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Cut away of a 16in Gun Turret[edit]

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Edit 1 English labels, new pointer lines
Reason
An beautiful image that is eye catching, pleasing to the eye, and encyclopedic. Although not quite a 1,000px I feel that this image has outstanding wow power, and have decided to place it here to see about making it featured. This image originates from the Commons, and is already featured there.
Proposed caption
A cut away fo a 16in gun turret, Identifying the important machinary parts within the turret.
Articles this image appears in
Gun Turret, Armament of the Iowa class battleship, USS Iowa turret explosion, 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun
Creator
Commons User:Voytek S
  • Support as nominator TomStar81 (Talk) 00:02, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Generic numbering is great for Commons, but on the English Wikipedia, we should use English names.--HereToHelp 00:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tom: for .svg files the px dimensions given are nominal and the image can be rescaled without loss. This means that the 1000px threshold doesn't apply, though it is nice to have them at a reasonable size like this one so the detail can be examined without rescaling. Agree words preferred over numbers; I'll make a new version with words. Is everyone happy with the color scheme and aesthetic details? It seems like the image is kind of dark and the colors scheme could be improved. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 00:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The color scheme and asthetic details are excelent the way the currently are, I believe that alot of the colors were chosen to match as best as possible the equipment that was actually used (the shells, for example, were green in color). Thanks for the FYI about .svg formatted files, I didn;t know that they could be rescaled without loss; it great to hear it though. Also, the uncolored jpg version of this image does have names instead of words; my suspicion is that the image was numbered to make it easier for those on the commons to translate the numerical values into their own respective languages. Its not a major hang up to substitute words for the numbers, it just seems like that would narrow the image's audience somewhat (although if it increase the chance of this image clearing FPC I'm all for it). TomStar81 (Talk) 01:04, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Commons will of course keep the numbered version (with a link to the en-version) for the reasons you give; for English readers here on wikipedia, it's so much easier when the image has words so you don't have to memorize the number code. I'll leave the color scheme alone, but I'm going to fix up the pointer lines. Too-thick pointer lines make an image look like Wound Man. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit 1 A good, clear diagram. I still think the colors are a little dark though. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 03:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit 1, great diagram. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 08:19, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit 1, but shouldn't the turrets themselves have a label?--HereToHelp 21:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit 1 - generic is fine for commons, but always make english versions too. :) --Golbez 02:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Edit 1. Great diagram. Malinaccier (talk • contribs) 02:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weakly support edit 1. Slightly outdated choice of colours and gradients (linear gradients on curved surfaces?), but it still works as an illustration. Samsara (talk • contribs) 09:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, please remember to put the sources from the original photo too in your description. If Image:16in Gun Turret.jpg was deleted then there would have been no link back to the US mil website which is the original source of this. gren グレン 10:43, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit1 Detailed, informative Teque5 (talk) 03:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Iowa 16 inch Gun-EN.svg --Chris.B | talk 15:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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