Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Punnett Square

Punnett Square
Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2013 at 02:13:38 (UTC)
 * Reason:This is a well done image of a Punnett square that effectively illustrates the topic and has high EV and relevance in the articles that it is used in.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Punnett square, Test cross
 * FP category for this image:Diagrams, drawings, and maps
 * Creator:Pbroks13


 * Support as nominator -- Cat-five  t  c   02:13, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose, a Punnett square could be made with any colours and any letter, but yellow upon white is (relatively) difficult to read and the difference between the small 'y' and capital 'Y' is not as great as, say, 'r' and 'R'. Also, it seems to me that, in general, with pigmentation, darker colours tend to be dominant and lighter colours tend to be recessive (intuitively, if the presence of an allele R produces a pigment whereas the allele r does not produce it, then both RR and Rr will be pigmented whereas only rr will not be pigmented). That said, apart from design choices, this picture is technically still very well executed and is quite decent in its own right. --Purpy Pupple (talk) 03:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * To an extent I agree with you and if I were to create something like this I would never choose yellow as a valid color choice. That being said at least the creator used dark yellow which makes it a bit easier to look at.  While you have a valid criticism, I don't feel so strongly about changing it to edit it and upload a new copy just to get your support though, since it doesn't IMO hurt the EV or usefulness of the image.  Cat-five  t  c   06:33, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I just think that, since it is very easy to make a graphic of a Punnett square, we have every reason to expect the Featured Punnett square to be of the utmost quality with no flaws whatsoever. If I have time later this week I might make one. Purpy Pupple (talk) 23:39, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * If another is made, which genotype would be used? I'd have thought (probably subjectively, mind) that a Rr–Rr cross would have the most EV because it shows that traits not necessarily observable are passed to generations and may show at some random, 25% chance point. 129.234.235.108 (talk) 08:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The green/yellow pea pod phenotype is symbolic in that it echoes one of Mendel's original experiments, and I think is preferable to some other arbitrary colour choice. However, Purpy Pupple is right in that green should be the dominant trait. (Things are reversed, however, for the seeds.) I also would prefer a Gg×Gg cross as mentioned by 129.etc. --Paul_012 (talk) 23:40, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Support, nice clean illustration. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose current version. I don't like that the colours given to the genotype letters are much more prominent than those of the phenotype illustrations. This is potentially confusing. The pea pods should be bigger in order to illustrate the fact that those (rather than that of the letters) are the actual phenotypic colours. The colours could even be removed from the letters (like most illustrations elsewhere); what the letters represent should be made explicit in the caption anyway. --Paul_012 (talk) 00:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment I've made some new Punnett square pictures for eye colour. Feel free to discuss. Purpy Pupple (talk) 04:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment I like. Set nomination? 129.234.235.108 (talk) 08:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 07:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)