Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Daylily

Daylily [edit]

Photo is an accurate and stunning version of a beautiful veriety of daylily. Appears in the Daylily article, and was created by LiquidGhoul

Nominate and support. - liquidGhoul 01:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I would much more prefer 1) a more orange hued daylily ... and 2) a full flower with stem as opposed to just the opened buds. ALKIVAR™ 06:51, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- A friendly reminder that you should not vote until the 2 day commenting period is over. Enochlau 09:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 1) I do not understand this request. The photo that represents a plant, should not be rejected for the personal preference of someone who like more orange flowers. 2) The stem of a daylily, is small and insignificant. The lower part usually covered by the foliage, and the upper part by the flower. This is also inconsistent with many of the featured pictures of flowers. Image:Clivia miniata1.jpg (clivias have a very prominant stalk) Image:Close up yellow rose.jpg and Image:Single lavendar flower02.jpg, all show just the open flower. The foliage is illustrated lower in the article, this photo is for the flower (which is arguably the more important part for most people). --liquidGhoul 11:09, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - When I think of a day lily I picture the bright orange variety that I see daily when I walk out of my house. To the best of my knowledge the bright orange Hemerocallis fulva varietal is much more common, as such it is the one I would rather see represented rather than the less common Tom Collins hybrid variety. Even our article daylily states as fact that the more Orange "Tawny Daylily" is more common:
    Hemerocallis fulva, the Tawny Daylily and the sweet-smelling H. flava, the Lemon Lily, were early imports from England to 17th century American gardens that soon established themselves along roadsides. The Tawny Daylily especially is so widely feral that it is often mistaken for a native American wildflower.
  - Does this help clarify my reasonings? As for the flower bud only, I still would prefer to see a portion of the stem w/ leaf as can be seen in this illustration from commons. And as Enochlau points out a higher resolution image would be better also. ALKIVAR™ 21:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Do you have a higher resolution version? We generally like our featured pics to be a little bigger. Also, my two cents: it's a little ordinary, and the weeds in the bottom right are annoying. Enochlau 12:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have uploaded a revision. It is much higher resolution, and I cropped it differently to include the flower buds. I also got rid of the weeds at the bottom. --liquidGhoul 22:12, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
( − ) Oppose I think because all flowers are naturally beautiful, it takes an exceptional photo to be the pick of the bunch, and sorry, but I don't think this is the one. --Fir0002 10:26, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Although the problems I initially raised have been addressed (mostly - I can still see a few weeds), I will oppose. It's not terribly exceptional. Enochlau 07:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, I agree with User:Fir0002 on this one. --Dschwen 08:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 02:59, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]