WHAT I DO

I do image restoration, taking an old image with flaws that make it unusable, and carefully fixing it back into a useful image. For example:

BEFORE	AFTER

It requires careful work and attention to detail, and a willingness to spend a few hours removing individual dust spots with the healing brush, because you care about helping to share knowledge, and this is the best way to provide illustrations of that. My 631.5 restorations currently make up about 8.4% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia, and you'd be surprised at just how much code I put in to keeping that as up to date as possible.

Fun fact, by the way: See those empty borders on images? They are the absolute worst, because the slightest discolouration will be incredibly visible. On some images, I've spent three times the effort on the bits no-one pays attention to... unless you don't spend that effort.

Featured pictures[edit]

In progress[edit]

If it's 2024, see https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0001071313 which has just gone out of copyright.

Sort out commons:Category:William Byrne for which larger copies of practically every image are available.

Current nominations/Forthcoming nominations:[edit]

Key
= FP on Commons = File not eligible to be on Commons.

These are not featured pictures yet. But should be. They are either currently being voted on or will be soon. Hopefully.

Things either currently nominated, about to be nominated, or awaiting renomination[edit]

May also include things about to be nominated, but only when there's a problem at WP:FPC (or they're only nearly done, but will be done in a day or two. This is wildly optimistic in most cases, and you should really not pay attention to anything I say about scheduling.)

https://library.artstor.org/#/public/27593990 https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.02129/ Langston Hughes https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2009.39

Fannie Lou Hamer
Betty Friedan
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Battle of Taku Forts (1900)
Gismonda
Kee Mar College
I vespri siciliani
Esther Bubley photograph of a woman being taught to drive a streetcar in World War II.
Juanita Hall
The bathhouse in Gnesta
The Gondoliers
Chapultepec Castle, late 19th century
The Rose of Persia
Alfred, Lord Tennyson or restart from File:Alfred, Lord Tennyson MET DP295251.jpg
Mary Jackson
Tombstone, Arizona in 1940
Gertrud Bodenwieser's Bodenwieser Ballet performs the Blue Danube Waltz.
Ruby Hirose
Rowland Buckstone and Cissy Grahame in The Colonel
Fred Sullivan
Fred Sullivan
Thomas Mundy Peterson

Works in progress[edit]

Redo high res.
USS Cairo
SMS Friedrich Carl
Bret Harte
Anna Oscàr 30%
La Vie parisienne
Robert Smalls 7%
Paula Lizell 10%
Craigmillar Castle 5%
Caernarvon Castle
H. M. Brock's poster for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer
John C. Tidball's Battery.
Somewhat important as it's not too far up from POTD, and there's a better copy available.
Falstaff
Battle of Antietam (Need to replace all uses of this with this one before nominating)
Anna J. Cooper

Commons:Category:Glass plate negatives in the Swedish Performing Arts Agency - good source for a lot of Swedish actors.

To do[edit]

To do list

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Things I plan to do. https://www.si.edu/object/abraham-bogardus:npg_S_NPG.2007.27

https://www.si.edu/object/abraham-bogardus:npg_S_NPG.2007.28

https://www.si.edu/object/abraham-bogardus:npg_NPG.82.151

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.25986/ https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.25703/ https://history.house.gov/Blog/2020/December/12-11-Rainey-Reconstruction/

Sarah T. Bolton [20]

Pinafore: https://www.loc.gov/item/2014635558/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2003672855/

