Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Broccoli

Broccoli edit

Original - Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). It is classified as the Italica Cultivar Group of the species Brassica oleracea. Broccoli possesses abundant fleshy flower heads, usually green in colour, arranged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The large mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves

Reason: A beautifully executed, encyclopedic picture of a common subject
Articles this image appears in: Broccoli
Creator: User:Fir0002

Support as nominator Hadseys (talk • contribs) 20:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Not one of our best. Overexposed, and not enough information about the image, e.g., was the broccoli frozen or fresh? Finally, composition is not enchanting. I have a feeling Fir may be aware of these shortcomings. Samsara (talk • contribs) 09:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- ResponseHow does it not illustrate the subject? What else is there to illustrate, and given that theirs no ice, its fresh, and the composition is subjective. How would you have done it? --Hadseys (talk • contribs) 15:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I believe the phrase I used was not enough information, and I was quite specific about what is missing. Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious support. Excellent, top-quality shot of broccoli! Maybe you shouldn't have cooked it, but cooked is fine too since it's only of interest to people as food. --f f r o t h 19:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not cooked. It says "ready for cooking". See the confusion? Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Óppose - Boring composition, plus the broccoli looks like it has freezer burn around the edges when you look close up. Colors are washed out, and the caption talks more about a full head, which this isn't. Last, ready for cooking is completely and totally subjective...not everyone gets their broccoli into this form before cooking. Sorry, but it just isn't spectacular (meaning the best of wikipedia) in any way. I would much prefer a shot of the whole head, that is more illustrative than chopped up bits. pschemp | talk 21:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Just to clear the confusion on the state of the broccoli. They were fresh and chopped up in pieces - mum was about to cook them when I stopped her and took the picture hence the "ready for cooking". --Fir0002 00:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose; the detail is there...but I find it boring for some reason. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 08:50, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There are a few gaps in the brocolli which show the white below that ruin it for me, they're just... too distracting, I guess. --Mad Tinman _T _C 19:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't know if its the color or the little white spots, but this broccoli looks very unappetizing, and I like broccoli. Rudy Breteler (talk) 00:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]