Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marsh wren

Marsh wren

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Original – Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris), Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada.

Reason: High Resolution and Quality. Commons Picture of the Year 2011, Finalist.
Articles in which this image appears: Marsh wren
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Cephas

Support as nominator – — Cirt (talk) 00:49, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Cute capture, good detail. Sca (talk) 00:59, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose In this stance, as opposed to a side-on view, too much of the bird is concealed to allow identification. A good taxobox image should aid identification; however, anyone who's looked at Passeriformes will tell you there are many birds that look similar to the one presented here in all the visible detais except perhaps the tail (I'd have to double-check) - even then, the length of the tail is hard to guesstimate from the picture. Almost any other picture on the internet shows the upperside, with its distinctive, diagnostic markings. Of the reasonable-resolution images on Commons, this, this and this serve as better examples for identification. I've replaced the image in the article, which is currently too short to carry a second image - perhaps we can look into expanding it. Samsara 05:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: I've added a Gallery to the article Marsh wren and added the images suggested by Samsara to the article page. None are of as high quality photographs or resolution as this one, and this one is Commons Picture of the Year 2011, Finalist. Thank you for your consideration, — Cirt (talk) 05:27, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery images are generally thought not to qualify, which is why I suggested expanding the article. A translation from the much more comprehensive German article could be attempted, for instance. Samsara 05:37, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no worries, thank you! I still feel it is quite a High Resolution and High Quality image, as determined by being a Commons Picture of the Year 2011, Finalist. — Cirt (talk) 05:42, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Jobas (talk) 13:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Side-on views may be of greater technical EV, but for casual viewers of Main Page FPs some variation is desirable. Sca (talk) 16:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The criteria require that it has to add value to an article, hence my suggestions above to expand the article first, which isn't hard to do. Samsara 20:43, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very funny! --Tremonist (talk) 13:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hafspajen (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Unclear EV at this time. Josh Milburn (talk) 16:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:51, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome support What the... How does that bird do that? That is a wow! --Pokéfan95 (talk) 11:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm a little surprised by these supports. The image is used in a gallery on a stub article; supporting the image because it might be used better in the future is pretty ridiculous. Josh Milburn (talk) 18:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Just a matter of layout. Fixed now, it's not in the gallery any more. Added a nest and some eggs there instead. Hafspajen (talk) 15:06, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Cistothorus palustris CT.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:48, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]