Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis ocularis) male feeding Mbombela.jpg

File:Spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis ocularis) male feeding Mbombela.jpg

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Featured picture candidates/File:Spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis ocularis) male feeding Mbombela.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis ocularis) male feeding Mbombela.jpg

• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family : Ploceidae (Weavers)
•  Info No FPs of this species. I think the garden tree may be an exotic. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- WildMouse76 (talk) 23:27, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Question Isn't this your third nomination? Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) young female Kruger 2.jpg and Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) Kruger.jpg are both active at the moment. --SHB2000 (talk) 07:08, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I've placed a tentative {{FPD}}, though anyone is free to take this nomination over. --SHB2000 (talk) 07:09, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

• I created the page last night but did not add it here. Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:33, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

• Well, you shouldn't create a new nomination until one of your two active is done, not just because someone might find it and add it (like what happened here) but mostly because having a nom waiting in the pipeline will shorten the time for your nom and that is rigging the game if it's done on purpose. The voting time starts when you create a nom, not when you add it to the FPC list, and by creating it in advance you are in effect shaving off time on this voting platform until it closes. --Cart (talk) 08:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed.

 I withdraw my nomination Even though I didn't put it here, I guess I can withdraw it and restart the nomination. And of course I wasn't rigging the game as Cart implies above. Since the FPC rules state "The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination", I suggest you change this wording. 'Nomination' to me means when I add it to the FPC nomination page, not when I prepare the page. And please place a warning on the FPC nomination page to stop others getting their next FP nomination ready in advance like I did. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:08, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

There is already a warning on every nomination page, it's that timestamp that is clearly visible right below the heading saying "Voting period ends on 6 Jun 2024 at 20:33:26 (UTC)". That time is set the second you click on 'Publish' on the nomination page, not when you add it to the FPC list. What is so hard about creating a nomination page that you have to do it so long in advance? --Cart (talk) 21:26, 29 May 2024 (UTC)