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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Carnivora#Family : Herpestidae (Mongooses)
•  Info Beautiful meerkat with 3 young; created and uploaded by Charlesjsharp - nominated by 20 upper -- 20 upper 09:01, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- 20 upper 09:01, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks for the nomination. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:01, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support JukoFF (talk) 11:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support excellent! -- Ivar (talk) 14:00, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 15:45, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:36, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --LexKurochkin (talk) 18:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
• This is an excellent image but I have a  Question. Currently there are 8 Featured Pictures of meerkats of which 3 are groups.
  

This group meerkat nomination was taken by Charles Sharp at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa on November 3, 2014. One of the 3 exisitng FP group meerkat images, was also taken by Charles Sharp at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa on November 4, 2014. Hard to tell but the same kats may be in both images.

20 upper - Charles obviously made the nominating decision that the existing FP, was his best at the time. Should both images be FP, or should the existing FP (nominated by Charles) be nominated for delisting in favor of this one nominated by you (and also made by Charles)? Just curious how this is best dealt with. --GRDN711 (talk)

Since the images were taken on a different date and at a different location, they could not be the same animals. You may nominate any of the the nine meerkat FPs for deletion at any time.

Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

IMHO there is no reason to delist the existing meerkat FP from the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, because both photos are quite different. Both photos can be FPs. (This would still be valid even if the file would show the same individuals: the photos are quite different, that’s enough.) --Aristeas (talk) 20:05, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

 Support Thank you both for your comments. --GRDN711 (talk) 14:00, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

•  Support--Ermell (talk) 22:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 22:28, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 08:14, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support A perfect image for me Νικόλαος Κυριακάκης (talk) 12:20, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /FPCBot (talk) 13:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)--Palauenc05 (talk) 20:12, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals/Carnivora#Family : Herpestidae (Mongooses)