Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sumatra meulaboh mosque.jpg

Meulaboh Mosque
Voting period ends on 28 Oct 2010 at 11:39:42 (UTC)
 * Reason:Recent Commons FP that has been used on the English Wikipedia for some time, as a lead image.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Meulaboh
 * FP category for this image:Places/Architecture
 * Creator:3rd Class Benjamin D. Glass, United States Navy


 * Support as nominator --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Composition looks unbalanced to me --Muhammad (talk) 15:20, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Devil's advocate: how about cropping out the helicopter, and cloning away what remains of the blades? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:28, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not just the side. IMO some more space at the top would have been good --Muhammad (talk) 09:52, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Per Muhammad, and average res, and kind of washed out colours. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 17:31, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose, as above. J Milburn (talk) 11:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment – I'm leaning towards an oppose. Besides the above comments, that tin roof bit (not quite sure what it is) on the bottom left is distracting. – S Masters (talk) 13:29, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That would be the easiest thing in the world to clone out though. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:52, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If it is cloned or cropped out, I will support it as per Purpy Pupple. S Masters (talk) 09:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Historical EV lies in the helicopter providing aid to the people after the disastrous tsunami that wiped out 1/3 of the population in the region. This also makes the photo unreproducible. Although the image is not very sharp, it is sufficient to make out important details such as the people crowding around the helicopter. Furthermore, it appears to be Wikipedia's only picture that shows the Meulaboh mosque. Regarding composition, it is not stellar but acceptable, especially since there are many ugly things in the area such as various tin-roofed houses etc. Purpy Pupple (talk) 22:44, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support good quality, historical, high EV. Nergaal (talk) 22:55, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support edit The resolution, historical and unreproducible aspect, as well as high EV, makes this a good candidate in my opinion. S Masters (talk) 00:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Messy composition. I cannot support this for historical EV either because then why do we need to see the mosque? Surely the other image on the Meulaboh page does a far better job of illustrating the carnage and aid effort of the tsunami.  Centy  – [ reply ] • contribs  – 00:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Because if it weren't for the mosque, we wouldn't know this is set in Meulaboh. But seriously now, you're asking slightly strange questions. This is to illustrate Meulaboh, where the mosque is a central institution of public life. Something a little different because showing only rackety huts for developing world settlements gets rather old after a while. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:51, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 17:39, 28 October 2010 (UTC)