Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lory

Blue Streaked Lory[edit]

**Original** - The Blue-streaked Lory, Eos reticulata, is also known as the Blue-necked Lory. It a medium size parrot (31 cm), primarily red with blue streaks from eye through ear coverts, brown-black tail, and black variegation on wing coverts

Articles in which this image appears: Blue-streaked Lory
Creator: Benjamint 01:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator --Benjamint 01:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Yet another very heavily illustrated article. This is the highest quality image currently in the article, but it does not show the variety of colours as well as some of the others do. This is perhaps not the best angle for this species. I do think I'd like to support, but these short articles layered with pictures annoy me a little. J Milburn (talk) 18:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed two of the images from the gallery, these pages also annoy me. Thanks for cutting down the other articles aswell. ;-) Benjamint 01:11, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

People are welcome to add more text to an article for balance, which would be more constructive than criticising other peoples work. The WP:Birds project on en wiki have agreed on the WP talk page we can not write text for all 14,000 (approx) articles in an instant and that it will be inevitable that some articles will have a gallery of images, and they accept that this will be the case for some time to come. Please to not cut down galleries on short stubs or discuss this on the WP birds page or the article talk page. The WP Birds project tend to cut down galleries when articles are well developed. I would say that the vast majorities of galleries on WP bird pages are useful. Please see WP:IG . Snowman (talk) 14:14, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have viewed the gallery before it was cut down and I think that it is a useful gallery of the birds shown from different angels and doing different things. I see no reason in WP:IG to reduce it, so I have restored it. Snowman (talk) 15:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want a collection of numerous similar images of the bird, go to Commons. For now, we do not need all those images. Forcing galleries into articles is not a productive way to spend your time. J Milburn (talk) 21:18, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Does not show the colours on the side of the bird, so this image does not have much EV. The documentation for this image was poor, so I have added to location at the Jurong Bird Park, according to the authors caption on the species page. In future please add the zoo or location to the image description. Please note that there is usually a category for a zoo. Please add the date to the photograph details. Snowman (talk) 14:14, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]