Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PlayStation 3
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[edit] PlayStation 3
- Reason
- It significantly contributes to the article by illustrating what a PS3 is an is an excellent SVG.
- Proposed caption
- Sony Corporation's 7th Generation game console, the PlayStation 3.
- Articles this image appears in
- Playstation 3
- Creator
- User:Ssolberg
- Support as nominator -KULSHRAX 22:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose - no sense of scale or perspective. Also this SVG renders terribly in my browser. What a fragile format. de Bivort 22:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose - It's... Not very interesting. 8thstar 02:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose, per Bivort. This was terrible loading up, and, as 8thstar says, it's boring. Unschool 03:04, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose. Not really sure why you wouldn't do a standard photo in jpg for this. And to illustrate something like this fully I think you'd want to include accessories like the controllers (but I don't think 'boring' comments are necessary). --jjron 08:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose I do not see anything special in this image.--Mbz1 13:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose per debivort. It looks really odd in full size. Also, isn't there some copyright issue with this image? I mean, it's the design of the Playstation 3 and it's logo is there, so... Cheers. --Mad Tinman 19:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, as far as I can tell this is a derivative work of Sony's case design, and therefore has exactly the same copyright restrictions that a photo of the same object would have. The artist is able to disclaim his own copyright in the creative depiction of the object, but not Sony's copyright in the design that he has copied. That means, I think, that this image is fair use, and needs to be taken out of the non-article pages that it's currently used in. It's a shame, because clearly a lot of work has gone into it with the hope of ending up with a copyright-free PS3 picture; but actually I think that this has just the same restrictions that a photo would have. IANAL, of course, and others may have other thoughts. TSP 00:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- A case design can be patented (see design patent), but not copyrighted, because it's primarily useful and not artistic. The logo is a trademark issue and not a copyright issue because it's not original enough to be copyrightable. Since wikipedia isn't trying to manufacture an identical case or pass itself off as sony, neither is an issue. That said, I don't think the image is interesting enough to feature. Calliopejen1 22:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, as far as I can tell this is a derivative work of Sony's case design, and therefore has exactly the same copyright restrictions that a photo of the same object would have. The artist is able to disclaim his own copyright in the creative depiction of the object, but not Sony's copyright in the design that he has copied. That means, I think, that this image is fair use, and needs to be taken out of the non-article pages that it's currently used in. It's a shame, because clearly a lot of work has gone into it with the hope of ending up with a copyright-free PS3 picture; but actually I think that this has just the same restrictions that a photo would have. IANAL, of course, and others may have other thoughts. TSP 00:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose, a good photography of the subject would've been more useful. Mad Tinman has a point too. --Aqwis 22:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose - Rather an odd picture. Not very interesting. --ZeWrestler Talk 03:53, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Oppose - takes SVG-use fanaticism to the extreme, there's no point in using vectors for a shot like this. Can't tell it from a photo at thumbnail size, on the image page the attempt at reflections near the DVD drive look strange, and at full size the nice gradient on the left side suddenly turns into a series of overlapping ovals... bad rendering there. Also perspective problems. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)- Oppose. Dies in firefox- no gradients and is like .5 frames per second scrolling around --ffroth 23:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- OK, I see that now. When I nominated the picture, I did so in Opera, where it rendered fine. I suppose this is because of only partial support for SVG in the Gecko rendering engine, which I'm sure will come with time, but yes, it does die in Firefox.-KULSHRAX 19:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Not promoted MER-C 11:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
