Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Veiled Christ

Veiled Christ
Voting period ends on 26 Jan 2019  at 15:22:12 (UTC)


 * Reason:Just look at it. Carved from one block of marble. Click it two or three times to enlarge detail - that's where the fun is. Self-explanatory. "How'd he do that?"
 * Articles in which this image appears:Veiled Christ, Statue, the location site and the sculptor's page
 * FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture
 * Creator:Liberonapoli


 * Support as nominator – Randy Kryn (talk) 15:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy close. The image is nowhere near FP-quality. Thanks for your interest, though, Randy Kryn. You may want to read up on the WP:Featured Picture Criteria and browse the existing images to get an idea of what we look for in an FP. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: I doubt the image's copyright status. I've nominated the image for deletion on Commons. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, remove this amazing image of one of the most acclaimed statues in the world from Wikipedia. Who is "we"? And why isn't it feature quality? No explanation given, and the premises for deleting it are all guesswork with three "probably" reasons involved. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:06, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Paul012 has uploaded another enlargeable image of the statue (which could do with some horizontal cropping). Nice work. Randy Kryn (talk) 19:01, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Randy Kryn WP:FP?#2 says that "Still images should be a minimum of 1500 pixels in width and height". Armbrust The Homunculus 19:33, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * This one expands to 1588 by 834. Why wouldn't that size qualify, and why limit the featured picture candidates to such a high bar? Having a discussion on Paul012's talk page, and am surprised to learn that only one marble statue image has ever made it to featured picture. Can this lack of marble statue images be remedied by a change in the wording? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 19:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Speedy close - unambiguously fails resolution criteria (1500x1500 is the minimum unless there are strong mitigating reasons). MER-C 20:28, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * How did that become the minimum? This one is 1588 by 834, seems large enough, and a 1500 by 1500 requirement is one that instantly excludes many good images. Maybe a revisit of this guideline is in order. Randy Kryn (talk) 20:37, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Your enthusiasm about the subject is noted. This subject likely admits a FP but it's quite clear that the statue deserves a professional grade photographic reproduction. File:Two Bacchantes and a Bull (Vatican Museums) September 2015.1a.jpg is a lot closer to the standard required. (I should note that the FP criteria have required 1500x1500 since October 2012...) MER-C 21:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 18:53, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy close, bellow the size requirements. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:53, 17 January 2019 (UTC)