Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/SMBC

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Dec 2013 at 06:27:45 (UTC)

Reason

This is a high resolution version of a day's comic from the massively popular, award winning webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, by Zach Weinersmith. In the email chain between him and I that led to this image being released, I recommended that he select the comic that that he thought "would be the best representation of the comic", so I think that it has a high encyclopedic value within the context of the article on SMBC.

Articles in which this image appears

2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards (won an award), List of webcomic awards (won an award), Zach Weinersmith

(creator)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others

Creator

Zach Weinersmith

• Support as nominator --
  Wha? 06:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
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• Support - This is a fine example of a file which would not pass on Commons but should be featured here. Pixels are crisp despite the low file size, resolution is in accordance to our guidelines, and EV (a representation of the comic) is through the roof. Art style, though likely not something which would go in the Louvre or another place of "fine" art, is clearly representative of the comic and should thus be allowed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:32, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Great work on getting Mr. Weinersmith to release this image. Any thoughts on featuring the version without the text at the bottom, and simply including that text in the caption? Jujutacular (talk) 10:10, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Since the text is part of the comic, I'd argue against that. It would be misrepresentative. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:35, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. Representative of the comic, great to have under a free license. I wonder whether it would be better to keep it off the main page (or, at least, coordinate it with a very traditional topic at TFA!) and I certainly do not support cropping out the text. J Milburn (talk) 14:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's no reason to keep it off the main page, as far as I'm concerned. If your concern is that it might make Wikipedia look unprofessional, I'll note that we get that anyways, from various segments of the population, when we have TFAs about pop culture or video games. Our attitude has near universally been "This is an encyclopedia, and this is encyclopedic content, even if it doesn't meet your personal tastes". That being said, if you want to coordinate with TFA, feel free to do so. The dates I was thinking of for running this are, in order of desire, September 5 (beginning of modern SMBC), January 28 (beginning of old version of SMBC), March 5 (birthday of Mr. Weinersmith), and April 1 (it's a comic, so it makes sense). I'm sure that we can find an appropriately dry article on a dead English aristocrat to pair with this, if that's what you want to do.
    Wha? 16:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
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    • I'd certainly have no objection to it appearing on 1 April. (Let me be clear: I'm a big fan of SMBC, and I certainly support the candidacy here. I don't think I need to go into reasons why I am a little queasy about it being POTD.) J Milburn (talk) 16:53, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Nice job! Outside of Calvin and Hobbes, I don't really read comics, but this panel is pretty funny. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:SMBC comic 25 March 2008, with caption.png --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:26, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]