Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Iranian Holocaust cartoon competition

International Holocaust cartoon competition

 * Reason:good image, illustrates anti-Semitism and the event itself. I like it, but perhaps if somebody could edit out the text
 * Proposed caption:The International Holocaust Cartoon Competition was a cartoon contest sponsored by the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, to denounce what it called 'Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech'.

An Israeli group announced an anti-semitic cartoon contest open to Jews only. One of the two founders of this group was quoted as saying "We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!".
 * Articles this image appears in:International Holocaust Cartoon Competition
 * Creator:Gerash77


 * Support as nominator Hadseys (talk • contribs) 22:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This image has no source info with which we can verify the license (what we'd like is a URL to a page where you'd find the image). MER-C 02:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment What is this supposed to be? This image lacks encyclopedic context, without which this appears to be some kind of inflammatory attack. Simply saying that it illustrates a cartoon competition is not good enough; why would that be notable or encyclopedic? Even with proper source information, it would be totally unsuitable for the main page because the main page (in contrast to the rest of the encyclopedia) is not the place for offensive things. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Could not disagree more with the assesment that front page 'isn't for offensive things'. Wikipedia is not censored!!!D-rew 04:28, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The cartoon competition created a great deal of controversy worldwide and is therefore noteable and encyclopedic, just because it illustrates an unpleasant concept does not make it unsuitable for the main page --Hadseys (talk • contribs) 15:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm looking at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article where this specific debate is brought up. I'm not suggesting censorship of the project, and the encyclopedia is certainly not censored, which I'm well aware, but it seems the main page is. Unpleasant and controversial are not the same thing as offensive. Imagine the disruption it would cause if we put a Bad image on the main page. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 17:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment The cartoon may well be encyclopedic, but the image caption needs to demonstrate why. The proposed caption does not even use the word "controversy" let alone explain why the cartoon is representative of wikipedia's best work! The image and caption should not leave the reader wondering "what is this?" Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 17:09, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No reason has been given why this exemplifies Wikipedia's best work.  The fact that an image illustrates a notable event has never been sufficient grounds in itself for featured status. Chick Bowen 18:14, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Image is now on WP:PUI due to inadequate licensing info. MER-C 05:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Just in case that appropriate licensing info does appear, I think this is a very poor shot at what it's trying to illustrate. It's like someone pasted a bunch of cartoons at various magnifications randomly into an image, and then put a tiny caption somewhere near the top (not readable unless viewed full size) saying who it's from. That caption should not be in the image in the first place. It should be in the image description in the Image namespace, and selectively in the below-image caption in various articles. And it doesn't meet the size requirements. Samsara (talk • contribs) 13:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose and move to speedy close due to licensing issues (although there are plenty of other reasons to oppose per the comments above. Spikebrennan 17:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, need more proof that this artist was a very important part of that competition.... this is the first time I've seen these cartoon and I have read about and seen others from the competition... also let's clean up licensing issues... gren グレン 10:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 04:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)