Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bengal tigress

Female Bengal tiger

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Mar 2020 at 10:01:40 (UTC)

Original – Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India

Alt 1 - cropped

Reason: High quality large image. FP on Commons. Illustrates article well. Rare to be able to photograph so close in the wild.
Articles in which this image appears: Bengal tiger, Panthera
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: Charlesjsharp

Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:01, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 12:38, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Prefer crop. MER-C 20:18, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either prefer Alt 1 – Bammesk (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either — DreamSparrow ^Chat 08:22, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt 1 - I think it needs a crop. Kaldari (talk) 22:39, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Charlesjsharp, MER-C, Bammesk, and Mydreamsparrow: Pinging for opinions on crop. Kaldari (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Happy with crop. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:58, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hi Kaldari, except reducing the size, what else would be the difference ? I seriously like the crop but I still prefer to see the tiger in a wide jungle background. Is makes more effective as far as the "Wildlife" is concerned in IMHO :- DreamSparrow ^Chat 12:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - @Mydreamsparrow: The main difference is being able to see the tiger itself better at thumbnail size (and also matching the photo of the male tiger at Bengal tiger). I don't think any important information about the surroundings is lost in the crop. Kaldari (talk) 16:13, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      - @Kaldari: Am sorry, I did not say important surroundings lost but I liked the first combination. Surprisingly Charlesjsharp captured it in 62mm FL . DreamSparrow ^Chat 17:56, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        We were so lucky. She walked right past my jeep. I put down my 100-400mm and grabbed my 24-70mm - that's why I carry two bodies - no time to change lenses... Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:43, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        
        @Mydreamsparrow: Honestly, I like the composition of the original better as well, but I feel like a more straight-forward framing of the subject is typically the norm on Wikipedia, which makes sense given the small amount of screen space that we allocate for images. If I was going to pick one of these images to frame or use as a desktop, however, I would definitely choose the uncropped one. Kaldari (talk) 19:50, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
See discussion I have started on the FP talk page Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:52, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This has been resolved with a fix that allows a cropped version to be displayed in the infobox. So voters here can ask a nominator to use the template and perhaps we should incorporate this in FP guidelines? Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:12, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support either, prefer original now that the crop issue has been resolved. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:50, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) female 3 crop.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The crop has more support, and more people prefer it too. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]