Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Elephant Beetle Megasoma elephas Male Top 2170px.jpg

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Elephant Beetle

  •  Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Ram-Man. 22:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info An Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas) feeding on sugar cane in Costa Rica.
  •  Support "Raise the bar" as per Makro Freak here. -- Ram-Man 22:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Few legs and the horn at the front are out of focus. I do not like framing. Very annoying background. Besides it looks that the picture was staged. I assume somebody was holding a sugar can for the tourists taking pictures.Is it still the same dead beatle from your prior submission?--Mbz1 23:59, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Comment That is not a fair comment, Mbz1. I suppose the staging argument is not valid here as it is also true for all the large beetles that passed here the last weeks!. The only thing keeping me from supporting this particular image is a focus issue. -- Lycaon 06:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I probably know very little about large beatles. I was sure that all last weeks images were real. If I knew they were not I would have never ever supported any one of them. I really do not like staged images.--08:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
    • Oh they are real, and most probably alive too. But staged can also mean in a zoo or another artificial environment. Like a beetle from Madagascar sitting on a Brazilian flower (as with this Euchroea auripimenta for instance). It does not mean that FP can not be rewarded, but that kind of information should be provided. Lycaon 10:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose unfortunate background --Simonizer 07:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose also focus but I especially think that the composition is not convincing --AngMoKio 07:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I think I made my point. -- Ram-Man 11:31, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
result: Nomination withdrawn => not featured. Simonizer 21:14, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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