Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Rainbow trout

Rainbow trout
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests.


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The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 19:38, 19 March 2014‎ (UTC)



The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout (O. m. irideus) or Columbia River redband trout (O. m. gairdneri) that usually returns to fresh water to spawn after living two to three years in the ocean. Adult freshwater stream rainbow trout average between 1 and 5 lb, while lake-dwelling and anadromous forms may reach 20 lbs. Coloration varies widely based on subspecies, forms and habitat. Adult fish are distinguished by a broad reddish stripe along the lateral line, from gills to the tail, which is most vivid in breeding males. Some local populations of specific subspecies, or in the case of steelhead, distinct population segments, are listed as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The steelhead is the official state fish of the U.S. State of Washington.


 * OK. So if we want to do a serious article, why not run an article about an actual fish on poisson d'avril.  Just throwing it out there.  -- Jayron  32  03:14, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. High quality article, educational and encyclopedic. FA promoted in 2014. Also, SCIENCE !!! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Which one are you supporting, Cirt?
 * Hmm... I rather like the meta-ness of it... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:51, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Though I prefer this image: File:Rainbow trout transparent.png — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:59, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I was Supporting for Rainbow trout. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:23, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I suggest crossing out your support above then. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:34, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Both are high quality choices. I'd support either one. :) &mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:54, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose Ignoring the question of whether TFA deserves to be WP:TROUTed, doing so on April 1 is too much of an inside joke.  Main page humor needs to be reasonably accessible to all, not just the Wiki-elites.  No objection to running this article on a different date. --Allen3 talk 14:03, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- it's a great article and I'd support it at any other date, but it's an inside joke and IMHO not a very funny one to begin with. For an April Fools gag, it's an epic fail.--ColonelHenry (talk) 19:39, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. It has genuine date relevance as well ... April 1 is the first day of trout season in (at least) New York, and I think a couple of other states. Daniel Case (talk) 05:11, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Seems like a good article. If anything it's good that it's an inside joke, since I'm on record above as hating prank-jokes anyway, so to me I'd rather that if people miss the joke they just end up informed. 0x0077BE  [talk/contrib] 15:38, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. People get mad when we post blatant jokes.  People still not happy when we post inside jokes.  If you get the joke, great. If you don't get the joke, you still get a high quality and informative article.  Works for me. Resolute 19:09, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Although I think this requires the image for the joke to work at more than one level (rather than the simple Poisson d'avril = fish pun) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:26, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose As the primary contributor to the current rainbow trout article, I oppose on two grounds. 1) There's no historical connection between the rainbow trout and the trout slap. Just because someone chose an image of a rainbow for this meme, it doesn't mean they are connected.  Any species of wet trout would do fine.  2)The rainbow trout is a noble species with great stories of interest to a very wide audience.  Associating it with the trout slapping meme seems somewhat degrading. There are more appropriate anniversaries this article might meet TFA criteria. --Mike Cline (talk) 17:21, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Mike Cline and add that anyone supporting should have to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with.....a herring.--MONGO 19:06, 19 March 2014 (UTC)