Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Neuron cell

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[edit] Neuron cell diagram

Neurons (also known as neurones and nerve cells) are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals, neurons are the core components of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
Neurons (also known as neurones and nerve cells) are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals, neurons are the core components of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
Reason
Bumped into this at COM:FPC. Clear, technically precise and encyclopedic SVG diagram of a neuron cell.
Articles this image appears in
Dendrite, Chemical synapse
Creator
LadyofHats
  • Support as nominator — MER-C 04:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Support I have a slight preference for the numbered version though. --Mad Max 05:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Commentoppose Support the featured synapse is shown on the cell body - which strikes me as very unusual. Debivort 05:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Probably from the angle the image is drawn, which is why the synapse is magnified to show that there is a very tiny gap between the synapse and cell. I would be inclinded to agree with you if the magnification was not shown, but as it is I think it is made clear they are not physically connected. --Mad Max 08:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
If the synapse is not shown adjoined to the cell body then it is not to a dendrite either - which is even less accurate. Debivort 00:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, so excuse me if I'm a little confused. From your first comment, Debivort, you raise the issue of the synapse being connected to the soma, but this is not necessarily wrong, as presynaptic axons often synapse with postsynaptic neuron's body, creating an axosomatic synapse. Not all synapses are axodendritic synapses. See this image. There are some issues to clear up with the terms, such as microtubule, axonal terminal, and the axonic cleft and nucleolus should preferrably be labled, but diagrammatically it looks okay to me. --Mad Max 08:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah ... maybe I'm biased by experience with invertebrate neurons for which I have never heard of a dendrite onto the soma. Well, I'd still prefer to see the synapse to which special attention is drawn be a typical dendritic one. Debivort 02:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Lady of Hats! Debivort 16:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Support, although can we also label the synaptic gap? Vicarious 21:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Conditional Support. I would like to see the numbered version turned into an image map such as the one for the eye image that was a POTD this week. The actual image is great, and I love both public domain and SVG. Zakolantern 22:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Can someone please teach me (my talk page or here) how to link to an image page without the image appearing? (I want the link I used to go to Image:Eye-diagram_no_circles_border.svg, without the image appearing. I failed. Thank you. Zakolantern 22:55, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
      • Just start it with a colon: [[:Image:Eye-diagram_no_circles_border.svg]] results in Image:Eye-diagram_no_circles_border.svg This also lets you link to categories, templates, etc. Adam Cuerden talk 23:09, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Is the correct term microtube or microtubule? Tokugawapants 02:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Microtubule. Debivort 17:15, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Very informative and also very well made. I like it a lot. vlad§inger tlk 02:38, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Conditional support if Tokugawapants's question is answered and someone with knowledge in this field can go over the picture and confirm the image is accurate. Other than that, highly encyclopedic and SVG, couldn't ask for much more. --snowolfD4 ( talk / @ ) 14:01, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Microtubule is correct, but the featured synapse is either inaccurate or very atypical. Debivort 17:15, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Support: I think this pic satisfies all the criteria for a FP. I like the value this will add from an academic perspective for wikipedia users. --Kalyan 13:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


  • info Hello everyone. i am the creator of this image. i have gone over your requests and made the changes you asked for. for all those NumderFans i also fixed the numbered version, you can find it if you go to the description page in comons and scroll down. or simply click here.Next time you want to make any changes of one of my images just leave me a mesage. i do not come here often and if it wasnt becouse MadMax wrote me i would have realise all this far too late. by the way i did a small investigation on the axonsomatic synapse and they are nor that rare. still to make peace i moved the circle. thank you for your atention and time -LadyofHats 11:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • CommentUnfortunately now there are more problems with the spelling of terms, as Nucleolus is spelled incorrectly, as well as Axoaxonic. There appears to some problems with background opacity on Mitochondrion and Smooth ER as well (shouldn't they be completely transparent for consistency?) One of the reasons I have a preference for the numbered version is that misspellings like this could be easily corrected by anyone without needing any knowledge of how to edit SVG graphics (not to mention the convenient wikilinking). --Mad Max 03:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
fixed :)-LadyofHats 11:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Complete neuron cell diagram.svg --Hadseys 16:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)