Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
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We already had a FP of camouflage a year ago or so, but I stumbled upon this one by Adrian Pingstone. It does have some problems with it, like blurriness, but I think it'd make a nice image if it got touched up a bit.
- Nominate and support. - JPM | 19:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment, doesn't look too bad, though I don't think nominations shouuld be made with the intention of someone touching them up. Phoenix2 20:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I didn't really think it was at FP quality the way it was, so I wanted to make it clear that I think someone should touch it up. - JPM | 22:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- In that case, oppose, messy in too many ways. Phoenix2 00:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I didn't really think it was at FP quality the way it was, so I wanted to make it clear that I think someone should touch it up. - JPM | 22:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose A bit too messy, and what appears to be an endemic problem: tail end cut off, lessening the encyclopedic value... --Janke | Talk 21:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. It's an OK picture, not FP quality, though. Too messy is right. --J@red [T]/[+] 16:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Decent, but not special. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The background has to be messy or how would the astonishing camouflage be demonstrated? But I don't think it's a suitable FPC candidate (I took it!) - Adrian Pingstone 16:03, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Too messy and confusing. Alvinrune TALK 22:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Very messy. Hard to figure out what you are looking at. Canuck89 08:39, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 21:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
This picture appears in the Dallas article. It is a well balanced shot from a great viewpoint. The sky in particular looks great. It appears that this shot was taken in the early morning. An excellent contribution to the Dallas article.
- Nominate and support. - Charles2-2 19:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Grainy sky, not very sharp. Composition could also be better - alas, not stunning. --Janke | Talk 21:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - This is nice and the skyline is beautiful but ...I don't know, I'm just not wowed. It feels like this is the most mundane way possible to take an image of this subject. --Deglr6328 21:58, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Boring GizzaChat © 07:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. As per Janke. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. It's cool, but not stunning. Not FP Material. --J@red [T]/[+] 16:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Very stunning image! I uploaded another version. Alvinrune TALK 22:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, Alvinrune, the sky is even worse in your edit, even though the colors are better. Editing grainy or "artifacty" images is not easy - most often the results are inferior to the original. --Janke | Talk 06:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, It would just be any other picture to me, but I really like how that building is so reflective. I especailly like the second, artifacts or not.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Poor composition and relatively uninteresting. —This unsigned comment was added by 65.182.51.67 (talk • contribs) .
- Support: looks great to me! --Hetar 07:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Nothing spectacular. Canuck89 08:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 21:27, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Flora, fauna, - both? "Wow" when I first saw this... wow ever since. Shot in the wild. Thanks to Shyamal for identifying this for me. This photo illustrates an otherwise uncolourful article Colours of animals. It will also illustrate the Kallima article at some point. Photo taken/posted by: Rklawton
- Nominate and support. - Rklawton 17:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment, do you perhaps mean this? While the camouflage is impressive, it is so impressive it is not clear from your photo what it is demonstrating. This photo is at least needed for demonstration |→ Spaully°τ 17:51, 11 March 2006 (GMT)
- Good point. I didn't include the second photo because it doesn't illustrate the point made in the article. To wit: Thus the leaf-like butterflies (Kallima) present various types of colour and pattern on the under side of the wings, each of which closely resembles some well-known appearance presented by a dead leaf... However, I made sure to cross-link the two images on their respective pages. To me, the second photo looks like just another pretty butterfly photo. Rklawton 17:58, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, unfortunately the image quality isn't up to FP standard - grainy, and severe compression artifacts. If a version of higher quality can be uploaded, and possibly combined with the second image into one, showing this amazing mimicry, that would be a stunning image, and I'd support. --Janke | Talk 21:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yikes. I've uploaded a higher resolution image and changed the DPI setting. This took care of some of the problems described. Please note, this is not an example of mimicry. It is an example of camouflage. The image usefully demonstrates the Kallima's hiding abilities as noted in the Colours of animals article. Google "Kallima" (images) and you'll see this image is the best Kallima-in-hiding photo on the 'net. Rklawton 22:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- See what I had in mind (more encyclopedic) in fact, I was so bold as to put this version in the Colours of animals article. With the image pair, you're intrigued with the difference in the top and bottom coloring of the flutterby. (PS: Of course, you're correct re. mimicry/camouflage.) --Janke | Talk 06:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- I reverted your change to the Colours of animals article and provided a detailed explanation in the article's talk section. Your revision misses the point of the article. The article isn't about pretty butterflies. It's about how well Kallima's hide. The second photo illustrates a Kallima sticking out like a sore thumb. On the other hand, the double image would look great in the pending Kallima article... except that I have a three-image illustration that shows the wings opening from the same angle that will serve better as an illustration of a Kallima. Rklawton 07:05, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- See what I had in mind (more encyclopedic) in fact, I was so bold as to put this version in the Colours of animals article. With the image pair, you're intrigued with the difference in the top and bottom coloring of the flutterby. (PS: Of course, you're correct re. mimicry/camouflage.) --Janke | Talk 06:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yikes. I've uploaded a higher resolution image and changed the DPI setting. This took care of some of the problems described. Please note, this is not an example of mimicry. It is an example of camouflage. The image usefully demonstrates the Kallima's hiding abilities as noted in the Colours of animals article. Google "Kallima" (images) and you'll see this image is the best Kallima-in-hiding photo on the 'net. Rklawton 22:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- OK, but I disagree about the pair being inappropriate for the article. The contrast between the top and bottom is what is really interesting to me - there are lots of insects camouflaging which don't show this duality in coloring. Since the dual image is now an orphan, I suggest it should be re-inserted in the article if consensus here favors it. Fair enough? --Janke | Talk 07:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Since the images here are out of context, the consensus should be sought in the article's talk page. The fact that an image is an orphan does not justify its intrusion into an article. While you are intrigued by the duality of the butterfly's coloring, that particular intrigue has a more appropriate venue: the pending Kallima article. The Colours of animals illustration is meant to wow the viewer with the insect's ability to hide. I didn't insert the Kallima reference into the article; it's the author's example of "invisibility." The illustration I provided is meant to show the reader what the author meant by "invisible." Viewers who want to know more about the Kallima know where to click. When they do, they'll get a second "wow." I sure did. Rklawton 07:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support combined, although it should be feasible to make a larger version. I can't understand why both images aren't in the colors of animals article, it makes no sense! It's an example of an animal with two different color schemes which serve different purposes. –Joke 00:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- The article only references this particular critter's ability to hide, so the illustration only shows this critter's ability to hide, and it does it rather well. Look at it this way, if I provided an illustration of male anatomy for an article on male anatomy, would you also insist I provide an illustration of female anatomy? Of course not; it's off the topic. It's really that simple. Now, an article about a Kallima would be a different story entirely. I have different images to illustrate that article - when it's written, and believe me, the transition from leaf to butterfly is breath-taking. Rklawton 05:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- "male anatomy ... insist I provide an illustration of female anatomy" Not a valid analogue. Males and females are two entirely different creatures (ask my girlfriend... ;-) The dual image illustrates the coloring of this single butterfly perfectly, whether in a Kallima article, or an article about (camouflage) colors. BTW, the Colours of animals article is a mess (copied from E. Brit. 1911), and should be moved to Wikisource, and a new, shorter, much better article written instead. --Janke | Talk 06:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Please at least acknowledge that the sentence mentioning the Kallima only references its ability to hide. Folks who haven't read the article might miss this rather important fact.
- As for EB 1911, check the talk page. Another editor posted that it wasn't. Personally, I don't know. I agree the article needs rework. Perhaps the original editors may wish to undertake the effort. Rklawton 05:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- "Please at least acknowledge that the sentence mentioning the Kallima only references its ability to hide." OK, OK, sure, no need to get your feathers all ruffled up... ;-) Some of us still would like to see the duality. And Alvinrune, I don't see the idea of your new edit - in fact, you made an error, there's a strangely mismatched or superimposed stripe in the middle. --Janke | Talk 06:29, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- "male anatomy ... insist I provide an illustration of female anatomy" Not a valid analogue. Males and females are two entirely different creatures (ask my girlfriend... ;-) The dual image illustrates the coloring of this single butterfly perfectly, whether in a Kallima article, or an article about (camouflage) colors. BTW, the Colours of animals article is a mess (copied from E. Brit. 1911), and should be moved to Wikisource, and a new, shorter, much better article written instead. --Janke | Talk 06:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 21:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I took this photograph in December 2003 - it depicts two fishermen in their boat attempting to catch fresh fish for us to purchase. The palm trees illustrate how close we are to land, and of course the tropical nature of the surroundings. In high resolution you can make out that the fishermen are not very well dressed, illustrating how the lower classes of Indian society continue to make ends meet through primary economic methods such as fishing... especially in a coastal town such as Mangalore.
The picture was taken by me, has been released into the public domain, and appears on the Mangalore article, used in conjunction with the section to do with the local economy.
- Nominate and support. - DJR (Talk) 22:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Great shot, horrible quality. :( --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:23, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. The quality, sharpness is not good. sorry, not FP quality. --vineeth
04:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment exposure time of 1/640 sec (0.0015625) is very less, esp when the natural light is dull . This should have been more. --vineeth
- Oppose though i always like this kind of a-liitle-boat-floating-on-a-river pic--K.C. Tang 04:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Very nice scene, but the quality is inadequate for featured quality. Keep trying though! ; ) — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 05:00, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. This might be improved by editing the original camera file (not a compressed jpg) to smaller size, while adjusting brightness/contrrast and correcting the slight tilt. --Janke | Talk 06:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - Nice compo. everything else poor.--Deglr6328 13:39, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Too dull and not sharp enough. GizzaChat © 07:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I don't know what picture you guys are looking at, but I think this one is high enough quality so that is is FP material. I may be a little on the fuzzy side, but I think its great quality. A better picture might be nice though. --J@red [T]/[+] 16:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- TERRIBLE noise, don't you see it? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose you can see the excessive JPEG compression at thumbnail size. Full size it's bloody awful. chowells 00:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Nice scenery, but bad quality. Alvinrune TALK 02:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I uploaded another version, but it still needs a lot more editing to be considered a Featured Picture. Alvinrune TALK 02:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- There's no use in trying to improve a pic with that much noise & artifacts - in fact, your new edit looks more like a fresco on stucco than a photo... ;-) --Janke | Talk 06:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Yeah, the noise is terrible, especially on the trees. Alvinrune TALK 22:16, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- The edit is no improvement at all! - Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- There's no use in trying to improve a pic with that much noise & artifacts - in fact, your new edit looks more like a fresco on stucco than a photo... ;-) --Janke | Talk 06:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong oppose. The JPEG compression is absolutely horrible. Alr 02:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 22:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
This picture appears in Freeway and Autoroute Ville-Marie. The picture is beautifully shot, with excellent composition and framing. It exemplifies the urban freeway design that appears in many major cities. The picture was taken on May 28, 2005 and uploaded by me on March 9, 2006.
- Self-Nominate and support. - V8roadster 17:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Though I should warn, Image:I-80 Eastshore Fwy.jpg is already a featured pic. Coffee 18:55, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Picture is very well framed, I agree with the summary. It is slightly similar to Image:I-80 Eastshore Fwy.jpg but this picture depicts a trench freeway and not a surface-level one. Also, the goal of the above-mentioned Eastshore Freeway picture is to show the frontage roads abutting the freeway. Also, there are many similar featured pictures (say, of panoramas) that can coexist because the subject of the photograph is different. I think this is a good example of that. Job very well done. Charles2-2 19:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Note: This is User:Charles2-2's first edit. Coffee 20:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Good encyclopedic contribution to its article but I much prefer our existing freeway FP ~ Veledan • Talk 21:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice image, but the existing FP image is better. Alvinrune TALK 21:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Didn't anybody notice the sky? ~MDD4696 22:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Agree with above. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:23, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, sky totally blown. --Janke | Talk 06:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ack janke --vineeth 07:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, the sky is inadequate, as well there is already a very similar featuerd picture. Phoenix2 20:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose White sky and there's already a better pic. GizzaChat © 07:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. The sky is no deal for me, its fine. But it's not that stunning. Kinda dull if you ask me. --J@red [T]/[+] 16:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC
- Oppose Just not interesting - Adrian Pingstone 17:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Adrian Pingstone - Glaurung 06:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Image of Poinsettia. Currently used in :
- The Inflorescence article.
- Leaf adaptations : In poinsettia the pigmentation of the leaf changes to red to attract insects, birds, and very few species have this ability. This image clearly shows this transition in color of the leaves.
- Self-Nominate and support. - vineeth 16:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Excellent image! I like how there's an ant on one of the petals. Alvinrune TALK 21:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Great illustration for the relevant articles. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral Better in full size than as a thumb, but there are some other good pics in the Poinsettia gallery. --Janke | Talk 06:43, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Stunning, catches the eye. GizzaChat © 07:36, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral. I like the water dropplets and the quality, but I've seen better. --J@red [T]/[+] 17:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per Jared, doesn't grab me. –Joke 00:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Something's just wrong... Too bright? Weird angle? Overexposed? —This unsigned comment was added by 65.182.51.67 (talk • contribs) .
