Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hoverfly October 2007-21.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 22 May 2015 at 22:18:06 (UTC)

Original – Marmalade fly (Episyrphus balteatus) feeding on a flower.

Reason: High quality depiction of a beautiful species adding to tthe article
Articles in which this image appears: Hoverfly
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Alvesgaspar (talk)

Support as nominator – Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:18, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - We've got a featured picture of this species already, at File:Hoverfly December 2007-8.jpg. Not sure the EV's for this image, then is all the greatest. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice photo, but agree with Crisco, we already have a featured picture of this species which is used in the infobox. Mattximus (talk) 21:22, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

However they are in different pages. Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:37, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't change the EV; we could just as easily replace the nominated image with our current FP and the EV would be the same. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The concept of absolute (or abstract) EV doen'st exist in WP:FPC, that is a Commons concept. Pictures are evaluated for their EV inside specific articles. Moreover there are several instances of repeated species in our FP galleries, not only insects but other types of animals. Alvesgaspar (talk) 07:00, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If we are to choose the best picture to illustrate the species it would be [[1]], already a featured picture. If we were to find the best picture to describe the hoverfly family it would be [[2]]. I'm not seeing which page this nomination would add any encyclopedic value. We already have both the species and family pages very well illustrated. Is it on another page perhaps? Mattximus (talk) 13:27, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Bee / insect and flower bloom – an archetypical composition that one sees so often it's become – sorry – somewhat of a cliché. Sca (talk) 14:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is not the primary intention of this nomnation to show a beautiful composition and colors (as in Commons). The EV of this picture is given by the clear and detailed view of the insect and by the fact that the fly is feeding from a flower. Incidently, this is one of the few species with mouthpieces that enable them to feed from pollen (most feed from nectar) Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:55, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Well, I'm no entomologist, but I can see it has good detail at full res.

Questions: Why is episyrphus balteatus called the marmelade fly? – and why not stick the pic in Episyrphus balteatus, too?

Sca (talk) 15:28, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]