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File:Gilded Vectors of Disease - Horizontal.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects#Sculptures
•  Info The front of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is decorated by 18 "Gilded Vectors of Disease". These are the Bed bug, Housefly, Rat, Flea, Anopheles mosquito, Tseste fly, Indian cobra, Aedes mosquito, Body louse, and Tick. Some are repeated and some are not strictly speaking disease vectors but I captured the complete set regardless. I guess each is about 30cm tall. The building dates from around 1929 but the artist of these creatures is unknown. You can see two of them in-situ in this photo. They are quite high up the building, so I photographed them with a telephoto lens from across the road. All by me. -- Colin (talk) 15:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 15:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment While I might be able to overlook the slightly abrupt transitions between the images, the middle one on the far right (no. 12, I believe) is out of focus and it just annoys me too much to support it at this stage.--Peulle (talk) 17:09, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Peulle, that flea was a bit out of focus and both photos I took of that one are the same. I have sharpened him selectively now and uploaded a new version (you may need to use Ctrl-F5 to bypass your browser's cache) -- Colin (talk) 18:08, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

• Still a bit unsharp in this version, but the overall effect of the picture is great, IMO, so I  Support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:50, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  weak suppport per Ikan.--Peulle (talk) 22:04, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment Cobra could be out. --Mile (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Mile I don't know what you mean? It seems acceptably sharp. Or do you mean he's not a "vector of disease", which I agree. Please remember the image is 18MP and offered as a whole poster, rather than 18 FP-quality images. -- Colin (talk) 18:08, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

• I was menaning for topic, snake is clean animal, so i was wondering why snake is with insects and rats. More question for them, who made this front. --Mile (talk) 19:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Mile yes. I wonder if the brief for the artist wasn't "vectors of disease" but just animals associated with public health issues. Snake bite is a public health issue in some countries. Bed bugs apparently haven't been shown to be vectors of disease but are a public health problem. Rats carry fleas which carry plauge. And housefly transmits bacteria but not classic parasites. But today the work is known as the "gilded vectors of disease". -- Colin (talk) 21:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Really disgusting and freaky. --Basotxerri (talk) 21:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 01:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Good idea! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:25, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Very interesting and well executed! --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 09:46, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I think File:Gilded Vectors of Disease - 12.jpg is out of focus. Note that is not a reason for me to oppose or not to support. It is just a comment. Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 16:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:03, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Llez (talk) 06:39, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 21:25, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects#Sculptures