- Oppose. It is a good image, but it capture my attention. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 23:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I found this very striking image of a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carrying Space Shuttle Atlantis, with a beautiful background. The original image came from Wikimedia Commons. I edited it a little and resulted with the current image. The photo was taken on September 1, 1998 by Carla Thomas for NASA. It is image number EC-98-44740-2, specifically GPN-2000-000183.jpg. Dbenbenn from Wikimedia Commons uploaded this image. (See Dbenbenn's Wikipedia user page.)
- Nominate and Support Alvinrune TALK 23:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent photograph! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 01:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose too fuzzy. gren グレン 02:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support –Joke 03:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - Seriously poor quality.--Deglr6328 05:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose will reconsider if a sharper version is available - this is awful in full-size. --Janke | Talk 06:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Well the image is from 1998. I uploaded a slightly improved version. Alvinrune TALK 21:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Actually you've made the image worse in my opinion. I don't see any improvements other than the image is smaller. However, if you look at the side of the 747, the edit has a white patch that does not blend in well. What exactly did you do? Its usually good etiquette to comment on what exactly you've done to 'improve' the image when you upload an edit. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Well the image is from 1998. I uploaded a slightly improved version. Alvinrune TALK 21:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose and I don't think that it can really be recovered with that existing image. The quality is just too low. You can't blame it on being from 1988. Its a bad scan, most likely, but could also be due to bad image processing somewhere along the line. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Sorry, just too poor quality. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Great image! It's just stunning to look at. Quality isn't even bad. Maybe the sky is a little grainy, but all of you with 13MP cameras, go take a better one if you can! --J@red [T]/[+] 17:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral Although it's a great picture as far as composition goes, it is rather poor quality (grainy).--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Support I love the composition of this image, but the sky is a bit grainy. -- Snailwalker | talk 14:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Support I like the image, but like Snailwalker said, the image quality lets it down.--Thermos 16:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Try to take that photo well in any case - quality isn't all that bad.Kingfisherswift 19:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Great image, but the quality is too poor in my opinion. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 22:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted (7/6/1) ~ Veledan • Talk 18:39, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I think this is a very nice picture of Geneva.
- Self-nominate and (obviously) support. - sikander 16:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. It's nice but not of featured quality. Sorry... --Tone 16:03, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Same as Tone. What's the woman doing on the lower-right corner of the screen anyway? Alvinrune TALK 02:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- She's painting the scene. Alright, thanks for the comments. sikander 05:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Snapshot-type image, could be almost anywhere. --Janke | Talk 06:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Not very representative of Geneva Glaurung 06:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Pic is leaning - Adrian Pingstone 13:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Not appropriate for Geneva. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Could be anywhere. GizzaChat © 07:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I would say yes, but it's tilted. I did give me the sudden desire to travel there though. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Not promoted BrokenSegue 13:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Photo captured in Tehran during Ramadan and and subsequently edited by Bertil Videt. The photo is used in the Fatigue_(physical) article.
- Nominate and support. - Bertilvidet 14:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Exposure problem - burnt-out highlights. Also not a very stunning image. --Janke | Talk 15:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- OpposeI like the pic but i won't consider it a featured one--K.C. Tang 15:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support The actual image is good but the thumbnail looks very odd (too much contrast ?). sikander 16:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Take a look at the hands & trousers of the man at left - totally burned out, regardless of size. --Janke | Talk 06:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose An enjoyable pic to look at, but sadly it's too overexposed on the left - Adrian Pingstone 13:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Amusing image, the man on the left seems as if his head is toasting. Alvinrune TALK 21:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. I like the image, but the quality isn't up to par. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. Thanks for several constructive points of critics. I am however astonished at the far worse quality of the thumb than the image itself. Any ideas how to resolve this? Bertilvidet 16:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Perhaps some of the lighting is off or over-contrasted, but what an eye-catching subject!
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Self-Nominate and no vote. - Aka 13:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, attention-grabbing, sharp - focus is just in the right plane. --Janke | Talk 15:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Don't see images like this everyday. sikander 16:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. This is an image taken by someone who really knows what he is doing. Great depth of field, nice composition. As a side note, is the male a little malnourished? ;) Very interesting to see the difference between the male and female too. Couldn't give the image higher praise. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Yuk!Support Superb! ~ Veledan • Talk 19:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)- Support. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-10 01:28
- Support That is incredible. Great work. --liquidGhoul 01:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Beautiful image. –Joke 03:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Not a particular fan of creepy crawlies, but this is an excellent image in all regards. - 131.211.210.11 08:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- That last anon vote was me forgetting to log in. Sorry. - Mgm|(talk) 08:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Interesting... Alvinrune TALK 21:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support How could I not? —23:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Perfect. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support simply fantastic! --vineeth 04:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Magnificent in both concept and quality! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 05:03, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Superb image both in clarity and composition. Compliments the article Anthomyiidae quite well.--Dakota ~ ° 18:16, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Eeew! Wow! Raven4x4x 01:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support It's really an amazing shot. ~MDD4696 05:41, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Get a room -Calibas 06:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Oh, yes! - Kilo-Lima Vous pouvez parler 12:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Great image... if only it had a real article to go with it.--ragesoss 17:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
All together now, Promoted Image: Anthomyiidae sp. 1 (aka).jpg ~ Veledan • Talk 18:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Visually pleasing, nicely framed, shows precisely what an Overhead projector does. Not particularly exciting but it does the job well. By User:Mailer diablo.
- Nominate and support. - Sum0 10:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, something about the composition doesn't appeal to me. - Mgm|(talk) 13:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Nothing special - seems like a snapshot. --Janke | Talk 15:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Too dull.. nothing special about the image. Sorry. sikander 16:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose Dull. Alvinrune TALK 21:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I think this captures the essence of an overhead projector perfectly. Sure it's dull, not special.. even boring. Remember what it's like being in a classroom watching one of these things? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:31, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Noisy photo, unpleasant composition, bad use of the projector (small font, ugly slide). There's potential for a featured photograph of an overhead projector: 1) Play with the lighting from the projector and the environmental light. 2) Show (perhaps in a series) the possibilities of overlaying multiple slides, e.g. to combine information in different ways, to make clever use of colors, and to annotate slides. (Just not a stupid "Ohh, here's some secret text I'll reveal later" trick.) 3) Pick a nicer room. :-) There's less ugly projector models as well. [1] Add a human operator to make things interesting. -- Alternatively, a diagram illustrating the working principle. Dante, who said overhead projectors have to be boring? Any presentation tool can do wonders in the hands of a skilled presenter. :-)--Eloquence* 11:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Have you seen a video of an artist making sand paintings on an OH projector? There are some nice examples on the net. Google for sand+painting+overhead+video and you might find some awesome stuff... --Janke | Talk 16:26, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Very informative picture which alot can learn from.
- Nominate and support. - Tarret 03:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Informative, but definitely not "striking", as an FP should be. --Janke | Talk 06:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, there's been enough cases were informativeness thrumped "striking". - Mgm|(talk) 13:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Theres nothing too striking about this. I agree with Janke....Jayant,17 Years, India • contribs 14:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. per Janke. --Tone 16:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Good idea but can be illustrated in a better way. sikander 16:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Too little information, too small. Should be SVG? ~MDD4696 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Nice drawing but not FPC material - Adrian Pingstone 14:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral Interesting, but can be better depicted. Alvinrune TALK 21:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Nothing special about this one. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Yes, it shows the evolution of the dollar sign well, but it's simply a diagram. Keep trying, Tarret! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 05:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support as per Mgm. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Found on a recently deceased Wikipedian's talk page as a farewell.
- Nominate and support. - Kizor 00:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment - It's a little bit dark. Could you/someone make a slightly brighter version without killing the colors? (this comp doesn't have Photoshop) Staxringold 03:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose--K.C. Tang 04:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Bland. Nothing like a New Hamphire autumn... --Janke | Talk 06:37, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I saw an aerial photo once, of a deciduous forst (in Canada I think) in Autumn. It was on an angle, not straight down, and it was incredibly beautiful. If someone could get something similar (maybe from a mountainside if you don't have access to a helicopter :) that would be cool. --liquidGhoul 08:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Not clear enough... i mean that the image should've been taken from a distance. sikander 16:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Not enough variation across the pic, just a mass of yellow - Adrian Pingstone 14:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The title is Autumn Colors. I only see yellow. Alvinrune TALK 21:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. If you want a picture of autumn foliage as a FP it's going to need to have ALL the autumn colors. It's a lovely photo though. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I miss red leaves Kessa Ligerro 18:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted ~ Veledan • Talk 18:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
The following picture of the Statue of Liberty is okay, but when I saw this, the other image wasn't at all comparable. This image nicely depicts the countanance of Lady Liberty. As for the copyright, the copyright holder of this image allows anyone to use it for any purpose, including unrestricted redistribution, commercial use, and modification, and it came from here. It was uploaded by Petrusbarbygere, using his/her Wikimedia Commons account, which is also User:Petrusbarbygere.
- Nominate and support. Alvinrune TALK 23:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment At full resolution, the sky is full of artefacts. I would consider resizing. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 23:56
Weak support due to sky artifacts.Would strongly support a less compressed version. However, I would not re-size the image any smaller - this is the first time I've actually seen the bolt (or rivet) heads on the crown spikes! --Janke | Talk 07:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)Conditional support.Only if sky artefacts are cleaned up without reducing resolution on the rest of the image too much. - Mgm|(talk) 09:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)- Full support thanks to cleanup. - Mgm|(talk) 13:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Weak support Which would be much fuller with a cleaner sky.Staxringold 13:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Weak oppose upon closer inspection. I didn't realize how bad the sky looked, even on the smaller version on the image page. I was willing to support an image that only looked bad at absolute full size, but this one even has a problem at the medium Wiki-viewing size...Staxringold 16:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Second version. Looks great! Staxringold 19:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose sky looks terrible at full size. chowells 14:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support: As per requests here, I cleaned up the sky - see version 2, difference shows only in full size. --Janke | Talk 17:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Thanks! Sweet job. Alvinrune TALK 21:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I think it looks really great, but the torch is cut off, the picture below is more "encyclopedic" but has other issues. This is a commonly photographed monument, can it get better than this? I am torn, I'll see what other have to say. -Ravedave 05:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I'm mostly with Ravedave on this one. I like the composition so I'm not too bothered about the cut torch, but still, this is a very frequently photographed subject: I think we can afford to hold out for both detail and more statue. Someone fly Diliff or Fir over ~ Veledan • Talk 00:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I don't think there's a Featured Statue of Liberty image. Alvinrune TALK 21:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Agree with above, it's possible to do much better. Let's wait for the "right" shot. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:35, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Millions of tourists go through NY every year, surely one will take a better photo, and upload it to Wikipedia. Other than that, I don't find it an interesting subject. There are better statues out there. --liquidGhoul 04:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I don't think we have to wait for the perfect shot. We can have more than one featured picture of the same object. To me, this is not the very very best picture Wikipedia has, but it is very very good and good enough to be featured. Johntex\talk 03:11, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --liquidGhoul 13:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
As an admirer of the artistry and beauty of the Statue of Liberty, I self-nominate this photo because it shows the scale of the statue in relation to the people interacting with it, is well-centered, and was taken at a high resolution in beautiful sunny weather. Many thanks for viewing.
- Nominate and support. - BigMac | (Talk) 19:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Sorry to oppose straight away, but the statue's features are indistinct and it's a bit unsharp all over. It's a good shot and excellent for its article, but an extremely high standard has been set on this page by recent city and scenery FPs. ~ Veledan • Talk 20:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose as above, plus I would like to see the statue's face have sunlight on it. -Ravedave 21:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. The composition is good, but there are enough things not "quite" right that I'd be more comfortable waiting for the "perfect" shot, especially for such an iconic landmark. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:43, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Support Second Version I uploaded a second, alternative version of the image. Alvinrune TALK 23:19, 7 March 2006 (UTC)- Withdrew Vote I withdrew my vote in favor of Lady Liberty Alvinrune TALK 23:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: While this nomination appears to be failing, your version is still a clear improvement. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 14:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Withdrew Vote I withdrew my vote in favor of Lady Liberty Alvinrune TALK 23:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - face is in shadow, features are out of focus, unable to read lettering on tablet in liberty's arm. Second version is too red. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ack ChrisRuvolo. --Janke | Talk 07:18, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Lighting just isn't great, and the second version is fake-looking and reddish. Staxringold 03:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, both are out of focus. Sky contains artefacts and second image is so much photoshopped it doesn't represent things accurately anymore. - Mgm|(talk) 10:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose lacks focus and contrast. chowells 14:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --liquidGhoul 13:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
This is a picture of the North American blizzard of 2006 uploaded by Quasipalm. The picture is sharp and clear, and of a sufficient resolution. It is very informative an detailed. It is a beautiful and excellent image of the snow. It really draws attention to how powerful the storm was.
- Nominate and support. - bob rulz 22:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: I don't know about "powerful"; this is a normal winter where I live. Now this is powerful :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 23:03
- Maybe not powerful, but it's certainly not a small storm. Either way, it's an awesome picture, imo. bob rulz 00:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support 2nd version -Ravedave 23:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Both Images Low resolution, the image is just not up to the Featured Picture status. Alvinrune TALK 23:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support first version only. Neutralitytalk 03:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose both. Just a snowed in street. Sure, it may be a seldom seen thing in this particular location (thus good for the article), but the image itself is not stunning. --Janke | Talk 06:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose both. Common image. Very similar to what I can see right now if I look through my window. Glaurung 06:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, artefact in the snow on the ground. Doesn't properly show it's in North America. Could just as easily be a Swedish storm. - Mgm|(talk) 09:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose both. Image isn't that spectacular in my opinion and isn't of a very high resolution. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I guess people have different opinions on what a really cool picture is. Snow is typical, yes, but this picture particularly struck me as really cool. Oh well. bob rulz 15:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support (weakly) second pic. This might not be particularly exceptional for some, but for South east England 1" of snow is an event deserving celebration. Nice picture, and for Mgm, they aren't artefacts, that's a piece of snow falling past the camera lens. I don't really think it's that low resolution. What's deemed an adequate resolution - when the whole thing can't fit on the image description page? —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 18:44, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose It's just not all that stunning. Sorry. Staxringold 03:31, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose it's only snow. chowells 15:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- And what about people who've never seen snow? —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 18:39, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- We already have 2 good winter pictures. Circeus 20:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- And what about people who've never seen snow? —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 18:39, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per Janke, Glaurung, Chowells et al. The only unusual thing about this picture is where it was taken, and the picture itself doesn't show that in any way. It's just a picture of snow on a street, no different from the view from my window just now (see right). Now, if the picture had a guy running in the snow wearing shorts and a t-shirt, that might illustrate the unusual severity of the storm... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- What could possibly show where it is? Take a picture of a bunch of snow with the Empire State Building in the background? What if this picture was just on the snow article? A picture of snow isn't striking, but for some reason this one caught my eye. *sigh* I guess it's just a matter of opinion. bob rulz 01:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is pretty, in the way fresh white snow often is. Maybe I'm just too used to it to appreciate it fully. But I still don't see this as being of feature picture quality: It's just not that eyecatching, and in my opinion a featured picture also ought to have some intrinsic encyclopedic merit besides merely looking nice. In this case, the image has encyclopedic value only as part of the article, not when taken out of context as it would be as a featured picture. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- What could possibly show where it is? Take a picture of a bunch of snow with the Empire State Building in the background? What if this picture was just on the snow article? A picture of snow isn't striking, but for some reason this one caught my eye. *sigh* I guess it's just a matter of opinion. bob rulz 01:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support version 2. Sharp, no artifact I am one of those people who have never really seen snow. If it snowed like that here the second ice age would be upon us.--Dakota ~ ° 09:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose both. Not striking, could be anywhere, does not catch the eye in the least. Mstroeck 12:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose could be any bit of snowy landscape. Nothing outstanding. Kessa Ligerro 18:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Version two, beautiful picture. --GorillazFanAdam 02:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - oppose all. unremarkable.--Deglr6328 05:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --liquidGhoul 13:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
This is a photo of the Eagle Nebula, perhaps one of the most beautiful and well recognised of Hubble's photos. It is a star forming region, consisting mainly of hydrogen, and the largest pillar is about 4 light years long in height. It is constructed of 3 images with three colours representing different wavelengths: Red shows emission from singly-ionized sulfur atoms. Green shows emission from hydrogen. Blue shows light emitted by doubly- ionized oxygen atoms. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, released into the PD by NASA. I searched through the FPs, and was very surprised not to see this there already. It appears in Eagle Nebula, Hubble Space Telescope and WFPC2 among others.
- Nominate and support. - |→ Spaully°τ 20:35, 6 March 2006 (GMT)
- There is a giant poster of this right above my head. Hmmm.... Support :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 20:53
- Support I uploaded a slightly improved version and saved it over it, since it was trivial. Now, the image is a little more sharp and vivid. Alvinrune TALK 21:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I remember admiring this image when it was originally published in Time magazine. --Janke | Talk 21:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. I just can't support it due to being an incomplete rectangular image. It looks like a work-in-progress to me. I can appreciate there may be technical constraints but that doesn't mean it has to be featured. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 02:34, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Those missing areas are just as famous as the image itself. There are versions without the missing areas, but I don't think they are nearly as high a quality. This is by far one of the most famous images produced by Hubble. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 03:10
- Comment: Brian - can you point to a complete image - we might make a composite, combining the good quality of this with the missing areas from another... --Janke | Talk 06:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- There are some complete versions listed here, although some of them may have been photoshopped. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 06:36
- Browsed through some 10 of those pages, and also did a image search for "Eagle nebula Hubble" and "M16 Hubble", but there was only one "complete" version, all too obviously photoshopped, thus entirely unencyclopedic. So, no go. --Janke | Talk 07:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Fine with me. I like it better this way :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 07:31
- Oh? I found this one quite easily and its most definately not a photoshop job (its a composite image as opposed to fake airbrushed stuff). Not to mention this is a better image IMO. Oppose incomplete image. ALKIVAR™ 13:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- The second image you link to has "additions by J. Morse", suggesting it has been supplemented perhaps by other images. As has already been mentioned however the 'ladder step' shape is iconic of the HST due to the technical setup and as such this image demonstrates something that is hard to explain in words. The first image is very nice, but completely different, pehaps you would like to propose it? |→ Spaully°τ 14:20, 11 March 2006 (GMT)
- Yes, I found that first image as well, but it is way too low in resolution. The 2nd image may be more appealing, but does not have the iconic status of the original. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-12 18:03
- The J. Morse version looks photoshopped to me, and fairly crudely done at that. You can even see the brush strokes. I could probably do better given a few hours with the clone tool, but I see no point. The original image is staircase-shaped — why try to conceal that? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 04:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oh? I found this one quite easily and its most definately not a photoshop job (its a composite image as opposed to fake airbrushed stuff). Not to mention this is a better image IMO. Oppose incomplete image. ALKIVAR™ 13:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Fine with me. I like it better this way :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 07:31
- Browsed through some 10 of those pages, and also did a image search for "Eagle nebula Hubble" and "M16 Hubble", but there was only one "complete" version, all too obviously photoshopped, thus entirely unencyclopedic. So, no go. --Janke | Talk 07:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- There are some complete versions listed here, although some of them may have been photoshopped. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 06:36
- Comment: Brian - can you point to a complete image - we might make a composite, combining the good quality of this with the missing areas from another... --Janke | Talk 06:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Those missing areas are just as famous as the image itself. There are versions without the missing areas, but I don't think they are nearly as high a quality. This is by far one of the most famous images produced by Hubble. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-7 03:10
- This is an iconic HST image, and isn't "featured" status about illustrating articles? The shape is precisely the reason it appears in Hubble Space Telescope - it is the only image there that illustrate the rather odd shape of the field of the WFPC due to its 4 CCDs (three large and one small) (there are a few other similarly shaped images in Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2). -- ALoan (Talk) 11:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Didn't know that! Wow, WP is great! Perhaps Diliff will re-evaluate his vote after reading this discussion and checking Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Interesting! --Janke | Talk 15:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I'm not bothered by the missing areas, it seems to be a common occurence in NASA pics. We should show them as they are made by NASA and don't manipulate too much. - Mgm|(talk) 09:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. If I'd known it wasn't already featured, I'd have nominated it myself. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Very high quality image. Staxringold 03:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Very famous image and a personal favorite of mine. It also does a great job in illustrating the article. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:25, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Classic and iconic.--ragesoss 17:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Really a great image, I would have thought it was FP already. --Falcorian (talk) 17:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Very nice. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support This is the most iconic images from the HST, it should be a FP here. PPGMD 04:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Eagle nebula pillars.jpg ~ Veledan • Talk 18:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
The excellent Jupiter image nominated below reminded me of another great animation from Cassini that I had thought about nominating for FPC a while back. Used in Cloud pattern on Jupiter, this animation shows in unprecedented detail the complex motion on Jupiter. It illustrates the article perfectly, and in a way no diagram could convey. The full size image is quite large, although I've uploaded larger files to Commons before :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 17:10
- Nominate and support. - BRIAN0918 17:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: Those large specks that quickly appear/disappear are Jupiter's moons, and their shadows on the surface of Jupiter. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 17:13
- Support Great animation. It's a shame NASA has decided to abandon doing science, because these kinds of things are incredible. –Joke 17:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Well found! ~ Veledan • Talk 17:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support This IS an amazing image! --Janke | Talk 18:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Neutral This image is an interesting GIF, but it seems as if all animated GIFs are Featured Pictures. Alvinrune TALK 20:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)- Sorry, that rationale just doesn't make any sense. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 20:30
- No, it doesn't. ZoFreX 20:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral Image:PIA02863 - Jupiter surface motion animation.gif has great encyclopedic value. The resolution is perfect (taking into mind its large size). However, heavy editing with the frames might help, if possible. Hey! At least I'm not against it. AlvinruneTALK 21:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Really cool :) Out of interest how much is this sped up? ZoFreX 20:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- The entire 14 frames span 24 Jovian rotations. Jupiter has a 10 hour day, so this spans 10 Earth days, roughly, putting each frame at 17 hours intervals, although the caption says the frames are not equally spaced in time. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 20:40
- To answer your original question, the animation appears to be 1.4 seconds long, so it would be sped up about 600,000 times :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 23:55
- Support. —Encephalon 07:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Very illustrative. -- Solipsist 09:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. It does a good job of illustrating the article and is also an impressive image. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Perfect image for the article. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Very cool lil' gif! Staxringold 03:34, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I went to the image page to nominate it, and darn Brian had got there before me! Markyour words 15:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Its Awesome!!!! Jayant,17 Years, India • contribs 14:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent image. sikander 16:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Just, wow! —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:41, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Incredible Btnheazy03 1:49 AM March 11, 2006
- Support The best image I've seen so far! WikieZach| talk 16:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support WOW! Wonderful! Ram32110 19:40, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Really gives you a good idea of how active the weather is. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
All together now, Promoted Image:PIA02863 - Jupiter surface motion animation.gif ~ Veledan • Talk 18:52, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Self nominated at the suggestion of Christopherlin. The picture is from Ultimate (sport), and was taken by Scobel Wiggins at the 2006 club ultimate national tournament in sarasota, florida. The picture itself is a great example of an action shot and portrays beautifully a layout.
- Nominate and support. - Leppy 14:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose resolution is unsufficient for FP-status Calderwood 14:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, too low-res according to current (consensus?) standards. Also, background is too messy, the main subject does not stand out. --Janke | Talk 16:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Could you possibly upload a larger version (at least 1000px, the more detailed the better)? FPs other than those depicting unique historic events should be big enough not just for article inclusion, but to allow quality reproductions in other formats. As it stands, I'm afraid this isn't big enough to be eligible whatever its other merits. Great shot though — for once I disagree with Janke's verdict and I think the DOF does enough for the subject & the people in the background add value :-) ~ Veledan • Talk 16:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - great pic but hoplessly too small - Adrian Pingstone 17:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose – good pic, but small, DOF too deep –Joke 17:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, for now – great pic, but someone needs to contact the photographer for a higher res version as was discussed on Talk:Ultimate (sport). The DOF adds to the descriptive quality of the picture, plain and simple. If the pic was illustrating the player or the act of bidding, then the background would be distracting, but it isn't. It is illustratign Ultimate, which is characterized by informality and people sitting on the sidelines. In the article, there is enough difference in sharpness to clearly show the foreground wihout distraction. People who think the DOF detracts from the photo need to learn more about the culture of the sport as the on-field action is only half of the picture. (pun intended)—WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 20:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- "The DOF adds to the descriptive quality of the picture, plain and simple." and "People who think the DOF detracts from the photo need to learn more about the culture of the sport"? I know plenty about the culture of ultimate, and I know plenty about sports photography, and I think that the DOF is too deep. You should feel free to disagree, but don't assert some kind of ultimate authority. It sounds petulant. –Joke 22:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose Image:UltiClubNationals05Layout.jpg depicts a sweet play, but as already stated, it does not have sufficient resolution. Alvinrune TALK 20:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Too small. ~MDD4696 23:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Conditional support (can I do that?) once larger image is available. Are the oppose votes basically "too small"? I'd like to know how many of those would be support with a larger image. --Christopherlin 23:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- I got "What is your preferred size?" from Scobel. Any suggestions? Do we renominate or restart voting after the bigger one comes in? --Christopherlin 22:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- As big as reasonably possible (not larger than 1MB or anything crazy). No need to restart, just add it on. BrokenSegue 23:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- I got "What is your preferred size?" from Scobel. Any suggestions? Do we renominate or restart voting after the bigger one comes in? --Christopherlin 22:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Very small. Staxringold 03:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose much too small. chowells 15:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --liquidGhoul 13:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
This is an excellent representation of the Solar System's largest planet. The detailing is exquisite. It was taken by the Cassini spacecraft, and is a NASA public domain license. It currently appears in the Jupiter article, as well as several articles related to Cassini-Huygens.
The original version was upload by Awolf002. A larger version was uploaded later by Deglr6328. The current version, even larger with a lot of black border cropped off, derived from the original high-resolution TIFF base file, was uploaded by Dbenbenn.
- Nominate and Support. --Kitch 12:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Beautiful! --liquidGhoul 13:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Great, as in magnificient, GREAT as in HUGE. One slight fault could be corrected: Anti-aliasing at north & south poles. --Janke | Talk 16:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. This was my wallpaper for a long time a couple years ago. Excellent! — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-6 16:44
- Support I like this one too, though it's a more typical image of Jupiter, not as amazing as the animation above. –Joke 17:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Extremely FP worthy, this image should have been nominated when it was uploaded. Alvinrune TALK 20:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support--K.C. Tang 00:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support —Encephalon 07:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Wheee! :)--Deglr6328 07:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. - Mgm|(talk) 09:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Amazing image. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. A higher-res version would be nice though. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Jayant,17 Years, India • contribs 15:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Bertilvidet 15:03, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support --Tone 16:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose - You cut off half of the picture!!How are we amateur photographers supposed to compete against NASA? --Cyde Weys 20:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC)- Quick note: I knew someone would say that down the line. --Kitch 19:22, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support -- A beautiful high-resolution image. --BillC 09:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Portrait of Jupiter from Cassini.jpg --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 18:52, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
This is a youg howler monkey in Costa Rica. I took the photo through a telescope thats why it has a black circle around it. its in the Howler Monkey article i think theres some feeling to this photo that makes you conect with this monkey and want to read about it.
- Nominate and support. - Danielchaves 18:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The image is too small, and does not show enough of the animal. It also has poor color and detail, and the telescope circle is distracting. ~MDD4696 19:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Sorry, I appreciate the monkey is appealing, but this picture just doesn't have the other qualities we ask of FPs. Please have a look at the criteria ~ Veledan • Talk 21:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strongly Oppose First of all the black frame caused by the telescope looks bad. The monkey is slightly off-centered. Alvinrune TALK 03:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose as per others.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Off-centered, overly bright background. Simply not featured picture quality. --Red Penguin 07:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Another version added. I've done the best I can in the circumstances, and the only way I can make it anywhere near the featured picture standard is to discard the colour information completely. I'm sorry, this is a decent photo of a howler monkey, and alright for the article, but it is a long way from Featured Picture. Oppose —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 11:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose reasons already stated Calderwood 14:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose A million miles away from FPC quality - Adrian Pingstone 17:06, 6
- Comment I checked past featured pics and i see you´re right. Quality is just not enough. Danielchaves
March 2006 (UTC)
- I like the new version much better than the original one, but I still have to oppose. It doesn't show the subject properly. From this picture, I can't tell if the monkey has a tail or a red bottom. - Mgm|(talk) 09:34, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose not even close. chowells 14:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The black is better but still not a very clear picture of the monkey. Sorry. sikander 16:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted --liquidGhoul 13:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
An excellent illustration of the life-cycle of a foetus during pregnancy and symbolic of the birth of life.
Appears in Pregnancy.
Created by de:User:Christoph73 and cleaned up by User:Ilmari Karonen. Based on Month_1_sm.jpg to Month_9_sm.jpg from the National Institutes for Health, uploaded by User:Stevertigo.
- Nominate and support. --Pkchan 12:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent Sotakeit 12:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, although it would be nice to have a larger version to see the fetus change more clearly. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-5 16:32
- Comment: Since I found out that this image was nominated for featured status, I decided to take the time to redo it from the original stills, resulting in fewer compression artifacts and better color reproduction. The new version also uses a nicer serif font for the titles; if you're seeing a version with a sans-serif font, refresh your browser cache. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- After reading the instructions, I realize I should've uploaded with a different name instead. Sorry. I'll leave it as is for now rather than mess things up further by trying to undo my mistake, but if anyone feels it'd be better to reupload and revert the original, feel free to do so. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- A somewhat biased support. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Very good indeed! ~ Veledan • Talk 21:36, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: Shouldn't it read something like, "5th month" or "5 months"? "5. month" is just gramatically wrong. And also, is a bigger version available? - JPM | 22:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, it should. The German original had "1. Monat" etc. I can fix it easily, either with weeks or with months. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support very informative and professional looking. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. It is a fine image. Is there anyway to change the 1. month to 4 weeks as pregnancy is actually calculated in weeks?--Dakota ~ ° 07:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- So the numbers would then go 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Question Has anyone contacted the webmaster of the NIH website where these images came from to make sure that these images were actually made by someone working for the US federal government? US government sites often use images they've merely licensed from other sources... I'd ask myself, but there doesn't appear to be enough info on the image pages. If no one has, I'm going to oppose. --Gmaxwell 08:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Need to ask Stevertigo, I suppose. Will do that. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- The look very much like A.D.A.M. images to me (www.adam.com) which would mean that they are a copyvio.--nixie 02:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Need to ask Stevertigo, I suppose. Will do that. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Well done. Very accurately and helpfully displays the various stages. I would prefer it if the above changes (time in weeks and 5th instead of 5.) were made, but I still support it even if those changes aren't made. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 11:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support but JPM is right - the ordinal numbers should be corrected before the picture is promoted Calderwood 11:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose: could it be edited to adjust the "1. month" "2. month" etc. Having a dot after the number is a German convention and since we are the English Wikipedia I prefer it to read "1st month"...etc. - Mgm|(talk) 11:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, provided that: 1 - license is OK, 2 - month numbering fixed. --Janke | Talk 16:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- 1. Regarding the "month numbering", it should be "5 months" "6 months" etc, not the current 1.Month... Weeks are the usual unit of measure in obstetrics; however directly converting it from our end conveys a misleading picture if the original medical illustrator drew it for (and used) "months". 2. This looks very much like an A.D.A.M.s image; until the source is located this should not be promoted. —Encephalon 07:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support If I support if the grammar is all right (see above). Apart from that, excellent depiction and animated GIF! Alvinrune TALK 22:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice detail, but i also agree the number needs to be changed --Ali K 14:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support if and only if the captions are changed to weeks (4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36) Neutralitytalk 21:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support TomStar81 22:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- Agree with Neutrality - Support if and only if the captions are changed to weeks (4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36) Johntex\talk 03:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: As I've seen no response from Stevertigo, I've sent an e-mail to A.D.A.M. and the NIH asking for their help in determining the copyright status of the original images. I've also asked them, should the images turn out to be copyrighted, to consider releasing them under a free license. One can always hope... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 14:58, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support' Great picture: good quality, simple to understand, clear, to the point, relatively small in size 147Kbyte for 9 pictures). Notice that even the breasts are shown to grow. Msoos 16:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted It is obvious that this picture has a consensus of support (including from me) but it can't be promoted while its copyright is in question. If you get a favourable reply to your emails (fingers crossed), I'd recommend re-nominating it immediately and it'll surely be promoted (especially if you can adjust the text to read Month 2 etc) ~ Veledan • Talk 19:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Update: I've just received an email from A.D.A.M. saying that they do not recognize these images. Still no word from the NIH, though. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Update 2: I've found the source for the original images: [2]. Unfortunately the copyright for the images on that site is owned by the National Physicians Center for Family Resources. I contacted them to ask for permission, but they did not want to allow commercial use. Sadly, that means these images have to go. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
This is an image I found in the US Marine Corps image archive. Although it might not fulfill all technical specifications, I personally feel that it brings out the essence of focus and aggression in boxing, and contributes greatly to the article. The background and is very unusual for a boxing image, and atleast for me, it conveys an eerie feeling. I could imagine this one as a featured picture.
- Nominate and support ---Marcus- 10:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support edit - see below. Quite some action! One drawback, though: the cut-off head... --Janke | Talk 11:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- The head is added in this other picture. Less authentic, naturally. Shawnc 12:19, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support special--K.C. Tang 14:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I agree with the nomination, I think this is a great image with a lot of energy. Although the one boxer's head is cut off, I think the real focus of the image is on the boxer on the left, so I don't think it detracts from the image. ~MDD4696 15:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I like the sky and angle of the image. True, the head that was cut off does take away from the image, but its worthy enough for a Featured Picture. Alvinrune TALK 02:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support A great picture. Somewhat surreal, in a good way. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Illustrates the subject quite well. --Red Penguin 08:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. - Mgm|(talk) 11:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support great illustration of its topic, and a compelling photo. I suspect the near boxer being slightly cut is a considered and deliberate part of the composition: it brings the viewer into the scene and gives the impression of sharing his (the near boxer's) viewpoint.
If you could see the whole of him the choice of angle would just look weird.~ Veledan • Talk 13:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)- OK so I was wrong. That is one hell of a good fake, I'm impressed ~ Veledan • Talk 23:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral The picture is very dynamic and illustrative, but the right boxer's head is partly cut off and the lamps (ecpecially those between the two) are disturbing. Calderwood 14:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I see no problem with the cut-off head. The left boxer and the background are both excellent. Kafziel 15:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - first class - Adrian Pingstone 17:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support –Joke 17:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - jolly good show.--Deglr6328 08:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support it will be a while before we see a better picture for Boxing. -- Solipsist 09:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I also photoshopped the picture to address the cut-off issue, as seen here. Shawnc 12:19, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- That is amazingly well done! I would support it, provided the "edited image" tag is on the description page.
Why don't you uploadHeck, you're supposed to be bold, I uploaded the version here myself, so we'll be certain to have an animated discussion about image editing... ;-) --Janke | Talk 15:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)- As suggested, the image has been re-tagged under the newly created PD-retouched-user (also available on Wikipedia). Thanks for everyone's comments too. Shawnc 23:14, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutely stunning! Are you sure you didn't find a larger image somewhere? :) ---Marcus- 15:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Looks great! I don't know if it will really spark any debate about edited images... it's just the top of a crew cut and some lights, not like photoshopping John Lennon into a picture of Castro or something. At worst it's harmless, at best it makes the picture complete and perfect. Great job, Shawn! Kafziel 15:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Holy crap that's a good photoshop job. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- That is amazingly well done! I would support it, provided the "edited image" tag is on the description page.
- Support The second version. Staxringold 03:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support The second version. —Encephalon 11:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support The outdoor setting adds a very nice touch Tokugawapants 20:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the 2nd version. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-9 03:36
- supportBertilvidet 15:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- support second one. --Tone 16:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the 2nd version. Good one! - Mailer Diablo 20:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the second version is intense! Canuck89 01:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support love the evening sky. The Tom 05:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Boxing080905 photoshop.jpg--Marcus 19:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose second photo. Voting after the fact and after Shawnc pointed me to this discussion. Altered photos are in violation of the WP:NOR policy and should not be used to illustrate articles in the main Wikipedia namespace, let alone be promoted to Featured status. The reason is that they purport to illustrate something that is not true; they show a moment in time that never occurred. That is certainly a beautiful photo and I'd support the first one as Featured. Tempshill 06:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I am nominating this picture because I feel that it exemplifies not only John Daly and golf, but also the level of fitness (or lack thereof) required to play;
This appears in the John Daly and the golf article and was taken by me.
- Nominate and support. - Banpei 06:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose both. Unbalanced composition, too much sky, thus less encyclopedic. I don't think the new version is FP worthy, either... --Janke | Talk 06:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per Janke, too much sky makes it not FP quality and makes it poorer quality. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 06:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose per above - but this isn't something that a little cropping can't fix. --Red Penguin 07:03, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- I've just uploaded a cropped version, Image:John Daly at AmEx edit.png. I'm not the best graphics editor, so I may still be a bit off, but I trimmed a bit of the sky away. Vote/recommendation retracted --Red Penguin 07:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral. I was thinking more along the lines of this crop (shown second on the right) that I have just uploaded. The composition is improved and you don't really lose anything of interest from the scenery. The focus is SUPPOSED to be the golfer. I have also lifted the shadows SLIGHTLY to decrease the contrast of the image as the sunlight is quite harsh (the highlights are blown and cannot be recovered however). Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose I agree completely with Janke, though the second cropped image is much better than the first. Alvinrune TALK 02:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ack Janke Calderwood 11:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support The second (cropped) pic is excellent - Adrian Pingstone 17:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - I'm sorry but that disgusting fat gut just grosses me out. Its like that giant bellybutton is some menacing cyclopean force just staring me down. shudder.--Deglr6328 08:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment So are you opposing *simply* because the subject of the image 'grosses you out' without any regard to the technical composition of the 'photo? Nippoo 17:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- I am opposing because I ALSO find the image technically unrenarkable and otherwise roundly uninteresting.--Deglr6328 06:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak support #2 cropped version. I also find the picture somewhat un-pretty, but I'm surprised to find this guy is a professional sportsman. We don't have enough good GFDL pictures of reasonably famous people. This is a weakly contested subject area, so despite misgivings, support. -- Solipsist 09:32, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Second version. I think the skyspace actually makes the picture cooler, making the golf ball look even smaller. My only complaint is that his face, the key factor for showing what a famous person looks like, is very shadowy. Staxringold 20:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support second version. Excellent quality, illustrative. Unusual to get such a good PD image of a famous person. Plus, it gives hope to fat men everywhere that they too may become rich and famous and featured in Wikipedia. Johntex\talk 04:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support The 2nd picture is great. Really makes you stop and examine his golf game. How does he get away with it? Canuck89 01:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support second version. - Bevo 16:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted howcheng {chat} 17:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
This image is a interesting photo of a F-15C firing a missle (AIM-7 Sparrow medium-range air to air missile). I cropped the image from Image:USAF F-15C fires AIM-7 Sparrow.jpg. The former image was in the article, F-15 Eagle. This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Air Force (www.af.mil/photos).
