Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Citrus paradisi (Grapefruit, pink)

The Grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi)[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Jun 2010 at 00:29:00 (UTC)

Reason: Very well executed illustrative shot of Grapefruit. This image has been changed to have the background whitened, the actual fruit's color/contrast/brightness is unchanged from the original File:Citrus_paradisi_(Grapefruit,_pink).jpg.
Articles in which this image appears: Grapefruit, Grapefruit juice, List of U.S. state foods, List of drugs affected by grapefruit, List of Texas state symbols
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Plants/Fruits
Creator: א (Aleph)

Support as nominator --— raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 00:29, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This looks like a strange colour, shape and possibly even size for a grapefruit. I'm inclined to oppose for it being atypical and a poor representation of a standard grapefruit, or is it just that we have atypical grapefruits where I come from and this is typical elsewhere? --jjron (talk) 15:55, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I myself have usually seen them this way, although I have also seen them like yellowish/colourless in the inside. Not very sure if it is due to the variety or for being ripe, so I don't know what to say. Abisharan (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, in the article they mention color variation in varieties. And special mention of the Ruby Red for being the first patented. Abisharan (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not uncommon for different countries to have different cultivars. I had asparagus in the Netherlands a while ago, and it was a very, very different meal than the asparagus seen in the U.S. or U.K. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:27, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This is VERY typical of ruby red, which is the really about the only kind you can get in the united states. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 16:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orly? I'm not a big grapefruit eater, but I don't think I've ever seen a grapefruit like this one. The ones I usually see at the supermarket look like . Makeemlighter (talk) 20:27, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a BIG grapefruit eater myself, but I dabble. :P I think Ruby Red is more common then the variity you just linked, which looks MUCH more like a lemon imho. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 21:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What Makeem links to looks more typical to me, but then again it was taken by Fir so that makes sense. The basic lead-in description in the article article says: "The fruit is yellow-orange skinned and largely an oblate spheroid; it ranges in diameter from 10–15 cm. The flesh...varying in color...include white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness.", which would seem to better describe what I am thinking of as being standard, but generally covers this as well. (BTW this is only in five articles?) --jjron (talk) 08:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well it was only in 5 on the english wiki, but the old file was used in A LOT of other wikies I was just lazy about changing it on all those foreign ones... — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 14:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's where Commons Delinker's Universal Replace tool comes in very useful. I've set it up, it should finish in a couple hours. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Doh! I was joking based on recent extensive discussions about article spamming. Five is really getting up there, though granted three of them are just lists. :-) --jjron (talk) 14:12, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the discussion about generic color is being a nonsense. This is the picture used as leading image in the article. But even if the red grapefruits were uncommon it is one that is specially mentioned in the text as being the first being patented. Imagine a discussion like this in a picture of a human. I foresee lots of heat and fight in that case. Abisharan (talk) 14:03, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's only being used as the lead image because someone put it there. In effect this is a discussion about whether it should be the lead image - the point being if it's an aberration then it shouldn't be. --jjron (talk) 14:12, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to this reference, red is produced more then white in Florida. That should be enough justification for it's use in the lead? — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 14:41, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well there's more to the world than Florida, but given the feedback here this is common enough to be prominent in the article, taxobox or not. I'll leave it to the grapefruit experts at the page to make a definitive call at whatever stage... (BTW, this image seems well enough done, but I've never actually supported one of these set-up fruit/vegie shots, I think they basically need to be perfect, and even then they just don't have any 'wow' for me.) --jjron (talk) 16:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support This is exactly what all of my grapefruits look like. Wonderful specimen and setup, nice photo, and the whitened background was definitely an improvement. Jujutacular ^T · C 19:47, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This grapefruit is exactly like the ones I'm used to see in France (I actually didn't know about the yellow version), and seems to also be known in Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece and others countries (see the pictures choosen in the respective Wikipedia versions of the Grapefruit article). However, I dislike the composition because we can't see a whole, unopened fruit. While it's probably prettier, it reduces the potentiel EV of this picture. Since this is an easily reproducible shot, small things like this are unacceptable and i oppose this nomination. Ksempac (talk) 13:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC) P.S : hi to old-timers of WP:FPC ;)[reply]

EV? What is it exactly what you would like to see? That is round? that it looks the same everywhere except on the top and the bottom (parts that you won't see at the same time in a whole grapefruit unless a mirror is used or the fruit is deform)? Abisharan (talk) 14:03, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's pretty evident what the whole fruit looks like from the photo. Kaldari (talk) 17:10, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. High quality and encyclopedic. This is indeed the type of grapefruit I am familiar with, but could we identify the cultivar in the image description page and caption? NauticaShad es 18:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Pretty sure it's Ruby Red, so I added that, although might not be the best way to add it, open to suggestions. ;-) — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 18:24, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Could we do the image description page as well? NauticaShad es 13:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Never mind, did it myself. NauticaShad es 12:07, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Looks good. High EV. Kaldari (talk) 17:10, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. For the sake of EV, needs a scale or at least a size reference (even text in the image page would be sufficient). Spikebrennan (talk) 17:15, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I think the quartered slices detract more than they add, and possibly make it a little 'busy'. The classical image of a whole and a half graperfruit side by side would be better. Ruby red graperuit like this are becoming more common all the time - they are sweeter than the all-yellow ones. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:37, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this is a good picture of a grapefruit Hive001 contact 11:09, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. As nice as other shots of that kind. Nightbolt t 15:46, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Citrus paradisi (Grapefruit, pink) white bg.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:37, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]