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Good work

I saw your recent featured picture and just wanted to say that I appreciate the work you do.

P.S. consider archiving your talk page, Dialmayo (talk) (Contribs) she/her 13:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Dialmayo: Well, thank you so much! I do my best. And I'll archive it later today. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 17:45, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Henry Turner

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Nov Bugle FP

Hi Adam, pardon my ignorance but I was just wondering what the rationale was for Hyochang Park coming under the MilHist banner? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:56, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Rose: I was thinking it was a good example of Korea under Japanese rule, which is a MILHIST article. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 05:45, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, okay tks. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:22, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Rose: Of course, it's your call if it's sufficiently related. It's not an immediate aftereffect of conquest, after all. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 11:03, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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A humble suggestion

Greetings! I hope my message finds you well.

I know not whether you accept suggestions on image restorations or not, but since I take you to be ~~probably~~ the best wikimedia image restorator, I found it proper to express my idea to you.

Perhaps the

used in a multitude of articles pertaining to the renowned soprano, could become the subject of one of your masterful restorations?

If you have the time look into it, please do.

With profound appreciation for your work in general,
I thank you in advance.

L'Orfeo^{Son io} 14:26, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@L'OrfeoGreco: Simple answer is: I'd love to do a restoration of Callas, but there's really not much you can do with a 500 pixel wide image. About the most you can do is remove the couple specks, and maybe try a slightly better crop from the original. While the image is out of copyright, finding a high-resolution copy of it is the big issue that may well be insurmountable; I will check to see what is available, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 07:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did clean up the copy we have, though. There appears to be some undocumented upscaling in the old version, which does explain some issues with it. I think it looks a little better, but, alas, won't pull her up to featured picture. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.}

You've been most helpful; the picture looks stunning now! I understand that such a small image could not reach FP status, but that's fine. I tried to find a better version and did find this obviously copyrighted item —that made me wonder: how come they found the original photo?

As for a Callas-themed FP, since she was a significant and highly photographed artist, that's certainly a great idea. After going through the entirety of wikimedia images related to her, I think that

donated to Wikimedia Commons by the Dutch National Archives could certainly be greatly benefitted by your skillfulness. It probably is the best portrait photograph of La Callas on Wikimedia Commons. Maybe this image could make a good FP nomination? Your call.

Thank you! L'Orfeo^{Son io} 09:26, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Ideally I'd want one that shows a bit more of her - she's rather buried in that coat, but there's a few archives I can check. Not everything has gotten onto Commons. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 09:40, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your point is correct. I searched in some databases, but found not many a public domain file useful for this cause. I hope your own efforts return more abundant fruits. L'Orfeo^{Son io} 13:12, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As for how Getty got the image: It's a press image for a film or television show ("Small World", which I've never heard of). There's archives that collect those, and - well, it only takes one example to put every image in that line out of copyright, so that Getty image is out of copyright, but I'm not quite willing to pay them for it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 09:50, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So, I found this version of the picture uploaded for a seminar at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and elsewhere (e.g. 1, 2). I don't know if this version can be of any use, given that it isn't a derivative of the original Wcommons file for which the copyright status has been ascertained.

I'd also like to note that Getty give "copyright 2007 CBS WORLDWIDE INC." for the full size image, although I don't really understand what this means exactly. L'Orfeo^{Son io} 13:09, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Getty's claim is nonsense. If anh copy is out of copyright, all are Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 03:25, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I have uploaded

which occurred as a derivative of instances of this very same photograph that, as you say, has no copyright. I hope that you can make something out of it.

For any details pertaining to the editing process, the constituents, etc, do not hesitate to ask —my photo-editing skills are very limited, I have to make it clear, so mistakes will be evident.

If for any legal or other reason you find that the file ought to be deleted, do so without hesitation.

Thank you once more. L'Orfeo^{Son io} 17:36, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. What's the webpage that's from? There's some quality issues, but sometimes you can adjust the web link. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 01:03, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The sources used were this version and the getty one; there has been a combination. L'Orfeo^{Son io} 07:34, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Needing some advice

Hi @Adam Cuerden. I am new to WP:FP, but I would like to promote more images to featured picture status. What do you use to restore old photos?

I would like to restore this photograph.

I would also like to know any issues that this photo has. Thank you. 🌹FatCat96🌹 Chat with Cat 17:24, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FatCat96: I use the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, which is free and has an embarassing name; Photoshop will likely do just as well.

The main issues with this image are numerous small white and black spots on the background. If you know about file annotations, if you go to commons:File:Happy Chandler - Harris and Ewing Crop.jpg and hover over the image, it'll show you a few examples I've marked. You might need to open the file and zoom in to see them; I set some options to have images appear quite large on Commons, so it's probably easier for me. The damage on the face is probably the most "risky", but it's pretty minor and hard to see, so if the attempt doesn't work out, just Cntrl-Z to undo (you can hit Cntrl-Y to redo in a pinch); and if it doesn't work out after a few tries, just leave it; it's not very major damage.

The most challenging damage is the damage you least need to fix: a nearly-invisible hair on the photograph on the right side of his chin, overlapping a freckle. I'd be inclined to ignore that unless you want to try and just be ready with Cntrl-Z. Alternatively, I could fix that, then hand the file over to you for everything else.

Now, what to use: My inclination would be to use the TIFF from the Library of Congress, direct link, page about the image but that's uncropped, so if you want to go from the existing JPEG, that's probably a fair option and might be easier for you.

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Actually editing the file

Once you open the file in GIMP, go to the View menu, and choose Zoom. I tend to edit at 100%, but zooming in to 200% makes it easier to precisely position your clicks. I'd try 100% and zoom in more if you need to.

The main tool to use is the Healing tool. Hit Cntrl-B to open a toolbox. Hover over the icons to find the healing tool - it's in a group with the clone tool, you might need to click and hold on the clone tool to make a list of options come up so you can find the healing tool. If you then double-click on the healing tool, the settings for the tool come up. You want 100% opacity, for the brush, choose one of the circles - probably hardness 75 or hardness 100. Set the size to about 10. You can go smaller to deal with fine damage near other image elements, and bigger (I wouldn't go much over 20 unless there's a big bit of damage you want to fix at once) as needed.

