
Quality images are diagrams or photographs that meet certain quality standards (which are mostly technical in nature) and are valuable for Wikimedia projects. Unlikefeatured pictures, quality images must be the work of Commons contributors; they need not be extraordinary or outstanding, but merely well-composed and generally well-executed.
There are currently421,454 images marked as Quality images, which is roughly 0.323% of the available images (130,261,001).
This page highlights recently promoted images that meet thequality image guidelines. If you think that a particular image meets the criteria, you may nominate it atCommons:Quality images candidates. All Quality images can be found in a category calledQuality images. You can browse Quality images bycountry,subject oruser/author.
Quality images are divided into three subgroups. Any individual image may be placed in one or more of these groups:
(Before adding new images to these pages please seeCommons talk:Quality images.)
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Man made structures
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Flowers
Other plant pictures