Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Female Golden Stag Beetle.jpg

Female Golden Stag Beetle

 * Reason:High quality shot of an interesting insect showing its highly iridescent shell
 * Articles this image appears in:Beetle, Iridescence
 * Creator:Fir0002


 * Support as nominator --Fir0002 13:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The beetle looks funny on the white background, similar to the one below. During my few attempts to refrigerate arthropods for "studio shots" I noticed that before they got warmed up, they were in an unnatural position similar to this one, and only afterwards did they look natural, but it was usually too late to properly photograph it then. --Muhammad (talk) 14:53, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Once more, with feeling... size ref or scale? Spikebrennan (talk) 15:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Approx 25mm --Fir0002 06:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Same as below - looks dead. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support for EV in Iridescence. Makeemlighter (talk) 16:07, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: Good detail and I don't mind the white background. The pose doesn't look particularly "dead", but even if it did I'm not sure I would care about that, either.  I'd like to see this in articles for the family, genus, and the species, so I just might work on those.   Mae din \talk 07:06, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Who cares if it looks dead, it's illustrating iridescence. It meets the technical requirements, looks nice. I'll vote, why not? Nezzadar (talk) 19:48, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose per my earlier comments and noodle. Ev for iriscidence is also limited as that article is filled with images. --Muhammad (talk) 22:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * True, but I think it's valuable as an example of biological iridescence. The other images don't show that quite as well. The one that's an FP is certainly excellent, but I'm not sure it has as much EV for this topic as the current nom. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

- no consensus. --jjron (talk) 07:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)