Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ed Lu 2

Ed Lu
Voting period ends on 4 Aug 2023  at 02:30:22 (UTC)


 * Reason:High quality photo of physicist and former astronaut Ed Lu. The infobox image is nice but not as good technically (it's unsharp and noisy). I cropped this image using Template:CSS image crop. If the nom passes, I will create a cropped file.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Ed Lu
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
 * Creator:Christopher Michel


 * Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment – Rather obscure subject. Marginal EV. Photo doesn't lead infobox. – Sca (talk) 12:42, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think an astronaut who flew on three space missions is 'obscure'. My concern with this image is that it provides no indication of why Mr Lu is notable - it depicts a middle aged man in smart casual attire, which is about as generic as you can get. The infobox photo is much better. Nick-D (talk) 23:40, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Portrait of a subject in a biography article is a well-established precedent, lots of examples in past FPs. He isn't just an astronaut, but a working physicist too. Infobox image doesn't have the quality. Nom image is high quality. Obscurity isn't relevant, we are an encyclopedia, not a magazine. Things like indicating his notability, being in infobox are pluses, but not requirements. See Oppenheimer nom below, there is no indication of his notability. Lots of similar examples in past FPs. Bammesk (talk) 03:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 02:31, 4 August 2023 (UTC)