Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Unnecessarily complicated gears a.gif

File:Unnecessarily complicated gears a.gif, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animated
•  Info created by Jahobr - uploaded by Jahobr - nominated by Laitche -- Laitche (talk) 18:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Meshing together all of... -- Laitche (talk) 18:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment - This is a lot of fun. Is the file's pixel size an issue? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:47, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
  •  Comment As I read the rules, and unless there's a GIF exception, this doesn't come close to the required 2MP size requirement, Commons:Image_guidelines. Is there such an exception? PumpkinSky talk 03:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
    • ??? The rule says "the exception of animations, videos, and SVGs". --Laitche (talk) 06:49, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks for the citation.  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:27, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• @Laitche: I'm not seeing that exception. You must be looking in a different place. Can you give me the link? Here: Commons:Image_guidelines#Quality_and_featured_photographic_images the first section is size and it does not have the exception you listed. Thank you. PumpkinSky talk 12:38, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• @PumpkinSky: This page which you are seeing now. --Laitche (talk) 12:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• @Laitche: @W.carter: Ah, I've made the pages match so we don't have this issue again (hopefully). I'm gladly changing to support now as I think this is a fun, interesting, well done animation. PumpkinSky talk 12:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

•  Oppose per the size requirement listed above. Please advise if there's an exception. We shouldn't be ignoring clear rules, this one is clear cut, it's not like trying to interpret "high tech quality". PumpkinSky talk 03:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment Most QI and FP gifs are well below 2MP simply because they are many pictures stacked. Most normal software can't even produce complicated gifs as big as 2MP and the wiki software also distort the color in large gifs when they are shown in thumb. Please take a look at Commons:Featured pictures/Animated, one of the gif FPs there is only 280 × 233 pixels. This is actually a rather complicated gif, it is made up from 170 images whereas most normal good gifs are made up of 10-35 images. That is why it has to be made this small. When judging a gif, you need to look at both the "picture" like any normal photo but also look at how many images it is composed of and how it displays on the screen. The movement should be smooth and not jerk around too much. --cart-Talk 09:40, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

 Support Changed to support per my above comment. PumpkinSky talk 12:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Without the code, it would be just another useless GIF. But with the code, it is a great example, a lot of educational value. Yann (talk) 00:12, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Per Yann. Impressive. -- Thennicke (talk) 02:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:42, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per Yann --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:09, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Neptuul (talk) 07:21, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Sometime rules arent so important, like here. No use too see cogs biger. --Mile (talk) 09:03, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Weak support per Yann. Without the code it would just be a fun picture to watch for a short time. --cart-Talk 09:43, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  17:51, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing!!! Love this complicated animation. This is of great educational value. Can you also add this to a Wiki page so others can benefit from it? --Sanjay Acharya (talk) 20:24, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 11:07, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animated