Wikinews:Picture of the Year 2008/round 1

Round One
Will open for voting on January 24 and close on January 31 if supported by community consensus. All images with two supports or more will be carried through the the second round of voting. You may vote for any number of images.

Voting is now closed

Candidates
Note: All image captions are the ones originally used in the News in Pictures template.

Votes
Voting is now Closed. Please do not add more votes.

Please vote with a list of all the images which you believe should be carried through to round two, formatted in the following way


 * A, B, C, D, AA, AB, AC, AD Example voter not to be counted 19:39, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

- Voting is now closed (as of 05:34, 1 February 2009 (UTC). Miranda was the last person to vote). Round two will start shortly (once round 1 results are official)
 * I, L, P, U, DA, AQ, AT, AY Jonhall (talk) 00:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * P, L, D, E, N Stepshep (talk) 03:02, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * U —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jp215 (talk • contribs)  Vote not to be counted as Jp215 not eligible to vote for picture of the year. Anonymous101talk 13:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * BC, AW, AT, DB, D, N Ottre (talk) 12:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * C, D, I, AG, AK, AV, BA Anonymous101talk 13:43, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * B, C, D, J, L, P, R, N, DA, AD, AE, AF, AG, DB, AK, AQ, AV, AT, BC TUFKAAP (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * AL, BB NuclearWarfare (talk) 19:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * G, J, L, P, X, AE, AG, AL, AM, AQ, AV, AY Patrol110 (talk) 01:49, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I, DB, AL Aguilac (talk) 02:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC) Vote not to be counted as user account does not exist on Wikinews (see w:User talk:Aguilac). Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 23:30, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * T Vote not to be counted as not by registered account. Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 23:30, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * D, I, U, DA, DB, AG, AK, AL, AS ~Planoneck~ 21:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I, N, DA, AL RaminusFalcon (talk) 21:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * AV, AY, AQ, AK, DB, I -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 02:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * B, D, I, L, N, T, X, DB, DC, AL, AQ, AT, AV, AX, AY --Melancholie (talk) 10:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * L, P, U, DB, AQ, AY. Lvova (talk) 11:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * U, L, X, B. Iffcool (talk) 12:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I Bennylin (talk) 12:19, 27 January 2009 (UTC), for now
 * X, AE, AS, AY, BB, BC Jedudedek (talk) 12:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * E, R, AK. --Stefan »Στέφανος« ‽ 12:37, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * B, I, L, U, Z, DB, AF, AG, AQ, AX, AY, BB Dobromila (talk) 13:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * D, N, P, U, AE, AG, AJ, AK, AT, BA Chandlerjoeyross (talk) 16:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * BB, ASD, AZ -Djsasso (talk) 18:09, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Please clarify your vote. Did you mean to vote for A, S, and D or AS and D? Bawolff ☺☻ 04:09, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry that should be BB, AU, AZ. I was looking at part of the description and pulled the wrong letters out. -Djsasso (talk) 04:21, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * L, DA, AL, AY, BB – Hunyadym (talk) 00:03, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * J, P --SVTCobra 00:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * D, I, J, DA, AE, AF, AL, AQ, AY --Bibliomaniac15 (talk) 00:31, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * P, AF, AK. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:23, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * C, D, E, K, N, P, DB, AF, AL, AQ. --Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 23:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * J, T, P, AC, AL, AY, AZ, BD Gopher65talk 23:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * D, L, P, DB, AF, AK, AL, BC. seresin (¡?) 03:33, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * L, AF --Sigma 7 (talk) 01:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Please prove that your wikipedia and wikinews accounts are owned by the same person. (easy way: special:mergeaccount). Bawolff ☺☻ 09:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. I was already using a unified account, but some of the edit counter tools didn't detect the account as such. --Sigma 7 (talk) 17:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, thats weird. Thanks for responding (and sorry for being overly suspicious). Bawolff ☺☻ 04:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * L, N, P, X, AE, DB, AF, Ak, AQ, AR, AS, AT, AY, BA, BC, BD Bawolff ☺☻ 23:28, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * L, P, BD IlyaHaykinson (talk) 11:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I, N, DB, AS, BC -- Kevinhksouth (talk) 13:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * U, G, AL, AG. Miranda (talk) 01:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Results
See Wikinews_talk:Picture_of_the_Year_2008 for full details:
 * Fifty-nine images were present for round 1. Eleven surevived.
 * Images with 10 or more votes (leaders of the pack): D, DB, I, L, P, AL, AQ, AY [8]
 * Images with 2 or more votes (not too shabby): B, C, D, E, G, I, J, L, N, P, R, T, U, X, AE, AF, AG, AK, AL, AQ, AS, AT, AV, AX, AY, AZ, BA, BB, BC, BD, DA, DB [32]
 * Images that did not make it (0-1 votes): AC, AD, AJ, AM, AR, AU, AW, DC, K, Z, A, AA, AB, AI, AN, AO, AP, DD, F, H, M, O, Q, S, V, W, Y [27]
 * Images that had 8 or more votes (actually made it): D, I, L, N, P, AF, AK, AL, AQ, AY, DB [11]
 * Results compiled by and