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File:Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus castaneofuscus) male on nest.jpg, featured

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•  Info The male weavers assemble together in colonies to build their nests. It's a noisy competition and they will build and rebuild nests to attract a female. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:52, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:52, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:48, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Although IMHO you should go a bit down with sharpness here --Poco a poco (talk) 23:42, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Question You're calling for less sharpness? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:58, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

• I'm rather calling for less sharpening halos Poco a poco (talk) 20:27, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
• Agree with Poco actually. Guess it's a side effect of the selective noise reduction. - Benh (talk) 08:55, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

• Denoise AI (which also sharpens on the standard settings that I use) produces halos on the underside of surfaces which you have to manually erase. It also gets confused where there are small areas of background (e.g. at the edges of the nest). Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Question Poco a poco and Benh, where are the halos? Do you mean, for example, the really narrow border above the lower part of the bird's beak? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:25, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

• Ikan Kekek: I see halov along the whole silhoutte of the bird at the lower side, also there where you mention. Merry Christmas! --Poco a poco (talk) 17:51, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

• Merry Christmas and thanks for explaining! I might see the merest bit of a halo on the underside of the bird if I really peer at it at full size on my 23.5-inch monitor. Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

• Hi Poco a poco Benh Ikan Kekek There is a noticeable white halo on the underside of the bird in RAW, but not in the out-of-camera 'neutral' jpg. I did a test using Denoise AI and zero sharpening on the jpg and it produces a white halo. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:45, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:00, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 09:48, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Weak support Not perfect but good--Commonists 11:33, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

• Another sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. - Benh (talk) 11:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:29, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 16:17, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support very nice :) - Benh (talk) 08:28, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 09:56, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Neutral Lack of detail due to too much of a crop, technically imperfect but interesting image --Yeriho (talk) 11:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --GRDN711 (talk) 03:44, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Hulged (talk) 16:10, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support My feeling in the end is that this is a technically good enough picture because it's special - who knows what the bird is thinking, but I imagine that he is proud of his work, and even if pride isn't something he feels, he certainly feels ownership of it and is making his presence known. And of course the nature of the nest is such that it's impossible for all of it to be sharp. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:31, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Neutral Accepting everything Ikan says, I still feel the center of the image could be improved. Daniel Case (talk) 05:18, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support An example of when I think the value of the image makes up for some technical shortcomings. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:21, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:06, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 2 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family : Ploceidae (Weavers)