Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Noctilucent clouds

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Oct 2010 at 23:11:34 (UTC)

 
Original - Noctilucent clouds over Kuresoo bog, Soomaa National Park, Estonia
Reason
good quality and encyclopedic value
Articles in which this image appears
Noctilucent clouds
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Atmospheric optics
Creator
Martin Koitmäe
  • You seem to be concerned with criteria 5: Adds value to an article and helps readers to understand an article. I don't really see any problems with that - the image is used in the article and helps readers to understand the phenomenon. What I can't understand is that how come all the encyclopedic value is reserved to the lead image. I don't think that the same criteria can be used to judge the encyclopedic value of different types of images: there could possibly be a number of featured images of, say Fridtjof Nansen, a very notable person, but speaking of noctilucent clouds - all the images of the subject will inherently look pretty much the same. Sure, the composition and artistic value can vary a lot, but you can't have ten completely different images with huge encyclopedic value, which is possible with Nansen. So, how can you say that the second image doesn't add anything 'that the lead image hasn't already shown' , when you could also say it the other way around? Composition wise the current lead image probably fits the infobox better, but that doesn't mean that the other images in the article are worthless (and the article definitely isn't crowded with images). Then it comes down to technical details - the nominated image has 7.7 MP and is of good technical quality, the current lead image is also of good quality but has mere 0.4 MP. K731 (talk) 18:39, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Criterion 5 is my concern, yes. If this is the best illustration of the subject as a whole (as opposed to an illustration of a particular issue) then, I ask again, why is it not the lead image? It's pretty much redundant to the lead image, so far as I can see. J Milburn (talk) 00:56, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is that something that can be seen in the image (just the image alone)? If it is something that has to be computed from the metadata, from this one it can also be computed. From the latitude and date(time) you get how deep is the sun in the horizon, and with the diffraction of the atmosphere it tells you a lower bound for the altitude of the illuminated clouds. Foldedwater (talk) 22:53, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe you mean the apparent altitude... and I think I agree with you. In this one they don't seem to be that high. Foldedwater (talk) 22:57, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Helkivad ööpilved Kuresoo kohal.jpgMaedin\talk 18:34, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]