Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Schwimmbeutler-drawing.jpg
Yapok sketch
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2010 at 03:50:08 (UTC)
- Reason
- Actually this might be an inking or an etching.. Anyway it has EV because it's the lead image of the article, is I think literally the best image on Wikimedia of the animal and is quality scientific art.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Water Opossum, Brehms Tierleben
- FP category for this image
- Animals/Mammals
- Creator
- Friedrich Specht, uploaded by Petwoe
- Support as nominator --I'ḏ♥One 03:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose The digitizing seems decent enough. And when one clicks to look at the enlargement, the original artwork is really, really well done. But the thumbnail simply looks to *blah* for my taste, and my concern is that it is therefore not sufficiently eye-catching to elicit a “stop, stare & click” reaction. Greg L (talk) 04:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose, for now. I actually have a few concerns. Firstly, there is a clearly visible signature- this is being used to illustrate the animal, not the artwork, so a large, distracting signature like that is not a good thing, really. We wouldn't allow it from our photographers. Secondly, I'm not actually convinced a picture of this type is the best way to illustrate the creature- it's very crowded, and there's no colour. Thirdly, was this guy actually a biologist? I have concerns about the accuracy of the drawing. That's one weird looking fish, and the feet don't look right at all. The feet actually look to be incredibly distinctive, and this picture doesn't really do them justice (see this, this and this.) J Milburn (talk) 10:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, actually I think the foot is fine, notice that in both Specht's and in your links the foot bones are kind of long and nubby at the joints. If you look closely at the nomination's it does have webbing on the back foot as well and presumably on the front but can't be seen from this angle, though this link says the front feet are not webbed. I've checked, this is Ray-finned fish class. This possum is the only aquatic marsupial. --I'ḏ♥One 21:12, 5 August 2010 (UTC)]
- Ok, actually I think the foot is fine, notice that in both Specht's and in your links the foot bones are kind of long and nubby at the joints. If you look closely at the nomination's it does have webbing on the back foot as well and presumably on the front but can't be seen from this angle, though this link says the front feet are not webbed. I've checked, this is
- Info/comment Different editions of Brehms Tierleben have been illustrated by different artists. When I last checked, some of them were still under copyright, so this may be one of the first to emerge into PD, and should really be used to illustrate the BT article, which currently only shows a frontispiece. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 03:34, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:41, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
