Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Grapevinesnail 01.jpg

Helix pomatia edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Oct 2010 at 17:11:34 (UTC)

 
A grapevine snail
Reason
Too small, seems to be a common enough snail that a new image meeting current standards could be nominated, this image and this image are examples of images used in the species' article that do meet the standard for example.
Articles this image appears in
Snail
Previous nomination/s
Original nomination
Nominator
I'ḏOne
  • DelistI'ḏOne 17:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist, absolutely. This wouldn't have a chance of passing today, and is far, far below current standards. J Milburn (talk) 17:31, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment There's no need to exaggerate like you just did - this is of a perfectly fine technical standard. It was 1024 pixels wide when promoted to FP on Wikipedia and VI on Commons (defeating this alternate candidate as recently as January 2009), and was cropped, apparently on an initiative of boldness that is not backed by any consensus, by one editor after the fact, and uploaded over the top. We could just revert it and that would be the end of the size argument. As for any other argument, this is encyclopaedic in composition, well exposed and noise-free. Any notion that this is "far, far below current standards" is purely imaginary. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is that a Keep vote then? I still don't think this would pass today (people would insist it be poster size, might be against the sterile, unnatural background, would insist it be used on the species (which it's not) and not just Snails in general, would probably just nominate a picture of the shell taken from 5 different angles) and that a better picture is possible, but I suppose at least get it back over the minimum and I'll consider withdrawing. --I'ḏOne 20:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •   I withdraw my nomination --I'ḏOne 22:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kept