Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Schwimmbeutler-drawing.jpg

Yapok sketch
Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2010 at 03:50:08 (UTC)
 * Reason:Actually this might be an inking or an etching.. Anyway it has EV because it's the lead image of the article, is I think literally the best image on Wikimedia of the animal and is quality scientific art.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Water Opossum, Brehms Tierleben
 * FP category for this image:Animals/Mammals
 * Creator:Friedrich Specht, uploaded by Petwoe


 * Support as nominator -- I'ḏ ♥  One  03:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose The digitizing seems decent enough. And when one clicks to look at the enlargement, the original artwork is really, really well done. But the thumbnail simply looks to *blah* for my taste, and my concern is that it is therefore not sufficiently eye-catching to elicit a “stop, stare & click” reaction. Greg L (talk) 04:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose, for now. I actually have a few concerns. Firstly, there is a clearly visible signature- this is being used to illustrate the animal, not the artwork, so a large, distracting signature like that is not a good thing, really. We wouldn't allow it from our photographers. Secondly, I'm not actually convinced a picture of this type is the best way to illustrate the creature- it's very crowded, and there's no colour. Thirdly, was this guy actually a biologist? I have concerns about the accuracy of the drawing. That's one weird looking fish, and the feet don't look right at all. The feet actually look to be incredibly distinctive, and this picture doesn't really do them justice (see this, this and this.) J Milburn (talk) 10:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, actually I think the foot is fine, notice that in both Specht's and in your links the foot bones are kind of long and nubby at the joints. If you look closely at the nomination's it does have webbing on the back foot as well and presumably on the front but can't be seen from this angle, though this link says the front feet are not webbed. I've checked, this is literally the best image of this animal on Wiki. I'm trying to find info on Specht, but this image is from a reference book put together by a zoologist-slash-illustrator, so I think it is credible. Not sure what to say about the signature, but it's old artwork and often artwork is signed by the artist, we have other examples of old art that have signatures, like this recently featured painting for instance. As for the fish, what's weird about it? That's what they look like and according to the article it's what they eat, all I can say is that it's some species of the very common Ray-finned fish class. This possum is the only aquatic marsupial. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  21:12, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Info/comment Different editions of Brehms Tierleben have been illustrated by different artists. When I last checked, some of them were still under copyright, so this may be one of the first to emerge into PD, and should really be used to illustrate the BT article, which currently only shows a frontispiece. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 03:34, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That image on the BT page is really good as well, I might take it to PPR to see what people have to say about it. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  03:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Added this to the BT page for whatever it's worth. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  05:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 04:41, 14 August 2010 (UTC)