Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/President of Armenia

President of Armenia
Voting period ends on 20 Apr 2015  at 05:27:44 (UTC)


 * Reason:Never nominated a head of state before, but the quality of this photograph is exceptional.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Serzh Sargsyan
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/People/Political
 * Creator:517design


 * Support as nominator – Étienne Dolet (talk) 05:27, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Colors strike me as a little dull. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:36, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Bland official portrait of serving politician (re-elected two years ago). Doesn't add significant EV. Sca (talk) 12:12, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Sca: while useful, this is a boring image which doesn't have particularly strong EV Nick-D (talk) 07:33, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - I am not judging the quality of the picture, but EV is indeed there, lead picture of the article of the president of a country ? President of Armenia, read it. Should really be enough EV. I know about Sca protesting as soon as he notices a political photo, but hey, in 100 years people might want to know about them ... I really don't think it is a criteria. 10:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk)
 * How recently was pic added to Serzh Sargsyan? Sca (talk) 14:13, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * In regards to EV, this is a generic formal portrait of a middle-aged man wearing a suit. The only thing differentiating it from a portrait of any kind of professional is that part of the flag of Armenia is partly visible in the background, but even then it's not distinct. There's nothing that implies that the subject of the photo holds an important position, or is a successful politician. Nick-D (talk) 00:14, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd say a flag is a big indicator. Besides, under that logic, we'd have to delist these: File:Salman Khurshid portrait.jpg, File:Mark Rutte-6.jpg. Étienne Dolet (talk) 07:56, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry Nick-D I really don't follow your logic... It is a photo of a notable person because he is a notable person... That is enough implication that it is of a notable person... We could never pass a picture of anyone if we had to somehow have evidence in the picture of who they are... Do stand up commedians now need people in their pictures of people laughing, with a speech bubble coming out of their mouth? Do racing drivers now need to have their picture taken ONLY in their race car? Do Scientists now have to have their picture taken only in laboratories mid-experiment? Vets have to be mid-laceration of a pet otherwise we don't believe that they're a vet? No, therefore to somehow prove in the picture that this is the president of the country is uneccessary if it is stated that it is the president and that he actually is the president... It is certainly NOT a generic picture as it contains the President of Armenia - I'd say that is fairly un-generic...... gaz hiley  14:00, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. It is a similar point to the one I made below in the case of Julia Dujmovits. 109.157.11.62 (talk) 21:04, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a painfully boring photo of a notable person which gives no indication to him being notable, or why. Nick-D (talk) 11:33, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Numerous featured pictures give no indication of why the subject is notable. If that is now a criterion then many will have to be delisted. 109.157.11.62 (talk) 14:00, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 05:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)