Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hermit crab

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Jun 2022 at 10:36:10 (UTC)

Reason: Was seen on Commons FPC last week, where it was featured unanimously.
Articles in which this image appears: Dardanus calidus, Dardanus (crustacean)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Crustaceans
Creator: Diego Delso

Support as nominator – MER-C 10:36, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I didn't vote for this on Commons. Not encyclopaedic as so little of crab is seen. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Charlesjsharp, your comment disconcerts me. What does "encyclopedic" and "how much of it is visible" have to do with each other? Following your comment the FP for this species would be a dead specimen without the shell where you cann appreciate the whole body, but that's not how you would find this crab in its habitat. If you find it in the nature it will be like this or even you see the shell and nothing behind it. I believe that the way you most frequently will find an animal in the nature is encyclopedic. --Poc o² 15:36, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
A Wikipedia FP of an animal should show it well. In the case of a hermit crab, more crab should be visible than you show here. This is a land crab, but it shows what I mean. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:27, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, Charles, showing behaviour is a valid criteria too, and there's probably cases where seeing only a tiny bit of an animal might be encyclopedic for a non-main image. However, that... doesn't apply here as the problem is the angle, which pulls a lot of focus off the crab and onto the shell, but not in a way that shows off camoflauge or something. Oppose Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 23:00, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – Per Charles. It's a nice shot in terms of color & detail, but some viewers would be likely to mistake the snail shell for the crab. – Sca (talk) 14:13, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oppose comments above are quite nonsense IMHO. – Yann (talk) 18:52, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:04, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]