Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fluorine

Fluorine

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Jan 2013 at 04:18:17 (UTC)

Reason: Yes, this image is incredibly small by FPC standards, BUT it is extremely hard to picture liquid fluorine, since it reacts with glass. The only reason this picture could be taken is because it was kept at very low temperatures, where it reacts only slowly. Very few people have the equipment (and courage) to prepare a sample like this, which makes any picture of this element in its pure form incredibly rare.
Articles in which this image appears: Fluorine
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
Creator: TCO

Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 04:18, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Unless there's been some sort of error here, dimensions are only about 1/5th of the current minimum. And FWIW the image is by Prof B. G. Mueller, not TCO. Suggest Speedy close. --jjron (talk) 09:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Difficult to work with, yes.. but there are quite a few chemists that do Florine chemistry so it's not unreasonable to imagine we could get higher quality images at some point. — raeky t 10:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Most chemists who do Fluorine chemistry are using to avoid using elemental Fluorine. Those that do aren't going to using it in ways that can be photographed. If they were I'd expect to be a bunch of photos from the US department of energy.©Geni 17:48, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes a rare image, of exceptional value because of its rarity, still does not meet the featured picture criteria because of quality issues. That circumstances make them understandable can help account for such issues but cannot completely overwhelm them. This appears to be such a case. It's possible that no better picture will be forthcoming, but that fact doesn't in itself compel us to feature this one. Chick Bowen 19:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- This isn't a situation like File:Pale Blue Dot.png where TRULY we won't get another image. Like I said above, there are plenty of chemists working with elemental Fluorine, it's rare, it's dangerous, but it's IMPORTANT chemistry, so plenty do it at large universities. Like the The Periodic Table of Videos video on Fluorine [1], Brady has released images before for Wikipedia, and if asked nicely may release something from that video. Likewise it's not impossible to contact the chemists working with elemental Fluorine and just ask them if they could produce a good image of liquid Fluorine for Wikipedia, and you may get a response. With a bit of work you could get something better, it's not impossible. — raeky t 15:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the article can certainly use this but it's not an FP ... too low-res, for one thing. Daniel Case (talk) 04:08, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]