Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Old Japanese Train in Alishan.JPG

File:Old Japanese Train in Alishan.JPG, not featured

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•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Laurent 17:18, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
•  Support -- Laurent (talk) 17:18, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
•  Comment Seems tilted, and a geotag would be nice. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Good points - I've added the geotag and made the image straight. I've also slightly adjusted the levels and saturation. Laurent (talk) 08:31, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

•  Oppose Blue channel is clipped in the sky. --Berthold Werner (talk) 16:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Not really - that was just the sky color. Laurent (talk) 18:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Green sky? Strange! . Seriously: 7,8% of the pixels have a value of 255 for the blue channel, this a stronge indication for clipping. It's not your fault, it's a limitation of today cameras and the jpeg format. --Berthold Werner (talk) 07:52, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

•  Comment hardly within COM:SCOPE until someone finds out exactly which train model this is. Pictures of random old trains, unidentified old trains are hardly needed within Wikimedia projects. The picture should be kept, though, because it is highly probable that someone knowledgeable in Japanese trains will find out. But right now it is too soon to consider this picture as a featured picture Wikimedia should be proud of having. Teofilo (talk) 19:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Well it's not exactly an unidentified train - I put in the caption that it's the Japanese train on the Zhushan Line of Alishan (Taiwan). There's only one on that line so it could not be more identified than that :) I agree that it would be even better if the model was indicated though. I will try to find it out. Laurent (talk) 21:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I've changed the category to the same cat as all the other pics (16 of them!) of this engine . . . no doubt one of the other pics will already have this info on (ooops, they're not all the same engine, just similar, but different engine numbers ;-) MPF (talk) 22:18, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

The German Wikipedia says "Betrieben werden die Züge mit kleinen Stangendieselloks von Mitsubishi, die eigens für diesen Betrieb hergestellt wurden und teilweise mit Cummins-Dieselmotoren von ca. 750 PS ausgerüstet sind." : de:Alishan Forest Railway which seems to mean they are custom-made locomotives made by Mitsubishi, so that the category should be Category:Rolling stock by Mitsubishi ?? Teofilo (talk) 23:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

By the way, how did you find out that it was a Japanese train ? Teofilo (talk) 23:36, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

On categories, it'd make more sense to put Category:Diesel locomotives of Alishan Forest Railway into Category:Rolling stock by Mitsubishi, rather than the individual photo(s) (assuming they're all Mitsubishi-made) - MPF (talk) 00:40, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes I think MPF's suggestion would make sense. I knew it was a Japanese train because I went there so I guess I heard it from someone or I read it somewhere. Laurent (talk) 08:12, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done as MPF says. Teofilo (talk) 11:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

•  Support unique railstock, beautiful picture. Teofilo (talk) 11:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Left part is really distracting. --Eusebius (talk) 11:59, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

The contrast between green and red is beautiful, therefore, for artistic purposes which have nothing to do on Wikimedia websites (my apologies to the Wikimedia donators for spilling their money here), the left part is necessary to the general harmony of the picture. Teofilo (talk) 12:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I just happen to disagree with that: I can live with the colour, but the "modern" and quite common design of the tents (I don't know the specific work in English) does not really contribute to the harmony of the image. Also, it hides part of the train and is cropped in a definitely unsightly way. My opinion, anyway. --Eusebius (talk) 12:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

•  Oppose As per other opposes.--MZaplotnik ^{(my contribs)} 06:59, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 19:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)