Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Moscow State University

Moscow State University
Voting period ends on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:16:35 (UTC)
 * Reason:Great picture, excellent lighting. (Hasn't met the one-week requirement yet, but as it obviously belongs where it is and I don't see any better daytime photo of the main building, it's not going to get replaced.)
 * Articles in which this image appears:Moscow State University
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Dmitry A. Mottl


 * Support as nominator --King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 10:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Almost had me standing up and singing "Soyuz nerushimiy respublykh svobodnykh ..." and packing to volunteer to go down to the kolkhoz and help with the harvest. Great perspective on the best-known example of Stalinist architecture, and you're right—we're not going to get a better one any time soon. Might want to consider a tighter crop, though. Daniel Case (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Concur with comment regarding a crop. Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I added a crop, though I'm not entirely convinced that it makes it better as it loses a bit of the dramatic wide-angle feeling with the clouds and such. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:50, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support crop I agree the first has a more interesting composition, but EV needs the crop. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support crop for en:WP; the dramatic version should be for Commons except the dang Russian FoP crap. Saffron Blaze (talk) 19:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * What's the Russian FoP crap? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 09:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * commons:COM:FOP. If you take a photograph of a building, it may not be free in some countries, in particular Russia. However, we ignore these restrictions here because we only care about US law, but Commons does care. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 13:31, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Tomcat (7) 20:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support both. Jkadavoor (talk) 09:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support either, prefer original. I don't see why the crop has higher EV; architecture is contextual. Chick Bowen 23:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support cropped version a better and more focused view of the building. Mediran  talk 13:23, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Crop Per above. Dusty 777 09:11, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The above was added by User:Dusty777.  Spencer T♦ C 06:45, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

--Julia\talk 18:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)