# Talk:Bilateria

The picture for this article changes every few days. What is the point of this? Any of the previous images were fine (although I liked the worm one better). Haplodiploid75 (talk) 19:36, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

If you look above you will see that the GAN review has mandated a change to the lead image. This should be stable from now on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:42, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: Cladogram images (if used at all) should show the most recognizable taxa for those clades, not the most basal. The point of cladogram images is to give the reader a quick understanding of how groups of taxa are related and the more taxa they recognize the more they will understand the cladogram. The most basal taxa are typically obscure and rarely a good representative of the clade as a whole. Also the convention is to use photos or icons with a white background (so they are easier to discern at icon size), not regular photographs. Nosferattus (talk) 15:09, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Also using File:Branchiostoma_lanceolatum_(Pallas,_1774).jpg as an icon image is especially bad as you can't tell what it is at all. It just looks like an orange smudge at that size. At the very least, we should use an image of a fish if you want to show something more basal. Nosferattus (talk) 15:14, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for your thoughts, but I mainly don't agree with the sentiments. The tree definitely needs to represent the chordates not the mammals. Using a rat for chordates is a serious misunderstanding, only slightly less human-centric than using a picture of a US president, as I once saw in a taxon article. But I'm happy to use a fish (at least that represents the vertebrates quite well, if not exactly the chordates) if that brings harmony here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:23, 28 February 2025 (UTC)