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File:Flamants à Thyna (Sfax).jpg, featured[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 17 Apr 2024 at 23:25 (UTC)
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  •  Comment @Ermell and Iifar: Thank you for your feedback! I have reduced the extreme highlights a bit; and additionally removed some minor CAs. – Further comments? Should the edited version be offered as an alternative? Best, – Aristeas (talk) 13:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thank you Aristeas. You are entitled to part of the WLE prize. The more I look at the picture the more I realise that the bokeh was added by the photographer. But I can't see why the little black line on the neck of the fourth flamingo was not removed or what it is. Perhaps an antenna for the remote control? :-)Ermell (talk) 13:27, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thank you! ;–) Actually I wanted to remove that black line (and another one at the beak of the 6th flamingo), but I thought people could complain about that. But now that you mention it, I have removed both. – Regarding the bokeh I am not sure; it’s a 500mm shot from far away with a distant background, but at ƒ/10, so IMHO the bokeh could look that way. (We had a similar debate about some of JJ Harrison’s bird photos, e.g. here and in other nominations. Therefore I am cautious about that suspicion. At least I cannot find obvious masking errors which are the usual sign for background blur added in post.) – Aristeas (talk) 14:03, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose per BigDom. – Aristeas (talk) 14:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC) Sorry to clutter this nomination with my comments, but there was a problem with the nomination time frame. TOUMOU has created this nomination subpage on 3 April 2024‎, but it was added only on 9 April 2024‎ to the list of active nominations. Because of this the nomination period would have been way too short: the bot would have closed this nomination on 12 Apr 2024 at 07:15:28 (UTC), that would be only 5 days instead of the regular 9 days. I have taken the liberty to repair this by copying the internal FPVotingPeriodFlag flag value and the corresponding end date from this nomination which was added to the list of active nominations only some minutes before this nomination. Therefore way this nomination will run for the regular period of 9 days. Hope it helps, – Aristeas (talk) 17:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So why has it been promoted? Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I do not understand that, too; it seems the bot does not rely only on the value in the {{FPVotingPeriodFlag}} template, but on the creation date of the nomination subpage. Obviously I must do more research on the bot’s behaviour. In any case this is against the rules. – Aristeas (talk) 14:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
     Info Yes, it’s that simple. Assuming that this is the current source code of FPCBot, it simply checks the creation date/time of the nomination subpage (line 324ff.) and does not care at all for FPVotingPeriodFlag and friends. This means: the only way to stop the bot from closing a nomination too early is to copy the nomination to a brand new nomination subpage. – Aristeas (talk) 15:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
     Info Or to tweak the creation timestamp of the nomination subpage – right now I was told that admins can do that. Good to know. Next time such a thing happens we will ask an admin to do this. – Aristeas (talk) 15:55, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- El Golli Mohamed 14:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Sorry, but I had to strike outdelete this result. The bot did close the original nomination way too early. It should end on 17 Apr 2024 around 23:25 (UTC) and not earlier because the nomination has become public and active only on 23:25 (UTC), 8 April 2024‎. I thought fixing the value of the {{FPVotingPeriodFlag}} would tell the bot to do the right thing but it did not. So the only solution I know to stop the bot from closing this nomination too early again and again is to re-create it from scratch as a new /2 nomination (done here) and to close it manually when the time has come. Sorry for all the confusion. We can avoid all that hassle easily when nominators add their new nomination to the list of active nominations quickly after creating the nomination subpage. – Aristeas (talk) 14:35, 12 April 2024 (UTC) Seems that FPCBot still processes a FPC-results-reviewed template even when it is striked out. So yet another lesson from this: We must entire delete premature instances of that template, striking out is not sufficient. – Aristeas (talk) 06:16, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 23:32, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds#Family : Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos)
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