Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fat Mouse

Fat Mouse


Television news is always running stories on obesity. To illustrate the story, they go outside, and film fat people walking down the street, but crop their faces out. I think there's a fundamental lack of respect in presenting the issue that way. So I give you Image:Fatmouse.jpg. It clearly illustrates obesity, and it's cute, without being disrespectful. Uploaded by Ta bu shi da yu from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Help! Someone who knows how to download the real picture, please do so! While the current picture is stunning, it is not properly categorized. Dan Watts 13:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC) Raven4x4x 05:14, 18 September 2005 (UTC) 
 * Nominate and support. -- Norvy (talk) 03:48, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * You know, I've think I've seen this picture in the news before... --AllyUnion (talk) 10:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * If I remember correctly where I saw this picture before, the fat one was injected with a growth hormone and the thin one wasnt. Just an extra tidbit of info about this picture.
 * On the small side and overcompressed; artifacts are visible in the blue cloth. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 21:31, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not being used to illustrate anything. Can we also confirm that it was administered with growth hormone rather than being genetically engineered? Dunc|&#9786; 00:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The site where the image is from gives no explanation of the image- it could just be an obese mouse and a regular mouse, however the could also be mice used for leptin research which may or may not be mutants. Unless it can be verified one way or another it doesn't illustrate anyting other than obesity. It may also be the case that this is a copyrighted image that is just used on a US gov site, there is nothing there to suggest that this image is in the PD.--nixie 00:38, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Mice are overexposed. Enochlau 13:20, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * ( − ) Oppose Small and I don't like the blue background - makes the mice too blue. --Fir0002 07:45, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. This is the second time I've reverted vandalism to this picture. Raven4x4x 13:25, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not up to FP image quality. - Bevo 01:01, 16 September 2005 (UTC)