Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Photo 51
Voting period ends on 4 Jan 2025 at 18:25:04 (UTC)
- Reason
- One of the most famous and important images in science. Because of that, I think it is an exception when it comes to quality
- Articles in which this image appears
- Photo 51, DNA
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology
- Creator
- Raymond Gosling
- Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 18:25, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- I need to talk this one through: On the one hand, this was originally a photographic plate, so the limit of detail is somewhere a little smaller than the film grain size (since the film grains don't form a grid, so the conversion to grid is going to eat detail if it's too close to film grain size).
- It's not sharp, but I'm not sure if that's JPEG artefacting, resolution, or just that X-ray diffraction isn't a photograph of a straight line.
- It's relatively small dimensions (858 × 858) which might be reasonable if this is a tiny spot on a photographic plate, or might be horrible. I don't know. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 21:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- This could be a case where (FP criterion 5) "A picture's encyclopedic value is given priority over its artistic value"? As in this nom? Bammesk (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, but it's also the case we should nominate the best copy possible. There are numerous other copies of Photo 51 online, some much bigger, so we need to judge which is best. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 04:46, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- This could be a case where (FP criterion 5) "A picture's encyclopedic value is given priority over its artistic value"? As in this nom? Bammesk (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose I don't get it. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 15:19, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Charlesjsharp and Sca: To explain this: this is a method of analyzing protein shapes that was vitally important to working out the structure of DNA; it's included in any decent history of science book covering the subject. Interpretation is a very specialised skill, though there are resources that will explain it to you.
- This was Rosalind Franklin's specialty, Gosling was part of her team. I don't know why this doesn't appear in either of their articles. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 00:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, per above. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC)