Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Housefly Anatomy

Anatomy of a Housefly

 * Reason:Nice encyclopedic picture
 * Proposed caption:The housefly, Musca domestica, is the most common fly occurring in homes, the most familiar of all flies and indeed one of the most widely distributed animals; it is a pest that can carry and transmit serious diseases.
 * Articles this image appears in:Housefly
 * Creator:Al2

"I always try to complement with other information such as glossaries and studies." --Al2 16:16, 5 December 2007
 * Support as nominator Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 19:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Help with the caption will be greatly appreciated. Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 19:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * reluctant oppose Nicely implemented, but I think the model that was used to generate the illustration must have been sickly or dessicated. The abdomen is collapsed and looks almost wasp-like. Compare the profile views of live flies. de Bivort 20:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * support with condition I dont know jack about flies, so i wonder as user Bivort does if this is correct. Otherwise 100% support. 76.171.1.235 (talk) 03:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)  anonymous vote deleted —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 22:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment A similar objection was raised at commons and the author said,
 * Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 04:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


 * That doesn't mean much to me. Still oppose. de Bivort 05:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, image needs sources to satisfy WP:V and WP:RS and to show that it is an accurate diagram. --gren グレン 17:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you have a look at the nom on commons? MER-C 01:22, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * oppose reference in commons nom suggests that model was a Lucilia sericata, not Musca domestica. Samsara (talk • contribs) 06:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * If that is the only problem then why not just change the caption? Cacophony (talk) 07:28, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

-- Chris.B •  talk  16:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not good, because it's much too unclear, you can lose track very fast. —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 22:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)