Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Koi feeding, National Arboretum.jpg

Koi
Voting period ends on 1 Feb 2015  at 21:50:15 (UTC)
 * Reason:rather interesting picture, 3,008 × 2,000 pixels, used and colorful, showing the fish that are gathered with open mouth arround the food tossed in the pond.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Koi pond, Koi (magazine), Common carp, Fish, Koi and Water garden
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish
 * Creator:Arden, uploaded by AgnosticPreachersKid


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - It seems to show koi enthusiastically going after food. As an action image of fish, which is a bit unusual in itself, it is fine. I usually associate koi with tranquil waters, not so crowded, and conducive to peaceful meditation. This image shows another side to the fish. It also shows the variety of colors. That said, I will
 * Support - because it is a good, clear, image of koi in a situation with which they are not usually associated. CorinneSD (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Proposition I present Alternative version. ___ Alborzagros (talk) 10:46, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support ALT - Works a bit better; suggests an even larger number of koi outside the frame. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:12, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Well, that was a little bit of a surprise. I can't really agree that it is an ALT. Since the original file is big enough, and it is not exactly the same picture or a a better file of it... It is simply an other picture of the same subject. I knew about that picture  but I wasn't chosen that one myself, for a number of reasons. I really don't know why it has been posted. The picture I have chosen it is a close up picture, a portrait of the fish, snapping after the food that shows the fish  radially placed from the center in a circular  formation, with the mouth clearly visible, it has a clear composition, style, and it is used. The other one is a big pancake of several fish, they lay flat and it is rather different as a composition from the other one. I knew about that picture too, but I never chose that one. And now it is suddenly here, I don't really understand WHY it has been posted as an alt. As I said it is simply different.  --Hafspajen (talk) 15:05, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I mean if somebody else but the nominator chose an ALT it is because: the original picture is blurry, not big enough, a bigger version of the original, if there was some opposition against it, and so on.  One doesn't post an ALT in the middle of some other person's nomination, like: hey, this I like better - if there is not a reall reason for it. Hafspajen (talk) 15:14, 25 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment – The "ALT" doesn't appear to be used in any articles though so how can it even be considered? I think I would err towards the original anyway ... ... SagaciousPhil  - Chat 15:47, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - I agree with Hafs, but I also think the original image is more attractive. CorinneSD (talk) 18:52, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Original and  Remove ALT as not used in any articles, as confirmed by SagaciousPhil .  gaz hiley  15:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Procedural note The fact that the alternative isn't used is meaningless. If there would be a consensus that the alt should be promoted, than the original would be replaced in all articles with it by the closer. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:21, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Response If the original is suitably good and the alt isn't an improvement, then what's the point in the ALT?  gaz hiley  17:23, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Alts are added to nominations, if somebody thinks they are better than the original. It's a completely different matter whether you agree with it or not. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:38, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Well, it is not about liking it or not. This is an ALT that was called for. This is an ALT too.  But if I would place this one George Romney - Charlotte, Mrs Thomas Raikes - Google Art Project.jpg or this George Romney - Elizabeth, Lady Blunt - Google Art Project.jpg on Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby nomination as an ALT, that would be the same as this alt proposition. Hafspajen (talk) 23:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Support original—it's more of an "action shot". The ALT makes it look like a load of koi about to be carted away to the fish market—you don't eat koi.  I don't disagree that a more "tranquil" scene may be a more idealized image, but I've certainly seen large groups of them go at it like this. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 01:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support original - great shot! --Atsme  &#9775; Consult  03:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per Hafspajen and Curly Turkey. APK whisper in my ear  07:52, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – I've given this a bit of thought over the last few days; I still prefer the original. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 12:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support original - The original captures the subject matter vastly better. --The one that forgot (talk) 06:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a clear consensus that the original should be promoted. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 1 February 2015 (UTC)