Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:بيروت القرن ١٩ أسود أبيض.jpg

Beirut Panorama - 19th century, not featured

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Stitched only, without cleaning

•  Info created by Maison Bonfils - uploaded and nominated by Banzoo -- Banzoo (talk) 01:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Banzoo (talk) 01:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment I strongly suggest renaming the image. Using not only a non-latin but an RTL script in conjunction with an LTR script (the "File:" prefix) can be very problematic on non-unicode systems, and only a small fraction of the world's population will be able to read the name as Beirut-Alqarn 19 Black-White, while almost everyone can read latin letters. -- JovanCormac 10:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

• I understand your opinion, but when this file was first downloaded, it was meant to be used in Arabic Wikipedia, but later thought it would be valuable for other projects too. The use of english filenames in the Arabic free encyclopedia is painful as you described (to switch from RTL to LTR). It is worth to mention that renaming a file is not a direct task to do once uploaded, and having multiple copies of the same big file is a waste of resources. I think the FPC in commons should adopt English WP style to have a title for the nomination different from the filename. It would be also of great help if Wikimedia drops the suffix requirement in the filename and use the file header instead to determine the file type, and to give the ability to include multiple filenames for different writing systems for the same file.--Banzoo (talk) 17:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

•  Support --ianaré (talk) 19:34, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Good work. Jacopo Werther (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I don't care about names in other languages and/or writing system than the english one, description of image is the thing to look at for understanding what an image depict. Support for historic relevance and gargantuan size, however not top quality. --Phyrexian (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment Impressive picture, but there are still a lot of "dust spots" to remove. Yann (talk) 18:34, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

• The size of the picture makes it hard for one individual to spot all the dirt inside. Would you add notes on the dirt you spotted to clean those that went unnoticed? (You are welcome to clean it as well!) --Banzoo (talk) 01:03, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

• It is not just a few spots, which would be acceptable. These are mostly visible on the background mountains and on the sea, but there are all over. Yann (talk) 14:02, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 4 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Daniel78 (talk) 09:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)