Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Airplane vortex edit.jpg

Wake Vortex Study at Wallops Flight Facility

 * Reason:I believe that the image's quality is too low for an FA, it's FAC (Featured picture candidates/Wingtip vortex) I feel didn't have that much support either.
 * Nominator: → Aza Toth


 * Delist &mdash; → Aza Toth 03:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delist. Very interesting image, but the graininess is unacceptable --⁪froth T 03:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep unless alternative can be found. It's a stunning image! Yes, it's grainy in full size, but that full size is almost 3000 px! Downsample and you have much less grain... --Janke | Talk 08:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If you check the 800x600 version of the image, it's still really grainy. → Aza Toth 13:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep unless alternative can be found. Amazing image. —Pengo 14:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 02:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment The Featured picture critera specify:
 * A featured picture:
 * Is of high quality. It is sharp and of pleasing colour balance, contrast and brightness, free of compression artifacts (such as in highly packed JPEG files), burned-out highlights, image noise ("graininess"), and other distracting factors.
 * Typically, the only exception to this rule is in the case of one-of-a-kind historical images. If it can reasonably be considered impossible to find a higher-quality image of a given subject, low quality may sometimes be allowed. For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. NASA has a surplus collection of high-quality images, so a poor picture of the moon landing would not be accepted given that many others are available.
 * Keep High enc value. --Arad 21:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * question is "high enc value" a reason to ignore §1 of the featured picture criteria? → Aza Toth 13:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's all subjective. Find a better quality, free license image of a vortex like this, and we can have that as a FP, while this is delisted. Simple as that... ;-) --Janke | Talk 09:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think you have mistaken what a FP is, a vortex is not a "one-of-a-kind historical image", thus it shouldn't be able to except §1 in the criteria. → Aza Toth 10:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think most people don't understand the FP criteria. It's a guideline. It's there to guide you what we expect from FPs. It's not Wikipedia's absolute rule. There is always exeptions to it. So as stated above it's subjective. Get a btter image and we gladly delist this one. This is IMHO --Arad 18:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. The criteria themselves say that encyclopedic value is more important than artistic value. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 19:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Tomer T 11:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - wonderful illustration of the subject. Complaining about graininess in this image is like complaining about seeing the brush strokes in a Monet. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 19:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Edit? I don't have much problem with the grain, but the turquoise background is garish and the picture needs to be cropped at the bottom. I might give it a shot later. ~ trialsanderrors 22:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I added my version. I'm neutral on this nomination. ~ trialsanderrors 19:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep -Nelro