* I think this picture of mine would make a decent temporary lead image, until a professional photograph comes along. It meets all the criteria listed above, if I understand them correctly: it's a clear image (albeit of low resolution, which isn't ideal for such a high traffic article), it shows the entire body and it's an orange tabby, making it fairly representative of cats. I've also given the image a free license, so the rights won't be called into question again. Some cons - it's a scanned image, which makes for low quality. We should decide now which is more important though, content or quality? Does the lead photo need to taken professionally before it depicts the subject in its entirety? The current lead image is an attractive picture, but does it tell us what a cat looks like? Food for thought I guess. Also, although this is an image I took of my own cat, I propose it here entirely in good faith, as I think it's what this article is looking for at this time. I will leave it up to others to decide if it gets included. Thoughts? Brian Adler 11:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)* Well, I don' know that we're really looking for a temporary one, as we have a temporary one that seems to be doing just fine. This photo actually has some good points in its favor. It's got the full body in view, a background that isn't distracting. It's facing right, which isn't ideal but a somewhat minor complaint. The larger version is pixelly and not so great, but at a small size it does pretty well. And I think a horizontal shot works better for the infobox than vertical ones. I'd rate this above some of the others here, but not at the top of the list.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:EvanS/Cat/Lead_photo#Cutecat.jpg
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