Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/James Hetfield

James Hetfield with Metallica
Voting period ends on 17 Oct 2020  at 20:52:07 (UTC)
 * Reason:On the upside, it's an excellent photo, especially for the year. Downside, though, is it's usage is on the weaker end of acceptable.
 * Articles in which this image appears:James Hetfield
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
 * Creator:DallasFletcher


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 20:52, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support - "Life is ours, we live it our way". DreamSparrow   Chat   13:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 *  Comment Oppose – Gimmicky pyrotechnics. – Sca (talk) 13:28, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, it is a Metal concert... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 19:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)


 *   From Criterion No. 1: "...has no highly distracting or obstructing elements."
 *   Target article doesn't mention the 2004 Ottawa performance outside the photo caption, so I don't see how this 16-year-old pic "adds significant encyclopedic value to [the] article."
 *   Hetfield isn't readily recognizable in the pic.
 * – Sca (talk) 22:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * My view is that this is a picture of him performing. Pyrotechnics are a regular part of metal concerts, and so it does a good job of showing a typical dramatic moment of such a concert. Just like you ideally wouldn't illustrate a theatrical show by showing actors having a commonplace conversation from it, you'd choose a dramatic moment where there's a lot of action and reaction, you wouldn't try to show "metal musician performing" with a simply-lit sing-into-microphone moment. There's other photographs that cover him not mid-dramatic-performance. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Support - degree of difficulty is higher than it seems because of the requirement for access. MER-C 18:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Huh? – Sca (talk) 22:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose, sorry. It's an exciting picture, but I'm not convinced that encyclopedic value is added to the article. Josh Milburn (talk) 14:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose, performer is not the main subject here. --Janke | Talk 09:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Good photo of a heavy metal musician at work. I'm honestly baffled by the oppose votes above - this is what big ticket heavy metal performances look like, so there's heaps of EV. Nick-D (talk) 09:38, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:31, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 00:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC)