Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Space Shuttle Discovery STS-120

Space Shuttle Discovery STS-120

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2011 at 09:16:43 (UTC)

**Original** - "The Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member STS-120 crew head toward Earth-orbit and a scheduled link-up with the International Space Station."

Reason: Used on many Wikipedia pages, and good composition
Articles in which this image appears: Space Shuttle and over 60 other pages
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Pine^talk 09:16, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note that there are other FPs of space shuttles, but this image is used far more extensively on Wikipedia than the images that were promoted to FP in 2010. Pine^talk 09:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Looking at the launch tower, does this need to be rotated a few degrees counterclockwise? Spencer^T♦C 19:38, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the effect may be intentional, to give the photo added energy, similar to the Featured Picture http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Atlantis_launches_from_KSC_on_STS-132_side_view.jpg, but the photo that I'm nominating is used on far more pages on Wikipedia. Pine^talk 23:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm slightly leaning towards removing the slight lean. HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:43, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - The other image isn't tilt, it's the low perspective. Weak support this; I would fully support one with the tilt fixed. Spencer^T♦C 20:15, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Support edit. Spencer^T♦C 01:43, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It is true that this is widely used, but that's partially because it has a narrower field of view, which makes it thumbnail better. That doesn't necessarily make it a better picture. I think I prefer the ones with a wider field of view; they are more dynamic. Since, despite the quality here, this one doesn't add all that much to what is already featured, I will say weak oppose. Chick Bowen 03:09, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, thank you for your comments. IMO having a better thumbnail is also useful for Wikipedia and therefore contributes to EV, but I respect your views. Pine^talk 06:05, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'm perfectly happy having multiple shuttle FPs, provided the composition is significantly different (which it is, from what I understand), and I don't think one composition is inherently better than any other. HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:43, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is the best picture for the shuttle itself among the featured ones I think. That said one or two of those should probably be delisted based on limited article placement. JJ Harrison (talk) 08:03, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Its is one of the most beautiful actions shots I have seen in wikipedia. I am simply stunned at the perfection of capturing a space shuttle in such a chaotic moment and being both pretty as a picture, and informative as an illustration. --Cerejota (talk) 14:59, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Edit1 added. Tilt corrected version. --jjron (talk) 11:43, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Preference to Edit1. --jjron (talk) 11:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for the edit, I think you did better than I could have. In order to support it I think it needs to be in an article, so I'll replace the image in Space Shuttle with the edit. I also support edit 1 and would have nominated it instead if it was in these articles Pine^talk 09:05, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - No probs. And no, the edit doesn't need to be in an article; as long as the original is that meets the criteria, and whichever version is promoted is placed into the articles by the closer. --jjron (talk) 14:54, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support As per nom. SMasters (talk) 05:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:STS120LaunchHiRes-edit1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 14:52, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]