Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saltwater Limpet

Saltwater limpet diagram[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Apr 2016 at 19:11:00 (UTC)

Reason: Freely licensed, accurate, and visually interesting image
Articles in which this image appears: Limpet, Patellogastropoda
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology
Creator: KDS4444

Support as nominator – This one has been in the hopper for three years now, am finally more or less satisfied with it, please provide suggestions for improvements or point out errors, thanks!KDS4444^Talk 19:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - It looks like you are trying to say that the aorta, ventricle and the atrium are part of the pericardium, which does not seem accurate. Also is auricle the correct term? I thought that was outdated, but I'm not sure about this particular species. Mattximus (talk) 22:48, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. I am trying to say that the pericardium is a sack containing the auricle, ventricle, and aorta, as described here. To the best of my knowledge and understanding, this is still the accepted arrangement for these parts (though if you know differently then please tell me so I can correct the drawing). Also: I am finding the word "auricle" used in this text, which is pretty recent (Bulletin 38 is a Japanese publication well known for its coverage of the mollusca). The original work on which I based my information and terms is rather old, but as far as I know, it isn't considered flawed and its terms remain mostly current (though I did use "digestive gland" rather than "hepatopancreatic gland", which was the now-obsolete term given in the text, see above link re: the pericardium for said text). KDS4444^Talk 04:51, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support, assuming KD's image is accurate. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:19, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you wouldn't expect anything less of me! There is a fantastic Flickr photo album of a closely-related species, Patella ulyssiponensis, available here, which was only published in December of last year (long after I first tried to draw this limpet, but an invaluable resource for me as I tried to bring it up to FP quality). I have taken a certain amount of artistic/ creative license with regard to color and texture, but the placement of the organs is mathematically precise (save the shell and mantle, which I have excluded for obvious reasons). KDS4444^Talk 10:11, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:55, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The positioning of the labels is a bit messy. Sometimes there is a large gap between the label and the line, sometimes a small gap, apparently at random. 86.171.43.82 (talk) 23:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. You are right, and it is not random: it is an artifact of the way that Adobe Illustrator generates SVG files, and subsequently of the ways that different browsers interpret the resulting code. It is a problem I struggle with every time I try to generate an SVG diagram using Illustrator (which is a great program with some annoying flaws). I have already been looking into this, and will be posting a revised image post haste with this labeling issue (hopefully) fixed. KDS4444^Talk 10:40, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. KDS4444^Talk 13:20, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Jobas (talk) 00:20, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:16, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:16, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks anyway! KDS4444^Talk 06:39, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]