That's a terrible name for easily recovered fingerprints, the image though is equally terrible.
I am unfamiliar and it's a mystery, but think adding an explanatory caption (or a different image... suggestion?) might be better than leaving the article without a page image.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Explanatory caption, and I don't think the name is bad (I haven't see anyone fingerprinting air, ever).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Different image, I don't know what's going on there and I can't see any fingerprints so it's literally like fingerprinting air.... no, it's not a good example by following literalism.
Good example, bad image. The idea is that he has high-tech glove that can analyze anything it touches. How you'd figure that out from this is anyone's guess.
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Explanatory caption! No, not even an explanatory caption is any good, it's doing the work of the image then, show don't tell and all that.
It looks like a guy staring at a hologram. Kill it.
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The trope is about real life technology. If the page image is some razzle-dazzle super-analyser gizmo, then it's not an example or an illustration of the trope, besides being completely meaningless to anyone who isn't familiar with the work. The caption will solve the third of those problems, but it won't fix the first two.
My vote is for "Pull".
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.^^^ That is going overboard, captions can give some context. A bunch of the relevant information would still be in the image. A caption is part of the page image, it doesn't have to be all extra or just an aside comment. It looked to me like that's something that could be clarified a lot by only adding a little.
Apparently not, though, and it's Not An Example, so sure, pull. I was not able to find a good image among the examples with which I am familiar.
edited 25th Dec '13 11:20:59 PM by rodneyAnonymous
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
I didn't like it because it's a bit too esoteric given we can't really see fingerprinting happening at all (not in a way we understand) nor does it show the basic theme, getting full fingerprints from places fingerprints wouldn't usually stick around. You'd have to do a lot of explaining and I feel it'd be too reliant on the caption. Captions can explain but they shouldn't be the key to the magic code the image has.
edited 25th Dec '13 10:51:06 PM by treelo
Hi
Clock is set. I'm voting to pull the current pic for not being remotely clear, regardless of whether we have a replacement.
I agree, BUPKIS seems a reasonable choice for now.
Hi
The clock's up; consensus is to pull the pic, so it's gone and the page is tagged to reflect. Locking up.
edited 20th Jan '14 9:43:52 AM by Willbyr
The image on the Fingerprinting Air page from Heavy Rain does a very poor job of illustrating the trope. I think it supposed to be a shot of some high-tech fingerprinting going on, but it's hard to see. Also, if you are unfamiliar with Heavy Rain, this picture will be a total mystery to you.