Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Change in Average Temperature

Change in average temperature over the last 50 years[edit]

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Reason: This image is a high quality SVG that conveys climate change at a glance on a smartphone or as a thumbnail view. Fluctuations due to climate variability such as El Nino are smoothed out by using longer term averages of at least a decade. The map is improved from the highest quality rendering that NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio generates, with horizontal and vertical lines removed and with a more legible aspect ratio of Kavraiskiy VII. The customized text and key minimize space use and are easy to localize as an SVG.
Articles in which this image appears: Global warming
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Diagrams,_drawings,_and_maps/Maps
Creator: efbrazil based on source material from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

Support as nominator – Efbrazil (talk) 20:19, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
My ideal visualisation would be something like File:Global temperature changes.webm with a 10 year moving average. I still remain undecided. MER-C 19:32, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: FYI: There is a updated (data through 2019) version: File:1880- Global surface temperature - heat map animation - NASA SVS.webm —RCraig09 (talk) 19:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support – per the reason section this "conveys it at a glance", and it shows a long term averaged trend. Animations are informative too but in a different way. I think we can have both as FPs, I don't see it as either/or. Bammesk (talk) 02:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - There's nothing remarkable about this image. It looks like any other mundane textbook graphic. A well done animation of changes over the years would certainly be better. -- Veggies (talk) 23:56, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support same reasons as Bammesk above. Comment - is the degree symbol by each number necessary for ease of reading - or should they be removed as already before the letter C above? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chidgk1 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Thanks! I checked online and I think you are right- typically degree symbols are omitted. I updated the graphic to remove them. Efbrazil (talk) 21:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional support Cool you're trying this. The full description of the image criterion is not yet met (criterion 7). What is the grey in the image? What map projection is used? What data sets is used? Make sure you use the word anomaly correctly or avoid it altogether (the arctic doesn't have 'more anomalies', but larger anomalies) In terms of composition I have some tiny suggestions: slightly increase space between title & figure, increase font size title, make the colour bar a bit slimmer. Femke Nijsse (talk) 13:37, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the good feedback as always Femke. Changes mostly made as you suggest, although I didn't adjust the font size for the title. I am trying to be consistent with other graphics there. Efbrazil (talk) 18:54, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:18, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]