User:Jjron/VP Trial 2

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.

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Valued Picture Candidates (VPC)

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.

Valued Picture Candidates (VPC) is a place where you can have images evaluated for Valued Picture status, and can receive feedback on the image's potential as a possible Featured Picture. Prior to the Valued Picture (VP) function, this page was formerly known as Wikipedia:Picture peer review.

Valued Pictures 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), and consensus is in its favour, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Valued pictures gallery. Note that promotion is ultimately at the discretion of the closer. For example anonymous and sockpuppet opinions are generally disregarded, as are opinions that do not address criteria.

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Instructions

Please ensure you have read and understood the VP Criteria prior to nominating.

If you would rather receive comments only on your picture please request this in your nomination. Other users will then only provide you with comments and feedback, rather than VPC Support and Oppose opinions. If you request to receive comments only there is no requirement to fully satisfy the VP Criteria, although comments may still address these.

For general advice on editing pictures see Wikipedia:How to improve image quality.

To create a Valued Picture Candidate nomination, follow these three steps:

Step 1: Create a new subpage named Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/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 Valued picture candidates list (direct link).

How to comment

Please take care to be polite and considerate in your opinions, and ensure that your reasons address the VP Criteria. If you do not feel the image meets the criteria, try to suggest how your concerns may be able to be addressed.

If the user has requested comments only, then please refrain from making Support and Oppose opinions.

When making a 'vote' on an image:

If you approve of a picture, write Support followed by your reasons in the Opinions section.
If you don't approve of a picture, write Oppose followed by your reasons in the Opinions section.
Rather than posting an Oppose vote, you may prefer to post a Comment raising issues with the picture.
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 or Keep, followed by the reasons.

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

Remember to sign all opinions and comments with --~~~~.

The VPC 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

Tulip VP2

Reason: It's good.
Articles this image appears in: Tulip (been in for 3yrs)
Creator: jjron
Nominated by: jjron (talk) 13:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Opinions

Spinning Dancer

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

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

**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)

Kaaba

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

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

The criteria for Valued Picture Candidates are based on those for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates (see Featured picture criteria).

The key difference to Featured Pictures is that Valued Pictures place primary emphasis on the picture's encyclopaedic value to Wikipedia. Thus standards for encyclopaedic value 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' of the picture.

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 Valued Pictures 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. Images must have been suitably located in at least one article for a minimum of one month in order to help demonstrate that other editors of that article consider the image to be worth retaining and thus to have encyclopaedic value. Images that do not meet this criteria are ineligible for VP status.
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 resolution should be sufficient that the key details being illustrated are clearly visible.
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

When NOT promoted, perform the following

Place the following text at the bottom of the WP:VPC/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:Valued picture candidates/Archives for the current period. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/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:VPC/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:Valued picture candidates/Archives for the current period. This is done by simply moving the line {{Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Image name}} from this page to the top of the archive.
If an edited or alternative version of the originally nominated image is promoted, make sure that all articles contain the Valued Picture version.
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:Valued picture candidates/image_name).
Add the image to the Valued Pictures Gallery - newest on top. Include a short caption using the basic format "Article, by Photographer".
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

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 Valued picture candidates and is considered to be of high value to the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its article.

VP Nominator Template

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:Valued picture candidates. If you feel this image meets the Featured Picture criteria you may nominate it 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:Valued picture candidates. If you feel this image meets the Featured Picture criteria you may nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --jjron (talk) 17:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

VP Creator Template

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:Valued picture candidates. If you feel this image meets the Featured Picture criteria you may nominate it 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:Valued picture candidates. If you feel this image meets the Featured Picture criteria you may nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. --jjron (talk) 17:13, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

VP Gallery Page

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.

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.

There are currently 0 Valued Pictures.

User:Jjron/VP Trial 2/ValuedPictureThumbsHeader

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