Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Umbrella Cockatoo

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[edit] Umbrella Cockatoo

Umbrella Cockatoo
Umbrella Cockatoo

This photo illustrates the sharp, powerful jaws and strong cage of the Umbrella Cockatoo as well as its 92% tame personality. People new to cockatoos and other kinds of parrots seem to think the birds can be carried on the shoulder. However, that is not a good idea because the creatures are sometimes in a bad mood. What article it appears in: Umbrella Cockatoo &Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Birds Who created the image: User:Chuck Marean

  • Nominate and support. - Chuck Marean 20:42, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Please read the requirements for a FP. This is way too small, and has many other shortcomings. --Janke | Talk 20:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Janke and insofar as, notwithstanding the image's general deficiencies, I am unable to appreciate why the image is thought to merit FP status, if only because the nominator provides absolutely nothing consistent with Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nomination Procedure to explain why FP promotion is in order; indeed, the nomination consists solely of a restatement of that which is on the image's description page. In any event, in order that the nominator might address specific objections, I would suggest that the image, contra Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?, is not of high quality (the cage is a distracting feature; were the image to be tightly of the cage and the bird situated therein, there might be some justification, but here the image means to depict the bird and is unnecessarily complicated by the cage), is not particularly unique and surely not representative of Wikipedia's best work, is not particularly pleasing to the eye (in view of its graininess and lighting, which I suppose also fit under the not of high quality objection), and doesn't include a particularly useful caption (this surely can be remedied—People new to cockatoos and other kinds of parrots seem to think the birds can be carried on the shoulder. However, that is not a good idea because the creatures are sometimes in a bad mood could surely use work—but the other problems are more severe). Joe 20:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Falls far short of FP requirements. (Nominator should compare other bird images which have achieved FP status) --ZimZalaBim (talk) 21:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose This is a joke picture I think. This doesn't meet a single guideline for being a featured picture. Gold Nitrate 07:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment - Unfortunately not a joke, but likely a good faith lack of understanding of policy (given nominator's edit history). --ZimZalaBim (talk) 08:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Oppose. Absolutely abismal. Please familiarize yourself with the FPC process before nominating this kind of thing. NauticaShades 09:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Is this the first time an image has been nominated both for Deletion & FP at the same time (other than for copyright reasons)? Actually, in response to some of the above comments, I think that it may have been nominated here partly to avert deletion, rather than as a joke. No vote. --jjron 13:11, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Utterly ridiculous nomination - Adrian Pingstone 14:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Cage bars not parallel. --Bridgecross 15:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose It's called a white crested Cockatoo, but I don't see a crest. Also everything above. Severnjc 18:39, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Looks like a snapshot from a home video of a pet bird. --Midnight Rider 01:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • As ridiculous as a white chocolate smelting furnace - April fools is 6 months away, mate. Even so, the photo was taken on 17 April this year - can you decide whether you were late or early? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted --ZimZalaBim (talk) 06:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)