[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[geni]

2009/7/14 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:.
>
>> Here's a great example:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Face_of_a_Southern_Yellowjacket_Queen
>>
>> What an incredible image. This is a *wasp*, and we have great detail
>> of the *hairs* on its forehead. Stunning sharpness, and this photo
>> would not be out of place in a good science magazine. Yet two editors
>> managed to oppose its promotion to "featured" on the basis of the tip
>> of one antenna being obscured by an out of focus leaf fragment.
>> Another, neutral, came up with "An amazing detail and sharpness...with
>> a clumsy framing and cropping ruining an otherwise excellent picture.
>> ... I will not support the promotion as I find little excuse for those
>> flaws."
>>
>> These would be perfectly apt comments if we were voting on National
>> Geographic's "photo of the year". But Wikipedia "featured picture"?
>> Whee.
>>
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>
> You should ask Durova about featured image reviews - she had a live one not
> long ago. Photograph of a moon (Eros perhaps?) that was the best that anyone
> could possibly take with current (government) technology, but it was opposed
> for
> reasons more suited to critiquing everyday items in posed situations.
>
> Nathan

Titan the image was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Titan_globe.jpg
which rather runs into issues with the existence of the more recent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Titan2005.jpg


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geni