Https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=File:Vue du Vaisseau du Roy le duc de Bourgogne btv1b8409221q.jpg
Technically started, but I'm in no real rush.
P. B. S. Pinchback though https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/bellcm.00646/
John Mercer Langston
Mulberry Street
HMY Osborne
Clara Barton
Jack Johnson
"The Odor of Pomegranites" - Zaida Ben Yusuf
Anders de Wahl
Lakmé
James Baldwin or [1]
Congress of Allied Women on War Service (v. large!)
Mary Jane Clarke (and if you thought the last one was big...)
Rita Rapp
Maybe. Use caution.
Royal Citadel, Plymouth in 1737
Jenny Nyström
Armenian genocide
Tennessee Claflin (Use [2])
Juliann Jane Tillman
Rose O'Neill
Bayard Rustin [3]
Norwegian National Women's Council (TBD)
(TBD)
Anna Howard Shaw (TBD)
Women's March on Versailles (TBD)
Elleanor Eldridge (TBD)
Le portrait de Manon (TBD)
Panurge (TBD)
Grisélidis (TBD)
Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (TBD)
Chérubin (TBD)
Cigale (TBD)
Thaïs (TBD)
Le Cid
Ranch 10 (TBD)
Ubu Roi (TBD)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
(TBF)
Frances Willard (source too small, indefinitely delayed)
TBD
Mary Louise Booth
Orphée aux enfers, Act I, Scene 1
La reine de Chypre, Act I
La reine de Chypre, Act IV, also https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84029120/f2.item.r=la%20reine%20de%20chypre.zoom
(Robert the Bruce unuploaded files)
Le Corsaire
Gustave III', Act V, Scene 2
Dimitri
Dimitri, Act V
Gustave III, Act III
Robinson Crusoé
Faust
Le vaisseau fantôme, Act II (Note: Files around this are an utter mess.)
La Vie parisienne
Le voyage dans la lune
Le Chat botté, the Internet Cat
Constance Baker Motley
Https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-people/m/macarthur-douglas-in-japan-august-1945-june-1950/usa-c-4627.html
Gertrude Elion
Frances Willard Munds
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
Don Carlo
Manon Lescaut (see also this)
Germania
Https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b531169722.r=Bellini Norma?rk=236052;4
Https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53116971m.r=Bellini Norma?rk=901292;0
Gotterdammerung
Ida F. Butler
Https://www.loc.gov/item/2016863047/
Antônio Carlos Gomes
Belfagor
Simon Newcomb
La Giocanda
Melba Roy
Cornélie Falcon
William A. Clark
Henry Freeman
Dalton Gang
Marjory Collins
Marjory Collins photo
Marjory Collins hayride photo
Ann Rosener photo
Ann Rosener
Rhino ferry
Https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/var.0063/

Avril de Sainte-Croix, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Rose Winslow Annie Easley

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426664g/f1.item.r=Le%20songe%20de%20tartini.zoom

Nyström: https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_norway/24207670678/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_norway/24207683468/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_norway/24207693358/

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014645918/ Haxall Flour Mills

Featured pictures[edit]

Images that have gone through the featured picture process and have been recognised as amongst the best on Wikipedia.

Key
= Also a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons = File not eligible to be on Commons.

2023[edit]

These 20 restorations from the first 6 months of 2022 make up 0.266% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia. My goal for the year is 1%, which currently requires 75.17 restorations. I am currently falling behind this goal, with a projected 0.635% (47.7) for the year. (Everything in this paragraph is automatically updated.)

1. Li Fu Lee
2. W. H. Kendal and Madge Kendal in The Palace of Truth
3. Dale Creek Crossing
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
5. Frederic Edwin Church
6. The Geisha
7. Great Yarmouth Town Hall
8. A Peculiar Family by William Brough
9. Percy Grainger, with MyCatIsAChonk
10. Artists protesting censorship under the military dictatorship in Brazil
11. Althea Gibson
12. Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street
13. Agnes Booth in Engaged
14. Amanda Smith
15. Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron
16. "Ruins in Charleston, S.C." by George N. Barnard
17. George N. Barnard
18. Engaged
19. Captain Moonlite
20. Ignace Tonené

Older Featured Pictures[edit]

2022[edit]

These 77 restorations from 2022 make up 1.024% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.

