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File:Elymnias hypermnestra male by kadavoor.jpg, featured[edit]

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Elymnias hypermnestra race caudata male on his larva host plant, Coconut palm.
  • But why we feature picture? It is to showcase the best pictures in front of people and organizations so that they can use them in various purposes. I think you seriously mistaken that FPC is to showcase best photographers of Commons so that they can hire them for a price. See the example below:
"Dear Jeevan,
I have received and recorded your image/photo permissions statement. Thank you very much for your support of the Lacewing Digital Library project.
Please keep us in mind when you are out in the field photographing. We'd be very interested to see additional high-quality images of neuropterans from you. We are interested in pictures of all species in the orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera, from anywhere in the world. Our success in illustrating our global keys and other biodiversity science projects are very dependent on the good will of cooperators like you, who have 'boots on the ground', in different areas of the world. Thanks again for the permissions to use some of your images!
Best Wishes,
John D. Oswald
Flickr - 'biramus'
Professor of Entomology
Curator, Texas A&M University Insect Collection
Department of Entomology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2475
USA
More at: http://insects.tamu.edu/people/faculty/oswaldj.cfm
Lacewing Digital Library: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/
Neuropterida Species of the World: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Species-Catalogue/
Bibliography of the Neuropterida: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Bibliography/"


I started to contribute in Commons when I got several mails like this from various people and organizations including http://eol.org/ in Flickr. Do you know none of your works are useful for EOL because of the license? -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 06:30, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This is without a doubt one of the finest CC0 licences I've seen. The balance of grey background, white inset and black and blue writing is beautifully executed. I love the little logo on the left: two circles of harmony. The text is crisp and the wording professional, friendly and easy to understand. There's a small amount of CA (calligraphic aberration) inside the zero that I think is due to a poor choice of font, but it isn't distracting and a careful application of Adobe Eraser should eliminate it. I do recommend, Jkadavoor, that you consider switching from Panasonic stationary to Sony for your licence work. Their marker pens aren't the best, I'll grant you, but you'll gain access to a fine selection of Zeiss automatic pencils, if you can afford them. Lastly I must note that the licence isn't big enough to cover the hole in my bathroom. You should know by now our disdain for downsampling licences and urge you to consider uploading a higher resolution one. -- Colin (talk) 20:43, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 06:31, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. Very good. I'm only interested by the picture here. Gentlemen, I think that using nominations or votes in FPC in order to "make a point" is a bad thing for the project. Here is not the place for a discussion about licenses, please go for that to the relevant page (not very far from here...)--Jebulon (talk) 16:45, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I think so. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 16:54, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --JDP90 (talk) 17:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose -- Poor quality: unsharp, lack of detail, noisy. Come on Jkadavoor! Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I wanted to oppose based on quality issues but was afraid my opinion would have been construed as "revenge voting" as this term has recently been flying around. Now that a respectable macro photographer has opposed, I oppose per Alves --Muhammad (talk) 18:15, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 12:46, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods
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