- Nominate and support. - Alvinrune TALK 04:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- CommentImage:F-15 vertical deploy.jpg is already a featured picture. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-5 04:29
- Comment I have replaced the older image on F-15 Eagle with this version since the older version had an excessive amount of useless sky space. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 04:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support nice Image and I think it's better than the vertical image that was mentioned above. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 04:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Slightly unsharp at full res, but hey - you don't get to shoot a pic like this every day... --Janke | Talk 06:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose "evening" edit, loss of detail in highlights and shadows. --Janke | Talk 16:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support great pic, ack Janke. --vineeth 07:12, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. V. nice + informative. |→ Spaully°τ 11:10, 5 March 2006
- Support. Even though there was a similar picture, I just think that this is an awesome picture. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support With the pilot visible, you really get a good idea of how big both the plane and missile are.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 04:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support although not quite as sharp as it should be Calderwood 12:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral I think the already existing FP is better and less typical. Looks like a US Air Force recruiting brochure, and I'm not sure that's desirable for one, let alone two, featured images. But perhaps I'm just being crotchety. –Joke 17:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment For the record, the current FP f-15 eagle is firing flares, not missiles. TomStar81 23:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose There are plenty of good USAF pictures of planes and hardware. Appart from the missile, this one doesn't have anything special about it. -- Solipsist 09:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support
Second andthird images.Bothquite nice! Staxringold 19:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)- The 2nd image is already a Featured Picture..... — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-11 20:04
- Then no wonder I supported it! :D Staxringold 15:13, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- The 2nd image is already a Featured Picture..... — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-11 20:04
- Weak Support It is definitely not as striking as the current FA picture, but it is still very very good, and it is informative in a different way because it is firing a missile, not flairs. I was neutral until I really thought about what it is showing about the size of the image to the pilot - that tipped me into the support camp. Also, I did a Google image search, expecting to find lots of PD photos of F15C firing Aim 7's but I found fewer than I would have expected, and none better than these we are looking at. Johntex\talk 04:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose all (strong oppose for the edit), the edit takes too many liberties with the original content. BrokenSegue 02:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:USAF_F-15C_fires_AIM-7_Sparrow_2.jpg +10/-2/1
The Featured picture list is quite lacking in invertebrates. I love this photo, nice and colourful and accurate.; Appears in Mictyris, and will appear in its own species article as I get to it. Created by me. --liquidGhoul 00:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Nominate and support. - liquidGhoul 00:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Very good picture. Is it eating sand?--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment In a way, it filters the sand for any nutrients, and spews the clean sand back up. --liquidGhoul 04:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Nice coloring and angle. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-5 04:34
- Supportfrog, and now crab, what creature will liquidGhoul show us next time? :)--K.C. Tang 05:11, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, even though a tad small (exactly what is the current FP size standard? ;-) What a mudface! --Janke | Talk 07:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent coloring, angle, focus. --Red Penguin 07:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, although I almost gagged on this one. - JPM | 10:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Is that a good thing? :) --liquidGhoul 10:04, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Liquidghoul, are you aware that Brian0918 has made a change to your image again (replaced original, not uploaded as a different file)? I've compared both and there really isn't a big difference though. I do wish he would see the logic of the situation (and what seems to be the majority consensus) and just upload a copy, rather than overwrite the original. On that note, do you have a larger sized image or is that as big as it gets? It already looks rather overprocessed (massive sharpening lines around the legs) but in this case, the image is unique enough for me to support it in its current form. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- CommentUnfortunately, this is as big as it gets. Although there were thousands of these guys, they will bury themselves as soon as I get ready to shoot. This one was further away than I would have liked, and the crop took quite some size. Can you give me which legs look overprocessed, I personally cannot see it. I have sharpened a bit, but have layered a mask over it, and gotten rid of most of the sharpening as I did not like it. Thanks for your comments. --liquidGhoul 11:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Add on comment I have zoomed in around the legs and see what you are talking about. I have lost the PSD file (stupid) so it is hard to do it again. I can only see it on the very occasional spot at actual size (mainly two left legs), so if anyone has a big problem with it, I will fix it when I have ample time. But I have learnt to always keep the PSDs and check sharpening with zoom. Thanks :) --liquidGhoul 12:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- I can see it to some extent on all of the legs that have bright, illuminated edges contrasting against the background, but as I said before, I don't think it detracts enough to not support. It was more of a comment than a withdrawal of support. :) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- First, majority != consensus. Second, as you pointed out yourself, the change was very minor. That's why I didn't upload it to a new file. Voting over something so minor would have been a waste of everyone's time. But feel free to keep me under a magnifying glass. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-5 16:39
- I'm not keeping you under a magnifying glass, I just happened to view the image and notice that once again you had made a change, in this case without actually mentioning so on this page. You are right that majority does not equal consensus, but I don't think that one person (you) who advocates doing things a different way is a lack of consensus in supporting the status quo either. If one dissenting opinion destroyed status quo, it would be chaos! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 20:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hear, hear! --Janke | Talk 06:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- In my opinion minor changes such as the one Brian0918 made should be uploaded over the original. I don't think anyone would say that the modification wasn't an improvement, and if there happens to be dissent, it's easy to revert. ~MDD4696 23:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- I see your point, and it applies well in this case. But don't you agree that any change, however small, to a FP should always be announced on this page? --Janke | Talk 07:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- In my opinion minor changes such as the one Brian0918 made should be uploaded over the original. I don't think anyone would say that the modification wasn't an improvement, and if there happens to be dissent, it's easy to revert. ~MDD4696 23:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Chaos?!?! Oh no! You must've won the argument, because your statement sounds so frightening... Anyways, I thought I announced the change on this page, as I normally do, but I guess not. In the future I will do so. In your original statement, however, you were not concerned with my announcing the change, just with my right to make that change. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-12 17:54
- Hear, hear! --Janke | Talk 06:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not keeping you under a magnifying glass, I just happened to view the image and notice that once again you had made a change, in this case without actually mentioning so on this page. You are right that majority does not equal consensus, but I don't think that one person (you) who advocates doing things a different way is a lack of consensus in supporting the status quo either. If one dissenting opinion destroyed status quo, it would be chaos! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 20:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Add on comment I have zoomed in around the legs and see what you are talking about. I have lost the PSD file (stupid) so it is hard to do it again. I can only see it on the very occasional spot at actual size (mainly two left legs), so if anyone has a big problem with it, I will fix it when I have ample time. But I have learnt to always keep the PSDs and check sharpening with zoom. Thanks :) --liquidGhoul 12:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- CommentUnfortunately, this is as big as it gets. Although there were thousands of these guys, they will bury themselves as soon as I get ready to shoot. This one was further away than I would have liked, and the crop took quite some size. Can you give me which legs look overprocessed, I personally cannot see it. I have sharpened a bit, but have layered a mask over it, and gotten rid of most of the sharpening as I did not like it. Thanks for your comments. --liquidGhoul 11:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose, I like the picture, and have no problems with it technically (size/whatever) but I don't find it engaging enough for Featured status. The camera is too high up and looks down on the poor crab. Pengo 17:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment It is about 5-10cm wide, and in incredibly wet sand. I was not going to kill my camera, by putting it in wet sand just to get a shot. Secondly, a low angle wouldn't suit this subject. The front is so large, that a low angle would take out most of the rest of the rest of the body, which would be less encyclopaedic.--liquidGhoul 23:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose Quoting Pengo, "I don't find it engaging enough for Featured status". Alvinrune TALK 02:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- You find a car "more engaging" than a crab (refering to police car on FPC page)? --liquidGhoul 03:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Give him a break, he's in middle school (per user page). Of course he finds a picture of a police car more engaging. Sheesh! Rklawton 19:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I don't sit around admiring crabs. Alvinrune TALK 21:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should get out more. There is enornous natural beauty out there. Certainly more than that ugly police car ;) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment When I said that Image:Aus soldier Crab.jpg wasn't "engaging" enough, I suppose I worded it wrong. It seems as though the viewer is looking down on a poor crustacean. Also, though the background is natural and a image like this can be fairly tough to grab, the wet soil I guess made my decision to a weak oppose. Alvinrune TALK 21:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should get out more. There is enornous natural beauty out there. Certainly more than that ugly police car ;) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 01:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- You find a car "more engaging" than a crab (refering to police car on FPC page)? --liquidGhoul 03:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support That's an ugly little critter! How quickly can these guys plunge beneath the sand when you approach? I can't help but smirk at the idea of you trying to get this shot — surrounded by dozens except in whichever direction you happen to shove your camera :-) ~ Veledan • Talk 11:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Ugly? They are quite cute. Takes them about 3 or 4 seconds to bury themselves. I have quite a few photos where they are half underground :-) --liquidGhoul 13:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - first class pic - Adrian Pingstone 17:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support –Joke 17:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice job. Shame the background is a dull brown, but if that is their natural habitat its just what we want. -- Solipsist 09:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Very nice image of the crab. ~MDD4696 23:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Very nice of this lil' guy. The only thing I would even change would be putting him on dry sand, rather than wet, so we see the ends of his legs. Staxringold 19:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- That wouldn't be very encyclopedic. Its habitat is wet sand. I shouldn't think you would ever find one of these on dry sand. ~ Veledan • Talk 23:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Very nice --Tone 16:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, nice. --Pmsyyz 14:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Wow. That is a very nice picture. The blue colour is amazing. Canuck89 01:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Aus soldier Crab.jpg howcheng {chat} 17:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, this is hardly the most exciting of subjects - but it illustrates Power Macintosh G3 in the only way possible. The image is deceivingly simple, but it's hard to get the background, lighting, angle and color so well as to rival Apple's own promotional photographs, the replacement of which with free alternatives has been a pastime of mine for a while now. Along comes Danamania, and uploads some very well done shots to Commons, licensed under CC-BY-SA (don't worry, I'll only nominate this one). It's perhaps not the highest of resolutions, but quite sufficient for print.
- Nominate and support. - grm_wnr Esc 20:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, I don't feel it is one of WPs best works or is pleasing to the eye. I also feel that knowing what a G3 looks like compared to other computers is not essential for the article, even a well photographed one like this. |→ Spaully°τ 21:00, 4 March 2006
- Support Very professionally photographed and the best photo of the Beige Desktop Power Macintosh G3 on Wikipedia. It is very valuable to its article. — Wackymacs 21:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose Yes, good photo, but FP? Even as a Mac user myself, I don't find this image "stunning" or "special" in any way - it's just a well-done photo of a computer box... --Janke | Talk 21:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose. Agree with Janke. It's a good picture, very well done, but it just doesn't seem to work for FP. Alr 22:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose As already said, it's a fine photo technically but somehow boring and not striking. So not an FP candidate in my view - Adrian Pingstone 23:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Stunning for it's technical perfection. Very informative --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 03:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Advert-style (nothing wrong with that but they really shouldn't be featured pictures). Neutralitytalk 05:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support nice for the article and very well done photograph. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 06:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose. Strikes me as a little dull. The picture itself looks great and does a good job of illustrating the article, but it just doesn't do it for me. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 06:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Another weak oppose. It is certainly a well done product shot, but product photography doesn't tend to stand out. It clearly adds value to the article though. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:30, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The image, in general, is dull, though the lighting and shadows are pretty stunning. Alvinrune TALK 02:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose not outstanding Calderwood 12:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- weak oppose just not interestingLeppy 14:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - Rather dull.--Deglr6328 07:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose This is the perfect example, IMO, of an image that is as perfect as it can be but just isn't interesting, compelling, or stunning enough to be a FP. Staxringold 19:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- SUPPORT Style of the case is very import and you can see that very clearly. Also can see what kind of drives and the size. Glen Pepicelli 07:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support When judged against other wikipedia images of its type (Ie free images of boring product shots) this is clearly one of the very best we have. It is dramatic in its own way that such a boring subject could photograph even this well. Johntex\talk 03:48, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Not promoted BrokenSegue 14:35, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Looks delicious, and everything is the subject (by that I mean there is no b/g because the b/g is the subject as well!)
