Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bend Her

Bend Her
Voting period ends on 13 Jun 2013 at 13:39:15 (UTC)
 * Reason:A rather nice poster showing a complicated staging of a very silly burlesque on Ben Hur. Could have wished for a bigger scan, but it's well over our size requirements
 * Articles in which this image appears:Burlesque, American burlesque, Victorian burlesque
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
 * Creator:Courier Company, Buffalo, N.Y.; restoration by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:39, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - Of course! Awesome. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:28, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * EV Comment It's a nice image, but that is a strange development of the topic with the overall article and then American and Victorian. I suspect merging them and then discussing the nuances would be a more effective way to present the info for the reader.  [Sometimes it makes sense to split a topic, but other times really hurts the reader...see this for instance with subspecies of animals when many sources not making the distinction...but Wiki has a bias for splitting and categorization as opposed to synthesis and compare/contrast.]  Also, having Bend Her as the lead for the "combined" article seems a little off.  I think the lead on the American article is more iconically burlesque.
 * The subject is a wide subject; parodies of pre-extant works were a particularly big genre of burlesque. As for the image you mention, I quite like it, but going with what's iconic to modern day risks reinforcing an inaccurate perception that that's all the genre was. It wasn't, and so I think it's good to challenge the stereotype early. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:02, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Also a pretty hilarious image. Cowtowner (talk) 05:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Interesting :) Brandmeistertalk  09:09, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Stunning, eye-catching, educational and fun, and the horse on skates is hilarious. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 03:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 15:03, 13 June 2013 (UTC)