Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A common squirrel

A common squirrel

Original - A squirrel is small or medium-sized rodents in the family Sciuridae. They are generally clever and persistent animals. In residential neighborhoods, they are notorious for eating out of bird feeders, digging in planting pots and flower beds to pull out bulbs which they chew on or to either bury or recover seeds and nuts and for inhabiting sheltered areas including attics and basements. Despite periodic complaints about the animal as a pest, general public opinion towards the animal is favorable, thanks to its agreeable appearance, intelligence and its eating styles and habits.

Reason

nice pose, good quality.

Articles this image appears in

Squirrel, Eastern Gray Squirrel

Creator

Nickomargolies

• Support as nominator --Alokprasad84 (talk) 16:28, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Support This image is encyclopedic, educational, and above all, cute. --Jetblue1717 (talk) 17:25, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak oppose It's a nice image, but the background is a bit messy and it isn't very sharp. TheOtherSiguy (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral technically weak (background is messy and it's blurred), but —as Jetblue1717 said above— a nice, cute and encyclopedic image. => Neutral. —αἰτίας •discussion• 21:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
• (ec) Comment I've seen squirrels pose like that many times and yet... I'm getting the strangest vibe that this is a stuffed animal. Just me? The pic is not quite up to FP quality for tech reasons in any case. Matt Deres (talk) 21:10, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Mhh... It doesn’t seem to have many toes on the ground, only the heels, indeed seems to be a bit of an unnatural (not so alive) balancing technique for a sitting position like that. --Van helsing (talk) 10:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Weak Support- A very well done image. But, I'm not completely sure its one of the best out there. ~~Meldshal42 (talk) 10:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

• Comment. For comparison, our current FP of this species. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose - I can see its nuts! - Anyway, oppose per above, slightly un-natural looking, busy backdrop. I think it could be reproduced with a clearer backdrop? ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 15:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose A nice image, but I think the previous FP that Spikebrennan pointed out is slightly better. smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 03:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose Lacks the wow of the current FP. Mangostar (talk) 15:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. The current is much better.Dwayne Reed (talk) 07:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. FWIW the current FP has been totally removed from the Eastern Gray Squirrel article; the current taxobox image seems inferior. Seems to have been a mixup following a dodgy edit by an anonymous IP - see here; the next editor replaced the image redlink with a different image here. The next editor after that tried to revert to Diliff's image, got it wrong again, so went for the current taxobox image instead. It could be worth switching it back to the FP version. --jjron (talk) 10:31, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Eh, done it. --jjron (talk) 10:39, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Quite unsharp in full size. --Janke | Talk 16:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:36, 27 June 2008 (UTC)