Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Muslim woman in Yemen

Muslim woman in Yemen

 * Reason:Encyclopedic picture, in the right size, high quality, and the woman - the picture's highlight - is in focus.
 * Articles this image appears in:Sartorial hijab, Woman, Women in Muslim societies, Niqāb, United Kingdom debate over veils
 * Creator:Steve Evans

MER-C 09:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator &mdash; Tomer T 09:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. Acceptable size (though I would prefer it larger) and quality. However, the background has some very distracting elements (to my eyes), and the overexposed nose is very annoying. Additionally, it might be nice to have a more contrasting background (though that's not really a concern for me). -- Pharaoh Hound  (talk)   (The Game)  12:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, primarily because of the compression artifacts. --KFP (talk | contribs) 12:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, bad composition and overall quality.--Svetovid 13:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Compression artifacts, would be tolerable only at significantly larger size. I'm beginning to see a pattern... --Dschwen 14:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment This picture strikes me as slightly NPOV.. Does anyone agree with this? Jellocube27 02:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You probably mean POV (NPOV = neutral point of view). A slight POV is hard to avoid in a picture where you never can tell the whole story. But please elaborate, which bias do you suspect? --Dschwen 06:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The picture makes it seem like this kind of outfit is typical for Muslim women or for Muslim women in Yemen for that matter. Since it has more to do with culture than religion (Islam), it may be considered misleading. But the picture is of poor quality anyway.--Svetovid 10:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - We really don't know what was the intention of the nominator (or the photographer) in showing this picture. Maybe they just intended to illustrate which is, in their opinion, the proper clothing for all women... If that is the case, they fell short of the POV sin, because the message is not clear. Also, religion is a quite strong component of culture in many regions of the world, particularly in muslim countries. And this picture would indeed be misleading if christian (or jewish, or bhoudist) women in Yemen used this kind of clothing (which is not the case, I believe). Alvesgaspar 23:44, 28 April 2007 (UTC)