Alternative Versions: Image:Raspberries02.jpg, Image:Raspberries03.jpg
- Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 www 21:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I almost didn't because some of the subject is cut off. :P -Ravedave 22:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent. - JPM | 22:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Since we're making up things to whinge about, unlimited depth of field would be nice. ;) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Any of the three is acceptable, although I prefer the third (Raspberries03.jpg). --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Yet another great picture. My stomach is now rumbling!--Ali K 00:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I definitely like No. 5 the best. --liquidGhoul 02:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I like the un-saturated one the best. They do look ripe (except for one at the top). The others look like they have been sugar-glazed. --liquidGhoul 05:03, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Comment - looks rather pink to me. Other than that, very nice. I like the color levels of Image:Raspberries03.jpg, but the composition of that one isn't as good as Image:Raspberries05.jpg. zafiroblue05 | Talk 03:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)Support second image (first darkened version). I want to take a bite out of my screen. :) zafiroblue05 | Talk 06:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC) 06:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)- Support Delicious--K.C. Tang 03:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose- I'd much prefer a darker version - these raspberries simply don't look ripe. It may be the lighting, but I wouldn't eat them. —Cuiviénen (Cuivië) 04:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)- I was afraid people would think a dark version over saturated. But I've uploaded three edits for your consideration - I couldn't decide between them. --Fir0002 www 05:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- yes, i consider the new versions over-done.--K.C. Tang 07:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think the problem lies more with the lighting of the image and the raspberries shot than anything else. The darkening is an improvement, so I would support any of the darkened versions, but I still oppose original. —Cuiviénen (Cuivië) 18:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- I was afraid people would think a dark version over saturated. But I've uploaded three edits for your consideration - I couldn't decide between them. --Fir0002 www 05:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support second image (first darkened version) - delicious looking! --Janke | Talk 06:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support -- Excellent detail and sharpness. Prefer darker version. SteveHopson 06:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support -- I want to eat my screen Glaurung 07:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support yummy photo... --vineeth 08:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Both the lighter and darker photos are so tasty looking! DaGizzaChat © 08:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support original, the darker ones look over-ripe. --Obli (Talk)? 09:47, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support original, the others are much too saturated. chowells 12:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Why not? If a picture is deftly aesthetic enough to incite the most subtle idiosyncrasies of the human taste buds, then... uh... never mind. I'm just really hungry. I support the original, but anything would do. The yellowish rasberry at the top left could be GIMPed out, but then the picture wouldn't be as "natural." Gracenotes T § 17:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, looks like decent quality stock-photography, but is it really adding that much to the Raspberry article? I'd prefer a picture of them still hanging on the bush. Oh, checking the version history I can see that Fir just yesterday replaced such a pic with his. Sorry, but this looks a bit like self-promotion getting in the way of encyclopedic quality. Sigh, apparently I'm alone with this assessment. Time for an FPC-wikibreak. --Dschwen 21:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- We already have Image:Raspberries (Rubus Idaeus).jpg, which is the one Fir moved. This picture illustrates a completely different aspect of the subject. Are you saying that such a clear, high-res picture of picked berries adds nothing worthwhile to the article? That's a support by the way. Raven4x4x 00:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sure, it does add to the article, and Fir's image is of far better quality, but I do agree with Dschwen: I think Fir should have added his pic to the gallery on the page, instead of moving the original one from the info-box to the gallery. Rasperries on the bush are more encyclopedic - the article is mainly about about the plant, not the foodstuff. Exactly where an image is on a page doesn't affect eligibility for FPC, so might someone (preferably Fir himself) do a switch? --Janke | Talk 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- OK I've done that, but you've gotta admit that the pic isn't that best on quality. However I see that it should really have the plant--Fir0002 www 21:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sure, it does add to the article, and Fir's image is of far better quality, but I do agree with Dschwen: I think Fir should have added his pic to the gallery on the page, instead of moving the original one from the info-box to the gallery. Rasperries on the bush are more encyclopedic - the article is mainly about about the plant, not the foodstuff. Exactly where an image is on a page doesn't affect eligibility for FPC, so might someone (preferably Fir himself) do a switch? --Janke | Talk 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- We already have Image:Raspberries (Rubus Idaeus).jpg, which is the one Fir moved. This picture illustrates a completely different aspect of the subject. Are you saying that such a clear, high-res picture of picked berries adds nothing worthwhile to the article? That's a support by the way. Raven4x4x 00:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Fir0002 has delivered us many high-quality pictures and this one is cool too!! --Davpronk 00:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Commentwhile supporting Fir's pic, i guess one is justified to complain that Fir has replaced the original head pic, which is a featured pic in Common, with his own straight away ...--K.C. Tang 03:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support #5 (dark version) only. Neutralitytalk 03:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support dark version 212.244.146.101 09:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Wow, we are getting some good images in recently. Well done Fir, my vote goes on the original pic, no darkened versions. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 12:57, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support original. Uuhhh! Can I take some? - Darwinek 13:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support original. --Red Penguin 07:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support very nice article. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 08:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - original only, I don't see any need for editing what is in the original a very good photo. Nice one again Fir. |→ Spaully°τ 14:13, 5 March 2006
- Support Darker Versions—Preferably The Second The original image does not seem ripe. Alvinrune TALK 03:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Image:Raspberries05 edit02.jpg or the original. Staxringold 19:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. All of the photographs are fantastic quality; any of the darkened versions are fine. Yum! — Webdinger TALK | SZ 05:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support TomStar81 19:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Nothing particulary special Electricmoose- Electrifying talk 20:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Promoted IImage:Raspberries05.jpg Deciding which one to choose was hard. There were some comments exclusively in favor of the first and some exclusively for the darkened ones (the first dark one had a good deal of support), the original seems to be the common denominator and has the most support. BrokenSegue 14:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Image taken by neighbour, who agreed at the time that all rights be released to me or any purpose or licence I see fit. Subject is my pet, and the colouration has not been modified. Image featured in Phasmatodea, and is high-resolution (1232x824px).
- Nominate and support. - Ian13/talk 20:46, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose, Ian13/talk 22:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Sorry this isn't good enough for FP. The depth of focus is too narrow and less than half of the subject is visible. ~ Veledan • Talk 20:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Note:Only the ends of the hind legs and the back of the wings/body are missing. Ian13/talk 21:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Isn't the missing part longer than the visible part? Apologies if not. Even so, I'm afraid animal pics fail to get promoted for far lesser portions missing. And there are several other pics on that page which give a better impression of these insects as a whole IMO. ~ Veledan • Talk 21:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- No, more is visible than not, no problem. Thanks! Ian13/talk 21:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Isn't the missing part longer than the visible part? Apologies if not. Even so, I'm afraid animal pics fail to get promoted for far lesser portions missing. And there are several other pics on that page which give a better impression of these insects as a whole IMO. ~ Veledan • Talk 21:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Camera newbie here ... how exactly would you get a wider field of focus? Different lens? What would be different about that lens? --Cyde Weys 04:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Not much chance of this pic being Featured, I'm afraid, too much of the pic is out of focus - Adrian Pingstone 21:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose same as above--K.C. Tang 00:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Great value artistically, and no doubt a great portrait of your pet (should there be an article on pet portraiture?). This kind of picture is usually more successful on Commons, where accurate and complete depiction is less of an objective, and artistic value enters into consideration. Oppose. - Samsara contrib talk 12:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per Veledan, and disagree with the above comment: artistic value ought to be considered here, too. –Joke 16:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Incomplete animal (How are we to know what the tail end looks like?) and too shallow DOF. Interesting critter though! --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support an awesome photo, and you even have the species name. Not really missing much with the focus as is, and if it were any wider angle you'd lose the detail of its head. —Pengo 02:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Lack of sharpness and brightness --Fir0002 www 06:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose Four of the five visible legs are blurred, though the resolution is of respectable size. Alvinrune TALK 03:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Good pic, is interesting image- not an everyday sight Electricmoose- Electrifying talk 20:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 03:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
A very nice shot of an NYPD police cruiser. This photo is used in several articles, among them police cruiser and light bar.
- Nominate and support - TomStar81 02:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I like the effect of the light, but the background is too distracting. --liquidGhoul 08:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - I like the background, actually; becuase trying to capture the car in a non-busy street in New York City is one very hard thing to do. Hillhead15 09:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose Not used by any article.--vineeth 12:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)- Comment The uncropped version is in many articles, and if the cropped version were promoted it would replace the old image in all the articles. --liquidGhoul 12:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- It's used in several articles.... — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-1 15:36
- Sorry, i saw only the cropped image. Still Oppose, ack Janke. --vineeth 09:11, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Opposenot really featured picture calibre.--K.C. Tang 12:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Agree with above. Alr 15:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, because I agree that it's not quite striking enough. I think the cropped one is better, I wouldn't mind if somebody replaced the old image with that one. Mstroeck 15:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Mundane, not FP material. --Janke | Talk 17:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Why exactly do you consider it mundane? TomStar81 00:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Because there's nothing special about this image. It's a police car on the street, no more. It is not even in motion. The flash of the light is the only interesting spot in the image. --Janke | Talk 07:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Ouch. That hurts. A beautiful NYPD cruiser destine never to be featured simply because its not involved in a high speed chase. I guess it was to be expected though: one must have a love of form to see past such things. TomStar81 09:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Don't take it personally! It's not about the car, it's the general look of the image (not "stunning" enough), an opinion that appears to be shared by most voters. With a better background (perhaps blurred because the camera is following a moving car) and a little more dramatic lighting, I'm sure a NYPD cruiser could befeatured! (BTW, we're all spoiled by TV, aren't we? ;-) --Janke | Talk 14:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Is this more what you had in mind, Janke? And I'm neutral, before anybody asks. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 13:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Access denied to site. --Janke | Talk 21:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, second try. Check this. Remember to click the Zoom In button under the image. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 10:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- No thanks - totally artificial looking. --Janke | Talk 11:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Agree with Janke here. Did you really think that would be more appropriate? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, blimey. That was a joke. I wasn't seriously suggesting that that become a featured pic, I was just picking up on Janke's comments on how we are all led to believe that a picture of a NYPD car should be in an exciting car chase with lights flashing and sparks flying. This place is so dull sometimes. Lighten up! —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 11:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Deadpan humor doesn't work in text format. A simple ;-) would have helped... --Janke | Talk 17:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, blimey. That was a joke. I wasn't seriously suggesting that that become a featured pic, I was just picking up on Janke's comments on how we are all led to believe that a picture of a NYPD car should be in an exciting car chase with lights flashing and sparks flying. This place is so dull sometimes. Lighten up! —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 11:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, second try. Check this. Remember to click the Zoom In button under the image. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 10:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Access denied to site. --Janke | Talk 21:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes we are. TV has a way of raising the bar, and my guess is that effect is going to be felt here. Its really to bad; this kind of image could easily be used in any number of police car books. I should know. I own several ;) TomStar81 09:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Is this more what you had in mind, Janke? And I'm neutral, before anybody asks. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 13:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Don't take it personally! It's not about the car, it's the general look of the image (not "stunning" enough), an opinion that appears to be shared by most voters. With a better background (perhaps blurred because the camera is following a moving car) and a little more dramatic lighting, I'm sure a NYPD cruiser could befeatured! (BTW, we're all spoiled by TV, aren't we? ;-) --Janke | Talk 14:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Opppose. I have to admit, I don't find that car very attractive, though. The bonnet/hood is unnecessarily oversized and disproportionate (although this is merely aesthetics, anyhow) and it isn't very stylish. It has the look of a late 1980s/early 1990s car. I'm not saying Australian police cars are the epitome of style but I do think they're a little more attractive ([3] or [4]) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I don't see any reason to prefer this image of an NYPD police cruiser over any other. –Joke 16:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. There's nothing special about this image. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose As above --Fir0002 www 05:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose. Background is simply too distracting. Cropped version is significantly better, but not featured picture quality, due to the overly busy background. --Red Penguin 07:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Third image is much, much closer to featured picture quality, but I'm still concerned about the background, which is still mildly distracting. --Red Penguin 07:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Third Image I streched the color of the second image. Now it seems as though the image was taken in the evening. The prior images look as if it were taken on a cloudy day. Alvinrune TALK 03:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Nothing against the photographer, but NYPD cruisers have never been more lame. There are plenty of other, nicer types of cruisers (for instance, most states have highway patrol pursuit cruisers made from Camaros and Mustangs) that would make for a better featured pic. In my book, a photo of an ugly woman is ugly no matter how well it's done. Kafziel 17:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- An ugly woman is still a woman, and if you take note of the title I have simply labeled the entry "police cruiser", not "NYPD cruiser", not "special patrol vehical", just "police cruiser". While Camaros and Mustangs would arguably make better FPs, they represent a small faction of the police force; most police vehicals are caprices and tuareses. This picture is ment to represent these standard cars. TomStar81 23:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- I would agree that it is a good standard photo of a standard car. I'm not listing it for deletion or anything, I'm just saying the subject matter is very run of the mill. It's not something I'd say, "Wow, that's awesome," which is pretty much what I expect from a featured photo. Why feature something completely standard? Kafziel 04:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - not striking I'm afraid, at least not for me. |→ Spaully°τ 10:25, 7 March 2006 (GMT)
- Support this one. I think it's a beautiful photograph. Judge the photo, people, not they style of the car. Anyway, think those 'stralian cars are lame anyways. ;-) —Encephalon 11:24, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 03:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, great minds think alike, and so here is another great gastropod image. It appears in Pulmonata. Photographer is one Jürgen Schoner, uploaded to Commons as GNU-FDL by User ML.
