Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Stratocumulus Clouds (1)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Jun 2013 at 18:36:39 (UTC)

Original – An edited photo of stratocumulus clouds seen from the International Space Station

Reason: Featured picture on Commons, an alt version of File:ISS-34_Stratocumulus_clouds.jpg
Articles in which this image appears: Stratocumulus cloud and Earth
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
Creator: Original by NASA ISS Expedition 34, edited by Julian Herzog

Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 18:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. It's a gorgeous pic, but I'm a little torn on how it functions as an illustration (is it a weather shot or a space shot, how much insight comes from it).TCO (talk) 19:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's both a weather shot and a space shot, and I think seeing how the clouds appear from space especially over such a large area has good EV. --Pine^✉ 19:43, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question Why wasn't the original replaced in the articles? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 23:33, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since this is just an alt and the common practice when we have a nomination for an original and an alt is to keep the original until the nom passes and then if the alt is more popular the closer replaces the original with the alt in the article, I didn't replace the originals in the articles. If someone thinks this is a problem for this nom then I'll do it myself while this nom is happening. --Pine^✉ 05:58, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. But criterion #5 does say the image needs to be in use: "The image is used in one or more articles.[2] It is preferable to wait a reasonable period of time (at least 7 days) after the image is added to the article before nominating it, though [the 7 day wait] may be ignored in obvious cases, such as replacing a low-resolution version of an image with a higher resolution of the same image". I've already seen where FP images aren't recognized as "better" or useful by editors of the image's respective articles (I linked to such an image in one of the current nominations), and their say is just as important as ours, except they don't (or don't want to) participate here. With your nom, I don't see the big deal, but I don't see the reason to slip into poor habits either. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:23, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]