Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Canada provinces evolution

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[edit] Canada provinces evolution

Animated gif of the evolution of Canada's provinces and territories
Animated gif of the evolution of Canada's provinces and territories
Reason
Self-nom; seeing the response to the animated Australia map below (people saying the concept was good), I thought it was time to nominate one I made of Canada some time ago, spruced up a little bit. It may look low quality in thumbnail view but full view makes it better. The actual animated version is in the two articles mentioned; each frame is also individually used in Territorial evolution of Canada.
Articles this image appears in
Canada, Provinces and territories of Canada
Creator
User:Golbez
Nominator
Golbez
  • Support — Golbez 13:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Do you take suggestions? It would be good to have an intermittent frame showing only the outline of the country at the end so it doesn't jump from present to 1867. Also, the dates might be better presented as a timeline. Otherwise this is pretty nice. ~ trialsanderrors 19:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Another one: There are occasions where it isn't clear which territory the Arctic Islands belong to. ~ trialsanderrors 19:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
      • Not sure how to make that one clearer, I do believe that Keewatin never included them, so they always belonged to either the NWT or Nunavut. I've added dashed lines between Nunavut and NWT though. --Golbez 12:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. There was a peer review of this image (by the same nominator) here, which includes some other suggestions as well. Just throwing that out there. --Tewy 23:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
    • I'd honestly forgotten about that, I knew I'd done one on Commons but I forgot about the one here. --Golbez 11:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak support, very well done. The only reason I do weak is because I'm not sure that gif is the best way to represent this. Maybe an html solution where you click on tabs to change images would work better (I can't find an example, but I know I've seen them). gren グレン 11:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I've uploaded a new version with a timeline, explanations, and a blank frame at the end as suggested, which I thought would not work at all but it kinda does, it cleanses the palate (and palette! heh) before restarting again. I should have done this after the peer review, but here it is. :) --Golbez 12:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Very nice. High enc value. I liked to see it start from the beginning of Canada, but maybe that'll be too long to fit in a single map. Anyway, good job again. --Arad 15:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
    • It would also seriously threaten my sanity, as the borders of the colonies of pre-dominion Canada were, shall we say, poorly documented. ;) I'll eventually make one, probably. --Golbez 16:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support -Very informative -Nelro
  • Support. Nicely done (although a little slow, but that's just because so much happened). --Tewy 22:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support — Well done, especially now that you have incorporated the other suggestions. Though, I've got one more for you: could you make the borders slightly thinner? I'm thinking about 0.5 to 1pt smaller. ♠ SG →Talk 03:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Unfortunately not without redoing the whole shebang. :| --Golbez 05:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Support I think it's great, I especially like the recent addition of the timeline. I was thinking of doing the same kind of thing for the Grateful Dead#Lineups, haha. A couple of comments though: Perhaps the text of Saskatchewan could be the same (or comprarable) size as the others, and not slanted? A hyphen could make it fit, maybe. Also, it would be great if the text could be curved to follow the lines of equal latitude, which are particularly important in the case of the edges of the Western provinces. Spebudmak 07:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Also, how long will it be before people start demanding vector-based graphics for animations like this? Spebudmak 07:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
      • shh don't give them ideas --Golbez 10:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. I like the delay between the frames, as it gives you ample time to read it. Also,
Question: Does anyone know if Flash presentations are ever going to be compatible with WP? With a forward/backward button, this would be an ideal candidate, as the viewer could read at his own pace... tiZom(2¢) 15:58, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Til then, each frame is available separately with sourcing and more information at Territorial evolution of Canada :) --Golbez 16:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Good job again! Canada's proud of you ;-) --Arad 21:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
  • weak oppose - ambiguous regional identity of islands at many places in the animation, and the boundary lines change thickness throughout. Debivort 20:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
    • They do? Where? The international borders are thicker than the internal borders, but beyond that there should be no changes. As for lack of identity, 1) I don't think the District of Keewatin extended beyond the mainland, the islands always belong to the NWT except when 3) Nunavut comes along, and its borders are clearly delineated. So, please be specific - where are the borders wonky, and which islands are ambiguous? --Golbez 20:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
      • No the borders are the same. The international ones are thicker only. I think it's a mistake eye makes because of colors maybe. --Arad 15:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
        • You are right about the borders changing only when they change status. I hadn't realized that was the distinction. It would be worth saying that in the caption. As for the NWT, there is no way to know that the islands belong to NWT or any of the other sepia territories that run into the water there. Change opposition to weak opposition. Debivort 03:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Canada_provinces_evolution.gif --KFP (talk | contribs) 19:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)