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The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the illustration workshop. Anyone can make a request for an illustration to be improved or created for a Wikipedia article. Clicking the "New Request" button will bring you to a standard template for submitting requests, as well as general advice that should be followed.

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All requests:

Please make sure your request is "legitimate" by copyright. If the image(s) are in the public domain or freely licensed, you are fine. If the image(s) are "Fair use", there are only certain things we can do with them without falling afoul of Wikipedia's fair-use policies.
- If you are requesting assistance with a copyright or fair-use image, don't display it on this page; place {{GLNF|Example.png|caption|align=left}} to create a link to it. Do not add the File: extension. Our fair-use policy does not allow displaying fair-use images out of their articles on ANY account.
Please check back regularly to see if progress has been made or if any additional questions need to be answered before the request can be completed.
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Make sure your request can actually BE vectorized. Note that vector drawings are not suitable for certain applications. We generally use SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such. Certain things, photographs especially, are totally impossible to vectorize.
Per our non-free content policy, vectorization of copyrighted images is not permitted. If a vectorized non-free image is desired, seek out such an image from the copyright holder.

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Good article and featured article topicon redesign

Current good article icon
Current featured content icon

Article(s)

5,859 featured articles
3,696 featured lists
32,507 good articles
Assorted additional talk, help, and process pages

Request

Yes, this one is a big one.

Background: The current symbols for good articles and featured content have been used since those systems were introduced way back in Wikipedia's early days. They have significant problems. The featured article icon is too skeuomorphic, giving it an outdated look, and its excessive detail causes it to render poorly at small scale. The good article icon, meanwhile, has been adopted throughout the rest of Wikimedia (and in some places on Wikipedia) as the "support vote" icon, leading to conflicting usage. Far worse than the issues with them individually, however, is the fact that there is no shared visual language between them (the GA icon uses the norro style, and the FA icon does not use any style). When compounded by their overall lack of prominence (a separate issue that we're trying to address), this has led to the unfortunate situation where many (perhaps most) non-editing readers could not tell you whether a star or a green badge is a higher distinction. Given how much effort we put into the GA/FA systems, there's more than a bit of tragic irony to that.

Process: This is the first stage in the process of redesigning the icons (after informal discussions in various places). Ideally, several proposals will be put forth that can be compared against the status quo in a more formal and widely-advertised round of !voting (similar to the process for the MediaWiki logo redesign), with the winner adopted.

Design details: The redesigned icons could end up being anything from checkmarks (a la the Twitter verification badge) to a silver star for GAs to a multi-star system that begins with one star for stubs and increases thereafter; feel free to get creative.

Also, since the whole idea here is to unify the symbology, the redesign will need to include the associated symbols in addition to the main icons. You don't have to design them all now, but candidates with at least an articulated vision of what they should look like may be more likely to win support once we reach the formal !voting stage. Here are the current icons still in use that I could find (there may be a few more fringe ones):

Related icons
Former good article icon Good article reassessment icon Good article candidate icon Former featured article icon Former featured article candidate icon Featured article candidate icon Article for improvement icon Good topic icon Good article candidate icon Featured topic icon Featured topic candidate icon Former featured topic icon Former featured topic candidate icon

In truth, the potential scope of this project could be a lot bigger, trying to unify all of the icons used anywhere on Wikipedia. However, recent attempts to do so have failed, and their utility is questionable, given that most icons do not appear in reader-facing areas and thus have a vastly more limited reach. Redesigning these two icons is a more feasible task with clear and significant benefits for readers across tens of thousands of pages.; Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:08, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

@Sdkb: I would recommend posting this at the Commons graphics lab as well, as it is significantly more active over there. Pbrks (talk) 14:50, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Pbrks: Thanks for the tip. Since this request is specific to en-WP, I'd prefer the main discussion be hosted here, but I'll copy the request there and invite folks over. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:38, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Consider color blindness (esp. red-green): In data visualization circles, there is increasing awareness of how graphics should be crafted to allow color blind individuals to distinguish through shading, what normally sighted individuals distinguish directly through color perception. (One can test shading in Photoshop etc by removing saturation.) It's my understanding that red-green color blindness is a common type, though not the only type of color blindness. Some color scales are better than others: see Scientific American. —RCraig09 (talk) 22:53, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved discussion about mandate for change