To use the healing tool, hold Cntrl, and click on an area as similar to where the damage is as possible to set a sample. E.g. if you want to fix damage on the wall, you'd click somewhere on the wall without damage. If you're dealing with damage at a border, you might need to be very precise with this, but you shouldn't need to worry about that much with this image. Release Cntrl and click where the damage is. You can draw with it to follow, say, a hair. You may need to play around with size of the tool to get things right, and if you're fixing damage on a border between light and dark or on a textured area, where you get the sample from (the area as similar to where the damage is mentioned earlier) can be very important. But it doesn't look like that applies to very much of the damage in this image.

When you're ready to save, you actually hit EXPORT, not save ("Save" saves in the GIMP format, which Wikipedia doesn't accept.) PNGs are lossless, so it's a good idea to save as a PNG (simply put ".png" at the end of the filename when exporting), and then convert to JPEG when you're done. When you save as JPEG, you can choose the quality you want to save as. I use 99%.

Levels and crop: If you use the existing JPEG, I wouldn't touch anything with levels or recropping it, but I do think you could get a better crop from the TIFF if you feel up to it. If you are using the TIFF, upload your restoration as a PNG BEFORE adjusting levels or cropping. It's very hard to undo levels or a crop, and it's pretty easy to ruin the image in the process of doing one. We'll cover those if you need them, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 08:57, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Adam Cuerden. Thank you for the help. But I am struggling to figure out how to add the image to a folder in GIMP. Please excuse my limited knowledge of technology. Thanks you. 🌹FatCat96🌹 Chat with Cat 04:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I follow. D'ye mean saving it, or? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 07:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am having trouble opening the file. I know that you press file, then press open. But then, under the places column, it says search, recently used, my name, and file system. I don't know what to do from then. 🌹FatCat96🌹 Chat with Cat 14:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I have figured it out. I will have the image restored soon. 🌹FatCat96🌹 Chat with Cat 14:50, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November thanks

Thank you for archiving ;) - A day to remember the victims of wars, and for me St. Martin's day, matched as short as I could in a 2010 DYK remembered, - so basically about sharing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Today my topic is a soprano, with thanks for the many pics of singers you enhanced! Images from vacation uploaded but not all yet, - click on songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mary Church Terrell

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FP aspect ratio

I understand your critique about the left side, but I don't quite understand your viewing/size/aspect-ratio concerns in this nom: [1]. We have lots of FPs with a narrow aspect ratio (and some tall ones too) in these categories [2][3] such as [4][5], and some in other categories [6][7]. These images have always been displayed in their articles and on main-page with a scrollbar using template {{wide image}}. My concern is that we will loose a lot if we reject images having narrow or tall aspect ratios. Bammesk (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bammesk: It's not that I object based on ratio per se, it's that the image has issues at full size on the left side, and...

Well, let's step back. Consider File:Sándor_Vay_-_Restoration.jpg. It's a grainy mess at full resolution, but you can pull back on the file description page to see him more clearly. File:Lake-sherburne-964855.jpg is too small on the file description page, but looks pretty decent zoomed in.

But I think you need at least one of those to be true. The panorama in question looks great at about 700-1500 px high, and that's beyond what can reasonably be chosen. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 22:44, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I just don't see it that way (quality-wise and aspect-wise). I kind of agree with the Commons FPC voters on this. It's Ok to agree to disagree though. Thank you for the reply. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 02:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Doctor Who and the Pirates

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Two-Thousand Yard Stare

Hi, I found a much better version for File:WW2 Marine after Eniwetok assault.jpg. Yann (talk) 12:47, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good image! I think the painting's good for the artist page and such, but I'm going to restore that photo. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 15:36, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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State Fair is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres. It was based on the 1932 bestselling novel State Fair by Phil Stong. The picture tells the story of a farm family's multi-day visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the parents seek to win prizes in agricultural and cooking competitions, and their teenage daughter and son each find unexpected romance. The film was made in pre-Code Hollywood and, despite its seemingly tame plot, had some scenes that were censored in a re-release a few years later, after the Production Code took effect. Cut scenes include a view of a disheveled bed and a negligee on the floor, and a sexual relationship between the daughter and a reporter, but the son's seduction by a trapeze artist was kept. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and was the first of three film versions of the novel released to theaters, the others being movie musicals released in 1945 and in 1962. This poster was produced for the 1933 theatrical release of State Fair.

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"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The poem describes a narrator who is half asleep, poring over ancient books at midnight on a dreary winter night. He hears a tapping sound, and finds a raven at the window, which flies into his room and perches on a bust of Athena. The narrator asks the bird a series of questions, to which the bird replies only "nevermore". Eventually, the narrator falls into despair and ends with his final admission that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted "nevermore". Originally published in 1845, the poem was widely popular but did not bring Poe much financial success. It has influenced many modern works and is referenced throughout popular culture. This lithographic illustration by Édouard Manet is the last in a set of four plates that depict different stages in "The Raven". Describing this plate, the art historian James H. Rubin wrote: "In the fourth plate, shadow has itself taken on life, becoming the most prominent form. At its bottom it resembles that cast by the bird perched upon the bust, but then in much freer strokes it becomes a dense vapour rising and trailing into oblivion."

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Thank you today for that beauty! - Sorry, I'm a bit late, travelling. My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:48, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Christmas and New Year, Gerda! Sorry, I've been a little caught up with dad's estate stuff. Robinson sounds amazing, and I shall listen to ome Carl Friedrich Abel. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 12:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Was there any need to duplicate the same already existing image?--88.14.228.193 (talk) 11:37, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

POTD April 8

Hi Adam, recently a picture created and nominated by me of an actress Nithya Menen was promoted as FP (infobox picture). I noticed that her birthday is on 8th of April. Is it possible to place the promoted picture on coming 8th of April as POTD ? DreamSparrow ^Chat 11:37, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/To diagnose / Their modest pose / The Kodaks do their best.

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Same location pictured as 2019. - I dream of seeing Abel's (first) image on the Main page, and doubt that it will be with the upcoming DYK. Is there any chance for a featured picture? The question may be silly, because I know nothing about that area, - felt driven away when an image was rejected per the photographer. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2023 picture is from the Abel Fest in Köthen, celebrating the tercentenary of Carl Friedrich Abel, a viol virtuoso, composer and concert organiser in London (together with Bach's youngest son), born on 22 December 1723 in Köthen, where the new catalogue of his works was introduced, - my story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. - I'm on vacation - see places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Abigail Scott Duniway

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USS Johnston was a Fletcher-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Lieutenant John V. Johnston, a navy officer during the American Civil War. The ship was laid down in May 1942 and was launched in March 1943, entering active duty later that year as part of the US Pacific Fleet. Johnston provided naval gunfire support for American ground forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in 1944 and again, after three months of patrol and escort duty in the Solomon Islands, during the recapture of Guam in July. Thereafter, Johnston was tasked with escorting escort carriers during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign and the liberation of the Philippines. On 25 October 1944, Johnston and various other ships were engaged by a large Imperial Japanese Navy flotilla, in what became known as the Battle off Samar. After engaging several Japanese capital ships and a destroyer squadron, Johnston was sunk with 187 dead. Johnston's wreck was discovered in 2019, and at a depth of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 m) below the surface, is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever surveyed. This photograph shows Johnston in Seattle in October 1943.

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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's western theater. Two Union armies combined to defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi. Major General Ulysses S. Grant was the Union commander, while General Albert Sidney Johnston was the Confederate commander until his battlefield death, when he was replaced by his second-in-command, General P. G. T. Beauregard. Though victorious, the Union army had more casualties than the Confederates, and with an overall total of almost 24,000 injuries and fatalities, it was one of the bloodiest battles in the entire war. This chromolithograph of the Battle of Shiloh was produced by American illustrator Thure de Thulstrup and printed by L. Prang & Co. in Boston in 1888.

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Hi, I don't know if this portrait of Gordon Chesney Wilson is something that would interest you, but I thought it was particularly lovely. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:04, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe: It's amazing, but it's also very locked down - can't download bigger than a large thumbnail. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 08:43, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See File:Gordon Chesney Wilson as a Captain in the Blues, 1680.jpg. Probably the best I can do. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 14:28, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Still not the best quality, but improved. At least it exists now! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union general George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. Part of the Maryland campaign, it was the first field army–level engagement in the eastern theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It remains the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,727 dead, wounded, or missing. Although the Union Army suffered heavier casualties than the Confederates, the battle was a major turning point in the Union's favor. This 1862 illustration by Edwin Forbes shows the charge across Burnside's Bridge, which took place during the Battle of Antietam.

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Billy Bowlegs (c. 1810 – 1859), real name Holata Micco (Alligator Chief), was an important leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second Seminole War and was the remaining Seminoles' most prominent chief during the Third Seminole War, in which he led the Seminoles' last major resistance against the United States government. With the possibilities of military victory dwindling, he finally agreed to relocate with his people to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1858. As part of the settlement he was paid $6,500, plus $1,000 each for the subchiefs and $100 each for the women and children who went with him. This lithograph of Bowlegs was produced by an unknown engraver around 1865 to 1870, based on an original work by Julian Vannerson.

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George Roper

Do you have access to historical British newspapers online? Mjroots (talk) 11:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, though I do have access to the Australian ones that covered it pretty comprehensively. Is there material in British newspapers of use? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 13:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quite likely, as she was built in the UK. Is this of any use? Mjroots (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This webpage has some details about her. Mjroots (talk) 12:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Kenje Ogata (1919–2012) was a Japanese American who served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Born in Gary, Indiana, he grew up in Sterling, Illinois, and went on to earn his pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Ogata applied to join the armed forces. Due to his Japanese heritage he was discouraged from joining, but he insisted, telling the recruitment office "I am here to serve". In 1943, Ogata was assigned to the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, training as a ball turret gunner. He rose to the rank of staff sergeant, completed thirty-five missions, and survived two crashes. For his service and injuries sustained in combat, he received the Air Medal with three bronze oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart. This portrait of Ogata in uniform was taken in 1943.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rock Springs massacre

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The Rock Springs massacre occurred in 1885 in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were perceived to be taking jobs from the white miners. The Union Pacific Coal Department found it economically beneficial to give preference in hiring to Chinese miners, who were willing to work for lower wages than their white counterparts, angering the white miners. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 78 Chinese homes, resulting in approximately $150,000 in property damage (equal to $5.09 million in 2020 terms). The massacre in Rock Springs touched off a wave of anti-Chinese violence, especially in the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruby Bridges

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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend the formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. Bridges attended a segregated kindergarten in 1959. In early 1960, she was one of six black children in New Orleans to pass the test that determined whether they could go to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Two of the six decided to stay at their old school, Bridges went to Frantz by herself, and three children (Gail Etienne, Leona Tate and Tessie Prevost) were transferred to the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School. All four 6-year-old girls were escorted to and from school by federal marshals due to crowds of angry protestors opposing school integration.

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I noticed you edited Theodore Roosevelt's photo on his bio template. Please put it back in the center it has is too far to the left. Thank you. Simmons1998 (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, called by Pope Urban II and held from 17 to 27 November 1095 at Clermont, Auvergne, at the time part of the Duchy of Aquitaine.

While the council is known today primarily for the speech Pope Urban gave on the final day, it was primarily a synod focused on implementing the Cluniac reforms, enacting decrees and settling local and regional issues. This also included the extension of the excommunication of Philip I of France for his adulterous remarriage to Bertrade of Montfort and a declaration of renewal of the Truce of God, an attempt on the part of the church to reduce feuding among Frankish nobles.

Pope Urban's speech on 27 November included the call to arms that would result in the First Crusade, and eventually the capture of Jerusalem and the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The image comes from the Passages d'outremer, a chronicle of the Crusades published and illustrated three centuries after this event, and isn't particularly historically accurate, but also considered a masterpiece of mediaeval illustration, and a document showing the 15th-century interpretation of the crusading movement.

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The Dale Creek Crossing was a 650-foot (200 m) bridge in the southeastern Wyoming Territory, United States, completed in 1868. It was constructed by the Union Pacific Railroad as part of the first transcontinental railroad. With a maximum height of 150 feet (46 m) and with a necessity of cutting through solid rock on both sides, it was one of the most difficult parts of the line to build. The original bridge was built of wood, and its trestles began swaying in the wind from the opening day. The original bridge was replaced on the 1868 piers in 1876 by an iron bridge, manufactured by the American Bridge Company, and this was dismantled entirely in 1901 when the Union Pacific completed construction of a new alignment over Sherman Hill as part of a reconstruction project which shortened the Overland Route. This photograph of the Dale Creek Crossing was taken during construction in 1868 by the project's official photographer, Andrew J. Russell.

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story · music · places

Congratulations to this interesting fact, and almost more praise to the appearance of the first Isolde in Sveden, whom I made my story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, MLS looks really impressive. Excellent work!--Ipigott (talk) 15:07, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you two very much! Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 16:39, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours), after TFA the same day last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and today a woman and her views --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice TFP again, thank you! - More music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Small request

Hi Adam, I hope you're doing well. If you have a moment, could you crop File:Lungi da me, pensieri.png? Every time I crop it, the white background still appears. I'm not sure why—presumably PNG related? Best – Aza24 (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Aza24: I think it'll be easier just to upload the original. Will do. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 16:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, thank you! Aza24 (talk) 17:23, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Doris

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Congrats

On today's TFA pic of Ernest Shackleton. – Sca (talk) 14:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: Thank ye! Had to put up a couple notices to make sure it wasn't also POTD, because that'd be bad. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 16:52, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good historic pics w/EV get snapped up quickly, it seems. -- Sca (talk) 19:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dimitri

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Asher Brown Durand

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Edward Curtis

Adam, my son gave me a book about the photography of Edward Curtis, and I thought of you instantly. Suggest you take a look at his article, and his pix on Commons. – Sca (talk) 22:08, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: Check WP:FPC Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 20:04, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the nom. And I learned a new word: chiaroscuro. -- Sca (talk) 20:24, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Liary of Congress and Smithsonian have some great works by him; will add a few of those as well. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 20:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great. (And is "Liary" a joke?) -- Sca (talk) 20:45, 21 February 2024 (UTC) ;-)[reply]

No, just typing on a phone keyboard, alas. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 22:49, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha.

The Curtis book is Short Night of the Shadow Catcher, by Timothy Egan (2023, First Mariner Books / HarperCollins). -- Sca (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Captain, R.N.

Hi, Adam. I just stumbled across your restored portrait of John Tarleton. Just so you know, the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy only had three stripes between 11 April 1856 and 26 March 1863. Given your good faith attempt to explain the discrepancy at Commons, you may want to amend the caption to suit your own style. Regards, —Simon Harley (Talk). 20:43, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Simon Harley: Ah, so the uniform rank is, in fact Captain? Ach, I do wish these things were consistent: That was the result of a long discussion trying to understand it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 12:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, since the photo is clearly dated 1860 I have no hesitation in saying he was a Captain then. I can see your problem: I've just been going through various Wikipedia articles looking for the history of rank insignia and there's not much at all, and clearly I need to get filling in some detail over at The Dreadnought Project from the primary sources to fill in the gaps there. —Simon Harley (Talk). 14:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was this one of those I discussed? I had no idea! Was completely unaware that the system as we now know it is not as originally set out. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 14:12, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When Tarleton was promoted Captain on 27 September 1852 there was no distinction lace for the rank, then three stripes in 1856 and four in 1863, so a fair amount of change in ten years. No change in four stripes for 160 years now! —Simon Harley (Talk). 14:21, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hanford Engineer Works

Hi Adam. You conducted an image review of Hanford Engineer Works for A-class back in January. I now have the article up for Featured at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hanford Engineer Works/archive1. I am sure that the original review will be accepted for FAC if you post a note to that effect. Regards Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:05, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Edward Sheriff Curtis

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi Adam Cuerden,

This is to let you know that File:Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for March 11, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-03-11. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 11:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cox and Box, also known as The Long-Lost Brothers, is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton. It premiered in 1866 and was Sullivan's first successful comic opera. The story concerns a landlord who lets a room to two lodgers, one who works at night and one who works during the day. When one of them has the day off, they meet each other in the room and tempers flare. Sullivan wrote this piece five years before Thespis, his first opera with W. S. Gilbert. This poster was produced for the first professional production of Cox and Box, which began in 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration in London and ran for 264 performances there. The opera has frequently been used as a curtain raiser for the shorter Gilbert and Sullivan operas and continues to be frequently produced.

Poster credit: Alfred Concanen; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chief Joseph

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Infobox Image on Taft Article

I received your message regarding the image Taft on his bio page. You're welcome to take the time you need to restore the image to your liking. With that being said, would you mind cropping it like you did with the image of Theodore Roosevelt? As noted in Wikipedia's Image Use policy, it is preferred for that images be cropped of irrelevant areas such as the big chunk of excess space above Taft's head. Thank you for your consideration.Emiya1980 (talk) 23:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit. 'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is an iconic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 by Yevgeny Khaldei. The photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications and came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II, but, owing to the secrecy of Soviet media, both the identity of photographer and the identities of the men in the picture were often disputed.

The Reichstag was seen as symbolic of, and at the heart of, Nazi Germany. It was arguably the most symbolic target in Berlin. After its capture on 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take a picture. He was carrying with him a large flag, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, Meliton Kantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan, the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev (also mentioned as Aleksei Goryachev) from Minsk.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle of Inab

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Molly M'Guire Men

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blanche Roosevelt

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Willa Beatrice Player

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alexander Gardner

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Sarah Vaughan?

FYI, happened across this pic of Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) on German Wiki's OTD list today. She's described on Ger. Wiki as "one of the most important female vocalists of jazz," and a quote in her (overlong? - 5,600 words) EngWiki article says "Her voice had wings." Pic's been restored a couple times. Last chance for a March fem nom? – Sca (talk) 16:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: Already passed and ran on the main page. Template:POTD/2014-03-27. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aha. Well, perhaps she still could be an FA. Cheers. -- Sca (talk) 17:54, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indentation

Hi Adam, I fixed the indentation in 3 of your comments at FPC. I am pretty sure those were comments, not replies. If I am wrong, let me know. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 13:12, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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This is to let you know that File:Walter Francis_White_by_Clara_Sipprell.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for April 21, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-04-21. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 10:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Walter White (1893–1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until his death. He directed a broad program of legal challenges to racial segregation and disfranchisement. Under his leadership, the NAACP oversaw the plans and organizational structure of the fight against public segregation in the United States. He worked with President Harry S. Truman on desegregating the armed forces after World War II and gave him a draft of Executive Order 9981 to implement this. Under White's leadership, the NAACP set up its Legal Defense Fund, which conducted numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes. This photograph of White was taken by Clara Sipprell around 1950, and is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

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Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, (c. 1797 – 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. This cabinet card of Truth was produced in around 1864, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Dimitri is an 1876 French-language grand opera in five acts by Victorin de Joncières. Set to a libretto by Henri de Bornier and Paul Armand Silvestre after Friedrich Schiller's incomplete play Demetrius, itself a story based on the life of the Russian pretender False Dmitry I (reigned 1605–1606), the opera was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre National Lyrique. Antonín Dvořák's 1881 opera Dimitrij was also based on Schiller's play. This picture shows the set design for Act V of Dimitri's première.

Art credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden

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It's today, and as I knew nothing about any of the facts (opera, composer, play, plot, premiere) I made it my story for today! - Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Bistorta officinalis, also known as he common bistort, is a species of flowering plant in the dock family Polygonaceae. It is native to Europe and northern and western Asia, but has also been cultivated and become naturalized in other parts of the world such as in the United States. It is typically found growing in moist meadows, nutrient-rich wooded swamps, forest edges, wetlands, parks, gardens and disturbed ground. A herbaceous perennial, it grows to a height of 20 to 80 centimetres (8 to 31 inches). It blooms from late spring into autumn, producing tall, erect, unbranched and hairless stems ending in single terminal racemes that are club-like spikes, 5 to 7 centimetres (2 to 3 inches) long, of rose-pink flowers. This B. officinalis inflorescence was photographed in the Austrian Alps.

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Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined MIT Radiation Laboratory in 1940, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects and worked as a test pilot, before joining Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project in 1943. He moved back to Berkeley as a full professor after the war, going on to use his knowledge in work on improving particle accelerators. This 1969 photograph shows Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector at Berkeley.

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Battle of Tinian

Adam, I was wondering if you would be interested in conducting an image review for Battle of Tinian at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Tinian? I was hoping to get the article through FAC in time for the 80th anniversary of the battle on 24 July 2024, but time is short. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:06, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: Poke me again if it's not done by Monday. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 04:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: Poking, as never happened. I am back from the US now. In addition to an image review for Battle of Tinian at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Tinian, would you also consider Battle of Saipan at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Saipan? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Only thing Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Tinian now needs is an image review. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 17:12, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: Are you back now? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it's been... very stressful these last two weeks. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 19:22, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gustave III redux

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi Adam Cuerden,

This is to let you know that File:Amédée Forestier - Illustrated London News - Gilbert and Sullivan - Ruddygore (Ruddigore).jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for May 5, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-05-05. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 10:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ruddigore is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan, it was first performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1887. Some critics and audience members initially felt that Ruddygore (its original title) did not measure up to its predecessor, The Mikado. After changes, including respelling the title, it achieved a run of 288 performances and was profitable. This 1887 illustration by Amédée Forestier depicts scenes and characters from Ruddygore for The Illustrated London News. Since D'Oyly Carte revived the piece in 1920, it has been regularly performed.

Illustration credit: Amédée Forestier; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Wolverton Viaduct

Hi Adam! I was hoping to borrow your image expertise for another potential FA. Hopefully nothing taxing for you but I wouldn't know where to start! I was hoping you could remove the border from File:Roscoe L&BR(1839) p115 - The Wolverton Viaduct.jpg and work your retouching magic on it. Also, if there's anything you can do anything with File:Wolverton viaduct.jpg (which is actually of the adjacent embankment before the viaduct was built) that would also be great! :) Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:19, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also there's this but the Science Museum don't make it easy to download the whole thing! It's reproduced in a book I have and it's a reasonable size but I don't have any sophisticated scanning equipment and I'm sure there are better ways of doing it than taking a photo of the book with my phone! Would appreciate any help because I'm completely out of my depth. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:34, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848–1907) was a career officer in the United States Navy who served from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. He is best remembered as the first acting governor of American Samoa as well as the territory's first naval governor.

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Nathan Francis Mossell (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) was an American physician. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Mossell was the fourth of six children and both his parents were descended from freed slaves. During the American Civil War, the family moved back to the United States, settling in Lockport, New York, where Mossell's father went into business. Mossell earned a degree from Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania, followed by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1882. He was active in the NAACP and also helped found the Douglass Hospital in West Philadelphia in 1895, which he led as chief of staff and medical director until he retired in 1933. His wife was the activist and teacher Gertrude Bustill Mossell. This portrait of Mossell was taken around 1882.

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story · music · places

Thank you for restoring the image of a set design for an opera I had never heard of: A basso porto! For me relief: the last of six RD articles in one week on the same Main page - yesterday I went to a great recital with many anti-war songs by Jewish composers whose music was banned by the Nazis. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Bisexual lighting skeleton

Hello again. Any more thoughts on Talk:Bisexual lighting#The skeleton, or shall I open up an RFC for some wider input? It doesn't look like anyone else has been reading the talk page. Belbury (talk) 10:17, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Belbury: I don't think there's anything definitely better than it. If we had a really goo d photo of a person, it'd be clear what we could do, but the photo we have barely mixes the colours.Like, I get your urges, but think looking for a better image is better than an RFC. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 11:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know that it's clear where I'm coming from, but I still can't get a handle on your view here! Do you think the skeleton is genuinely a better photo in isolation, that in a world where the meme never happened we'd still keep it? Or are you saying we should be factoring in the bonus meme value when weighing up possible images? Belbury (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Belbury: I think, given the fact that there's examples given that include uses in cartoons and so on, that the medium doesn't matter much. I think there is meme value, but I don't think that there's only meme value.

Basically, given that it's used in such a variety of mediums, it's not the worst thing to have an example that's a little weird so it's arguably more generic. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 02:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William Howard Taft

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ottmar Mergenthaler

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story · music · places

Congratulations to more quality pics! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Jeremiah Gurney (1812–1895) was an American daguerreotype photographer. Initially working in the jewelry trade in Saratoga, New York, he took up photography after learning of daguerreotype from Samuel Morse, moving to New York City where he began selling photographs alongside jewelry. He was one of the earliest photographers in the city, and may have been the owner of the first photographic gallery in the United States. Gurney took this self-portrait photograph around 1869; it is now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Photograph credit: Jeremiah Gurney; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Want to help at DYK?

Hi, I saw your user page and I'm wondering if I could entice you to help out at WP:DYK. Every day we publish an image with the first hook of the set. We have a rule that says The media must be suitable, attractive, and interesting; images in particular must display well in the small size of the main page image template, but frankly, many of the images we publish don't meet that standard. I do what I can to police substandard images, but it's a job that need more hands, and more expert ones. RoySmith (talk) 14:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith: I think I need to finish some stuff off-Wikipedia before I'll have time to do so. A lot's going on just now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 18:17, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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HMS Malabar was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1818 at Bombay Dockyard. In 1838, Malabar ran aground off Prince Edward Island in British North America and was damaged, with the loss of two crew members. She was refloated later that year and towed into Three Rivers in Lower Canada. In August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar, taking aboard about 200 of that ship's survivors. Malabar was converted to a hulk in 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and was renamed Myrtle in 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in 1905. This lithograph from around 1843 shows the crew of Malabar watching as Missouri explodes and burns in the distance.

Lithograph credit: Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, after Edward Duncan and George Pechell Mends; restored by Adam Cuerden

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AfD weirdness

FYI, see here. They’ve been at it for years. --Finngall ^talk 17:26, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Located in the south-east of Scotland, it is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth estuary and to the south by the Pentland Hills. With a population of 506,520 in mid-2020, Edinburgh is the second-largest city in Scotland by population and the seventh largest in the United Kingdom. The royal burgh of Edinburgh was founded by King David I in the early 12th century on land belonging to the Crown, and has been capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century. This aerial photograph, with Edinburgh Castle in the foreground, was taken around 1920.

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Image suggestion

I don't know if you take suggestions for the restoration of particular images, but here's one:

The image appears in Casting call, Tales of Terror, and Black cat. I think it might be a good POTD for Halloween, if it can be selected as a featured picture. It's your choice on if you want to restore it or not. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 19:15, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gustave Doré

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story · music · places

Thank you for continued quality image work! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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This is to let you know that File:William Harvey_Carney_by_James_E_Reed_-_Restoration.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for February 29, 2028. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2028-02-29. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 13:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 9, 1908) was an American soldier during the American Civil War. Born enslaved, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1900 for his gallantry in saving the regimental colors during the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863. The action for which he received the Medal of Honor preceded that of any other African American Medal of Honor recipient; however, his medal was actually one of the last to be awarded for Civil War service.

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German Embassy Tehran in Qajar era

Hi Adam, I came across this image from the German Embassy in Tehran during the late Qajar era and immediately thought of you. Would you be interested in enhancing it? I've seen your restoration work and really admire it. Thanks a lot! Gnosis (talk) 23:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regency of Algiers

Hi @Adam Cuerden: Would you be interested or up for looking at a couple of images at the Regency of Algiers article, to see if they can be improved? scope_creep^Talk 08:28, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We plan to take the article to FA standard. scope_creep^Talk 08:31, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Scope creep: Something that hits me immediately is that File:Dey of Algiers Mohammed ben Hassan.jpg is going to be a problem: It is clearly not from the source listed, which is a black and white photocopy-style scan. Several decent opportunities here, but going to need some research. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 16:31, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: Yes, I noticed that. I tried to find it myself on that site and on the archive and couldn't locate it. No mention of even. I suspect possibly an exhibition and once that was done the website entry was removed. Certainly in that condition it is not FA image candidate. I'm planning to do a book search to see if I locate, there must reporting as Hugo was a famous writer by them. I'm not sure what to do. scope_creep^Talk 16:38, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portland, Oregon, in 1898

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Trial by Jury

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Focus

Just for fun, have a look at this self-portrait shot with my 1930s Leica soft focus lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thambar_portrait.jpg Janke | Talk 20:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carrie Nation took an axe,/Gave the alehouse thirty whacks./When she saw what she had dern,/She attacked the next tav-ern.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Would you like to swing on a star/And to see the canals on Mar..... s/And find Pluto, though it's quite far/Or would you rather vote Oppose?

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi Adam Cuerden,

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, United States. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan. It is bounded by Navy Street to the west, Flushing Avenue to the south, Kent Avenue to the east, and the East River on the north. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This photograph shows Brooklyn Navy Yard seen from the air in 1918.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A very bad idea

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Snake handling in Christianity is a rite performed in several churches in the United States. Originating in rural Appalachia, the first instance of snake handling was seen about 1910. Pentecostal minister George Went Hensley was prominent in the early development of the rite. Practitioners commonly quote the gospels of Luke and Mark to support the practice. Practitioners are also encouraged to lay hands on the sick, speak in tongues, and occasionally drink poisons. This photograph, taken by the American photographer Russell Lee in 1946, depicts snake handling at the Church of God with Signs Following, a Pentecostal church in Lejunior, Kentucky.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art

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Helen Hunt Jackson photo

Hi Adam! I was so happy to see the updated file name for Helen Hunt Jackson here. I was like, "Wow wow wow! I bet Adam has restored the image! Can't wait to see what he's done." Of course, it's gorgeous. Thank you! BTW, are you headed to Wikimania? Would be great to see you again. --Rosiestep (talk) 09:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: Afraid I won't be at this Wikimania: Mid-move to a very nice house, but having been in this flat for 15 years... As for the picture I'm ~~not quite~~ done ~~with Jackson, but I'd say it's 90% there.~~ I remember wanting to do her image for a while, and thinking it was going to be too hard, but either I've gotten much better or I was looking at another copy, because... it's not so bad really. But one can prioritise doing the parts of the restoration which have the biggest impact, and I did that; getting all the big bits of damage and leaving all the little spotting you can only see if zoomed in. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 10:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rosiestep: And done. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

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Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. She was the second member of the Liberté class, which included three other vessels and was a derivative of the preceding République class. Justice carried a main battery of four 305 mm (12 in) guns, with ten 194 mm (7.6 in) guns for her secondary armament. On entering service, Justice became the flagship of the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, participating in the training routine of squadron and fleet maneuvers and cruises, as well as several naval reviews. During World War I, Justice was used to escort troopship convoys carrying elements of the French Army from North Africa to face the Germans invading northern France and also steamed to contain the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, taking part in the minor Battle of Antivari. She was sent to the Black Sea after the war to oversee the surrender of German-occupied Russian warships, and then briefly became a training ship, before being decommissioned in the early 1920s. This photograph shows Justice in 1909 near New York City.

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her popular novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially successful, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times, with readers liking its romantic and picturesque qualities more than its political content. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.

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Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917) was an American lawyer, politician, educator, and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United States, and in 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. She later ran for president, one of the first women to do so, in the 1884 and 1888 presidential elections, on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party. This albumen silver print of a photograph of Lockwood was taken around 1880 by Benjamin Joseph Falk.

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St. Louis Woman is a 1946 American musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30, 1946, and ran for 113 performances. The original cast included Robert Pope (Badfoot), Harold Nicholas (Little Augie), Fayard Nicholas (Barney), June Hawkins (Lilli), Pearl Bailey (Butterfly), Ruby Hill (Della Green), Rex Ingram (Biglow Brown), and Milton J. Williams (Mississippi). The production's scenic designer and costume designer was Lemuel Ayers. It is based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. This photograph shows Pearl Bailey in the role of Butterfly.

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Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek later in life. Machado's work shaped the realist movement in Brazil and the birth of the Brazilian republic made Machado become more critical and an observer of the Brazilian society of his time. Generally considered to be Machado's greatest works are Dom Casmurro (1899), Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner) and Quincas Borba (also known in English as Philosopher or Dog?). In 1893, he published "A Missa do Galo" ("Midnight Mass"), often considered to be the greatest short story in Brazilian literature. This photograph of Machado was taken by the Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez in 1890.

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John Dancy

Congrats on TFP of John C. Dancy, Adam. – Sca (talk) 02:07, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Ages Ago is a musical entertainment with an English-language libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay that premiered in 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration in London. It marked the beginning of a seven-year collaboration between Gilbert and Clay. The piece features a haunted Scottish castle inhabited by Sir Ebenezer Tare, with other characters including his niece, her poor suitor and a housekeeper with second sight. The paintings of the castle's former owners come to life and step out of their frames. Gilbert re-used the device of paintings coming to life in his 1887 opera with Arthur Sullivan, Ruddigore. Ages Ago was a critical and popular success and was revived many times, including at St. George's Hall, London, in 1870 and 1874, and in New York in 1880. This chromolithograph theatre poster was created to advertise the original production of Ages Ago and is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks, and was one of the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909. He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and published three autobiographies. Black Reconstruction in America (1935) challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. On August 28, 1963, a day after his death, his book The Souls of Black Folk was highlighted by Roy Wilkins at the March on Washington, and hundreds of thousands of marchers honored him with a moment of silence. A year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, embodying many of the reforms for which he had campaigned his entire life, was enacted. This gelatin silver print of Du Bois was taken in 1907 by the American photographer James E. Purdy, and is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

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George Roper was a four-masted iron barque that was built for service between England and Australia, launching from Liverpool in February 1883. On its maiden voyage, it carried 3,842 tons of cargo, including railway track for the Victorian Government, liquor, chemicals, drapery, and dynamite. It reached Australia in July, but got caught on the reef at Point Lonsdale while being towed into Port Melbourne. The ship sat there for nearly two months before breaking up and sinking on 26 August 1883. The wreck remains under 4–5 metres of water and is accessible to recreational divers. This photograph by the German-born photographer Fred Kruger shows George Roper's wreck at Point Lonsdale before it sank.

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Tom Taylor (1817–1880) was an English dramatist, public servant and writer. After a brief academic career in English literature and language at University College London in the 1840s, Taylor practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to and eventually the editor of the magazine Punch. He also began a theatre career and is now best known as a playwright. With up to one hundred plays staged during his career, both original work and adaptations of French plays, Taylor's output covers a range of genres from farce to melodrama. Most fell into neglect after Taylor's death, but Our American Cousin (1858), which achieved great success in the 19th century, remains famous as the piece that was being performed in the presence of Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865. This undated photograph by the studio of Samuel Robert Lock and George C. Whitfield is part of Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, a collection published in 1881.

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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was Gilbert and Sullivan's eighth operatic collaboration, preceding The Mikado. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre in 1884 and ran for 246 performances. Based on the narrative poem The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the opera concerns a princess who founds a women's university and teaches that women are superior to men and should rule in their stead. Prince Hilarion, to whom she had been betrothed, sneaks into the university, and a war erupts between the two sexes. Princess Ida satirizes feminism, women's education and Darwinian evolution, controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. Princess Ida was only a modest success, and after its initial run, it was not revived in London until 1919. Nevertheless, the piece is performed regularly today by both professional and amateur companies. This watercolour-and-pencil-on-card image by C. Wilhelm shows his costume design for the characters of Arac, Guron and Scynthius in the 1884 production of Princess Ida.

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Bula Croker

Hey Adam. Hope you are doing well. I am working on an article for Native American women's month on Bula Croker. I am wondering if you would be able to clean up this image. The LOC site says it was published between 1910 and 1915, but it seems possible that it is their wedding photo, as they were married at Straus's home in 1914. If the marks on her face could be removed, that would be lovely and a cropped version might make a good lead image. Any help you could give would be appreciated. SusunW (talk) 16:00, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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John Milton Brannan (1819–1892) was a career United States Army artillery officer who served in the Mexican–American War and as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers in the American Civil War. He was in command of the Department of Key West in Florida and assigned to Fort Zachary Taylor. Most notably, Brannan served as a division commander of the Union XIV Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. This photograph of Brannan was produced by the studio of the American photographer Mathew Brady circa the 1860s.

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Is color restoration possible?

Taking on your offer at WP:CUP, I just have a quick question. I don't plan on taking much action on this but I would appreciate your insight!

This is one of a few images from a live performance that were desaturated to black and white for some reason. Although this would imply the coloring is dominated by green and blue hues, some color restoration websites I tried online saturated colorized the image in pink and yellow.

All of the sites could not adequately colorize the image correctly and would leave certain details in black and white. Also, as mentioned above, the colored result varied. I assumed that it's because the image is too dark to colorize it properly. Is the desaturation irreversible considering the lighting of the image? Is this something you know some things about? Panini! • 🥪 18:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the Spanish play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Set in the 15th century in Biscay and Aragon, Spain, it tells the story of a nobleman named Count di Luna, who falls in love with Leonora, a lady-in-waiting. However, Leonora in turn falls in love with Manrico, the titular troubadour of the opera. The premiere of Il trovatore took place at the Teatro Apollo in Rome in January 1853. This undated poster by Luigi Morgari depicts a scene from act 4 of the opera, in which Leonora encounters Manrico, who is imprisoned in di Luna's dungeon.

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Thank you for another beautifully restored image yesterday, and today another one! - My story is about one of the people behind the peaceful revolution. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks! There's actually a couple more in that set I've been meaning to get to. Should do them soon. I was in America during the Peaceful Revolution, so it's interesting to get another side; haven't really looked into it much since. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:07, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) was an English dramatist, librettist and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan. The most popular Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre. These Savoy operas continue to be performed regularly today throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Gilbert's creative output included more than 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and his comic operas inspired the development of American musical theatre, especially influencing Broadway writers. The journalist Frank M. Boyd wrote of Gilbert: "Till one actually came to know the man, one shared the opinion ... that he was a gruff, disagreeable person; but nothing could be less true of the really great humorist. He had ... precious little use for fools ... but he was at heart as kindly and lovable a man as you could wish to meet." This cabinet card of Gilbert was produced by the photographic studio Elliott & Fry around 1882–1883.

