Commons talk:Quality images candidates

Editing overly-long short descriptions

When submitting something for QI, the template asks to add a "very short description", but every now and then someone writes a description that's 100 words or more, creating a very lengthy entry in the process. Would it be alright for regular Commons users (meaning without special rights, like admins) to trim these down to a more reasonable size? ReneeWrites (talk) 12:35, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Good point. Nominators should put at least minimal effort in the descriptions. Not just go with the default, often including "This image was submitted as part of Wiki Loves overly long descriptions, licensed Creative Commons CC-BY SA 4.0 etc pp". Plozessor (talk) 16:43, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

QICBot problem

It looks like the bot has encountered some problem today and stopped while processing subject galleries. Unfortunately, today's archive page hasn't been saved from what I can see -- Jakubhal 07:06, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Mike Peel: Can you check it? -- Jakubhal 07:06, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
• This is today's diff on candidates page -- Jakubhal 07:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I can't see exactly why it stopped, but it's something to do with the subject galleries. I'm not sure why that comes before processing the contents of the page, so I'm refactoring a bit and making it more fault-tolerant. However, the bot diff needs to be reverted, which is going to be a PITA (will do this shortly) then the script can be re-run. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

All should be sorted now, and the script shouldn't fall over the same way again in the future. Please let me know if you spot any residual issues. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you for your effort! -- Jakubhal 14:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

This morning there was another QICBot failure. Images were not removed from the candidate list even though they were archived and copied to the list of recently promoted images. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 11:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

That happens when there's an edit conflict when the bot is saving the page. I haven't figured out a way to avoid that... It should just sort through it tomorrow. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:52, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I shall probably be able to fix all the otherwise rather time-consuming and annoying issues with duplicates in Commons:Quality images/Recently promoted within a few minutes using a small offline script, some copying and pasting and a simple edit, also removing all the duplicates of images that are categorized today. In the fairly unlikely case of an edit conflict I'll just discard or revert my edit and repeat everything. However, I have no intention to change any archive pages. Therefore, quite a lot of images might be archived twice. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 22:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Please review this image once again: File:Münster,_Überwasserkirche,_Giebelhüüskesmarkt_--_2024_--_6568.jpg

Dear qualified photographers please revalue this image listed for quality image 12 December: File:Münster,_Überwasserkirche,_Giebelhüüskesmarkt_--_2024_--_6568.jpg

As per the claim of the user it supposed to be a quality image for its given sharpness and objectives. So please kindly recheck the image and give him the final verdict.

Thank you! HridoyKundu (talk) 19:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

This is an intentionally blurred photo. I am not sure how something like this can be evaluated. The nominator could send it to consensual review. Otherwise, a single vote should be sufficient and it got two opposing votes. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 20:34, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

And just for the record: the image is not just blurry, it is also quite noisy. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 20:43, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

I've send it already to consensual review, but the user above set it back to decline. A mistake. --XRay 💬 20:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@HridoyKundu: See [1]. Back to discussion. --XRay 💬 20:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry but I think already 3 users said against the quality of this image. So it will remain declined. HridoyKundu (talk) 06:07, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Not so fast. Wait for the discussion first. The picture should also show alternatives to the other candidates ;-) Photos from Category:Photo art always have a hard time here. --XRay 💬 10:05, 13 December 2024 (UTC)