Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scintillating scotoma

Scintillating scotoma

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Original – A depiction of a scintillating scotoma that was almost spiral-shaped, with the scintillations resembling a Widmanstätten pattern, and with distortion of shapes but otherwise melting into the background similarly to the physiological blind spot.

Reason: This picture is an excellent depiction of what a scintillating scotoma looks like, which is very difficult, because it is a visual aura.
Articles in which this image appears: Scintillating scotoma
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others
Creator: Mikael Häggström

Support as nominator --WikiDonn (talk) 22:06, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm concerned about WP:OR here. The description states that it is self-made, so how do we know this is an accurate representation of the characteristics of this general phenomenon? -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 23:54, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. It fits the description according to the article and its sources, doesn't it? --WikiDonn (talk) 00:33, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Remember that Wikipedia:OR#Original_images allows a limited amount of original research, and, in particular, for a visual aura only visible to a small number of people, the person making it should have or be working with someone who has the condition, not just basing it on article descriptions, otherwise you're going to end up with something that has no guarantee of matching even a single case. The illustration should certainly be carefully checked against reference materials, to check it's typical. But, at the same time, without the personal experience, there's no way to get the smaller details that can't be described by simple words. 86.178.192.213 (talk) 12:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:14, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]