Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:ISS035-E-007148 Nile - Sinai - Dead Sea - Wide Angle View.jpg

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•  Info created by NASA Johnson Space Center - uploaded by Julian Herzog - nominated by Andrew J.Kurbiko -- Andrei (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Andrei (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Beautiful, and of course high educational value. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Now there is this curvature I want to see the whole globe 🌍 :-) Basile Morin (talk) 02:39, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose the intrusive part of the satellite. See below -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:52, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --StellarHalo (talk) 08:51, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice picture. It's amazing how you can see nothing man-made from space. Cmao20 (talk) 17:27, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

  You can see the Suez Canal! --Andrei (talk) 18:27, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

• You sure can, I forgot all about that! It actually shows you just what an amazing engineering feat the Suez Canal was, that it's more or less the only visible sign of human activity in the region from space. Cmao20 (talk) 01:47, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• One can also see a bunch of circular cultivated fields near the city of Tabuk :-) -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Support ~Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 19:11, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 20:06, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:59, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Question With Cmao20's remark above, I'm just noticing now a distracting part of the (man-made!) satellite at the left. Should be cropped IMO -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:10, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

  Cropping it out will make the composition not balanced (or will require cropping on the right as well). Are you sure it is necessary? --Andrei (talk) 06:13, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• Or cloning it out, yes -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• Cloning it out would mean loosing some geographic features and it will be a very big piece of land --Andrei (talk) 12:46, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Done per Commons:Overwriting existing files#DO overwrite. Perhaps several square km on Earth, but just a few pixels on the image. The resolution is not huge, and it's just plain sand at this area. Moreover, nothing was lost because nothing was there :-) -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:34, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• thank you! can I ask which tool you used? --2A02:A310:45E:FA00:2D13:59EB:73F2:9C88 18:54, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose I'm sorry, I have to oppose falsifying landforms. I cannot support this. Satellite photos of portions of the Earth are reference tools that have to be reliable. Unless this edit is reversed, my opposing vote will stand. And moreover, showing a bit of the satellite in the photo is perfectly natural, as it reminds the viewer of the context. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Conditional support on {{Retouched}} maintained. It is so small nothing was left, absolutely no more than a painting restored, for example, as we do so often here. Really unreasonable vote, Ikan -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

• You're welcome . I used Google map with Photoshop -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

• If you can assure us that the landforms definitely look like that based on other satellite data, I'm OK with the edit. Otherwise, I wouldn't be, and I think we should consider the reliability of scientific reference photos to be a very serious requirement. Nothing unreasonable about it. Being cavalier in assuming a neat continuation would be unreasonable. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

• The landform is exactly here. @Ikan Kekek: There's a dark spot noticeable at the right, and white sand under, as landmarks. You can draw a quadrilateral from El Hara (above), Faiyum, and Dendera Temple Complex, to locate the place on the picture. There's definitely a continuation from El Hara, until the intersection (out of the image) with a clearer part of the desert. Thus the missing part is similar to the sand right above. At this level of detail, really this is like a hair in a fur :-) Basile Morin (talk) 06:37, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

• OK, thanks. I'm mollified. Next time, I'll try to remember to ask how you made the edit, rather than to object to it the way I did. I still think it was an unnecessary edit, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:34, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks, you too, Ikan. -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:54, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Support And you can see the Egypt-Israel border if you look closely (most noticeable south of Gaza). I think Wadi Rum is also pretty obvious (it looks like there are even redder areas to its west. Daniel Case (talk) 04:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment. Let's not forget about the strip of man-irrigated land either side of the Nile. You could argue that the desert is man-made too. Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:15, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Info "The reason for the color difference is likely a higher level of grazing by the Bedouin-tended animal herds on the Egyptian side of the border" and its absolutely crazy --Andrei (talk) 06:13, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

•  Support--shizhao (talk) 07:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Augustgeyler (talk) 23:44, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 06:26, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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