Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cercophonius squama.jpg

Cercophonius squama

Reason: Good Quality, found it whilst in the shower so paper background
Articles this image appears in: Cercophonius squama, List of scorpions of Australia, Scorpion
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 03:21, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination. Good find, although I hope you don't meet them that way very often. Durova^Charge! 04:32, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good details and shadow. EV is definitely there but the article is too short. Could you add it to Scorpion as well? Muhammad(talk) 10:17, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Added to scorpion. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Jeez, before long, Australian contributors will have about 90% of the user-created FPs. Nice capture, the highlight reflections could possibly be improved on with more diffuse lighting, but plenty of detail and a worthy FP. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:57, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- What is with that? I thought is was coincidental that both Cacophony and I are from Portland, Oregon, USA and are FP contributors and participants here. But the number of people from Australia! There are Fir0002, Diliff, Jjron, Benjamint444, Noodle snacks, and (everyones favorite) Capital Photographer. All (with the exception of Capital Photographer) are some of the more active participants here. The chances: Lets say there are 25 contributors here with a level of notability (within this small community) we would consider equivalent to Capital photographer (the least active of our Australian friends). 6 of 25 are austrailian, or 24%. The expected rate would be 21 million Australians to 6.5 billion global or 0.3%. A deviation of 7,900%...FWIW -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 03:55, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Did you allow for the statistical improbability of the 5 billion non-english speakers contributing here? ;-) But anyway, there are a few other minor Aussie contributors to FPC (although I haven't seen them much lately) - our frog photographers LiquidGhoul and Froggydarb! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:18, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - What about the statistical improbability that three of us from Aust live within about 30kms of each other. Not just 24% from Australia but 12% from one town - the deviation of that would be off the scale -- benjamint
Weak support. The lighting and the overall hazy appearance, especially around the head, are modest problems, but it does enough right in terms of detail and composition overall.--ragesoss (talk) 19:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Interesting subject and well executed photo --Abdominator (talk) 03:26, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice photo. Unpleasant shower. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 03:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support excellent image. --Leivick (talk) 20:41, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Benjamint 02:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment How big is it? At the moment I'm imagining it about the size it appears in the thumbnail and that's more than big enough, I'm REALLY glad I don't live in Aus. TerriG 149.155.96.6 (talk) 11:36, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, depending on your monitor, its probably actually about thumbnail size. 25-40mm is typical, this one was pretty close to the 40mm (1.5in) mark with the tail stretched out. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Cercophonius squama.jpg MER-C 08:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]