Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Trichomes of Arabidopsis thaliana

Trichomes of Arabidopsis thaliana

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•  Info created and uploaded by Heiti Paves - nominated by Kruusamägi (talk) 21:08, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Kruusamägi (talk) 21:08, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Question I would like to understand, whether this is intended just as a modern art contribution or as a scientific contribution? The file descriptions are very short and for some of the images only a file description in Estonian is given. A size scale is neither provided in the images nor in the file description, though at least some of the images appear to represent different magnifications. I understand that all images are electron microscopy images, being artifically coloured, but I don't understand the colour coding. Why is a yellow colour chosen for some trichomes while the others are coloured in green/blue/red? -- Norbert Nagel (talk) 11:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment Yes, thous are SEM images that have been artificially colored (technology uses beam of electrons, not light, and therefor allows no color), but the images have no specific color coding -- only goal seems to be to distinguish the trichomes from the leaf. I would view it as both modern art and as scientific contribution. Even the author is know for both of his scientific work and from photography (example). I asked from author to add the information about the size of the structures on the images. As additional information I might point out that this series (and there where some other images as well, that I didn't included to this nomination) won the Estonian Science Photo Competition 2013. Kruusamägi (talk) 12:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support enough wow for me. --Ivar (talk) 16:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't think it is justified to feature five similar images of the same subject at once. -- Norbert Nagel (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment What are you exactly opposing? Are the images bad or you just don't like that there's a 5 of them? And how should I choose if they are "five similar images"? Btw there where more images uploaded by Heiti, but I already choose the most different ones to show how different the trichomes can be. Kruusamägi (talk) 17:53, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
  • I may support this nomination, if you compile the set into a single image and if appropriate scientific information is provided in the image description (scale information, instrument used, differences between the investigated samples, if any, etc.) -- Norbert Nagel (talk) 17:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Wow factor and high scientific and educational value. Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 19:39, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support I support the step, I want more good scientific pictures for Wikimedia --Christian Ferrer (talk) 06:35, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Michael Barera (talk) 21:51, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose maybe "artsy", but not scientific IMO. Colorization troubles me, I don't know where is the truth, even with explanations. And colorization is not well done technically, especially on the last image. --Jebulon (talk) 10:39, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment Should I withdraw this nomination and nominate thous images as one-by-one? Kruusamägi (talk) 13:05, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Kruusamägi (talk) 21:50, 2 January 2014 (UTC)