Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:20181204 Warming stripes (global, WMO, 1850-2018) - Climate Lab Book (Ed Hawkins).svg

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Featured picture candidates/File:20181204 Warming stripes (global, WMO, 1850-2018) - Climate Lab Book (Ed Hawkins).svg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:20181204 Warming stripes (global, WMO, 1850-2018) - Climate Lab Book (Ed Hawkins).svg

• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Computer-generated#Others
• Proposed blurb: Warming stripes are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray temperature trends. Climate scientist Ed Hawkins designed the warming stripes in a minimalist style, using colour alone to avoid technical distractions and intuitively convey global warming to non-scientists. In this early Hawkins graphic from 2018, stripes progress from blue (cool years) to red (warm years) to portray Earth's average annual temperatures since 1850. — RCraig09 (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Info Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes) are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray long-term temperature trends. Warming stripes reflect a "minimalist" style, conceived to use colour alone to avoid technical distractions to intuitively convey global warming trends to non-scientists. This data visualisation has had a notable, high impact on the world (see its article). Simple, but extremely effective. Voted as featured picture on english WP on 17 January 2021. Created by Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at University of Reading - image uploaded by RCraig09 - nominated by Effco -- Effco (talk) 10:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Effco (talk) 10:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 11:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Very notable information graphic on an important subject, global warming. (Disclosure: I wrote most of the English-language Wikipedia article). RCraig09 (talk) 15:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per RCraig09. We have now reached a point where most people are digitally addicted. Hawkins understood this, so to send a message that things are getting worse for the planet, he needed to send a digital message: There is so much work behind those colored stripes that this picture can be considered art. --Terragio67 (talk) 15:56, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Question Wow? ★ 17:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

• Very, very scary wow. --Cart (talk) 19:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment The gallery doesn't seem appropriate - shouldn't it be Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Computer-generated? BigDom (talk) 17:31, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't know what "the gallery" is, but being computer-generated did not prevent its being "Today's Featured Picture" (POTD) on English Wikipedia's main page (archive). RCraig09 (talk) 18:25, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Gallery is fixed. BigDom is quite correct. The gallaries are simply a way of sorting and displaying our FPs. Being 'computer-generated' is not in any way diminishing this image's value or importance, it is simply the way we identify images that are made that way (as opposed to photographs or paintings/drawings made by hand). Not sure why a blurb is mentioned, such things are not relevant here at FPC, that will only be considered if it gets promoted and becomes a POTD on Commons. --Cart (talk) 19:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --Kritzolina (talk) 19:55, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --RodRabelo7 (talk) 21:07, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support what Cart aptly calls a scary wow. -- Radomianin (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Weak support PNG image. --SHB2000 (talk) 22:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Only stripes without an explanation, right?--Ermell (talk) 23:08, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's the point. The explanation is in the blurb. RCraig09 (talk) 15:59, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Support "Only stripes" means I can vote for this, thanks for reminding me. (No photo with sharpness or contrast to conider, just colors and compo.) It is extremely difficult to design graphic images to convey a complex and important message in a way that transcends language barriers, that can be adapted into many forms of contexts, and that you remember from just one quick glance. This is graphic design at its best. --Cart (talk) 23:31, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:42, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose. Many people are talking about this image, but IMHO it does not help understand global warming. The "minimalist" style actually removes a lot of important information (what are the axes? what is the range of values? what is the difference between the red and the blue?), and this image is confusing without a long caption. The image may show the skill and ingenuity of the researcher, but sounds to me art for art's sake, and for global warming visualization I much prefer the famous XKCD global warming strip.  Podstawko  ●talk  07:02, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Yeah, it isn't nearly as meaningful as a temperature graph to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
• If the image makes you ask all those questions, it has worked as a symbol for global warming. It has made you aware and wanting to know more. It's like when you see a radiation symbol, it doesn't tell you exactly what kind of radiation, from what material it comes, how strong it is or how much of it you can take before you get sick or die, but you get the message that something is wrong. --Cart (talk) 09:18, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

  No, this image didn't make me ask any of these questions. I did not care for the image until I noticed it gained notoriety. The comic strip I mentioned above, as a contrast, made me pay attention immediately.  Podstawko  ●talk  09:39, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

• XKCD is of course always great (link to let people know what image we are talking about), but how would you use that image on a campaign button, a logo, a header or a bus? It works as information, not as graphic design. --Cart (talk) 09:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's the point: it purposely omits (technical) information as it's meant for non-scientists. The explanation is in the blurb, above. RCraig09 (talk) 15:59, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 10:49, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  13:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Felino Volador (talk) 16:32, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Stephan Sprinz (talk) 08:09, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 10:29, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 12:07, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose The image carries strong message and has a lot of "wow". But as it's the only reason for the nomination, I'm not convinced to vote for it as one of the FP. It should be SVG, at least. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 20:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

  Indeed SVG is important as well. The SVG version is provided as alternative, here. Effco (talk) 21:33, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

• Help requested. Can an editor in the nomination process please substitute the SVG file for the PNG file, and move this discussion accordingly? I've changed the w:Warming stripes article accordingly. Thanks. RCraig09 (talk) 00:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

   Done Thanks for your constructive request, RCraig09: Renaming and redirecting of the current nomination page completed. Pinging all reviewers seems necessary at this point @Effco, Yann, Terragio67, ArionEstar, W.carter, BigDom, Kritzolina, RodRabelo7, SHB2000, Ermell, VulcanSphere, Podstawko, Ikan Kekek, MZaplotnik, Rhododendrites, Felino Volador, Stephan Sprinz, Aristeas, Harlock81, and Draceane: Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 07:19, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  My vote doesn't change. I agree that the SVG version is more useful Kritzolina (talk) 08:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  Same here (too lazy to change my vote from ws to s when it has no effect). --SHB2000 (talk) 08:14, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you, Radomianin! SVG is clearly better here. --Aristeas (talk) 08:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  Fine by me, Thanks for fixing this Radomianin. --Cart (talk) 09:15, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  Idem for me, thank you. --Harlock81 (talk) 12:15, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

  SVG it's ok. --Terragio67 (talk) 19:58, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

  +1. MZaplotnik^(talk) 05:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

  I'm still not wowed. Sorry. ★ 12:03, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 14:08, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media/Computer-generated#Others