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Image:Platanthera bifolia (flower).jpg - featured edit

 

Is Crapload vote??? --Böhringer 08:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose There are so many better flower images that get trashed here. This is one is pretty busy in combination with rather poor contrast. A different lighting choice might have changed my vote. -- Ram-Man 01:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Comment I wonder if you considered that this is a rare (on the A-list of protected plants in Belgium) wild orchid and not some six-of-one bred variety from a garden next door (I drive 450 km after work to go take pictures)? They moreover only flower for a couple of weeks each year. I've seen pictures of rare phenomena pass here without the least concern about quality. Lycaon 05:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • I had not considered the rarity of the image. Personally I only rarely take into account such issues anyway. In the case of flowers, there is no compelling reason why we should favor a particular flower over another, so just because it is rare does not mean we lessen the standards. Many plants flower during a very narrow window, and rarity or difficulty to get to the subject does not change the ability to take the picture itself. In many of the other rare pictures the subject matter itself causes the pictures to be difficult. This is an important distinction I think. By no means do I think it is a bad picture, only just not quite enough for a featured picture. I have and will take pictures of rare plants, but that doesn't mean they deserve special treatment. -- Ram-Man 11:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support JukoFF 13:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose Until a positive identification can be made. Is this Platanthera bifolia or is this a Platanthera chlorantha? (see the dispute -- carol (tomes) 04:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
8 support, 2 oppose >> featured -- Alvesgaspar 20:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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