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Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes. Born in Indianapolis to an Episcopal minister, she moved with her family throughout the United States as a child. After marrying her first husband, she moved to Paris to study music at the Sorbonne. After her divorce and return to the United States, Graham Du Bois took positions at Howard University and Morgan College before completing her BA and master's at Oberlin College in Ohio. Her first major work was the opera Tom-Tom, which premiered in Cleveland in 1932. She married W. E. B. Du Bois in 1951, and the couple later lived in Ghana, Tanzania and China. She won several prizes, including an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her 1949 biography of Benjamin Banneker. This photograph of Graham Du Bois was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1946.

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Though this is not your usual image, I feel that we are in need of a good quality image of Diego Maradona, high resolution and all that, so I would like to humbly rest you to do this image fixing lighting and the edges.

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The Signpost barnstar

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Request

Hello @Adam Cuerden,

I'm not sure if you take requests, but if you do, it would be great if you were able to polish up File:Tupac Shakur.png a little bit. It's used on a lot of Wikipedia pages but is pretty low-quality. A lot of degradation seems to be digital rather than age-related so that might be a problem.

Thank you for your consideration, Bremps... 23:29, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Iolanthe is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed in 1882 as the seventh Gilbert and Sullivan operatic collaboration, it tells the story of Iolanthe, a fairy banished from fairyland because she married a mortal. Her son Strephon, half a fairy, loves Phyllis, whom all the members of the House of Peers wish to marry. Phyllis sees Strephon embracing Iolanthe (as fairies never age, she appears to be seventeen) and assumes that he is unfaithful, not realizing that Iolanthe is his mother, setting off a climactic confrontation between the peers and the fairies. The opera satirises many aspects of British government, law and society. Iolanthe was the first new theatre production in the world to be illuminated entirely by electric lights. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre and ran there for 398 performances, with a simultaneous production in New York. It is still played throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. This poster by H. M. Brock was produced for an early-20th-century tour production of Iolanthe by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

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Li Fu Lee (1904–1985) was a Chinese engineer and teacher who in 1925 became the first Chinese woman to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She majored in electrical engineering, a course which some undergraduates at the time described as the most difficult major. She was one of the 25 women who graduated from MIT in 1929 and one of the first women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at MIT. After graduating, Lee returned to China, where she became an engineer and taught at university. She fled with her family to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and later returned to the United States, residing in Chicago. This 1925 photograph shows Lee at MIT's radio experiment station.

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Hoping your photo of Che Guevara wins! It's a killer image with a lot of meaning. Panini! • 🥪 20:44, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Panini! Ach, thank ye. Though restorations never do all that well at POTY. They don't really say they're restorations, which doesn't help them get votes from people who want a Wikipedian to win. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:31, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see why people would think about that. I didn't even think about the user names (except yours because I recognized it) and just voted for the ones that best demonstrate humanity and beauty. As does this one. Panini! • 🥪 17:51, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Le roi d'Ys is an opera in three acts by the French composer Édouard Lalo, to a libretto by Édouard Blau. It is based on the old Breton legend of the drowned city of Ys, which was according to the legend the capital of the kingdom of Cornouaille. The opera includes a noteworthy aubade for tenor in act 3, titled "Vainement, ma bien-aimée" (In vain, my beloved). Le roi d'Ys premiered on 7 May 1888 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, in a production by the Opéra-Comique. Within France, the opera was regarded as Lalo's most recognized work. This poster was produced by Auguste François-Marie Gorguet for the 1888 premiere of Le roi d'Ys, and depicts the final scene of the opera.

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Anna Bartels (1869–1950) was a Swedish operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano. She made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1897 in the title role of Friedrich von Flotow's Martha. Engaged by the company for the next 20 years, she appeared in many Swedish premieres, such as Musette in Puccini's La bohème (1901), Marianne in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier (1920) and La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (1920). Other works in which she appeared include The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni and Carmen. Bartels is also remembered for her appearances in concerts and lieder recitals. She was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal in 1923 for her contributions to Swedish culture. This 1901 photograph by the Swedish photographer Ferdinand Flodin shows Bartels in her role as Musette.

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John Tarleton (8 November 1811 – 25 September 1880) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord. He was given command of the fifth-rate HMS Fox in 1852, of the frigate HMS Eurydice in 1855 and of the frigate HMS Euryalus in 1858: he led the latter ship as an element of the Channel Squadron and then of the Mediterranean Squadron. Tarleton served as Junior Naval Lord from 1871 and then as Second Naval Lord from 1872 to 1874. He was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1875 and retired in 1879. He is seen here in an 1860 photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall.

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Percy Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early 20th century. Grainger left Australia in 1895 to study at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Between 1901 and 1914 he was based in London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer and collector of original folk melodies. He met many of the significant figures in European music, forming friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg, and became a champion of Nordic music and culture. In 1914, Grainger moved to the United States, where he took citizenship in 1918. He experimented with music machines that he hoped would supersede human interpretation. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens". This glass negative of Grainger was taken at some point around 1915–1920.

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Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available by 1979 and realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both NASA's federal women's program and the affirmative action program. Her work sought to influence the career paths of women in science, engineering, and mathematics positions at NASA. Jackson is one of the leading characters in the 2016 book Hidden Figures and one of the three protagonists in the book's film adaptation, released the same year. This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.

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I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Geraldine Ulmar (June 23, 1862 – August 13, 1932)

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Great Yarmouth Town Hall is a municipal building on Hall Plain in Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, England. It is the meeting place of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and is a Grade II* listed building. The town hall was designed by John Bond Pearce in the Queen Anne Revival style, with terracotta facings and a 110-foot-tall (34-metre) clock tower with a lantern above. It was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), on 31 May 1882. The building served as the headquarters of Great Yarmouth County Borough Council for much of the 20th century and has continued to operate as the local seat of government following the formation of the enlarged borough council in 1974. This hand-colored photochrom shows Great Yarmouth Town Hall in the 1890s, seen from opposite the River Yare.

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Caroline Hill was an English actress. She began acting as a child in the company of Samuel Phelps and soon joined the company of J. B. Buckstone at the Haymarket Theatre. There she created roles in several new plays, including some by W. S. Gilbert, in whose plays she continued to act later in her career. She played at various London and provincial theatres in the 1870s. Hill married actor Herbert Kelcey in 1883, with whom she had begun to appear on stage. The couple played mostly in New York City in the 1880s, and Hill continued to act through the 1890s, mostly in England. This 1870 photograph shows Hill as Mirza in a production of W.S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth.

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