Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yellowing of thorium lenses

Yellowing of thorium lenses
Voting period ends on 31 Jan 2016  at 18:29:54 (UTC)
 * Reason:Interesting illustration of this phenomenon. This is a "valued image" on Commons with a size of 4,734 × 1,702 pixels.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Thorium
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment
 * Creator:El Grafo


 * Support as nominator – Pine✉ 18:29, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support The lens bodies themselves are a little dusty and worn - but that's kind of a given for seeing the phenomenon. Informative and clear. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:07, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – Yann (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment – Nit — Lenses, not being sentient beings, can't "experience" anything. (Also, on my screen, the yellowing of the lens at far right isn't readily apparent.) Sca (talk) 22:01, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * In most dictionaries "experience" can mean "encounter or undergo" applying to non-sentient entities. Also the lens on the far right (according to the file description) shows no signs of yellowing for comparison. Maybe the caption could be improved to indicate this? - Wolftick (talk) 22:41, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Undergo does not imply consciousness; experience does. Sca (talk) 00:56, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I would say it's in fairly commonly (mis(?) :-) )used as a synonym for "undergo" for non-sentient things though. Your mileage may vary as to how important that is. OED has [with object] and "the company is experiencing difficulties"  but I'd agree undergo is better. - Wolftick (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Support - Interesting. I'd never heard of this. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:37, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – good addition to the category. Bammesk (talk) 01:44, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, per my !vote at Commons. Daniel Case (talk) 04:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, an educational photo. dllu (t,c) 22:32, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 22:05, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 18:30, 31 January 2016 (UTC)