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Great interview with JJ, thanks for that. It's exciting to see that someone, learning partly from wiki peer reviews, can improve his photography to that level. It's interesting to hear the comments about how he works in the field. --99of9 (talk) 00:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I really enjoyed this interview. It's good to put a face behind the person who takes the pictures as well. Looking forward to next week's interview. – SMasters (talk) 02:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

The juxtaposition of the page title and the lead photograph is unfortunate. The title is "JJ Harrison on avian photography", and then it is immediately followed by a stonking photograph of an elephant. Rather a non sequitur, I think. The article should go directly after the title, and the regular features below that. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 06:48, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Hehe, yes, that made me smile too. --99of9 (talk) 06:51, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Good point. How is it now? Tony (talk) 08:03, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I would be bolder and do as JackLee suggested, but will leave it to you this time, I've been bold enough with Melbourne :). --Elekhh (talk) 08:24, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Problem is, this is a regular page, and readers expect to see the newly promoted material listed. It's unusual to have a special story built in on this page, but the paucity of promotions suggested this was a good edition for it. I think people would complain if we completely reversed the usual format. Tony (talk) 09:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I thought you were a reformer ;), anyway I guess my feedback is that the idea for the interview was a really good one. --Elekhh (talk) 10:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Tony, I'll leave it to you, but I don't think people would really object so long as the featured material appeared somewhere on the page. I think the problem is the page title. Because it is right at the top, readers expect to see some content related to it immediately after it. However, they are confronted with a pachyderm. Perhaps the page title should simply be "Featured content", and the fact that there is an interview (and an interesting one, I should add) with JJ Harrison lower down the page should be in a less obtrusive box on one side of the screen. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 12:03, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I hear what you're saying. Management doesn't like major changes to SP articles after publication; maybe I'd have done it in reverse with hindsight. I've now bolded the notice at the top. (I do love the non-avian elephant right at the top, I have to say.) Tony (talk) 13:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Next time I suggest putting an avian suidae up the top... that will make FP for sure. --99of9 (talk) 13:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Awesome interview. It's people like JJ that makes Wikipedia so great! Big cheer to him. Jason Quinn (talk) 16:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

See also this new post on the Wikimedia blog (portrait of another FP contributor on Commons who says he was in part inspired by this Signpost story about JJ Harrison), as well as this one from last week about JJ Harrison himself, which cited the Signpost article. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 01:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)