Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jfader dryden.jpg

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[edit] Jfader dryden.jpg

The world's largest compass rose, drawn on the desert floor at Edwards Air Force Base in the United States.

Edit 1, alignment whiskers removed. --TotoBaggins 01:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Reason

Interesting picture, high resolution, certainly encyclopedic.

Articles this image appears in

Compass rose, Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base

Creator

NASA

Nominator

WiiWillieWiki

• Support — 'WiiWillieWiki→^(Talk) 18:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment A better, extended caption is needed before some people will support this picture. It is a FP criterion. What are those small white lines throughout the picture? Basar 18:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment So sorry... I found this while surfing from one Wikarticle to another, via "See Also...". Anyway, since it is a satallite photo, I assume the white lines are similar to the ones in this photo, used by the techinicians at NASA for measuring distances. I think they are called "reticles". Does this exclude the pic from FPC status?
    • Sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude when I said it would need an extended caption, it's just that some people have recently decided to be stricter about that. I don't know if the lines exclude the picture. Perhaps there is a version where they aren't present or maybe someone could edit them out. The picture is also not very prominent in that article right now. Maybe it could be used in the Edward's AFB article too. Basar 19:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
      • It's already used there and in one other article. Basar 19:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Why is it in black and white; it's still there isn't it? And it does need a better caption: those lines actually exist! It looked Photoshopped at first. I support nonetheless.--HereToHelp 23:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment / additional info To see what it looks like in color, and for a better sense of scale, I found it on Google Maps here. Spebudmak 01:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose because the vanilla Google Maps satellite image is in color and at comparable resolution; surely there must exist a high-rez, color, satellite image of this that would be more suitable for FP. It's a really cool subject though. Spebudmak 01:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support edit - I personally don't think that color adds much to this image, and the visibility of the actual subject of the picture -- the rose -- is much lower in the Google version. I took out the yellow whiskers. --TotoBaggins 01:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support - A very interesting photo that was probably taken from aircraft. Highly recommend over others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.79.36.130 (talk • contribs) ← No anonymous votes plase. ~ trialsanderrors 03:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose 1. Needs a caption. 2. Not very encyclopedic, not particular high quality, and not that eye-catching: E4T5A6. (The subject OTOH might be feature-worthy with a better picture.) ~ trialsanderrors 07:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment OMG GIGANTIC CROP CIRCLES!!! This is definitive proof that a) Aliens use crop circles to navigate, b) The government knows about it, and c) Worst of all, the government supports it! 66.109.229.101 (talk · contribs) 12:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment -the balck and white version is better -Nelro 20:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Clarification - The color version is a copy-vio-illegal-for-the-front-page-or-any-other-page... thing. I only put it there to encourage people to finda a fair use or some such copyright-free image... The black-and-whites are the noms here... 'WiiWillieWiki^(talk) 14:24, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Good quality, and an overall interesting image. I would probably go for either of the first two, not the colored version. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐  17:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support. As nom. — OwenBlacker 18:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Great image, although a better caption could help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davidkupec (talk • contribs).
• Support original. Very encyclopedic and probably the only perspective from which you can see the entire compass rose. howcheng {chat} 01:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Jfader dryden.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)