Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Brown pelican splash.JPG
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File:Brown pelican splash.JPG, not featured[edit]
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Info Brown pelican created by, Everything by Korall -- Korall (talk) 23:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Support -- Korall (talk) 23:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)- Support -- --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Sorry, but while I understand that it's technically fine and the subject is interesting, I still can't see the wow. The problem is the angle, you can't see almost nothing else than the back of the pelican. —kallerna™ 11:40, 17 January 2010 (UTC)- Oppose - I can hardly tell what it is. Tiptoety talk 07:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Kallerna and Tiptoety. --Slaunger (talk) 19:33, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Comment Commons refers to the wikipedia for file guidelines; "For uniformity, lower case file name extensions are recommended." as quoted from Image titles and file names on the English wikipedia. I think that a file that does not follow the basic guidelines should not attain FA status. I think that the image does not show the dynamics of the fishing process - I am not sure if it has dived or or was swimming on the surface. Perhaps this sort of action shot may be been better illustrated as a video, or caught on a still at a critical revealing moment. Snowmanradio (talk) 11:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- English wikipedia is not commons. Commons is not English wikipedia. This file was not uploaded primarly for use on English wikipedia, and Enlish wikipedia is not my "home wiki" so I do not really care about their guidelines in this case (Its totally possible that there are som good stuff in there but they do not override the guidelines on commons in the commons FP process). It is possible that a lot of local wikipedia projects have different guidelines about files. I dont know all those languages so I cannot tell which they are.
- As already pointed out for you, several times, by different users, there are no specifications of the case of the file extensions for uploading on commons. If you would like to see guidlines about that on commons, please start the discussion on the guideline talk or some other suitable place. The FP candidates is not the right place for that kind of discussion. Please respect that for nominations in the future.
- Yes there are file specification for uploading to commons. See Commons:First steps/Upload form - "You should use a descriptive name and follow the draft Commons language policy and/or the Wikipedia naming conventions for the language used, which give guidance on capitalisation, non-alphanumeric characters, etc." Snowmanradio (talk) 22:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- The pelican was photographed in California - an English speaking region - so it would be a good idea for it to follow the English wikipedia naming conventions. Snowmanradio (talk) 23:08, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- Brown pelicans typically dive from the air head first into the water. The image was taken after a dive. What generally happens after a scene like this is that they empty out the water that was collected with the fish with their heads up on the surface before they swallow the fish. --Korall (talk) 15:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- Comment. See Commons:Image_guidelines#Image_page_requirements - the scientific name should appear in the file name or description. This is easy to correct, but this documentation of this file is not currently up to FP standards Snowmanradio (talk) 23:04, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 07:37, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
