Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buffalo in Baluran National Park

Buffalo in Baluran National Park edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Aug 2017 at 08:13:01 (UTC)

 
Original – A feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) at Bekol Savannah in Baluran National Park
Reason
Very striking, good illustration of the park and one of its notable fauna species.
Articles in which this image appears
Baluran National Park
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator
Candra Firmansyah
  • Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:13, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • SupportBammesk (talk) 02:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional Support – I would like a slight CW rotation, since the image looks tilted visually, even if it may not be, technically... --Janke | Talk 05:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I don't think this 'Adds significant encyclopedic value' any more than the picture it replaced a couple of weeks ago. And to represent the NP, a normal daylight shot would be better, showing more of the terrain. An animal should not be the focus of the main image illustrating a National Park, and certainly not a feral animal. Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:18, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • The feral population is widely noted in the literature, hence why this image was selected over (say) the peacock one. The buffalo adds EV; it is a widely recognized fauna of the region. You are welcome to feel the image lacks appropriate EV, but your assertion that a feral animal is "certainly not" capable of representing an area is verifiably false.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As for this being no different than the image it replaced, reviews of Baluran on pages such as TripAdvisor focus on the Africa-esque savanna; the park also advertises itself as "Little Africa in Java". The savanna has much greater EV. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:55, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]