Image.ext}}

Example usage:

An image created by you, Image:Kaaba mirror edit jj.jpg, was nominated for Valued Picture status, gained sufficient support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Picture peer review. If you would like to nominate either this or another image for Featured Picture status please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --jjron (talk) 17:13, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

VP Gallery Page[edit]

This page would be set up similar to Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs; a rough example is shown below. Image would be grouped into galleries of 100.

Valued Pictures are images that add significant value to Wikipedia articles, either by illustrating article content particularly well, or by being a hard to obtain free use image of the content being illustrated. They may possess many of the characteristics of a Featured Picture, but have a greater emphasis on high encyclopaedic value over technical quality.

There are currently 0 Valued Pictures.

For the criteria against which VPs are judged refer to the Valued Picture Criteria. If you wish to nominate an image for Valued Picture status, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued Picture Candidates. Images can only be added to this page following a successful Valued pictures review.

The category Wikipedia valued pictures shows the thumbnails listed alphabetically.

User:Jjron/VP Trial/ValuedPictureThumbsHeader

Kaaba
Abner Doubleday
Palais Garnier interior
Pelargonium graveolens
Rosie the Riveter
Refueling Osprey