Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Pigs July 2008-1.jpg

Pot-bellied pigs

 * Reason:Good quality and high resolution depiction of an interesting breed of domestic pigs, adding value to the articles
 * Articles this image appears in:Pot-bellied pig, Domestic pig, Zoological Garden, Lisbon Zoo
 * Creator:Joaquim Alves Gaspar


 * Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:12, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Conditional support pending OTRS confirmation of model permission from the two administrators who posed for this. ;) Durova Charge! 18:40, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * In clarification, yes the support is real. Durova Charge! 08:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support interesting, hi-quality, decent EV. — Diego_pmc  Talk 19:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support because they're so cute. kidding. Very good choice. Intothewoods29 (talk) 00:50, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Support. The EV and quality are acceptable, but there's no real "wow". Nautica Shad es  17:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Pretty well covers pot bellied pigs. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 10:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Nothing really special here. Seems like you were just strolling by the petting zoo. (Giligone (talk) 23:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC))
 * Oppose For EV, I'd prefer they were standing so you could see their legs. Mfield (talk) 00:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Nothing special - agree with Giligone. Mfield also makes a good point on EV --Abdominator (talk) 03:55, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support EV : can't see the tails ;) Still good enough to me, and a huge cute factor. Blieusong (talk) 20:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Conditional support if retained in Zoological Garden or Lisbon Zoo (sorry for adding further complexity to the nom, but we need to get this right). Otherwise oppose The EV is just not there to be comprehensive for Pot-bellied pig, and I don't see it making a particular contribution to Domestic pig (which, btw, is a mess of an article right now). Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 11:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Info -- The picture was moved to the "Education" chapter of the Zoological Garden article, as they are in a section of the Lisbon Zoo dedicated to the education of school children: the "Quintinha" (Little Farm) -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:58, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case, you may want to review this change and consider whether the pot-bellied pigs isn't a much better image overall to head up the article, or whether we have another image of a zoo animal that is more attractive than the cut-off low-image-quality giraffes. I'm not saying the article *has* to have a picture up top, I really don't mind either way. I just know that in all likelihood, somebody else will stick another medium quality image up there, and this we should definitely avoid. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 08:18, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I found a better image to lead the article (Image:Siberian Tiger by Malene Th.jpg). The education section is a better place for the pigs IMO. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:34, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Temporary summary 7.5 supports, 3 opposes. Has had no new !votes in three days and looks like a promotion. I won't close it because I participated - maybe someone else can? Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 11:19, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course we're not just counting votes - the wait is because there's been questions on the EV, and the image was in fact added to two articles late in the nom to try to up the EV. Owing to that we need a bit of a wait to see that it sticks (and FWIW, if it didn't stick in those zoo articles your conditional vote would make it 6.5/4 (or now 7/4) using your vote counting method, and would likely be 'no consensus'). I'm not closing any for a while, but I think MER-C's doing a close in a couple of days, so he can decide then. --jjron (talk) 15:56, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I'm quite the person to determine whether my conditional support is being met - thank you, John! Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 11:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak support The image should be downsampled. Not enough detail for this resolution. Width at 2000 seems alright. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2008-09-12 14:22Z
 * Check out the hairs on the RHS chappie. You'll find a lot of detail there. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 22:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I'm puzzled with the delay of the decision, since there is a comfortable majority of favourable opinions. Is there any further element that I can't see? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 05:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)