Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Notophthalmus viridescensPCCA20040816-3983A.jpg

Eastern Newt Notophthalmus viridescens
Note: this is a revised version of a recently delisted Featured Picture. During the course of the original candidacy, this edit was uploaded to address colour balance concerns and was subsequently promoted. Shortly aftewards, the photographer raised some issues with the colour balance of the promoted edit, leading to a lengthy discussion on the FPC talk page, which in turn resulted in the FP being delisted. Please note that the "original" image has since been overwritten by the photographer with this larger, colour-corrected version.
 * Reason:Clear, sharp, highly encyclopedic image.
 * Proposed caption:A terrestrial subadult Eastern newt or red eft, Notophthalmus viridescens. Salamanders of the family Salamandridae with aquatic adult stages are called newts. Some newts, including the Eastern newt, have a juvenile terrestrial stage called the eft. The red eft has bright aposematic coloration to warn predators of its highly toxic skin.
 * Articles this image appears in:Eastern Newt, Salamandridae, Newt
 * Creator:User:Cotinis


 * Support as nominator mikaultalk 15:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Thanks for straightening this out a bit. --Cynops3 (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose: see here. —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 20:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I honestly have no idea what you mean. Your link points to a page section displaying two perfectly well-focussed images. If you would like to refer people to common errors involving focussing, exposure and so on, there is a long-established FPC criteria subpage here, which you might find a more effective reference. --mikaultalk 22:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Out of experience, it is best that you avoid linking to "personalised" criteria. People often view it as rude and expect to read an oppose rationale without having to link to someone's subpage. I have also seen personalised criteria used in discussions like RfA where they have again been fairly unpopular. Chris.B  •  talk  16:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, per discussion/photographer comments. Kaldari (talk) 21:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support the happy medium of color correction. Enuja  (talk) 00:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I'm glad I noticed the photographer's edit! Matt Deres (talk) 00:52, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

as requested. MER-C 02:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

--Dusty 777 17:41, 9 May 2012 (UTC)