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• Here we go with the picture thing again . . . . . 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 07:38, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

  Yep, we have two decent pics for wildfires - File:Amazon fire satellite image.png and File:Queimadas e suas cicatrizes no Sul do Pará, em Altamira Agricultural fires at southern Pará, Brazil (48594171041).jpg. Brandmeister^talk 08:15, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

  Amakuru: Regarding this reversion and this edit, we have occasionally displayed a photograph for an RD item when an image was stale and the pickings were slim (e.g., when another option's thumbnail was barely discernible from a black rectangle). I've attempted to adapt the satellite image, but it remains far from ideal. Map-type images rarely work well at this scale. —David Levy 12:11, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

• I suggest changing "satellite image shown" to "satellite rendering shown". The former suggests that what you're looking at is an image of the fires from space, but this is not the case. It's actually a satellite image overlaid with orange squares to represent the wildfire data. --SureJohn (talk) 16:29, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

  Changed "satellite image" to "satellite rendering". I'm not sure "satellite rendering" is great, either - sounds clunky - but as SureJohn explains, this is not an actual satellite image. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:48, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

  Perhaps ‘composite image shown’? And the caption should state wildfire locations, as it’s not the fires themselves. Stephen 20:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

  I strongly agree with saying "wildfire locations" in the caption (I hadn't noticed this before). I also agree that "satellite rendering" sounds clunky, but I still think it's better than "composite image", which I might interpret as multiple satellite images stitched together.

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