Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carrots of many colors.jpg

Carrots of many colours

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. -
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• Support Pretty cool. I like the white background, very informative.--Lewk_of_Serthic _contrib ^talk 02:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support very nice. chowells 02:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support extremely nice photo. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 02:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Sort of creepy-looking, but I like it a lot. zafiroblue05 | Talk 05:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply]
• Strong Support Love it! DaGizza^{Chat ©} 08:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support the second version. Nice sharp image.--Dakota ~ ° 09:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support 2nd version. Also, you might like to add it to the
  Artificial selection article. --liquidGhoul 10:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Support original - the roots lost detail in the edit. --Janke | Talk 10:20, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support original. I fail to see why an edit was needed. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply
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• Please re-read the nomination: how varied the species has become - not different species... --Janke | Talk 13:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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
  Bernard Helmstetter 13:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• 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)[reply]
• 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)[reply
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• 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)[reply]
• I don't understand this. Significance of the inclusion in articles is a criterion for voting. --
  Bernard Helmstetter 17:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• 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)[reply
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• 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)[reply]

• Support I havent seen a really eyecatching picture in a while, but this is it!--Ali K 12:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support both images. --
  e Ong 13:04, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• 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
  Artificial selection as well as being eye catching ~ Veledan • Talk 15:48, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Support. Interesting.
  Alr 15:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Support either. --Neutrality^talk 01:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Wow, great image! --lightdarkness ^(talk) 03:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support –Joke 16:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Either version... minor preference for second one. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose These carrots don't excite me. Very little detail on individual carrots. —Pengo 03:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply]
• Strong Support Well done, it looks great. I want to be a rabbit. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 14:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Support Nice idea and image! Alvinrune ^TALK 23:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply
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• Support. --Tone 16:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Cool idea. — Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 01:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 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)[reply]
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Promoted Image:Carrots of many colors.jpg Raven4x4x 08:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]