Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Godavari Bridge.jpg

File:Godavari Bridge.jpg, not featured

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Featured picture candidates/File:Godavari Bridge.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Godavari Bridge.jpg

•  Info created by Ramesh Ramaiah - uploaded by Ramesh Ramaiah - nominated by Ramesh Ramaiah -- Ramesh Ramaiah (talk) 19:47, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ramesh Ramaiah (talk) 19:47, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment this image was marked as featured by Ramesh Ramaiah on 4.8, shortly after the candidate subpage was created: Revision of File:Godavari Bridge.jpg. The image was picture of the day on 11.8, also by Ramesh Ramaiah, changed to different image because it was not featured but reverted by Ramesh (Template:Potd/2012-08-11). This candidate subpage was not included in Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, I have included it now and increased the voting period. MKFI (talk) 08:57, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
  • As far as I know, extending the vote manually won't work. The FPC bot will keep closing it according to the original time. A new vote should be opened. Anyhow, I have no idea why no one changed it yesterday, and furthermore - why my request at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and Talk:Main Page was totally disregarded (not your fault, MKFI, you're not an admin). Tomer T (talk) 09:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
  • I wrote the Commons administrator Polarlys 4 August 2012 this information. He didn't answered and didn't chanced the image. --Michael Gäbler (talk) 15:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

•  Oppose I think, this image must be deleted and Ramesh Ramaiah has to be expel from Commons. He forged on 4 August 2012 the Template Assessments|featured on his not featured File:Godavari Bridge.jpg. He supersedet in the Picture of the day 11 August 2012 on 4 August 2012 the Featured Picture File:Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769).jpg and placed his not featured File:Godavari Bridge.jpg there. He removed on 4 August 2012 as well the Template picture of the day|year=2012|month=08|day=11 from the File:Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769).jpg. He knew what he did: Commons:Picture of the day says: "All Pictures of the Day are chosen among the Featured pictures of Commons". The User Mywood had removed in the Picture of the day 11 August 2012 the File:Godavari Bridge.jpg on 1 August 2012 with the words "not featured" and had placed there the Featured Picture File:Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769).jpg. --Michael Gäbler (talk) 19:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment I reverted the POTD page of August 11th (however it's too late the damage is done). I'm puzzled, clearly if Ramaiah did it on purpose with a clear understanding of perfoming a "mischief" there is something to do, otherwise we have to explain him our rules (Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum). --PierreSelim (talk) 20:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

  I left him a message on his talk page, a explanation is needed IMO :) --PierreSelim (talk) 20:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

  There is no meaning to reverting the POTD page now. Although it was not according to rules, the documentation should be in accordance with reality - the POTD of August 11th was File:Godavari Bridge.jpg, not File:Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769).jpg. Displaying File:Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769).jpg as the POTD of this day will only be misleading, and can only prevent it from appearing as a true POTD of another day. Tomer T (talk) 04:01, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

  You are quite right we should not prevent this picture to get chosen as POTD in the future (we could already schedule it we have the description in several languages). I removed the POTD template from the description. However I do not support to put the bridge as being POTD for that day. Ok it was displayed, but it was not chosen according to our rules. At best I think we should show no POTD for August 11, 2012 on the POTD page. --PierreSelim (talk) 12:52, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

•  Comment We can't know for sure he really knew what he was doing. I think we rather assume good faith. Looking briefly on his en.wiki profile, he doesn't seem like a harmful user, but the other way around - that should have been a mistake. Even if it's written in the POTY page that only FPs can be POTYs, the more probable scenario is that he simply didn't read the guidelines there (which is in itself a mistake, but can be forgiven for a first time mistake) - and he also probably didn't understand the edit summary by Mywood. But, the true fault here was that no admin took care of the situation in time (are we short on admins?). Tomer T (talk) 21:03, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:34, 17 August 2012 (UTC)