Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Swamp Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby Feeding[edit]
- Reason
- This is a high quality image of a Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). The Swamp Wallaby is rare amongst the many species of macropods (kangaroos, wallabies, etc) in that they almost exclusively graze, however this species browses on leaves, etc. This photo shows this rare characteristic very well, including the way it grasps the plant and leaves in its 'hands'. (I also have a possible 'alternative' image being used in the Wallaby article , but I have a slight preference for the nominated image.)
- Articles this image appears in
- Swamp Wallaby
- Creator
- jjron
- Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 16:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
- Comment subject is cut off. Is there an alternative with the full subject in frame? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Meta-discussion largely unrelated to this nomination
- Yes there is - refer to the lead image in the article, which is of this same individual. But IMO this has better EV as it shows the rare feeding behaviour better, as I have pointed out in the nom. Besides, the full animal is not required, even if there wasn't a good reason - refer to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals for plenty of other examples of 'cut off' mammal FPs. --jjron (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
- Well, it's required by me to get my support. And I don't care that other people have been willing to pass cut-off animals in the past. Consensus can change and all that. No criteria-lawyering needed here. Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 07:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Consensus can change, but unfortunately you don't create the consensus by yourself. The consensus is expressed in Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria, and that does not exclude images that have been framed in this way. Thank you. --jjron (talk) 08:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
- Well, it's required by me to get my support. And I don't care that other people have been willing to pass cut-off animals in the past. Consensus can change and all that. No criteria-lawyering needed here. Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 07:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Yes there is - refer to the lead image in the article, which is of this same individual. But IMO this has better EV as it shows the rare feeding behaviour better, as I have pointed out in the nom. Besides, the full animal is not required, even if there wasn't a good reason - refer to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals for plenty of other examples of 'cut off' mammal FPs. --jjron (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
- What about the food actually going into its stomack?--Mbz1 (talk) 01:29, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- What about it? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- Support either. Each works nicely in the article. Seeing it eating isn't that important to me.Dwayne Reed (talk) 18:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose A good, illustrative image of the diet of this wallaby. However, I do not care for the lighting, which distracts from the subject. (Dimly lit wallaby, very bright background.) Mangostar (talk) 22:27, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
No consensus MER-C 06:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)