Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Consumer Reports - Zojirushi coffeemaker alt.tif

Zojirushi coffeemaker[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2016 at 15:52:31 (UTC)

Reason: I think this image meets all of Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria. Note that it did fail Commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Consumer Reports - Zojirushi coffeemaker.tif for not being "wow". Commons seems to wish to avoid highlighting the mundane, and this image is definitely supposed to represent a typical product at its best but without embellishment.
Articles in which this image appears: coffeemaker, coffee
FP category for this image: electronics or food and drink
Creator: Consumer Reports

Support as nominator – Please note that I work for the organization which provided this photo, Consumer Reports, and have a WP:COI in nominating it. I am unsure whether there are customs in place for anyone nominating content on behalf of their employer. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:52, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'd expect a photograph used in an article to be jpeg, owing to the downsampling issues Wikipedia has with tifs and PNGs. Crisco 1492 mobile (talk) 04:09, 5 August 2016 (UTC)§[reply]

Crisco 1492 Does documentation exist giving guidance on file types? If so, where might I look to find it? Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:24, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Commons:File types Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:51, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The page is unambiguous. "TIFF files are not supported by most Internet browsers. They are an archival format, and should never be used for images intended to be displayed." — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:05, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492 and Armbrust: I did a file conversion to PNG. Does the image now meet technical requirements for review here? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Problem is, I didn't say PNG. PNG has the same thumbnailing issue as TIF. "Note that currently JPEG thumbnails receive extra sharpening, while PNG thumbnails don't. Hence, uploading in both formats may be a good idea if the PNG thumbnails look a bit blurry." I'll upload a JPG. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:13, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Try comparing them on this page. The JPG is much more crisp than the PNG or TIF. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:27, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco 1492 Thanks for converting to JPG. I mis-read or did not read. I apologize for my oversight. Yes - the PNG and TIF smaller images look exactly the same. The JPG image is clearer, and for example, I can read the text on the device more easily in the JPG version. It seems that I should convert any raster TIF image to a JPG if it should go in a Wikipedia article. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – I'm wondering somewhat why it's a coffeemaker from a Japanese company. In my experience – certainly not a scientific sample – most people have U.S. or German coffeemakers. (Nothing against the Japanese, of course, but I didn't think coffee was particularly part of their tradition.) Sca (talk) 14:18, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sca I did not take into consideration brand popularity or country of origin when I choose this image. Perhaps I should for any future rounds of product photos. I am in a building which does have data on coffeemaker brands, but I cannot immediately get a comparison on which brand is the most popular. I choose this image because Zojirushi Corporation is a respected brand. Japan does have a coffee culture, and so far as I know, Hario coffee equipment including their "Skerton" grinder is among the more popular brands in the United States. Other countries may have more history of coffee culture but I also think it is safe to say that Japanese products for coffee making are well respected. I personally liked the look of this coffeemaker, but the choice was a little arbitrary. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:16, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support ALT2 (JPG) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:26, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – FIXED. ~~the darker shade of the background, at the base of the coffee-maker, needs some work.~~ It didn't blend well with the rest of the background, visible at full size, for example at x,y=3810,3575 pixels relative to top left corner. Bammesk (talk) 12:15, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support ALT2 (JPG) – Bammesk (talk) 14:46, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt 2 (JPEG) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:14, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:14, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]