Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Fluorite, Calcite and Pyrite, El Hammon Mine, Morocco.jpg

Fluorite

 * Reason:An aesthetic and encyclopaedic combination of minerals.
 * Articles this image appears in:Fluorite
 * Creator:Noodle snacks


 * Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 07:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose I think the extra minerals are too distracting; an illustration of fluorite should be clear enough that a caption shouldn't be necessary to identify what is actually fluorite and what isn't. Also this isn't a particularly compelling specimen - this is far more striking. Finally the blur you applied (?) to the background doesn't really work for me aesthetically --Fir0002 10:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Fir, also, Fluorite has a very characteristic cubic geometry, and this doesn't show that particularly well. de Bivort 21:55, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, cubic geometry isn't always a characteristic of fluorite. "It is an isometric mineral with a cubic habit, though octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon". Noodle snacks (talk) 05:12, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Doesn't really exhibit those forms either. de Bivort 01:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Debivort. Based on this image, the cubic structure is essential. ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 01:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above. Sasata (talk) 08:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 02:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC)