Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer
Voting period ends on 1 Sep 2015  at 02:47:03 (UTC)
 * Reason:Colour film from the 70s is hardly perfect, particularly by now, but this is not bad.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Oscar Niemeyer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/People/Artists_and_writers
 * Creator:Roger Pic, restored by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Perhaps reducing the blue cast would be better. This seems to be daylight from the window. Brandmeistertalk  08:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've already reduced it quite heavily. Any more and it was artefacting everywhere. I don't believe you're correct, however, if that is daylight, it's coming in through blue-tinted glass. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:22, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose Poor quality, we have an entire category of his images, some of which are notably higher quality. SkywalkerPL (talk) 10:42, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm going to object to your statement there. There is no high-quality colour image besides this one. The only other decent-quality colour image is File:Oscar Niemeyer.jpg, but he is over 100 years old in that image, and it hardly reflects what he looked like during his career. And, of the black-and-white images of him, the largest is 686 × 974 pixels. Further, the copyright status of said black-and-white images, upon checking, is almost certainly a copyright violation. The very description says they weren't taken in Italy.  Your statement is simply false. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:10, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair enough about suspected copyvio. Still though I really doubt that such a poor quality photograph is the only one that could possibly be obtained for wikipedia out of his long career, especially considering that some of the photographs of him very likely fall under public domain in Italy. I really doubt if this is one of these cases where we got hold on irreplaceable photograph that therefore would be satisfying enough for featured picture. I still would say that it doesn't fulfil the criteria of Is of a high technical standard, so I'll uphold my vote. I understand your nomination, in my humble opinion it's in this gray area between FP and not an FP. But for me it's just too low quality with too much potential of obtaining higher quality image to pass as a FP.
 * Oppose. The highly tilted composition is unfortunate, and the presence of color does not compensate for this.
 * Sorry for bringing this up here, but this is a relevant place. Adam, trying to clear the field for this nomination you have submitted at least three groundless deletion requests for other Oscar Niemeyer images. Please don't rush with DRs and at least read the copyright templates. Materialscientist (talk) 03:53, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * They are by no means groundless. There's a ton of copyvio in that folder, and when I looked, I found it. You're basiclaly aqrguing that a photograph definitely taken in Brazil by an unknown photographer, must be presumed to have been taken by an Italian who travelled to Brazil for the purpose of photographing him. With no evidence. Do you see why, when I spotted that, I thought, "this is a major problem"? I'm not going to not nominate copyvio, lad. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:07, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Get some rest, you are mixing up different deletion requests. Materialscientist (talk) 05:04, 24 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose Insufficient contrast: arm and body seem inseparable. --Tremonist (talk) 12:59, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 08:22, 1 September 2015 (UTC)