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Original Edit 1 by Fir0002 - sharpening
Reason
Encyclopedic image of the wild birds, which shows close up portraits of both male and female as well as an interesting behavior.
Proposed caption
Male and female Muscovy Ducks, Cairina moschata. The male is engaged in Social grooming
Articles this image appears in
Muscovy Duck
Creator
Mbz1
  • Support as nominator Mbz1 (talk) 21:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Do you have a high res version of this - I wouldn't mind having a shot at sharpening it a bit better --Fir0002 07:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. For encyclopaedic value we prefer pictures of the whole bird. Samsara (talk  contribs) 01:25, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thank you for your comment Samsara. If I may, I'd like to address your concern please. Generally speaking you are right and an image of the whole bird would have been better, yet IMO the nominated image has at least two reasons to be cinsidered for FP status: first - it shows the male and female together (it was very interesting for me to observe different colors of their eyes.)The second reason IMO is that it shows interesting behavior. IMO the image adds value to the article. If I may, I'd like also to mention that Wikipedia FP has few images of not the whole birds. --Mbz1 (talk) 12:52, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Too difficult to discern the subject, much of the subject is cut off (reducing encylopedic benefit), and it appears to me to have been taken using an on camera flash, if not the lighting is terrible. IvoShandor (talk) 05:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Fir0002, thank you for working on the image. You've done a great job with it.
      Thank you for your comment, Samsara and for your vote, IvoShandor. I do agree that the whole bird would have had much more value and that the lighting is very bad (there was no flash, just a bad lighting). May I please ask for your opinion? Do you believe that the image should be removed from the article Muscovy Duck for the lack of encyclopedic value and for a terrible lighting and be placed in the gallery at the end of the article instead? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]