Commons talk:Photo challenge/themes/Archive/2016

Water sport

Skiing, power boats/ power boat racing, , swimming, diving any water sport where water is the playing field.

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  Underwater frocking ceremony
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  Water Polo World League Super Final in 2011
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  Synchronized swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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  Water skiing, Slush Cup 2010 in Canada.jpg
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  ICF Canoe Polo World Championships 2014
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  Windsurfing
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  Diving

•  Support compared to other areas, lots of pictures have relatively low quality. It could be useful.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:12, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jarekt (talk) 04:13, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 17:06, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 12:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment this will wait till next spring, probably.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:06, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Definitely not my subject, but a perfectly valid challenge in the field of sports. I'd surely give it a chance. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Tbiw (talk) 13:48, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Neutral -Céléda (talk) 18:54, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment Ice/Snow is water in a frozen form - would that allow for winter ice/snow activities in this theme? —Cbuske46 (talk) 23:40, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
  •  Comment I think winter sports is a different category than water sports, even though both are exercised in/on the same element. ---tacitos- (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support ---tacitos- (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2021 - May - Water sports

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Fossil, Sedimentation

Fossils and Sediments Proposed as part of Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Earth_Science--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:35, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

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  Phymosoma granulosum
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  Nannoplanktion microfossils from marine sediment
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  Acrosalenia bradfordensis
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  Fossils in Stirone, Italy
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  Unidentified fossil near Maysville, Kentucky

•  Comment FYI, we had already "fossils" in a past challenge.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:37, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

2015 - September - Fossils -- F. Riedelio • Diskussion • ✉ 17:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:35, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

* Oppose in this form, as we had "fossils" not too long ago. --El Grafo (talk) 13:01, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

well, it was years ago if I remember correctly. But we'll see the other comments. By the time we decide, maybe it is even more time.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:50, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - June - Geology has almost no fossils, Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - September - Fossils was sufficiently long ago, and this is easily repeatable. @El Grafo: do you still oppose this? – b_jonas 19:00, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

No, but I wonder why the addition "and sediments" was chosen. Pictures of sediments without fossils would probably not stand a chance against the fossils in the vote. --El Grafo (talk) 11:12, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Céléda (talk) 06:32, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Calistemon (talk) 02:54, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 07:26, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support —Cbuske46 (talk) 22:28, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

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Baby related equipment

See Category:Baby-related equipment. Proposed by Alexmar983 We can do better. Few pictures have a high definition, for example. Compared to other categories, images from museums or archives are more than usual, basically because we lack some pictures of current equipment, at least pictures centered on the equipment, not on the baby using it. I guess that people prefer to take pictures of their children than of the baby-related objects they use, that's where the "gap" comes from. So there's a lot to improve: strollers, baby carriages, cribs, walkers, bassinets, high chairs, playpens, feeding bottles, baby slings...

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  Old cradle in Ukraine
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  Old infant scale in England
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  Baby bottles at a supermarket
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  Pink pacifier
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  Baby sling in Japan
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  Car seat in Germany
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  Diaper changing table
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  Infant bicycle seat in Sweden
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  Baby walker

• {{S}} --Jarekt (talk) 15:16, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

• Switching my vote to  Neutral. It is just not exiting topic. --Jarekt (talk) 14:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

•  Support--Ibex73 (talk) 05:53, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support not especially thrilling at first sight, but let's see what people make of it. A solid, straight-forward theme that would make sense to run along something more fancy that might not be for everyone. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

I kinda agree, but maybe in the end it is not so "easy" as it looks like.. who knows.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:35, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support – b_jonas 12:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose nope --Trougnouf (talk) 19:13, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment seems like it would turn into a product catalog... — Rhododendrites ^talk |  15:32, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose quite difficult if you don't know any babies, and there'd be too many pictures of moulded plastic --Shillings1005 (talk) 13:30, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I cite from above "... basically because we lack some pictures of current equipment, at least pictures centered on the equipment, not on the baby using it." and give full merit to the suggestion. This challenge could turn out to be very fruitful for wikimedia's unimpeded search for images of new and ingenious artefacts. It's certainly worth a try. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 16:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Kritzolina (talk) 17:19, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Marianne Casamance (talk) 09:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment we could limit ourselves to the old objects--Céléda (talk) 14:52, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

 Support Tbiw (talk) 16:41, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

•  Support It's an important part of everyday life and should be adequately documented both for current times and future historians. What did taking care of a baby look like in the 2020s? Also, it would be incredibly helpful for Wiktionary. Languageseeker (talk) 18:22, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Elly (talk) 20:09, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment Unless one lives in a family with a baby, this challenge will mostly require participants to venture out indoors, which is probably not something we should encourage people to do until the pandemic subsides. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:39, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2021 - July - Baby related equipment

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National coat of arms

It was: flags and coat of arms Proposed by Alexmar983

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We have many drawings or schemes, but seeing the symbol in its environment makes it more "real".--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:19, 30 July 2016 (UTC)  Comment What is it: Flags or COA's? This is 2 challenges in 1. To make it a real challenge, maybe it should be "COA on flags". --P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:11, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

COAs existed before flags, but it is more a continuum. In many countries of the "third world" COAs are less common, and I wanted a theme sufficiently global. To me they don't sound too different but you can propose to split it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:37, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support -- Jarekt (talk) 15:39, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Now that we currently have two-months challenge, I reshape this proposal as just "coat of arms". Flags are common, so it is not my main target of the two. This way is closer to a classical "architectural" challenge. Coat of arms are often like obelisks or balconies or similar, a detail.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- Gozitano (talk) 08:26, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Finderhannes (talk) 19:40, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose coats of arms are very Eurocentric. While many countries outside of Europe have a national emblem or coat of arms, such as w:Armorial of Asia, they are seen comparatively rarely. Furthermore, many emblems or coats of arms have usage restrictions or copyrights, that preclude the uploading of reproductions of the official one. For example, there is a note on File:Coat of arms of Singapore.svg to this effect. dllu (t,c) 08:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

A lot of challenges exclude something, that's why there are two of them every month. It's like saying that I cannot propose "sea" because some countries are landlocked...--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:04, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:43, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Neutral--Céléda (talk) 15:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Gordito1869 (talk) 11:22, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Slowflyingmonkey (talk) 23:47, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2021 - September - COA --Jarekt (talk) 02:40, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

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