Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Doleschallia bisaltide (Autumn Leaf) renom1

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2013 at 14:44:44 (UTC)

Original – The Autumn Leaf resembles a dead leaf, enabling it to blend into its environment if it is resting among dead leaves or plants.

Reason: Parallel, good exposure, composition, and very detailed, can even see the wing scales.
Articles in which this image appears: Autumn Leaf, Defense in insects, Butterfly
FP category for this image: Animals
Creator: Arctic Kangaroo

Support as nominator --Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 14:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support – BNK(talk) 16:22, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I enjoy how the wings are in perfect focus. Indefatigable2 (talk) 16:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I had no idea you can find such a beautiful insect near Changi Airport. Good one. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 13:51, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The place where I shot it has a considerable amount of butterflies, too bad they are gonna clear/have cleared that place to build new runways for CA. I haven't been there for a while, and email me if you want me to disclose the location to you. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:08, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And I'm surprised that you labelled the butterfly as "beautiful". I thought only butterfly photographers will be able to appreciate this kind of butterflies. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:11, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I like to "embrace nature". Pity I don't see much wildlife. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 14:29, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support I've never understood the "blend into the environment" thing. I get that they can't be seen by predators... but can't they be stepped on? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 17:07, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, Autumn Leaves are very skittish and have a very large circle of fear. I was only lucky with this guy because he was cooperative enough to sit and smile for the camera. It's very rare for this species of butterfly to cooperate. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:37, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support as earlier. J Kadavoor J e e 17:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The image may be temporarily unavailable later, as I have nominated it for deletion on Commons as I want to localise it. But don't worry, I will upload it again ASAP after it is deleted. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 13:40, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- You can always upload a local copy at Wikipedia and mark it with {{Keep local}}. There's really no reason to delete the Commons file, which would rather be a shame imo. De728631 (talk) 13:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm maintaining my stand here as the creator of the work. But yes, after it has been deleted (or I will protest), I would be uploading the local copy here on en.wiki and placing that {{Keep local}} on it. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 13:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see also my response at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Doleschallia bisaltide bisaltide (Autumn Leaf) - male, January 2013, Singapore.jpg. And I fear deletion over there won't be as quick as you desire. Speedy deletion by request of the uploader is limited to a period of seven days after the initial upload, so now this will to undergo a full deletion discussion at Commons. De728631 (talk) 14:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Responded. The protest will continue. Commons is so messy and disorganized, I've heard. So... ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Doleschallia bisaltide bisaltide (Autumn Leaf) - male, January 2013, Singapore.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:45, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This image has been deleted at the request of the creator, [1]. The promotion tag has been removed from the file page and the FP count decremented. Julia\^talk 13:07, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]