Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle of Hong Kong

Battle of Hong Kong map

The Battle of Hong Kong (1941), World War II

Reason: Informative map of historic event. Well-drawn and clearly formatted.
Articles this image appears in: Battle of Hong Kong
Creator: Jerry Crimson Mann
Nominator: UCLARodent

Nominate and Support — UCLARodent 10:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Ambiguous geographic representation, hard to decide where is land and sea. Bad choice of lettering specially in the legends. No indication of scale, location (geographic coordinates) and orientation (direction of North, at least). Not pleasing the eye due to lack of colour. In short, very far from FP standards. Alvesgaspar 14:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's boring and not featured picture material. --¿Why 1 9 9 1 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 20:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for all the reasons given by Alvesgaspar above. However, thanks for making the map, it's an excellent addition to the encyclopedia but not FP standard - Adrian Pingstone 20:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Add some color into the pic, and I'll Support it. -- Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia|wanna Talk? 01:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)Also add north/south direction, altitude reference(colored), and I'll tell some users to support ur image. -- Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia|wanna Talk? 01:04, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Please check the etiquette section of WP:VOTE. Merry Christmas to all by the way. --89.51.46.32 10:32, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Ooops, that was me. --Dschwen 18:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I think the users above have adequately identified what needs to be done to the image to make it FP material. enochlau (talk) 05:21, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It just fails to catch my attention like a featured picture should. It's just not as good as it could be. Maybe adding some colors would make it a bit ~~less boring~~ better. Merry happy Christma Chanu Kwanza Dan :-). Ilikefood 20:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Moderate oppose as per all comments above; only in full view can a viewer truly determine which is land and which is sea. In addition, I think that the fonts do nothing but hinder the image quality. As per Ilikefood's comments, perhaps a minimum of two colours, to help identify land and water, would help considerably. -- Alt iris Exeunt 03:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The semi-official colors at the semi-official colors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps would do wonders for the map. I also agree with the comments that the location names add little to the understanding of the map, but do distract from the story -- perhaps they should be in a lighter gray, or partially transparent. And I think that the movement arrows could be larger or snazzier such as used on this map. MapMaster 05:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 00:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]