Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ploceus cucullatus nigriceps (male hanging).jpg

File:Ploceus cucullatus nigriceps (male hanging).jpg

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•  InfoLayard's Weaver in Lusaka, Zambia. Created, uploaded and nominated by Lycaon (talk) 13:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose As an old friend would say "unfortunate lighting conditions" with unfortunate pose added. Unnatural pose, and I suspect, unnatural behaviour. What does it illustrate, if the pose illustrates something, it is missing in the description? --Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:57, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

 Question (Sorry, perhaps I can not understand english). Why "unnatural pose", Tomascastelazo? Unfortunate lighting conditions, why? What you do not like? Do you speak of the position of the bird or of the user? I do not understand. What you suspect?: The image is the image. I can't understand. Have you a problem with Lycaon?: There are pages "User talk:...". This one is not the place. Sorry, probably I can't understand--Miguel Bugallo 16:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

•  Support Wow! This is one of the most mind blowing picture I have seen. What is the bird doing, pull ups? --Muhammad (talk) 18:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose technically blury, not nice background. Ggia (talk) 18:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Weak support Interesting, good, but improvable--Miguel Bugallo 20:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Here, it is FP, not QI. The technical quality of the image is maybe not absolutely perfect (I wrote "maybe"), but I've never seen such a behavior or pose, which only deserves the FP status IMO, even if it needs a short description or explanation. Furthermore I agree with Lmbuga...--Jebulon (talk) 21:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support - gymnastics! /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 22:50, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support IQ is doubtfull, but this pittys performance is funny. --Mile (talk) 07:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support I like it --Schnobby (talk) 08:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Unusual pose, which seems to be adequately explained by the image description, nevertheless a reference for it would help. Snowmanradio (talk) 19:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Because of the very nature of the nests they construct, Ploceus spp. often perform acrobatics while building or destroying their nests ([1], [2], [3]). Lycaon (talk) 09:05, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

•  Kommentar Funny, I did extensive search of internet and I did not find any references to this "typical" behaviour of these species. Lycaon, could you please shed a little light on this please?--Tomascastelazo (talk) 20:18, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
  •  Kommentar "Typical" in the image description is really puzzling, and might need to be corrected, nevertheless the image is IMO in scope as it demonstrates the range of positions this bird can take. It's really bizarre and striking, and if not useful for Wikipedia for being uncharacteristic, could appear one day in Wikinews or other sister projects. --Elekhh (talk) 20:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Mbdortmund (talk) 11:57, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Athyllis (talk) 11:59, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 22:30, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Kommentar -- It is irrelevant whether this extraordinary behaviour is typical of the species or not, it is amazing anyway (and probably rare to capture)! But I still hesitate because of the less-than-optimal lighting. Why didn't you ask the critter to turn to the other side? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support -- What the hell... Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:38, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Kommentar Napoleon once said "From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step." In this case, the picture is funny as it is, typical behaviour or not. But one thing is to be funny and another is to be a rare photograph of a typical behaviour, which if were truly typical, there would be more pictures of this typical behaviour, at least statistically. If this is typical behavior, and considering the rarity of photograps of this typical behaviour, then this would indeed be an extraordinary picture. Almost as rare, or more rare, than a picture of the Monster of Lock Ness. But if not, it is just a funny picture.--Tomascastelazo (talk) 03:22, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 09:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
•  Support I'm always keen to support a fleeting moment of action captured forever. --99of9 (talk) 11:33, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Lycaon (talk) 05:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)