Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Neutrophil with Anthrax

Neutrophil with Anthrax

Reason: The picture is of excellent quality and clarity, and depicts a convoluted and confusing biological process in a simple, straighforward manner.
Proposed caption: An image captured with an electron microscope demonstrating a Neutrophil engulfing anthrax bacteria as an immune response.
Articles this image appears in: Immune System
Creator: Volker Brinkmann in PLoS journal, uploaded by User:Tim Vickers

Support as nominator Lumbergh 13:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Excellent detail. You may also want to add this to the Nueutrophil article. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-09-11 14:50Z
Support per above. Neat. --Bridgecross 14:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Whoa... ^8thstar 15:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The caption mentions Neutrophil and anthrax but which one is which? Is the Neutrophil the yellow? I think the caption should be modified to say which is which by color... 130.126.108.211 17:57, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- "...Neutrophil engulfing anthrax..." shows that Neutrophil is the yellow stuff. Seems clear to me.--Puddyglum 21:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And what about color-blind people?! (I assume the anthrax bacteria is the stuff that looks like bacteria - long tubular thingies. The other stuff must be the neutrophil). — BRIAN0918 • 2007-09-11 20:31Z
  - The current caption in immune system is best: A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange), though this should be expanded upon for main page use. Color blind people can generally tell the difference between orange and yellow, as yellow is always lighter, no matter what kind of color blindness they may have (ie. a lighter shade of gray for monochromats). ♠ SG →Talk 23:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Soaked in technical awesomeness. --Puddyglum 23:20, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support despite an improvement-needing caption. In addition to the above comments, it should be clear that the image is artificially colored: SEMs are grayscale.--HereToHelp 00:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm rubbish at biology, but I do know that they're one millionth times the size of the human hair. I will give strong support for its magnification, regardless of whether it was computer-generated or not. -- Altiris Exeunt 13:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I wasn't trying to argue that the artificial color hurts the image; quite the opposite. Also, only the color was computer-generated, not the image. I just wanted someone to take note of that in the caption, that's all.--HereToHelp 19:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Eh? No no no, I wasn't implying that you were arguing. In fact, I didn't know that you were arguing. Your statements hold true, however, and I think we can give a thumbs-up for the artificial colouring for the sake of clarity. -- Alt iris Exeunt 09:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be even more impressive with a proper balance of colors but still very nice. Calibas 02:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Assuming it gets a solid caption. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 03:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
Conditional Support The picture is great, but the caption needs work. We need to get some sense of scale here; I guess everybody knows bacteria are tiny little things, but how tiny? Is this magnified 100x or 10,000x? Is the picture a millimeter across or a micrometer across? The article on neutrophil suggests that they are about 12µm across and the anthrax article says that they (the bacterium) are about 9µm long. Is this shot then, about 25µm by 20µm? Matt Deres 12:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Neutrophil_with_anthrax_copy.jpg MER-C 10:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]