Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Greater Armenia
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Feb 2014 at 22:52:23 (UTC)
- Reason
- Nicely made vector map of high encyclopedic value.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
- Creator
- Cplakidas
- Support as nominator --Երևանցի talk 22:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- Support. Agree that it has high encyclopedic value. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 06:13, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
- Support. I was a little shocked Mtskheta is spelt correctly, but, as it is, I see no reason whatsoever not to support. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:23, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Kudos to Cplakidas, one of the greatest users I know. Misspellings of geographic names of this region are quite common, but how else would they spell Mtskheta? --Երևանցի talk 18:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Oh, it's that I've never seen the name before, and it has five consonants in a row, so - as I do not know much about the languages of that part of the world - it looked wrong. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- I see. In reality it's 3 consecutive consonants (m, ts, kh), but since English doesn't have those letters, they are converted into two-letters each. --Երևանցի talk 19:42, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Anyway, my ignorance of Georgian aside, it's a fantastic map. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
- I see. In reality it's 3 consecutive consonants (m, ts, kh), but since English doesn't have those letters, they are converted into two-letters each. --Երևանցի talk 19:42, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Oh, it's that I've never seen the name before, and it has five consonants in a row, so - as I do not know much about the languages of that part of the world - it looked wrong. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Kudos to Cplakidas, one of the greatest users I know. Misspellings of geographic names of this region are quite common, but how else would they spell Mtskheta? --Երևանցի talk 18:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Support - Solid SVG map. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:56, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
- Support Late to the party.--Theparties (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
- Comment How precise are these boundaries? My concern is that representing them with double continuous lines makes them appear very precise, while in fact might be less so, but I am not familiar with the history.
- In terms of graphics I think the map could be clearer if the labels of cities were placed within the territory to which they belong if there is pace for that. For instance the map shows Amida to be in Sophene, but the label was placed in the KoA, although there is enough space in Sophene to display it there. Also I don't see why overlapping labels across borders when is not necessary, such as in the case of "Doliche". A minor issue: the "200" on the scale bar has a different font size than the "0". --ELEKHHT 23:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Promoted File:Roman East 50-en.svg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)