Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/File:Tectonic plates boundaries detailed-en.svg

Reason

Detailed map of tectonic plate boundaries. Also has rather randomly placed velocity vectors (presumably where measurements have been made). Based on an academically sourced map.

Articles this image appears in

Plate tectonics, plus many at File:Tectonic_plates_boundaries_detailed-en.svg#File links

Creator

Sting

• Support as nominator --
  talk) 23:37, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Just curious, what puts you off nomming at FPC? Size looks OK, sourcing looks OK... --jjron (talk) 14:24, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nothing really, sounds like a plan if the issues below can be fixed.
    talk) 10:52, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Comment I might have to think about this one. It uses appropriate fonts, but I don't like the white text with black borders. It makes it harder to read from a wide view like this. Some parts of the lines are incomplete, so I ask why. The lines switch from one color to another periodically and I question its accuracy (the lines don't connect, just overlap each other). The lines upclose don't concern me, as zooming in close obviously gets even more inaccurate, but I only want to know if the incomplete lines were done on purpose. It also has a minor compression issue with a text element, as seen in the legend as a thumbnail (It is a 30). Also, is there an ocean I'm not aware of? There are some chances I can fix it, but I need some input first.
  ZooFari 02:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • Do you refer to the Austral Ocean? Hmmm, Southern Ocean doesn't even mention that as a possible synonymous term. --jjron (talk) 07:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yep, I've never heard of it. Would a change to "Southern ocean" be okay?
      ZooFari 17:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
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      • "Austral" does mean southern, but I've never heard it being called that. Is anyone interested in cleaning this up then nomming for FPC?
• Comment Solid piece of work. A useful and attractive condensation of the Bird/UCLA dataset. Thanks Sting, and second the nomination. --Sargon3 (talk) 16:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted No quorum. --wadester16 06:50, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]