Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:DesertStormMap v2.svg

File:DesertStormMap v2.svg, featured

Voting period ends on 7 Aug 2009 at 10:02:08

•  Info created & uploaded by Jeff Dahl - nominated by JovanCormac (talk) 10:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Info Very informative map illustrating the Desert Storm campaign. High quality SVG. It really doesn't get any better than this. Already featured on EN. -- JovanCormac (talk) 10:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support As nominator. -- JovanCormac (talk) 10:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Kudos to the creator! It makes a very interesting desktop, as well. I do have to ask though, why is it EN always seems to have so many great images featured before we do? A comment on the nomination habits of the FP crowd, perhaps? Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 10:01, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, in turn Commons has a lot of beautiful photographs featured that EN does not. It is mainly in the field of non-photographic images that they are a little ahead. -- JovanCormac (talk) 13:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Anonymous votes are not allowed. /Daniel78 (talk) 17:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
    • I hope my votes are allowed. :P Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 10:01, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Aqwis (talk) 15:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Question Is the SVG created such that the embedded text can easily be localized to other languages? --Slaunger (talk) 22:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • I just looked at it with Inkscape and the answer is no, the labels are paths, not text objects. -- JovanCormac (talk) 05:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
    • OK. Thanks for checking it. That is a pity as it would be much more useful if it were localizable. --Slaunger (talk) 07:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose A good illustration with a very high detail level, which must have taken a long time to create. However, I do not fancy that the text is not localizable. Secondly, I think the illustration is simply so overloaded with details that it is tending towards "clutter". --Slaunger (talk) 10:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment Considering the Gulf War was the largest conflict since the Vietnam War, and involved over 2 million combatants, 3000 aircraft, 6 carrier battlegoups and much more besides, it's perhaps unsurprising that the overview is, as you say, a little cluttered. I don't see this as a huge problem; the scope and scale of the conflict can only be properly grasped when viewed in full. As an overview it works, though it would be useful to have major battles explored in seperate maps, to serve as a complement to the larger map. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 10:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I don't feel that this is at all cluttered, it is full of information and great detail about an event. If I were to read a book with an illustration similar to this in it, this is exactly the amount of detail I would want to find. Very well illustrated and put together. Julielangford (talk) 09:52, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support - wow! As Julielangford. Downtowngal (talk) 01:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
•  Support, Tintero (talk) 19:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

result: 6 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Yann (talk) 20:20, 8 August 2009 (UTC)