Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Physignathus lesueurii howittii.jpg

Australian water dragon

 * Reason:We don't cover that many reptiles at FPC. This is quite an interesting one. It is true the tail is partially obscured, but I don't think that its too significant. I believe this water dragon was attempting to warm up. The overcast weather gives nice soft lighting.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Australian water dragon, Physignathus, Agaminae, Basking
 * Creator:Noodle snacks


 * Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 02:24, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Could that twig above his tail be cloned out? -- Zoo Fari  03:30, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Quite possibly, but I'm not sure which you are referring too could you be a little more specific? Circling it with the annotation tool at commons might be the quickest way to do that. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Zoo Fari  01:33, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I did it. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Wrong date, no caption. --Muhammad (talk) 16:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:30, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Nice quality and countering bias per nom --Muhammad (talk) 16:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Opposing per cut off tail is pretty much standard. Stating this in the nomination blurb doesn't render a picture exempt. If you want more reptile pictures to be featured, how about you nominate some other than your own? Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 09:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Are there any good ones besides his? --Muhammad (talk) 10:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Without stating opposition or support for this image, Muhammad, that's a terrible argument. We feature pictures on their own merits, not because we don't have anything better. If a picture is not good enough, we can wait. Are you suggesting we should happily feature images on an underrepresented subject, even if they are not of the usual quality, only to delist them when something better comes along? Yes, if there's no chance of a replacement (I believe we have a featured image of a frog that is now extinct?) or if replacements are very unlikely (we frequently turn away pictures of common subjects if they are touch-and-go quality-wise), we can be a little more lenient. However, the fact that we have few featured pictures on a certain topic should not mean we ignore flaws; it should just mean we put more effort into searching for images. Try asking at the WikiProject for the best images- they may know of some very nice ones stashed away that no one has got around to nominating. Check the featured lists on Commons and other projects. Check any websites with free images again. Don't just accept a weak image in an attempt to redress the balance- would we accept badly referenced or incomplete articles at FAC just because they're on an underrepresented topic? J Milburn (talk) 13:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 21:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)