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 611.5 restorations currently make up about 8.2% 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

In progress

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:

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

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

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 Geisha

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

The Rose of Persia

Engaged
Alfred, Lord Tennyson or restart from File:Alfred, Lord Tennyson MET DP295251.jpg
Mary Jackson

Works in progress

USS Cairo
SMS Friedrich Carl
25%
Frederick Edwin Church
Bret Harte
Anna Oscàr 30%
La Vie parisienne
Robert Smalls 7%
Amanda Smith 50%
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)

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

To do

To do list

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

Things I plan to do.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
Anna J. Cooper
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

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

These 0 restorations from the first 2 months of 2022 make up 0% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia. My goal for the year is 1%, which currently requires 74.27 restorations. I am currently falling behind this goal, with a projected 0% (0) for the year. (Everything in this paragraph is automatically updated.)

2022

These 77 restorations from 2022 make up 1.037% 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.
: 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

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

Featured pictures from previous years

202

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

These 52.5 restorations from 2020 make up 0.707% 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

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

These 98.5 restorations from 2019 make up 1.326% 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!

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

80. Édouard Manet

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)

95. Théophile Thoré-Bürger
96. Django Reinhardt

97. "Il signor Tambourossini"
98. 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot

2018

These 8 restorations from the last two months of 2018 make up 0.108% 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.