Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Antarctica Map
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Sep 2012 at 04:25:46 (UTC)
- Reason
- Good quality image, has a free license, a detailed map of Antarctica, a stunning image of Antarctica.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Antarctica, Bellingshausen Sea, East Antarctica, Geography of Antarctica, King Haakon VII Sea
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
- Creator
- Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica team (User: Rbrausse)
- Support as nominator --Mediran talk 04:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Comment Why are only the UK and US research stations are marked on the map? Nick-D (talk) 07:34, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- For me, it is because that UK and US's stations are the notable and important research stations there at Antarctica. Even though there are a lot of research stations existing in Antarctica, some of the other stations are not important and just a temporary stations there mostly only during summer. UK and US's stations are permanent station in Antarctica, as for example, the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where it is a permanent station at the south and it includes glaciology, geophysics, meteorology, upper atmosphere physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and biomedical studies which is important for the study of the continent. --Mediran talk 09:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- That's not at all correct: several other nations have important permanent stations, some of which are larger than those shown on the map (as a simple example, Australia's Casey and Davis stations and New Zealand's Scott Base accommodate more people than the British Halley station). I'm shifting to oppose. The image would probably work best with either all the stations, or none of them (I'd suggest removing them all). Nick-D (talk) 10:32, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- For me, it is because that UK and US's stations are the notable and important research stations there at Antarctica. Even though there are a lot of research stations existing in Antarctica, some of the other stations are not important and just a temporary stations there mostly only during summer. UK and US's stations are permanent station in Antarctica, as for example, the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where it is a permanent station at the south and it includes glaciology, geophysics, meteorology, upper atmosphere physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and biomedical studies which is important for the study of the continent. --Mediran talk 09:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Support -- Colin°Talk 13:07, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose per Nick-D. I also find the mixture of languages used off-putting. Why not label everything in English? --Avenue (talk) 01:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose US/UK centric geographic bias. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:58, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose Please somebody fix the problems noted above - this is on it's way to being a great image. (I'd like to see all research stations marked, but in a smaller and less colourful font). Also the 70 degree marker has the 7 on top of the 0. --99of9 (talk) 23:54, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- Oppose great image, but it needs to be worldwide before the EV is there. --WingtipvorteX PTT ∅ 22:33, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:13, 25 September 2012 (UTC)