Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Viral infections

Viral infections edit

Original - Overview of the main types of viral infection and the most notable species involved.

Vector version

Reason: Among all the diagrams in the gallery (User:Mikael Häggström/Diagrams), this is probably my favorite. It is descriptive and gives a quick overview of a very broad subject. It has gone through substantial review and expansion since its first appearance.
Articles this image appears in: Virus#Viruses and human disease
Main references for image

Mainly Chapter 33 (Disease summaries), pages 367-392 in:Fisher, Bruce; Harvey, Richard P.; Champe, Pamela C. (2007). Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series). Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 367–392. ISBN 0-7817-8215-5.
For common cold: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) > Common Cold. Last Updated December 10, 2007. Retrieved on 4 April, 2009

Creator: User:Mikael Häggström

Support as nominator --Mikael Häggström (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is also a vector version. In my point of view, however, it doesn't look as good when rendered in MediaWiki as the screenshot from Inkscape from which the .png-version is derived.Mikael Häggström (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment While excellent, the png does not meet the size requirements. That said, I'm impressed by the gallery you have. Nice job. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 16:13, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I derived a new .png, now with a width exceeding 1000px. It might take some time before Wikipedia updates from the version on Commons, however.Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:02, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just render it with 2000 or 3000px width? I know it might seem like overkill but it will aid with scaling if published elsewhere. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I managed to scale it to same size as the .svg-version. However, I don't know how to make it even larger. The bitmap exporter in Inkscape does a really bad job. In fact, what I do is to take a screen shot of the image in Inkscape and paste into Paint, so the maximal size I can make is dependent on the size of my monitor. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support It may be odd, but I actually prefer the SVG version. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 09:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All right. Is there any special reason (except for that vector images are easier to magnify and edit)? Mikael Häggström (talk) 04:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose While I love your diagrams (coincidence : i was reading about them today, and then i came to FPC and stumbled upon this nomination) i think this one is far too cluttered to be a FP. Too much text. The diagram doesnt add much, almost every information is in the text. It could be replaced with a list of infections ordered by organ. Your others diagrams are IMHO a lot more interesting : i can only check a preview, and see which organs are affected by the disease without even reading the text.Ksempac (talk) 08:25, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see a little dilemma there - I was afraid to nominate some of the other images because they, compared to this one, have to little information. It makes me feel like a voting competition among all the images could be an idea. Mikael Häggström (talk) 10:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment "Types A and B" should be "types A and B" (capitalisation), and remove the comma. Narayanese (talk) 09:37, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for noticing! It will be included in the next update. Mikael Häggström (talk) 09:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Either. I am leaning towards the png because the source image was a bitmap anyway, so you don't get the usual benefits of a SVG at any rate. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus => Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 18:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]