Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nations of the UK

Nations of the UK[edit]

Reason: This is one of those diagrams that says so much, so succinctly. You don't need to read the accompanying text in the article to understand exactly what took place from 847 to present, in terms of the broad political entities. I can't vouch for its correctness, and possibly the layout could be improved further (eg, raising the Kingdom of Ireland to the same level as the Kingdom of England, as they're roughly contemporary), but it's pretty good.
Proposed caption: A graphical history of the terms "United Kingdom" and "Republic of Ireland".
Articles this image appears in: British Isles (terminology)
Creator: User:JW1805

Support as nominator Stevage 05:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Good information, but graphically messy, layout unappealing. --Janke | Talk 07:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Um, size? You do realise this is a png, not an svg? Unless I'm missing something it's way too small on current guidelines. I do like the idea behind it, as per nom, although I'm not very comfortable with how, for example, Scotland, Wales, and later Northern Ireland seem to become separate islands. --jjron 08:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I noticed that after nominating. Come to think of it, I don't know if the size rules should particularly apply to diagrams - but in any case, this would definitely be better as a .svg. Stevage 02:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, maybe not, but with this I'm squinting to try to make out details on the maps anyway, so more size would be good. --jjron 04:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Poor quality image (scaling artifacts) - looks like its been scaled up from a low resolution. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:10, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It has been well put together and is helpful in its respective articles but size is an issue, for what it is there is no reason it shouldnt be larger --Childzy ¤ Talk 10:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support. I love how this image is able to let me understand the history behind the UK, but I don't find that it is big enough to satisfy the size portion. Perhaps if it were made bigger (SVG) I would support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jared (talk • contribs) 20:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: More space needed, and let the arrows be more lazy. They're too desperate atm. Separa 22:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It's helpful, I suppose, but it is too small and simply inelegant. Fails WP:TUFTE. --Dhartung | Talk 03:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

--Dhartung | Talk 03:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ultra-Extreme Oppose as a Featured Picture Candidate; it's just another diagram; anyone can replicate the whole thing. In addition, it's fairly disorganised. Furthermore, it's not attractive (that may be irrelevant considering that it's just a diagram). But the biggest issue I have with this image is its size. It does not meet the size requirements at all! -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 09:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

all those superlatives are unnecessarily hurtful. Debivort 03:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and given all the other oppose votes a mere oppose would have done. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 12:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:34, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]