Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue Screen of Death

The Blue Screen of Death
Voting period ends on 31 May 2012 at 02:00:05 (UTC)


 * Reason:Arguably one of the greatest and most infuriating things to have come out of the digital revolution is the "screen of death", which has been as much a symbol of our ongoing effort to perfect our digital technology as the computer, internet, and other digital products and services have been a monument to our technological progress. Here, we have the famous Blue Screen of Death unique to Microsoft related products, whose software could be said to have jump started the PC revolution so many years ago. In difference to the fact that this is a frustrating, if iconic, piece of our ongoing digital revolution history and the quest for better digital hardware and software, I am hereby submitted for Featured Picture consideration the Windows XP version of the Blue Screen of Death. Note that this is an .SVG vectorized image, and therefore while not ostensibly at the 1000px minimum needed to qualify for FP status it should not be an issue given the ability of .svg files to be resized.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Blue Screen of Death
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology
 * Creator:ScottSteiner

--Dusty 777 18:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 02:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I do not really feel that this meets WIAFP#3. Further, I'm hardly sold on this being public domain- it's a screenshot of a block of text. That isn't the same as a screenshot of a single word or phrase, as we would with a logo; it's more comparable to scanning a short newspaper article, which is certainly not something that would be acceptable. J Milburn (talk) 11:16, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per J Milburn. Dusty 777 18:07, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose although to be honest I had considered this for April Fools. Instead I used it to scare administrators / people who visit the pages of administrators throughout the project in one fell swoop. *cackle* — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)