Misleading picture on a Useful Notes page.: Useful Notes.Seven Wonders Of The World

The current picture inaccurately depicts the Colossus of Rhodes as a standing in such a way as to allow ships to sail beneath it. While this is a common myth associated with the Colossus, it is not in fact accurate.

This map is more accurate and also gives an idea of the location of the wonders.

edited 8th Jan '12 8:55:27 AM by Auxdarastrix

Is ther a bigger version?

How about this?

edited 2nd Jan '12 9:32:04 AM by Auxdarastrix

Much better.

I like it. Supporting that in favor of the current one.

It's also much more legible than the current. Support switching.

Support the switch too.

I oppose it. The switch is of terrible quality. It's blurry, the monuments are barely recognizable. Get something clearer. Not counting that if we are replacing it because the current one has a wrong image of the colossus, while the new one depicts the Temple of Artemis as being solely made of 4 pillars, that would be kind of hypocritical of us.

You can't raise an issue to replace an image, and replace it with an image that has the same issue, but worst quality.

edited 2nd Jan '12 9:07:59 PM by Ghilz

Good point about the Temple of Artemis.

On a related note, just did a massive fix of the page. There is no "official" list of modern/natural wonders (there are, in fact, several). Cleared up a bunch of misused tropes too and outright wrong facts.

Same image, different Colossus:

Should I mention that the oldest known lists have the Ishtar Gates instead of the Lighthouse? Should it be seen on the picture?

edited 2nd Jan '12 10:26:46 PM by Ghilz

Interesting, that's the first I've heard of that...might be worth putting in a caption with a hottip about that.

Also, how are you getting that the replacement's blurred? It looks fine to me, plus people might be confused by the Mausoleum referring to the actual person and not the location in rodney's replacement.

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:58:56 AM by Willbyr

This one needs better labels, but that can be fixed with photoshop when I get home.

Sorry for the double post but its been a fair amount of time since the last post.

If we're going to fix it, just don't use the "Seven Wonders" logo. It's I think from a dubious organisation responsible for the dubious competition of compiling the new lists via worldwide votes; in any case, they're not involved in Antipater's list.

Should be "Mausoleum of Halicarnassus". There are many mausoleums.

edited 3rd Jan '12 8:15:04 PM by Catalogue

There are also many Temples of Artemis, but I don't have room to add "At Ephesus". I was figuring people could look at the article for the complete title of everything.

edited 3rd Jan '12 8:23:14 PM by Auxdarastrix

Eh. It's not of the same magnitude; mausoleum is now a generic word for great tombs. It's just wrong.

I still prefer your original suggestion, however. I think the reduction of the Temple of Artemis (at Ephesus ) to pillars is an acceptable caricaturisation, unlike depicting the Colossus wrongly. Not ideal, but acceptable.

Would it be possible to make each frame the same size?

Ideally there would be more that one picture. One map showing where anything is, and one picture for each of the Wonders. Would something like that be allowed? I know it isn't the norm for tropes, but being a Useful Notes page this isn't quite the same.

The article is kind of too short to have many pictures.

Also the exact description of the monuments is kinda iffy what with them mostly long gone (and, in one case, probably fictitious). So I don't exactly think huge images showing each monuments is that needed.

It is my intention to eventually expand the article with a brief description of each monument.

If we go with a single one, I'm fine with the either map or one of the collages that correctly depicts the Colossus, at least as far as not doing the whole "standing astride the harbour entrance" bit. You are correct in pointing out that seeing how most of them are not still around, we don't know exactly what some of them look like.

If we must specify, it's usually the Mausoleum AT Halicarnassus, not "of". Though I don't see why we must.

Easily enough fixed in Photoshop, but I'm not going to photoshop it yet again until I know which one we are using.

Do we need a crowner?

At is more common. I stand corrected.

Like I said, "mausoleum" is now a generic word for an elaborate tomb. That mausoleum isn't even the most famous, we have Lenin's and Taj Mahal.