Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/C elegans

SVG anatomy of C. elegans edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Aug 2013 at 11:58:02 (UTC)

Original – Anatomy of the nematode C. elegans

Reason: Image is of excellent quality and technical standard, conveys its subject matter concisely and completely, contains no artifacts, and still has "wow" factor.
Articles in which this image appears: Caenorhabditis elegans
FP category for this image: WP:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams
Creator: KDS444 (nominator's Wikimedia acct. username)

Support as nominator -- KDS4444^Talk 11:58, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I haven't error-checked it against other illustrations, but it looks pretty accurate off-hand. It's also beautiful work, with nice use of partial transparencies and gradients, suitable for textbook use. A great illustration of a very important model organism Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Adam! And please feel free to fact-check — my current employer is a microbiologist who specializes in this organism, and I had him vet the image before I put it up here for consideration. He said it looked very good. But the best independent verifiable resource for checking is probably the Wormatlas page on hermaphrodites. KDS4444^Talk 04:11, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support quality and encyclopedic value both are fine to me. Godhulii 1985 (talk) 10:12, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Adam. Now go get this in a biology textbook! --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

<Blush> KDS4444^Talk 07:53, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Part of the wow factor is that this shows how many offspring this self-fertilizing hermaphrodite species can produce as the eggs pass by the spermathecae and get fertilized. The drawing is pretty and unusual enough that it piques curiosity, and clear enough that it provides some answers. AndrewPapp (talk) 07:43, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Happy to accept this as accurate if it's been looked over by an expert. J Milburn (talk) 17:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very useful diagram, one minor comment, the arrow for the gut lumen sort of has two possible features it could point to, could you shift it slightly to the left to remove any possibility of confusion?Terri G (talk) 10:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done. Better? KDS4444^Talk 10:41, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Superb diagram of a fascinating anatomy and physiology. IMHO this is exactly the sort of thing that FP should be about, not the endless stream of dime-a-dozen portraits and dull snapshots it seems to have become. Plutonium27 (talk) 15:06, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 01:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Is there an extra space after the ampersand and "anus" in "rectum & anus"? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:49, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why, yes there was. I have removed it. Please let me know if you spot any other such typos or errors-- I want this to be as perfect as possible. Thank you! KDS4444^Talk 12:20, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite adult-en.svg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Placed in the FP category Animals/Others. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]