Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandow

A New Sandow Pose (VIII)
Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2015  at 05:45:11 (UTC)
 * Reason:Is saying "I found it hilarious, then did research and found out it's actually rather important" acceptable? Eugen Sandow founded the bodybuilding movement, and, to quote the BBC: "Ladies would pay a surcharge to attend private viewings backstage, where they were encouraged to fondle his muscles. But it is also believed he had a gay following. Rumours circulated that he was a bisexual philanderer, but shortly after his death his widow and daughters started a huge bonfire, burning anything that related to his personal life." And I'll just link this without comment:


 * That said, none of this makes me find this any less hilarious.


 * Articles in which this image appears:Eugen Sandow
 * FP category for this image:If bodybuilding's a sport, even before it was competitive, Featured_pictures/People/Sport. Otherwise Featured_pictures/People/Others
 * Creator:D. Bernard & Co, Melbourne; restoration by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - gosh, Adam. That was a joke. Anyway, support. Hafspajen (talk) 05:51, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support -- - T H - the fury of nature given flesh 08:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - About time we had some topless men. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Try Tarzan ....File:Poster - Tarzan the Fearless 01.jpg - File:Tarzan of the Apes 1918.JPG smiley Hafspajen (talk) 12:50, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sadly, too many JPG artefacts. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Support - Think about perhaps moving it up in the article (to the bottom of the early life section), it seems a bit randomly placed at the bottom.--Godot13 (talk) 09:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I put it next to the list of his publications as a sample; I wouldn't object to moving it, but I like the current mix of images. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:30, 27 February 2015 (UTC)