Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Subducting plate

Subducting tectonic plate

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Aug 2017 at 13:43:30 (UTC)

Original – A subducting tectonic plate, showing various boundaries, layers, and surrounding materials

Reason

Meets all the criteria for a FP SVG, is freely licensed, W3C checked and valid, fonts are rendering correctly, and contains neither raster components nor watermarks. Am taking suggestions for improvements if anyone has any, just let me know and I will be glad to accommodate. Am especially proud of the plumes of rising volcanic ash and the swirls of molten rock in the asthenosphere.

Articles in which this image appears

Subduction, Magma chamber, Accretionary wedge, Volcanic arc, Diapir

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology

Creator

KDS4444

• Support as nominator – KDS4444 (talk) 13:43, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
• Is it possible to get rid of the transparent area along the top and left?  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:09, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Absolutely. Done. KDS4444 (talk) 16:00, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

• Alright, support. Looks good.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:55, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

• Comments:
  • The server seems to be doing a poor job of rendering the text in the PNG thumbnails (the kerning's plain broken). Not sure if there's anything that can be done to fix this though.
  • Why doesn't the 25°–45° use proper degree symbols? (Right now they appear to be floating circle paths, while the 25 has an extra combining character of some sort stuck to it.) Also, the hyphens should probably be en dashes.
  • The labels on the left appear quite untidy. Could they be more evenly spaced?
  • The illustration is beautifully done, but the fact that there's so much white space around it makes it feel quite cramped. The detailed patterns are hard to make out even at the nominal size, and at lower zooms make the image appear really busy.
  • Not to discount the amount of work gone into this, which is greatly appreciated, but I think that this subject might actually work better as a 2-D cross-section (with labels within the image itself). --Paul_012 (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Ah, but no winged mortal phantom hath e'er placed his kiss so gently as thou hast now done... (Thank you for that.) KDS4444 (talk) 05:32, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:47, 26 August 2017 (UTC)