- Nominate and support. - Samsara contrib talk 17:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral. The detail is nice, but I don't like the artificial background. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-02-28 17:54
- Weak Oppose. Yes, the background.--K.C. Tang 01:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I like the background zafiroblue05 | Talk 02:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I like the background too, a pure white background is the most acceptable artificial background in my book. I will ask the contributor if he/she has a larger image, as that would be really good. --liquidGhoul 09:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- You've got no problem with the background, but you ask for a larger image when it's already 1024x604? I really don't get why people always want bigger and bigger images. - Mgm|(talk) 10:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- What is wrong with asking for a larger image? There is no harm in it, and it could improve the image's quality. I didn't oppose the image, so what is your problem? --liquidGhoul 22:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- I simply don't see why we should ask for something with a higher resolution when it's already top-notch resolution. Higher resolution doesn't equal higher quality. You may not have personally opposed it, but it fosters the idea that massive resolutions are better when most people can't even fit such an image on one computer screen. Besides, if they had one, wouldn't you think they would've posted the larger one instead? - Mgm|(talk) 09:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- LiquidGhoul has now explained he was hoping for a better detailed shell. So contrary to what I believed, he had a perfectly valid reason for asking. - Mgm|(talk) 10:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Within reasonable limits (file size, the lens' ability to resolve detail and number of sensor pixels), there is never a good reason to upload a lower quality/resolution image. I sometimes downsample my images by about 50% in order to aid in the perception of sharpness, as long as there is no significant loss of detail in doing so, but as a rule, I try to keep them as high resolution as is possible. Assuming the image is captured with anything higher than a 3 megapixel camera with decent quality optics, there is no excuse for an image less than 1000 pixels on the longest dimension. To reduce it further than that is to waste the potential of the image. I think he had a valid reason for asking as it originally stood since it logically follows that higher resolution image will resolve more detail! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - No problems here, in my case. Hillhead15 09:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, prefer animals photographed in their habitat, shadow on the right distracts and composition isn't feature worthy. - Mgm|(talk) 10:02, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak oppose due to the artificial looking background. --Janke | Talk 17:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I don't mind the background. It is artificial, but also plain enough for me. –Joke 16:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I'd like a larger version as well (close-ups of the shell would be cool!), but this is certainly "large enough". Background is great. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:14, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support A bit low res tho --Fir0002 www 05:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Another version provided, where the colours are a bit better defined I think. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 14:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Neutralitytalk 05:09, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Support the 2nd image since the background on the first one is too distracting. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 06:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the original. To me, the pure white background is distracting and fake looking.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 05:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Maybe because it is fake. I cut the snail out because some people complained they did not like the grey and the lines in the background. It's white because I cut it out of the background and put it on a pure white layer. I also enhanced the colours slightly, as you would notice if you opened the image in full view. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 14:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- I certainly know that it is fake, my problem with it is that it looks fake, or overtly unnatural. I normally would support such a change, however the snail does not cast much shadow itself, so I feel as thought the gray in the background it nessesary in order to maintain a sence of reality. I certainly noticed the color change and think that it is much better, though the loss of the background is too distracting for me.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 23:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Maybe because it is fake. I cut the snail out because some people complained they did not like the grey and the lines in the background. It's white because I cut it out of the background and put it on a pure white layer. I also enhanced the colours slightly, as you would notice if you opened the image in full view. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 14:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I uploaded a transparent version of the image (Image:Grapevine_Snail.gif) Alvinrune TALK 22:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak support (original). Size is fine, background is more or less fine and its a good illustration. On the Helix (genus) page we have Image:Common snail.jpg which is featured on Commons and is quite similar with a natural background. Its mainly the rather flat lighting that weakens my support here. -- Solipsist 09:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice image, prefer 2nd picture. Electricmoose- Electrifying talk 20:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, mainly because it's not striking enough, also because of the artificial background.--ragesoss 18:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Grapevinesnail 01.jpg Votes are very evenly split between the original and the blanked background version. If there is no partictular perference between the original and an edit I promote the original. Raven4x4x 07:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
What I like about this picture is how the moistness of the slug is captured by the reflection of the sky on its surface, which also defines its texture. Secondly, the fact that the Pneumostome (breathing hole) is visible is also a plus as it piques the interest of the viewer to find out about what this curious structure is for.
- Shameless self-nomination and support. - Obli (Talk)? 17:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support! Excellent image and high detail. It could probably use some sharpening, but that wouldn't be hard with such a large image. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-02-28 17:22
- Comment I agree the slug is resplendent & glorious (yuk!). But can you do anything about the blurred concrete background? ~ Veledan • Talk 19:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- This is about as much blur as I could remove, anyone else is free to replace it with their own try. I personally sort of like the blur, though Obli (Talk)? 20:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support
the originallatest version--K.C. Tang 01:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... so your vote will change with every new edit? ;-) Please specify... --Janke | Talk 07:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support either version, prefer second. - Samsara contrib talk 04:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: I would support a cropped version, top and bottom of somewhat distracting background removed. Anyone care to do it, or shall I? --Janke | Talk 17:12, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- I would have, but I don't know which parts you consider distracting. - JPM | 21:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the less blurred version, or a cropped version of it. - JPM | 21:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm I've added a simple top-and-bottom crop. I find the blurring less distracting but I'm not sure it's improved the composition. Oh and please add it to an article. Neither slug nor pneumostome has too many pics: it could go in either or both ~ Veledan • Talk 22:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- What the hell,
Support crop~ Veledan • Talk 22:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)- If it's going to be a crop, I'd be more comfortable with tilting it, the aspect ration is retained better that way, avoiding a panorama look (it's a slug, not a sunset, dammit :)). Obli (Talk)? 22:52, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I feel very apologetic for changing my vote like this, but the more I think about it the less I like the manmade background. It's a superb picture of a slug but please get one of it slithering up a wet cabbage! ~ Veledan • Talk 01:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support cropped version, oppose tilted - the crop is more encyclopedic, we don't really need all that background. The slug is the focus, and in focus, too. The tilted version loses the slime!! --Janke | Talk 22:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Uninteresting except at huge size. Ugly background. zafiroblue05 | Talk 05:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose only the tilted version as per Janke. - Samsara contrib talk 12:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ugly background. –Joke 16:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- What's wrong with the background? It's a rock. Slugs like rocks. They don't get around too well elsewhere. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-2 21:43
- I don't see what you expect from the background either. You're not going to find a slug on glass table, unless someone puts it there. And I doubt anyone really wants to touch that thing. - JPM | 22:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- That is not a rock, it is a road. It is gravel in bitumen, which when I last looked, is not a natural habitat for many animals. Also, these slugs are omnivorous, so you would expect their natural habitat to be in foliage of some plant or on/in a dead animal (although most of you seem repulsed just by the slug so I can't imagine if it was surrounded in dead flesh). --liquidGhoul 12:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm going to wait for the photographer's word before we decide if this is a natural rock or not. Conglomerate rock looks a lot like it's artificial, but it's not. Also, notice the background in this picture includes moss - not something you'd really expect to see growing on a road. -- 21:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is asphalt, although as the mud, roughness of it and the moss suggests, it is very old and part of a forest running track. One could argue that it is a natural habitat because it is very moist, slugs like that... --Obli (Talk)? 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Funny you should mention that, I was actually going to suggest that it was possibly artificial, like a pathway or something. But the moss on it is pretty damn good evidence that it's not a road. And frankly, what with the humanization of this world, a running trail in the woods almost is a natural habitat these days. -- 21:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- It is asphalt, although as the mud, roughness of it and the moss suggests, it is very old and part of a forest running track. One could argue that it is a natural habitat because it is very moist, slugs like that... --Obli (Talk)? 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm going to wait for the photographer's word before we decide if this is a natural rock or not. Conglomerate rock looks a lot like it's artificial, but it's not. Also, notice the background in this picture includes moss - not something you'd really expect to see growing on a road. -- 21:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- That is not a rock, it is a road. It is gravel in bitumen, which when I last looked, is not a natural habitat for many animals. Also, these slugs are omnivorous, so you would expect their natural habitat to be in foliage of some plant or on/in a dead animal (although most of you seem repulsed just by the slug so I can't imagine if it was surrounded in dead flesh). --liquidGhoul 12:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't notice this discussion until now. The background looked like old asphalt to me, like an old, worn road or something. Slugs are common enough subjects, so I think if you're going to have a featured picture of a slug, it ought to be really compelling. This one is good, but I just don't like it enough for FP. –Joke 17:47, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Great shot, DOF is spot on. The background is not problematic (it's natural). As for crops or tilting... I'm still undecided. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. What's wrong with the background? It doesn't look good, it distracts from the slug itself (particularly at the size one views it in an article, when the shinyness of the slug isn't as apparent), and it's, well, ugly. It's natural, sure. But one could find, say, an even-colored rock. Or something. You're taking a picture from straight above of a very flat animal, removing any sense of depth (except at unwieldy sizes) - it looks like just a streak of black paint on a rock that looks like it's been vomited on. zafiroblue05 | Talk 03:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- First of all, whether one could find an even-colored rock is irrelevant, the slug was on THIS rock. Second of all, the image is NOT taken straight from above as even a cursory examination of the image would indicate. Lastly, if you looked at the full size image, there's no WAY it could be mistaken for "a streak of black paint". --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, I absolutely agree with you! It's not taken from exactly above, but there's a reason someone did a tilted crop - it has so little depth. The slug was on THAT rock, but that's just something one has to deal with. The circumstances of the photo shouldn't affect our judgement on the final product, I have learned from looking at FPCs for a little while. And at full size, the slug doesn't look nearly as bland as a streak of paint - but the slug isn't shown in the article at full size! At any reasonable size, it's a boring image. In my opinion. zafiroblue05 | Talk 18:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- IIRC, images are intended to be evaluated at full size, not thumbnail sized. Anyone know for certain? Also, the stated reason that the tilted crop was created was an attempt to preserve as much of the original aspect ratio as possible during a crop. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, I absolutely agree with you! It's not taken from exactly above, but there's a reason someone did a tilted crop - it has so little depth. The slug was on THAT rock, but that's just something one has to deal with. The circumstances of the photo shouldn't affect our judgement on the final product, I have learned from looking at FPCs for a little while. And at full size, the slug doesn't look nearly as bland as a streak of paint - but the slug isn't shown in the article at full size! At any reasonable size, it's a boring image. In my opinion. zafiroblue05 | Talk 18:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- First of all, whether one could find an even-colored rock is irrelevant, the slug was on THIS rock. Second of all, the image is NOT taken straight from above as even a cursory examination of the image would indicate. Lastly, if you looked at the full size image, there's no WAY it could be mistaken for "a streak of black paint". --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Slugtastic - one of the best pictures of slugs I've ever seen. PZ Myers would be proud. And I'm ashamed there's so much anti-slug bias on display here :-O At least give him credit for getting close enough to take this picture. Eeek. --Cyde Weys 04:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Luckily, they don't have fangs :) --Obli (Talk)? 09:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I don't get it, what is wrong with slugs? They can't hurt, and I would rather pick up a slug than an Fierce Snake any day. A little bit of slime is good for anyone :) --liquidGhoul 12:54, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- People seem to "freak out" when confronted with animals that don't have bones (insects, slugs/worms, etc.) for some reason. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I don't get it, what is wrong with slugs? They can't hurt, and I would rather pick up a slug than an Fierce Snake any day. A little bit of slime is good for anyone :) --liquidGhoul 12:54, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'd just like to clarify that slugtastic means support, in case anyone wasn't aware of that particular slugnacular. --Cyde Weys 01:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Luckily, they don't have fangs :) --Obli (Talk)? 09:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose Alvinrune TALK 23:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)- Comment You must supply a reason for opposition. --liquidGhoul 01:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Fine! ↓ Alvinrune TALK
- Oppose Bad background—almost fake-like. Alvinrune TALK 22:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ugly tarmac background. chowells 15:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted Raven4x4x 07:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Captures the Orb Weaver when it is active - at night. Alternative versions: Image:Orb weaver black bckgrnd02.jpg, Image:Orb weaver white bckgrnd.jpg, Image:Orb weaver white bckgrnd02.jpg
- Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 www 06:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice image. --vineeth 07:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support Meets all requirements. DaGizzaChat © 08:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support cropped version. I cropped away the left portion of the web, which is unsharp, and not typically spiral shaped. --Janke | Talk 09:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC) PS: Warning: may cause acute outbreak of arachnophobia. ;-)
- Neutral I hate using this phrase, so I won't oppose it, but I don't find it stunning. --liquidGhoul 10:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support cropped version. White backgrounds dull the color of the spider down, so I prefer the dark background. - Mgm|(talk) 10:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support cropped version, the uncropped looks more like a wallpaper while the cropped focuses more on the object of the picture, which is more suitable for an encyclopedia. Obli (Talk)? 11:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support cropped version. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-02-28 17:19
- Comment I've uploaded another crop version from the original photo. Note this is a 1:1 crop so be kind on the image quality :-) --Fir0002 www 07:52, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Any version. I actually liked the first uploaded image as it shows a good, visual scale between the web and the spider. Hillhead15 09:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment That is not the full size of the web by any means. --liquidGhoul 11:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support -- Chris 73 | Talk 18:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Second cropped version. Clear rather chilling image.--Dakota ~ ° 20:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support the second crop. Mstroeck 23:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Any version (the three on the side, not the "alternate" ones, which I oppose). The first is more "artsy", the other two... arguably more encyclopedic. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:21, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support, especially if it's the third image. Nice upload! -- gtdp (T)/(C) 12:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Third Image Nice image! Alvinrune TALK 23:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support first and third. —Encephalon 07:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Nice to see a subject being revisited and improved upon. -- Solipsist 10:04, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Orb weaver black bckgrnd03 crop.jpg Raven4x4x 08:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Very vivid and colourful image, extremely hi-res and of good quality, it's aesthetically pleasing and does a good job on demonstrating how varied the species has become through breeding.
