Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Painted bunting

Painted Bunting[edit]

Saw this photo on the main page and was impressed with the quality but sorely disappointed with the resolution. * Support Too small --Fir0002 08:41, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Acceptable now --Fir0002 09:55, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

The original (linked from the image description page) is much larger. We should update the image, which is otherwise quite featureworthy. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 08:56, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose delisting, now that it's bigger. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 10:42, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
Well, it's not much larger (500x500, unless you're seeing a different one than I am), but the quality is much higher. I can understand why it was cropped (even if I don't think it really needed it), but can't see why it was scaled down. Oppose delisting if replaced with the original image, else support. —Cryptic (talk) 09:12, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I was just coming here to say the first recourse with 3rd party pictures is to look for a larger version. Most particularly with USGov sourced images, if you dig around a bit you can sometimes find much larger versions. In the days of yore (2003), I think you couldn't resize images on the fly, so people uploaded thumbnails to the recommended 250px width. I've replaced it with the 500x500 version for now, but from Cryptic's comments I see I need to crop it a little (now done). -- Solipsist 09:58, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose delisting. It's fine now. Enochlau 03:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose delisting. - Bevo 00:15, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose picture looks good to me. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 00:45, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 20:18, 27 July 2004 (UTC)[reply]
After alternative image provided, Support delisting - 0 Oppose delisting - 7, Kept as a Featured Picture - Bevo 02:16, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]