Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Salt Lake Valley from space

Salt Lake Valley from space


I believe this is a great and informative space shot that shows the geography and settlement patterns of the area very well. It's of high resolution and makes you want to know more about the area (well, if I didn't know about it already it would). It's used in the Salt Lake Valley, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Salt Lake County, Utah articles and was created by User:SEWilco.


 * Nominate and support. - bob rulz 02:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - Google Earth has better quality with a more fun program to look around. right? Arad 03:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Google earth images are ineligible for FP status due to copyright issues. --Hetar 04:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Dude I know. I meant that I can just go to Google earth and have more fun. This picture is not the Best of wikipedia.
 * Comment Yes it is informative, yes it is somewhat pleasing to the eye, yes it does well illustrate the articles in which it is included. So I should support... My only concern is that you could take almost any satellite picture of an urban area or important geographical/geological features and it would also meet those criteria. A while back someone nomiated a national flag saying it met the criteria for FP, but again if one national flag gets a FP status, then all flags should get it too. That is why I am abstaining to vote for this nomination. It lacks uniqueness. -Glaurung 05:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Almost all satellite images of cities look roughly the same. I've uploaded a whole bunch of them into Commons and while this is definitely nice, it's just par for the course when it comes to these types of images.  howch e  ng   {chat} 06:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. A featured picture has to represent the best in Wikipedia. I do not think that an ordinary satellite image is anything special. If I wanted those, I could easily go to Google Earth - also getting a 3D view of the valley. Mikeo 06:11, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Just a plain sattelite picture. Can support only if landmarks were clearly marked on it. --TAG 10:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As per Howcheng and Mikeo. Nauticashades 11:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As above, nothing special here. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Nothing special; it needs something extra, such as TAG's suggestion, to make it FP-worthy. -- Tewy  23:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Since the invention of Google Earth. Arad 03:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Arad. —Jared Hunt September 14, 2006, 08:34 (UTC)
 * Oppose There are literally millions of sattalite images of cities, and some are very impressive, this one seems rather ordinary. HighInBC 14:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Looks awesome to me. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

-- Moondigger 02:43, 21 September 2006 (UTC)