[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Durova]

Saturn's moon Triton; not my nomination.  That delisting nomination was a
particularly bad example of two trends: FPC reviewers failing to read the
article for encyclopedic context, and the valued pictures program
functioning as a parasitic growth upon the FP program.  VP ought to be
casting a broader net and building its own base of support, rather than
trying to siphon the most encyclopedic images out of FP.  At the same time
as Triton was nominated, VP enthusiasts tried to delist the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki.

-Durova

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
>
>
> 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
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