Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner


Photo of McCoy Tyner from 1973. Nicely composed available light photo of notable jazz musician. The photo is taken and uploaded by User:Gisle.

This was apparently uploaded by the person who took the photograph in 1973, Gisle Hannemyr. It states Copyright (c) 1973 Gisle Hannemyr. But it also has an Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 CC tag. Is this compatible with FP guidelines?— enceph alon  04:17, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. -- Egil 10:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

The FP guidelines say: "GNU Free Documentation License [GFDL] or a similar license." The CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 is identical in scope to the GFDL. If it is the copyright notice that bothers you, please note that the GFDL and the CC licenses relies on the copyright-holder granting the license. A GFDL or CC-license is only valid if the image is copyrighted and the license is granted by the copyright-holder. — gisle h. 08:42, 29 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment. This photo would look much better if you cropped it down to just a square area around Tyler himself and got rid of that distracting spotlight. JediMaster16 10:08, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks gisle, that answers my question. As to the picture, the size is the nagging "detractor" for me, but its historical significance just about nudges me over the line to support— enceph alon  08:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Thanks for your support! I'll try to upload a larger version when I can find some time.  The negative is badly scratched, so I need to do some repair work for a larger version to be good enough for publication.  As for cropping, I prefer the present composition.  I think the spotlight adds ambience to the scene, but YMMV. gisle h. 08:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I love the lighting in this picture. This is something you could only do in black and white. -Branddobbe 18:41, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Not special enough for FP.--Deglr6328 20:02, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. This is a lovely picture of a musician at work. Lupin|talk|popups 01:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per Deglr6328. Enochlau 10:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. There's something that jumps out at me when I see this. --Bash 22:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Superb composition.  Image size is less than I'd like, but sufficient. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 11:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. We don't have enough FPs of people, and this one has the bonus of capturing a mood nicely. -- Solipsist 18:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Captures the emotion of the scene perfectly. DO'&#1048;eil 06:41, 8 October 2005 (UTC)



Raven4x4x 08:42, 10 October 2005 (UTC)