Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Bateaux comparaison2.svg

Image:Bateaux comparaison2.svg, not featured

•  Info Comparison of some of the biggest ships in the world. Similar to Image:Giant planes comparison.svg (featured picture on en.wikipedia). Created & uploaded by notafish - nominated by le Korrigan →bla
•  Support --le Korrigan →bla 17:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Comprehensible and precise. Perfect -- Walké 17:38, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Question, "comparison of some of the longest ships" - does this mean those are the 5 longest ships in the world, or a random selection of some of the longest ships, which is what the description says, reducing the usefulness of the image a lot? --Aqwis 19:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

  Some ships are actually skipped, if they are the same type as those already depicted. For instance, there are 6 tankers between Knock Nevis and Emma Maersk; there are many container carriers and tankers between Emma Maersk and QM2, and so on. Thus, it shows the biggest ships of each type, if you prefer. It is indeed quite useful in articles (see fr:Liste des plus grands navires and a few more), and a picture representing a dozen tankers would carry less information. le Korrigan →bla 19:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You have convinced me to  Support the image, but you should definitely add that important information to the image description. --Aqwis 20:15, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I have done so, but feel free to correct it if necessary. Thanks, le Korrigan →bla 00:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Support--Beyond silence 20:51, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Is it necessary to have a scale for each ship? The best way would probably be to insert the names and lengths inside each diagram. Anyway, I don't think this scheme has enough sophistication for reaching FP level - Alvesgaspar 21:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment I like it, but I agree with Alvesgaspar, the bars and lengths should be directly under each ship. I also don't think the scale is needed on the bottom since the exact measurements are given anyway. Calibas 00:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

  This was done in a similar way to Image:Giant planes comparison.svg, where this was realy appropriate. I'm not sure the same effect would be achieved with a scale under each ship as the aim is to compare them... but why not. le Korrigan →bla 00:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Comment How about adding the most well known ships to it too? RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, RMS Titanic, etc. Also, something familiar, like a city bus, or a 747 just to make the scale more approachable. EncMstr 00:37, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

  There's quite a few "well-known" ships (a Frenchman would not say the QE2 but the France, Americans may think at their favorite sub and the Russian at the Kutznetzov). At some point you have to make a choice :-) and these ships are really well-known in the maritime world. For the 747 and bus, notfish tried but wasn't happy with the result if I remember well. You may want to try it again ? le Korrigan →bla 08:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Support Informative. --Thermos 11:38, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose as Alvesgaspar. /Ö 13:58, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support - great work, but may be even better/clearer if improve as Alvesgaspar request. Yug (talk) 12:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack Alvesgaspar. --MichaelMaggs 22:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Like Alvesgaspar, I am unsure of why there is a separate graph along the bottom. I am also puzzled by the colours -- I'm unsure why each of these ships is a separate pair of seemingly unrelated colours. For example, 3 of the underwater colours are a shade of bright-ish red while one is a pale dark red and the other is a gray which kinda-sorta matches the above-water colour on another ship. In my opinion they should either be the same set of colours or the colours should mean something. Madman2001 17:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

result: 6 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Cecil 09:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)