Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Shrinking Aral Sea

The shrinking Aral Sea

Original - Animated map illustrating the extent of the shrinking of the Aral Sea 1960-2008

Reason: After watching the James bond film The World is not Enough I went snooping for the water bodies in the general region of the film, and eventually my curiosity lead me to the Aral Sea article. I had heard for some time that the sea was shrinking, but I did not realize that the shrinking was this bad until I had a look at this .gif file. After watching it I thought "wow", and then it dawned on me that "wow" could potentially mean FP, so thats why I am nominating the picture.
Articles this image appears in: Aral Sea, Aralkum
Creator: Images originates from commons, history says that one NordNordWest created the image and that it was modified by one Hk kng

Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 01:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Fascinating work. Please provide the sourcing in greater detail (specific URLs rather than top level domains, and specific printed works to the same level of specificity as any other featured content program). Durova²⁷³ 02:24, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, I agree about the need for more specific sourcing... also, would this be better as an APNG? How realistic is getting that done? gren グレン 19:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- By sourcing in greater detail, do you mean the actual maps used for the sources or the sources cited in the image itself? If its the former that could take me a while to track down, what with school and everything. TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 19:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - We could suspend the nomination if you think you can get that in a couple of weeks. Otherwise suggest withdrawing and renominating when you're ready. Durova²⁷⁵ 22:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Let me see how hard it will be to track down over the weekend, if I can't find anything then I will agree with the suspension of the nom. As luck would have it, both my teachers this semester are somewhat lax, so getting here this weekend shouldn't be too hard. :) TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 04:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think APNG is a good idea for FPs - you'll be excluding Internet Explo[dr]er users, which is about 60% of web surfers. (Same with SVG, but here MediaWiki comes to the rescue and rasterises for thumbnail display.). MER-C 10:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Having more trouble with this one than I thought; I guess its going to have wait until after Summer II ends for addressing. I hate to do this, but I would ask this be suspended for a few weeks so I can get clear my schooling first; when school ends this will be my #1 priority. TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 19:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted No quorum. --wadester 16 06:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]