Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sun over Lake Hawea, New Zealand.jpg

Crepuscular rays (2019) edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Aug 2019 at 18:56:03 (UTC)

Original – Sunbeams over Lake Hawea, New Zealand

Reason: As it stands, this is probably the best image we have for this heavily photographed subject, and certainly is better than previously delisted FPs. Passed Commons FPC unanimously a few months ago. May replace existing FP File:Crepuscular rays at Sunset near Waterberg Plateau edit.jpg if successful. The other FP, File:Crepuscular rays in ggp 2.jpg, has found uses in illustrating the place it was taken (and should be rescoped accordingly).
Articles in which this image appears: Crepuscular rays, Sunlight
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena
Creator: Michal Klajban

Support as nominator – MER-C 18:56, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It's close, but I think File:Crepuscular rays in ggp 2.jpg is more encyclopaedic. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Can we distinguish crepuscular rays from clouds and crepuscular rays from nearby objects, and feature both? —David Eppstein (talk) 17:33, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment According to the article Sunbeam, of which Crepuscular rays is a subsection, the depicted rays are not crepuscular rays (i.e. when the sun is below the horizon), but sunbeams (when the sun is at some point in the sky, shining through openings in clouds or between other objects). I am no expert for sunrays of any kind, and I give great trust in wikipedia's content, which accurately conforms with the statements in the following article britannica.com: crepuscular-ray. The current entanglement of usage is also prominent by this image being (a) titled "Sunbeams over Lake Hawea, New Zealand" in the Sunbeam article and (b) "Sunlight shining through clouds, giving rise to crepuscular rays" in the Sunlight article.
I really like this image as it nicely combines sunbeams and clouds of mist rising from the sea, and which, by the way, gains yet more at full resolution, and I thus would vote for full support (were I entitled - still 41 wikipedia edits to go ...).
But, and this is important, all wikipedia contributions should be as accurate as possible, which may mean rewriting incorrect captions. All taken I pledge for a new scope in the manner of Featured picture for sunbeams instead of (incorrectly attributed) crepuscular rays. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:29, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:30, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]