Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert
Voting period ends on 20 Sep 2017  at 22:39:59 (UTC)
 * Reason:There appears to be a high technical standard, high resolution, has good lighting, is under a free license, and it is used in quite a few articles. Should I write more? This is my first FP nomination. --Hameltion (talk, contribs) 22:39, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Articles in which this image appears:Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, List of programs broadcast by CBS, List of people from Charleston, South Carolina, List of people from Chicago, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, United States presidential election, 2020, 1964, and others
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
 * Creator:Neil Grabowsky


 * Support as nominator – Hameltion (talk, contribs) 22:39, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Overly compressed (6.4 megapixels at 683 KB?), cropped too tightly. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:38, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The crop is a Wikipedia creation - original here - so might be worth someone recropping; but the original is 36 megapixels at 2.9mb, which by my maths is even more compressed... though I have to admit that it *looks* OK to me. (On the uncropped photo a larger proportion is the uniform dark grey background.)  TSP (talk) 11:39, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment – I just don't see the point, in terms of either reader interest or EV, in featuring portraits of widely known current entertainment personalities (or politicians, or sports stars) on the Main Page. Sca (talk) 14:33, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * We vote based on EV. And someone's face does provide the best EV for an article on a person, unless the person is known for doing something specific (like play tennis). Popularity is not to be considered when voting. Encyclopedias don't just use pictures of obscure people... Mattximus (talk) 23:57, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * As Matt said. Also, we're fortunate that some people donate/make available images like this, and that one or two editors are regularly in positions to take pictures themselves. Highlighting some of these images (that meet our standards, obviously) offers an incentive for further donations. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:48, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Celebs get more than enough PR on their own. Sca (talk) 13:49, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * See, that's the thing. You just think of FP as a PR machine, rather than a means of promoting growth on Wikipedia. Frankly, it's better for us if we have recognized celebs like Weird Al Yankovic as FPs; it is more likely to draw other photographers' attention. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * My loyalty is to our readers. Sca (talk) 14:52, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * So you're saying our readers wouldn't want to see a great picture of Stephen Colbert? Rather untenable position, that. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:38, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * IYO. They can see him all the time elsewhere. Sca (talk) 13:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * So your loyalty is not to our readers wants, but the needs you perceive. Of course. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I would like to quote something I saw in an old nomination (not sure if it's still the precedent):
 * "I dislike the argument 'it won't suit the main page'; FP is not POTD. thegreen J Are you green? 3 September 2007 5:27 PM"
 * This image doesn't have to show up on the front page; I just think it should be recognized as pretty good. --Hameltion (talk, contribs) 03:37, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 22:59, 20 September 2017 (UTC)