Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Black hole - Messier 87.jpg

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File:Black hole - Messier 87.jpg, featured

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The first image ever of a black hole, inside Messier 87 galaxy
I can't change the page, as it was protected. -Theklan (talk) 14:33, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Theklan, that is usually what happens when an image is in the ITN space; it gets protected. This means that it will probably be out of reach for us mere mortals for weeks. In the meantime, will you please add all the info you were supposed to add to the picture per El Grafo's list, here on the nomination. Hopefully an admin will be kind enough to transfer the data to the file page. Or you/we can add it as soon as the protection is lifted. --Cart (talk) 16:05, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We are doing it now at the talk page. -Theklan (talk) 16:06, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Great! --Cart (talk) 16:21, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose – it’s little more than a test of their array. Perhaps a valued image, but nowhere near a featured one, with all due respect. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:31, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    And, last but not least, 4000 × 2330 pixels and 844 KiB of data? The meagre content isn’t worth even a 1024 × 768 picture occupying some 1/10 of its present data size. Please, don’t upload pictures with an excessive pixel size. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, subject is centered, and there are underexposed areas. Where is the wow factor, I say! Rama (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support From the guidelines: "[...]a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important [...]". Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 15:51, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Ok, we may be blase and jaded here at FPC, but I'm not so far gone that I will frown on the first real image of a black hole. This is not something I thought I'd ever see. It is probably the next historical milestone photo after The Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot. The next one of this magnitude might be the first photo of alien life. I don't care if the telescope array will produce better images of this later, this is the first photo and we can always "delist and replace" it when that day comes. Although I wonder if it is physically possible to get a photo of a black hole that will satisfy pixel peepers. --Cart (talk) 16:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"The next one of this magnitude might be the first photo of alien life." Like when we finally see the Dyson web around Tabby's star. Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Photo of the other side of the black hole. --Cart (talk) 12:52, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
+1 Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I can't imagine, per the above comments, that someone wasn't sorely tempted to make a Brexit joke in the caption (Actually, they left that to social media). Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yann In that exif the terms are "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" while it is 3.0 on the file page. You might want to fix that if it's correct. You could also copy the info from the exif "Image title" and add it to the description since not all users know to look in the exif. --Cart (talk) 14:27, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, I updated the license. I wonder if we need a license review now. I thought about copying the description, but then it would become very long, especially if translated in several languages. Should we have a separate section at the bottom? Any other idea? Regards, Yann (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • WP:In the news, the top right section on the main page of en-WP. Any article or photo that gets a place there gets a gazillon views but also a lot of vandalism. It's sort of the hottest place on WP. You think FPC is tough... it's like a kiddie pool next to the shark tank that is ITN/C. --Cart (talk) 20:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 36 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Basile Morin (talk) 01:14, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Astronomy
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