Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The quiet and peaceful park, pond, and chapel behind the Potala

[[Media:The quiet and peaceful park, pond, and chapel behind the Potala.jpg|The quiet and peaceful park, pond, and chapel behind the Potala]]


This is a nice photo of an area behind the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet. It's in the Potala page in the Commons. The photo was taken by Nathan Freitas, and I convinced him to license it under a free Creative Commons license. – Quadell (talk) (help)  19:58, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)


 * Support (of course)   – Quadell (talk) (help)   19:58, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support, nice composition and color. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:07, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * It almost looks like a painting - Support - RedWordSmith 00:20, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The color of the water is unpleasant, and the foliage covers up the (quite interesting) building in the background. Also, there's a dude walking right through the middle of the shot, though he is "quiet and peaceful." I like the alliteration, and we need more titles like this. Matthewcieplak 04:31, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Several reasons, for one I'd like to point to this guidelines for FP's: Wikipedia:Featured pictures should illustrate a Wikipedia article in such a way as to add significantly to that article. Maybe adding significantly is indeed too much too ask for some FP's that pass here, but I don't think this image illustrates anything well. I do like the shot, but the trees block the view and the focus somewhat dizzies me. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 08:18, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * This was why I asked if images on the Commons were acceptable. At the time, most people said yes. This picture isn't actually included on Wikipedia at all. I guess we should decide: is that a problem or not?   – Quadell (talk) (help)   13:30, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Of course it should be included in an en article. Where it is stored is of no relevance, but it still needs to illustrate an article. &mdash; David Remahl 14:41, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * To help clarify, the Lipa Noi Beach picture below is from the Commons, but is also used on the English Wiki at Ko Samui. -- Solipsist 20:53, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Nice enough, but another of the non-outstanding holiday snapshots that have been nominated here recently. -- GWO 12:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "holiday snapshots".   – Quadell (talk) (help)   13:30, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * I mean a photograph of a standard approximately equal to the kind of snapshots I take when I'm on my holiday. A useful aide memoire that I've been to a place, but not a great deal of thought gone into exposure, framing, composition, etc. E.g. This  or this  or this  or this . OK, maybe not that last one. -- GWO
 * Oh! You're British then. To Americans, those are "vacation photos". (A holiday photo might be a photo of a Christmas Tree.) Makes sense then.   – Quadell (talk) (help)   23:46, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It isn't really good; and it doesn't illustrate an article. --Thomas G Graf 18:07, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Nice photo, but not feature-quality. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 06:26, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. --ScottyBoy900Q &#8734; 00:25, 06 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * NOT Promoted, +3/-6. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 08:30, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