1. Avril de Sainte-Croix
2. Rose O'Neill - Santa Claus
3. Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope
4. Pelléas et Mélisande
5. Marian Anderson
6. Rosalind Goodrich Bates
7. Sissieretta Jones
8. Pearl Bailey in the role of Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
9. Marguérite Priola in Le roi l'a dit
10. Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
11. Edmonia Lewis
12. Edward Mitchell Bannister
13. Henry Highland Garnet
14. Sojourner Truth
15. Victoria Claflin Woodhull
16. Benjamin Franklin Tilley
16½. Kenje Ogata
17. Billy Bowlegs
18. Nathan Francis Mossell
19. Doris Miller
20. Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
21. Long Tack Sam
22. USS Johnston (DD-557)
23. Roma
24. Dorothy Houston Jacobson
(: File:Dorothy Houston Jacobson 1967.jpg)
25. Lilly Walleni
26. Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket
27. Jasper Francis Cropsey
28. William Harvey Carney
29. Alfred Buckham's "Aerial View of Edinburgh"
30. Ruddygore, 1887
31. Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1918
32. Södermanland Runic Inscription 113
33. Ruddigore, 1921
34. Haane Manahi, Maori soldier
35. Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
36. John C. Dancy
37. Madame Dugazon in Nina
38. The Cenotaph
39. James McPherson
40. Magna Lykseth-Skogman
41. Ages Ago
42. Presidio of San Francisco, 1822
43. W.E.B. Du Bois
44. Fausta Labia
45. Battle of Shiloh
46. Shirley Graham Du Bois
47. Henri Becquerel
48. Costume design from Princess Ida (1884)
49. John Milton Brannan
50. Tom Taylor
51. Holger Drachmann
52. USS Missouri (1841)
53. Iolanthe
54. Burnside's Bridge
55. Il trovatore
56. HMS Malabar at the explosion of the USS Missouri
57. Chromolithograph of Gabriele Castagnola's Love or Duty
58. Alfred Waud
59. Le roi d'Ys
60.Cox and Box
61. Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
62. Iolanthe
63. Anna Bartels
64. Geraldine Ulmar (different crop featured on Commons)
65. W.S. Gilbert
66. Arthur Sullivan
66²⁄₂. Auxiliary Territorial Service
68. Caroline Hill as Mirza in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
69. Advertisement for oriental rugs by Eugène Grasset
70. Michael William Balfe
71. Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
72. A Sensation Novel
73. Jeremiah Gurney
74. His Majesty
75. John Henry Turpin
76. Mary Jackson (engineer)
77. The Duchess of Dantzic

Things I gave up on passing FPC in 2022[edit]

Good restorations, but not good enough source material. Check later, but...

Featured pictures from previous years[edit]

202[edit]

2021... was not a good year for many reasons, chief amongst them the fact that the pandemic, meant to end by Christmas 2020... failed to do so. But at least I managed a single featured picture before it all fell apart.

1. Vernon Jordan

2020[edit]

These 52.5 restorations from 2020 make up 0.698% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.

1. Sharon Tate
2. Harriet Jacobs
3. Jenny Nyström's illustration of jultomte
4. Lucy Arbell in Massenet's Bacchus
5. Julie d'Aubigny
6. La bohème
7. Les Huguenots Act II
8. Gismonda
9. Ariane
10. Ethel Smyth
11. Quo Vadis
12. Hazel MacKaye
13. La Esmeralda
14. La reine de Chypre, Act V, Scene 2
15. Robert Bruce, Act III, Scene 3
16. Nelly Martyl
17. Constance Baker Motley
18. Japanese Instrument of Surrender
19. Fly Duet from Orphée aux enfers
20. The Green–Meldrim House, during its period as General Sherman's headquarters
21. Beulah Ream Allen
22. Alceste
23. Della H. Raney
24. Sándor Vay
25. Sherman's March to the Sea
26. Robert le diable, Act III (The Ballet of the Nuns)
27. Giacomo Puccini
28. Rosa Raisa
29. Madama Butterfly
30. Helena Hill Weed
31. Gabrielle Ray
32. Tannhäuser, Act III
33. La Wally, Act I costume for Wally.
34. Marie Stopes
35. Amilcare Ponchielli
36. Seated: Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giuditta Ricordi. Standing: Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, and Leopoldo Metlicovitz
37. Les Burgraves
38. Pauline Gracia Beery Mack
39. Jeanette Scissum
40. Pauline Kirby
41. Granville Stuart
42. Clara McAdow
43. French battleship Suffren
43½. Keke Rosberg
44. Margaret Harwood
45. Simone Veil
46. Jacques Isnardon
47. The Fortune Teller
48. Poster for State Fair (1933)
49. Svan peasant in traditional dress
50. Valerie L. Thomas
51. The Contrabandista
52. La boheme, Act II

2019[edit]

These 98.5 restorations from 2019 make up 1.31% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.

1. Rigoletto set design
2. Carrie Chapman Catt
3. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
4. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
5. Haydée, ou Le secret
6. Le comte Ory
7. Joséphine Fodor
8. Gillette de Narbonne
9. Les Huguenots Act I
10. Costume designs for Les Huguenots featuring Julie Dorus-Gras, Adolphe Nourrit, and Cornélie Falcon as Valentine
11. Rossini and King George IV
12. The Barber of Seville
13. William Tell costume designs featuring Laure Cinti-Damoreau, Adolphe Nourrit, and Nicolas Levasseur
14. Louise Bertin's La Esmeralda, Act III, Scene 2
15. Fervaal
16. Minnie Maddern Fiske by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
17. Cavalliera Rusticana (Santuzza and Turiddu)
18. Cavalliera Rusticana (Alfio and Turiddu)
19. Lucy Arbell in Thérèse
20. Paulette del Baye
21. Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos
22. Carmen
23. Lucy Arbell
24. Julia Margaret Cameron
25. Célestine Galli-Marié
26. Michael McNamara of the 5th Dragoon Guards
27. Edgar Allan Poe (with Yann)
28. Mary Jackson
29. Bill Hosokawa's home at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center (with additional work by Janke)
30. Coldstream Guards
31. Aletta Jacobs
32. Ray Strachey
33. L'enfant et les sortilèges Scene 1
34. L'enfant et les sortilèges Scene 2
35. Alva Belmont
36. Séverine
37. Le mage
37½ Frederick Fleet (a relatively quick restoration)
38. Don César de Bazan
39. Werther
40. Marino Faliero
41. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs the German Instrument of Surrender, ending the European side of the Second World War
42. Le juif polonais
43. I puritani
44. Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
45. Russian battleship Chesma
46. Yuri Gagarin
47. Emma Calvé in La Navarraise
48. Le pardon de Ploërmel (Dinorah)
49. Hermaphrodite, part of a nine-part 1860 medical photo-documentation of an intersex person, believed to be the first of its kind.
50. We Can Do It!
51. Nell Mercer
52. Lillian Feickert
53. SMS Arcona
54. Lillian Ascough
55. Bégéarss from The Guilty Mother
56. George P. Wetmore in his Kriéger Landaulette electric automobile, c. 1906
57. Pauline Adams
58. Louisa May Alcott
59. Program for the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
60. Pro-women's suffrage poster by Emily Jane Harding Andrews
61. Ubu Roi
62. Edison's Vitascope
63. Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii
64. Rosa Parks
65. Fredrikke Mørck
66. Restoring manuscripts from the National Library after the 1966 flood of the Arno
67. Gina Krog
68. War pigeon
69. La Juive
70. Emma Gillett
71. Hattie Caraway
72. Hubertine Auclert
73. Iris Calderhead
74. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
75. Marguerite Durand
76. Ada Flatman
77. Alice Locke Park
78. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
79. Jules Verne
80. Édouard Manet
81. Dr. Caroline Spencer
82. Flora MacDonald Denison
83. Elizabeth Glendower Evans
84. Joy Young Rogers
85. Georges Ernest Boulanger
86. Jean-François Millet
87. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
88. Lucretia Mott
89. Crystal Eastman
90. François Certain de Canrobert
91. Poster for Quo Vadis (1913)
92. Mabel Vernon
93. Henrietta Rodman
94. Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
95. Théophile Thoré-Bürger
96. Django Reinhardt
97. "Il signor Tambourossini"
98. 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot

2018[edit]

These 8 restorations from the last two months of 2018 make up 0.106% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 2018 concluded a long Wikibreak, with me only rejoining in late November, so this isn't too bad numberwise. And, hey, wrote the music to an opera as well.