- Nominate and support. - Obli (Talk)? 01:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support Pretty cool. I like the white background, very informative.--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 02:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support very nice. chowells 02:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support extremely nice photo. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 02:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Sort of creepy-looking, but I like it a lot. zafiroblue05 | Talk 05:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support - uploaded an edit - I'm supporting that version, the original has a mucky yellowish background. New version looks cleaner to me. drumguy8800 - speak? 05:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Love it! DaGizzaChat © 08:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support the second version. Nice sharp image.--Dakota ~ ° 09:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support 2nd version. Also, you might like to add it to the Artificial selection article. --liquidGhoul 10:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support original - the roots lost detail in the edit. --Janke | Talk 10:20, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support original. I fail to see why an edit was needed. - Mgm|(talk) 10:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. The image page says: "ARS researchers have selectively bred carrots with pigments that reflect almost all colors of the rainbow". So it does not seem to be different species, like the nomination says. --Bernard Helmstetter 11:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Please re-read the nomination: how varied the species has become - not different species... --Janke | Talk 13:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- You are right. Still, I think this image is deceiving. It seems it is really the same exact species fed with different pigments. It is a bit of a silly experiment. This image is not a good ilustration of carrot and it should not even appear in artificial selection. --Bernard Helmstetter 13:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Again, I think you're reading something that is not there: The researchers have bred carrots containing pigments, not fed them the pigments. You don't need to feed red pigment to a beetroot... --Janke | Talk 14:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps; but then again, the image explanations are unclear. How did the carrots come to contain different pigments? We should have better explanations of the protocol on the image page. I am no expert in the field at all, just trying to understand. --Bernard Helmstetter 14:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think you need to take that issue up on the discussion page of the article, not in voting for the image itself. Your arguments for opposing are invalid. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- I don't understand this. Significance of the inclusion in articles is a criterion for voting. --Bernard Helmstetter 17:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think I did misunderstand the description and that it is probably a genuine case of artificial selection. I am still opposing because I believe a photo about a scientific experiment should be described better. --Bernard Helmstetter 17:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'd like to explain this. Pigments, while usually something we think of as being in paints, also are naturally occuring in plants. For example most land plants have Anthocyanin, a pigment that absorbs green light (reflecting red and blue light) and give many flowers, fruits and autumn leaves their colour. Tomatoes naturally have the red pigment Lycopene, and carrots are best known for their carotenoids, which are also naturally occuring without the introduction of any artifical pigment. I don't know if it's the levels of different carotenoids, or changes in pH, or a range of completely different pigments that are making these carrots change colour, but it's something that is naturally occuring within the carrot, in different varieties of the one species. You can read more about biological pigements at the pigment article. And AFAIK, it's not an experiment, it's something farmers have been doing since long before we understood the chemical structure of pigments. Thank you. — Pengo 03:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support I havent seen a really eyecatching picture in a while, but this is it!--Ali K 12:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support both images. --Terence Ong 13:04, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support original as the edit has issues (compare the grey areas between the leaves at the bottom of the photo). This is a fine detailed pic and makes a good contribution to carrot and Artificial selection as well as being eye catching ~ Veledan • Talk 15:48, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Interesting. Alr 15:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support either. --Neutralitytalk 01:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Wow, great image! --lightdarkness (talk) 03:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support –Joke 16:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Either version... minor preference for second one. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose These carrots don't excite me. Very little detail on individual carrots. —Pengo 03:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support Excellent, artistic photograph. Almost too good for an encyclopedia, but very worthy of being a Wiki Featured Photo. SteveHopson 06:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Well done, it looks great. I want to be a rabbit. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 14:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Nice idea and image! Alvinrune TALK 23:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Thought I was going to oppose for looking overly staged (as some ARS pictures are), but actually its rather impressive. Perhaps illustrates Artificial selection better than carrot. -- Solipsist 10:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. --Tone 16:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Cool idea. — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 01:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Either image, interesting shot. -- Calibas 07:12, 12 March 2006
- Support idd nice shot poppe 17:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support It's a gorgeous and informative photograph; if there are objections about the text accompanying it, that is a different matter from the photo per se. Masonbarge 14:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
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Promoted Image:Carrots of many colors.jpg Raven4x4x 08:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Reasons... High resolution,one of the great landmarks of india The Delhi Fort is located in Delhi, India. It is also known as Lal Qil'ah and the Red Fort (not to be confused with the Agra Fort, which is referred to by these terms as well).For more visit the main article... Red Fort
- Nominate and support. - Svnitbharath 17:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- I've uploaded a 2nd version that is sharpened and auto-contrasted. I down-sized it a bit to help with sharpening. Support either. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-02-27 18:09
- Comment. I accept your suggestion... I have replaced the file with your slightly modified one Svnitbharath
- Oppose - I'm sorry, but the sky is very annoying, it's not very straight and the brick wall is distracting. KILO-LIMA 20:56, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral. Something about the angle is bothering me... I feel as if I'm missing something behind the grass. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Agree with Kilo-Lima. Alr 01:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose Would love this a be a FP, but the angle is distracting. DaGizzaChat © 08:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Composition could be much better. --Janke | Talk 10:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- support - This is one of the best pictures of the red fort. Its high time we support an indian heritage pic for FP. By the way, the brick wall is part of the red fort. I completely support this pic. Harshavs 17:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Given your comments, is there a reason that you haven't voted here? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Bevo 20:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose ack Janke Calderwood 14:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose "Composition could be much better" —Janke. Could use slight rotating. Alvinrune TALK 23:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 02:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Nominations older than 14 days, the maximum voting period, decision time!
I found this image when I went to read about goats. I like the image very much. Whenever I look at it, I desire to be one of those goats, running free in the mountains, free from stress and admins. I also find the background stunning, with the mist in the mountains. It seems that user Fir0002 created the photo -- and that dude created 37 featured photos! I think that a part on the left side of the photo could be removed, because there's something out there that can't be identified. Other than that, cool photo!
- Nominate and support. - Candide, or Optimism 14:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support The mist and dark clouds give the photo a mystical, magical quality. While it doesn't appear that the photo strongly supports either article to which it is attached (do we really have 18 photos illustrating the Goat article?), its a picture I can support. SteveHopson 15:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Neutral. While the image is great, the article subjects (the goats) aren't prominent enough. Which mountains are these? If you added the image to the mountains' article, then I would probably support. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-02-26 15:49
- Neutral. I like the scene and composition but the highlights are extremely overexposed. I've tried to burn them back a little to make the most of the detail that was left. I don't feel happy enough about it to support it completely, but I'll put it out there for you guys and if you prefer it, you have an alternative to the original, at least. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thanx for your edit, but the goats are in fact pure white and therefore the original picture I feel is much more true to life. --Fir0002 www 00:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- I didn't change the colour of the goats at all. I just recovered some texture in the highlights. Even something that is white will look golden when the source of light (in this case, I assume dawn, but possibly sunset) is golden. You have used that regularly in your photos and complained when people have REMOVED that effect, so you can't have it both ways. In any case, as I said, I never added a colour that wasn't there. I just decreased the luminosity of the existing colour so you can see detail in the highlghts. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- I guess the irony was lost on ya :-)
- But seriously, the goats are white, and appeared white in the lighting conditions the photo was taken in. They do not have much detail, even with the human eye they just appear white. Burning them as you did makes them look dirty - much too yellow IMO. Anyway an edit is always good as it allows the photographer to learn from what others want out of a photo. --Fir0002 www 05:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- You're right, whatever irony was there was lost of me. :) Please explayne! You can see that areas of the goats that were not directly facing the sun (roughly perpendicular) had a golden/orange tint. I see your point, but do you not see the problem in having no discernable detail due to overexposure? I don't accept that the goats had little detail/texture, if they were correctly exposed, you would see it. Perhaps my edit did burn the highlights too much, but ideally they should not be overexposed in the first place. Ah well. :) For what its worth, its a difficult scene to photograph well, but the moral of the story is underexpose if necessary to preserve highlight detail. Do you shoot raw? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:54, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Continued on Diliff's talk page --Fir0002 www 11:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I'd like the pic description to tell us where these mountains are - Adrian Pingstone 16:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have left a message on the author's talkpage, asking for the same thing. --Candide, or Optimism 16:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- It is taken in the only mountain range of Victoria - the Great Dividing Range. More specifically near Swifts Creek, Victoria Australia. --Fir0002 www 00:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have left a message on the author's talkpage, asking for the same thing. --Candide, or Optimism 16:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose Pretty pic but not a significant contribution to any article. I'm afraid my oppose will still hold even if the mountain is identified (because it's not really the subject of the photo). ~ Veledan • Talk 18:11, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Weak support. Incredibly dramatic photo, but would support more strongly if it fit better in an article. zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Yes, yes, yes! KILO-LIMA 21:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Only Support if pic went on Mountain goat DaGizzaChat © 07:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- That's nonsense. These are domestic goats (Capra aegagrus hircus), not mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus). - Samsara contrib talk 17:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. A nice picture, but it does not illustrate Goat particularly well - IMO, none of the pics on that page are FP worthy. (Also, these are domestic, not mountain goats.) --Janke | Talk 07:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Agree with Janke 100%. This a photo in need of a better home. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support a good picture. I'm sure it can fit into other articles too, perhaps fog?--Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 02:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Oppose I can't see it fitting into any article well. --liquidGhoul 10:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: What is that square shaped object infront of the goat on the very far left? Maybe wood or something?--Ali K 12:11, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hmmm, I've never noticed that before! It looks more like an old crate or something --Fir0002 www 07:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, pretty but not particularily encyclopedic. --Dschwen 21:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support great pic, and those goats have a scary hypnotic look in their eyes. Robert Mercer 21:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support Second Image Excellent angle! Nice background! In general, outstanding! Alvinrune TALK 23:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Love the mountains and mist, don't love the overexposed goats or tangential connections to the articles the pic illustrates. Markyour words 17:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Not promoted Raven4x4x 03:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
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- You might want to use Template:FP: {{subst:FP|file=|description=|at=|by=}}
- Add the image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures visible - note the two sections (wikipedian / non-wikipedian)
- Add the image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs
- Update the picture's tag, replacing {{FPC}} with {{FeaturedPicture}}, and remove {{FPC}} from alternatives of the promoted image.
- Notify the nominator by placing {{PromotedFPC|Image:file_name.xxx}} on the person's talk page. For example: {{PromotedFPC|Blue morpho butterfly.jpg}}
- Optionally, you can check Wikipedia:Picture of the day and feature the image as upcoming POTD.
Nomination for delisting
Here you can nominate featured pictures you feel no longer live up to featured picture standards.
Note: Please use Delist or Keep as your vote.
- If consensus is to keep status then archive nomination for removal on archive page and optionally leave a note on the picture's talk page, also note your conclusion on the bottom of the removal candidacy section.
- If consensus is to remove status then remove the {{FeaturedPicture}} tag and leave a note on the picture's talk page, also note your conclusion on the bottom of the removal candidacy section. Also remove the image from Wikipedia:Featured pictures visible and the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs.
- Note that delisting an image does not equal deleting it. Delisting from FP in no way affects the image's status in its article(s).
- To see recent changes, purge the page cache