Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Human Centipede

The Human Centipede
Voting period ends on 23 Oct 2011 at 12:01:53 (UTC)
 * Reason:This still image is of a very high standard and resolution. Whilst certainly not necessarily pleasing to the eye, it well illustrates the Featured Article on the film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), and adds a great deal of value to the article. The image has also been released under a free license by the copyright holder. The image is a little bit offensive, so I would not intend to nominate it for featured picture of the day or anything similar.
 * Articles in which this image appears:The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
 * FP category for this image:Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle
 * Creator:Six Entertainment


 * Support as nominator --Coolug (talk) 12:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- It's a really nice image of a house and a lawn and some artificial fog thrown in, but if you look carefully you'll also see three people on all fours who are apparently joined mouth to anus. I don't know what sort of a goofball would come up with such a thing, but if those people and that premise were removed, I might be able to support the image. JBarta (talk) 14:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your vote. The Featured Picture criteria states the requirement that a picture "Adds value to an article and helps readers to understand an article." This picture helps people to understand the plot of the film The Human Centipede (Full Sequence) by showing what this awful creation looks like. This might seem unnecessary, but at the recent (successful) FAC there was concern from some editors that it wasn't clear what this 'human centipede' thing would look like. This picture helps solve this problem perfectly. I also note that the criteria states "A featured picture is not always required to be aesthetically pleasing; it might be shocking, impressive, or just highly informative. Highly graphic, historical and otherwise unique images may not have to be classically beautiful at all." Regards Coolug (talk) 14:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm fully aware of what the Featured Picture criteria is. I've quoted it more than a few times. In my oppose vote above I was being facetious. I was stating the obvious (at least obvious to me). If you'd prefer a more serious opposition, I would suggest that there is nothing remarkable about that image at all. It seems to be a quite ordinary screen capture of a little known movie. The "shocking" nature of the movie might sell a few tickets to a few curious dopes, but as far as I'm concerned, that juvenile shock doesn't leverage an ordinary image into anything Featured Picture worthy. Terribly sorry. JBarta (talk) 15:06, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * That's much better, thank you. cya! Coolug (talk) 15:25, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose -- Due to poor resolution and image quality, not mitigated by exceptional encyclopaedic value. Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:40, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak support -- I was going to oppose until I saw this was a screen capture and not just an on set picture. I think the fact that it is a screen capture from the film and that it's 720p is important.  I'm sure part of my viewpoint is motivated because this is something we don't often have under free licenses but I think a screen capture illustrating a central part of a movie can qualify as an FP. gren グレン 16:14, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Have no idea about historical importance or value of this image, but the quality is too poor for an FP. Very dull colors, low sharpness, huge useless bush on the left and a tree crossing the center, all making an impression of a hastily paparazzi shot. Materialscientist (talk) 05:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose -- It's impressive that you've persuaded the producer to release a high-res still from the movie under a free license, and the image is extremely valuable for the THC article. However, I think the comments made above about the technical quality of the image are valid, and it can't really be fixed.  The composition is a bit dodgy, the contrast and sharpness are poor around the subject, and there's quite a lot of noise.  This might be better suited to COM:VI. Papa November (talk) 10:05, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to withdraw this nomination since it is clear that the consensus is against. It might as well be removed sooner rather than later so that this horrible image of three people joined mouth-to-anus is no longer at the top of this page. However, I don't want to just remove this from the nomination list lest I mess something up. Could someone who knows what they're doing archive this? Coolug (talk) 10:30, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn Coolug (talk) 11:01, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

- withdrawn by nominator. --jjron (talk) 11:58, 17 October 2011 (UTC)