Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:African Grey Parrot, peeking out from under its wing.jpg

File:African Grey Parrot, peeking out from under its wing.jpg, featured edit

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Info created by Avenue - uploaded by Avenue - nominated by Avenue -- Avenue (talk) 00:19, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ -- Avenue (talk) 00:19, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Interesting. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 01:05, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support –hover Fly | chat? 13:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice --George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:01, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral for now. Very nice and original composition. But I think the image would improve by increasing contrast (as to darken shades) and saturation. Yes, I tried and it worked. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think that does help a lot. Alt version added below. --Avenue (talk) 23:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support I prefer this one. --IdLoveOne (talk) 02:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but I conceive that some contrast improvement would be nice - but Alvesgaspar's version is too much on that point for me. Maybe the half of these contrast and saturation adjustments would do really well for me, or a blending of the two versions in Photoshop. The African Grey Parrot is my favourite kind of bird - too sad that Alex has died 3 years ago...Grand-Duc (talk) 22:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The idea was Alvesgaspar's, but the execution was mine, so if the edit is clumsy or excessive then I'm the one to blame. --Avenue (talk) 02:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit edit

Support --Avenue (talk) 23:37, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Yes! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Funny --Schnobby (talk) 07:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support alternative. Nice too --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:23, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Even better. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 17:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oh yes, definitively! --Murdockcrc (talk) 11:00, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ggia (talk) 14:05, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 18:03, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 23:24, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I can't understand the colors of the image --Miguel Bugallo 00:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Onno Zweers (talk) 12:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Why two chances for this picture ? --Jebulon (talk) 01:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was probably too hasty in putting this up. I did try to improve it first, and didn't get very far, but with a bit more thought maybe I might have figured out how.
However I don't feel adding the edit really gave the photo "two chances". If anything, supporters seem to be divided between the two versions, so perhaps it would be truer to say each version has half the chance of an undiluted nomination. --Avenue (talk) 02:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I see Slaunger recently expressed a similar view: [1] --Avenue (talk) 03:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Avenue, you have done nothing wrong, and there's nothing for you to be sorry about. jebulon is opposing nominations and trying to implement his own rules that are even sillier than the ones we have now. The only reason to oppose an image should be am image itself. Opposing a nomination for anything else is just a bad tone.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:06, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, I think that adding a subsection for an edit is the standard procedure. I was not apologising for doing that, but for posting my original image here too hastily, and thus failing to "prepare carefully" in Alvesgaspar's words. --Avenue (talk) 00:25, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@Jebulon: I think that showing a different version as a subsection is a better solution. Much better than uploading on top of the previous version, because nobody will know to which version the votes apply (we had a typical example of that mess recently). However, this should be used with parcimony as it is the responsability of the nominator only to choose and prepare carefully the images before presenting them to the forum. Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Alvesgaspar's points. I partially disagree with Mbz1. I don't think Jebulon's ideas for rule changes are silly. They should be given the respect that we give all those who contribute in good faith. But they should be discussed at Commons talk:Featured picture candidates. Only the image should be discussed here. I would remind Jubulon, ne pas désorganiser Wikipédia pour une argumentation personnelle (en:WP:POINT). Walter Siegmund (talk) 22:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Nice. I prefer this one, the contrastiness is just right -- very bright and charming picture. Great detail Stellarkid (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Incredible... --Phyrexian (talk) 18:27, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SupportAlanscottwalker (talk) 00:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds

The chosen alternative is: File:African Grey Parrot, peeking out from under its wing - edit.jpg