Has there actually been any discussion about changing these icons somewhere? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 23:37, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
David Fuchs, the direct impetus for this request was a tangential discussion at the Village Pump. I think there have been a few other "we ought to change this" offhand musings over the years that are mostly buried in archives at this point. But largely, as I lay out above, this is the ground floor. If you have thoughts about how to organize the process to ensure visibility/boost participation/etc., those are welcome. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:09, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to start with an RfC (or, I guess, two parallel questions) on changing the icons in general to get a mandate for the change, as well as soliciting opinions on what changes people would like to see so any designers have a firmer grasp of what might be acceptable. Not like the original icons were chosen with a ton of deliberation (from what I can see at the WT:GA archives one editor unilaterally came up with the GA icon) but at this point I think you're going to have to get buy-in. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 00:16, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
David Fuchs, hmm, I'm not quite sure what form that RfC would take. Should it be a yes/no "should these be changed?" question at WP:VPR, or an open-ended "What changes would you want to see?" brainstorming at WP:VPI, or something in between? I don't want to hand over too much of designers' work to general editors, since I trust designers to know best when it comes to designing. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:48, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest the former, with an area for further discussion of the latter. First step of making changes is getting people to agree to a change. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 15:21, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
David Fuchs, sounds good. I'm going to put the proposal forward there, and mark this as on hold for now. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Mandate acquired. The formal Village Pump proposal has been archived, and per here, it successfully acquired a mandate for the icons to be redesigned, so I am removing the "on hold" box around this section. I'll leave it up to others to decide how precisely to proceed from here; I hope that someone steps up to take the lead on shepherding the process from here forward, since I'm not sure I can do it myself. This thread can be archived once (and only once) we've moved to the next stage. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Nadi

Article(s): Flag of Fiji, Nadi.
Request: Could someone please create an SVG file of the town of Nadi (in Fiji), as seen here. A close up of the arms can be seen here as well, if it helps. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 00:16, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Flag of Suva

Article(s): Flag of Fiji, Suva.
Request: Could someone please create an SVG file of the flag of the city of Suva (in Fiji), as seen here. A close up of the arms can be seen here as well, if it helps. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 00:16, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

SVG templates - Irish Wolfhound

Article(s): Template
Request: Could someone please create some heraldic SVG templates of an Irish Wolfhound, based on the images seen here. And, if it's not too much, I'd ask that a number of them be created, displaying the Wolfhound in various different positions (running, standing on all fours, rampant, lying down, and so on). Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 02:38, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Historical Logos of VARTA

Article(s): VARTA
Request: Could one of the graphists draw me the historical logos of that company? Will provide the pictures via eMail. -- Antemister (talk) 13:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Coat of arms of the North West Company

Article(s): North West Company
Request: Would someone please create an SVG image of the coat of arms of the now defunct North West Company, based on the above image. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 21:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Coat of arms of the Hudson's Bay Company

Article(s): Hudson's Bay Company
Request: Could someone please create an SVG file of the coat of arms of the Hudson's Bay Company, based on the above photo, and also from the information here. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 21:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Aircraft Manufacturer Logos

Article(s): Aeronca Aircraft, American Eagle Aircraft Corporation, AviaBellanca Aircraft, Bach Aircraft, Barkley-Grow Aircraft, Brewster Aeronautical Corporation,E. M. Laird Airplane Company, Great Lakes Aircraft Company, Hiller Aircraft, International Aircraft, Interstate Aircraft, Keystone Aircraft, Luscombe Aircraft, Porterfield Aircraft Corporation, Rearwin Airplanes, Stearman Aircraft, Stinson Aircraft Company, Temco Aircraft, Timm Aircraft, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Vought
Request: Could someone please create SVG versions of the aircraft manufacturer logos for the following external images:

There are also a few already uploaded photographs that could be vectorized:

My understanding is that these should be okay as other aircraft manufacturer logos are in use at:

I realize this may be asking a lot, so I apologize if it is too much. —Noha307 (talk) 02:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

FC Santa Claus

Article(s): FC Santa Claus
Request: Can someone make the background transparent, as it was with the previous revisions please? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Graphic contains a misspelled word: please fix

Firearm actions
Description of second image (if needed)

Description of second image (if needed)
Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)

Article(s): Breechblock
Request

Image has a misspelled word in the lower right square. "Bleechblock" should be "Breechblock. -- Quisqualis (talk) 06:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories

Erroneous flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories.

Article(s): Any article this is already on.
Request: Would someone please alter the above file so that it looks the way the flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories should actually look like, as seen on their webpage here, as well as this photo here. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 13:05, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion