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•  Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Dimitri Torterat.
•  Abstain (I don’t want to take part to the review process). This is my n°2 best photo (the first being that one); they have this “rating” because what interests me in photography is depicting emotions. Here, I think we can really feel how old the cat is. Diti the penguin — 23:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
• Anthropomorphization alert! --Dschwen (talk) 23:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
  • But… but I like anthropomorphism! I have a bucketload of guest art of my anthro character Diti the penguin! :P Diti the penguin — 00:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support Excellent portrait. Very emotionally, nice quality --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Very expressive --Cesco77 (talk) 10:33, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support Obviously You played on card of our emotions, this poor cat is begging us for support. --Mile (talk) 11:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support for reasons very different from PetarM's support: this portrait is expressive without the staged quality that mars so many photographs of cats. What's exceptional about this is that it depicts a creature in extreme old age on its own terms. Durova (talk) 18:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Anthropomorphism or not aside, I don't like the framing. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose DOF too shallow, background too busy, not enough there subject wise to make the picture interesting enough for FP, and besides cats don't like to be anthropomorphised. --Dori - Talk 22:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'm a cat lover but I agree with Alvesgaspar I'm afraid. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support Great image. --Lošmi (talk) 12:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose reluctantly per Herby. I like the photo a lot, but I don't think it should be an FP. --Avenue (talk) 12:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• I need to rethink about the framing. Later comments have persuaded me that I was too hasty on that front. --Avenue (talk) 09:51, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

•  Support Not perfect, but on the whole it works. Conveys the car's personality nicely. -- Avenue (talk) 11:22, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

•  Oppose Sorry, framing. —kallerna™ 14:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support I think the framing really adds to the emotion -- you can feel how the cat is coming to terms with age, and how the world around it is fading out. Or I'm reading far to much into the picture. Either way, it's quite excellent. AlexAH (talk) 17:52, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support all the emotional mumbo-jumbo aside, this is a very good animal portrait. The framing is probably one of the pictures greatest strengths besides good choice of DOF and the interesting non-standard pose of the cat. --Dschwen (talk) 01:39, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support per Mile -- Bojan  Talk  13:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Comment I would like to say framing is among the best, it is what makes the story. That left side in blur represents all the way this old cat passed through in her (probably not easy) life. Framing with cats poor condition is making her a martyr-like. --Mile (talk) 12:17, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Weak support some points (see above) could be done better, but I think it's good enough for featured --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 17:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support The focus on the cat's head shows the signs of it's age, yes it's a very emotionally portrait, but I think we can se here a very useful for educational purpose picture, and this is the reason of my support. And it's a very beautiful pic :-) --Phyrexian (talk) 19:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support We have similar boy at home. Nice. --Karel (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Just say no to more cat pictures on the Internet. Seriously though, I don't much like the composition/framing (too much head room). I also don't think the way the face is looking down is good. Even if it was chosen to highlight some perceived emotion, an educational photo of FP quality should get a more straightforward perspective (both figuratively and literally). Steven Walling 04:47, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'd like a touch more on the right, and the vertical objects in the background detract as well. --99of9 (talk) 08:58, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose As per Alvesgaspar. Yann (talk) 15:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support What a great picture! It would be good if uploader will provide some context in the image description -- is it the cat of the uploader or some stray cat? if he still alive? if he is precisely 20-years old? etc. Trycatch (talk) 17:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Oops, I hadn't thought about this! The cat is neither mine, nor a stray cat; I only saw him once, when I was invited at some place. When I took the photo and saw this result, I showed it to the cat's owners, and asked them more information about him. They told me he was 20 at that time, maybe he is 21 now? Anyway, having seen him only once, I couldn't tell if he is still alive today. Should I add this info into the file's description? Diti the penguin — 19:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
    • Oh nooo, huge privacy issues! Did the cat sign a release? Does it consent to publishing personal information in the internets? Will we need to tag this with {{Personality rights}}?! --Dschwen (talk) 19:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
    • Thank you, it's interesting. Trycatch (talk) 01:16, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support That's a great picture, appreciate the framing too! I particularly love how this is far to the "cute kitten" stereotype :) --WikiKiwi (talk) 17:51, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support - Interesting and technically OK. The background is not ideal, IMO, but I agree with Dschwen overall. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:28, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --by Màñü飆¹5 ^talk 07:25, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Thierry Caro (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
•  Support - -LadyofHats (talk) 03:11, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
•  QuestionWhere can I check the age of the cat?--Wilfredo Rodríguez (talk) 15:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
  • I guess you have to trust me, but if this is a concern (like, as a way to comply with FP's identification rules), I can do my best to ask my relatives about where the cat's owners do live, and ask them official info. I am not a specialist (it is just a guess), but maybe the photo speaks for itself and if I hadn't told you he was 20, you would have guessed? Diti the penguin — 16:19, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 8 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals