Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Worlds Largest And Emptiest Mall

The World's Largest And Emptiest Mall

 * Reason:David290 recently took a series of excellent photos to illustrate the New South China Mall article. The New South China Mall is a marvel of overbuilding -- the world's largest (with room for over 2,000 stores), yet 99% unoccupied since its 2005 opening.  The nominated photo shows an eerie combination of an empty public retail space with garish hanging decorations suited for a busy market (note the "for lease" signs hanging among the floating English alphabet characters.)  I am hoping that selection as a Featured Picture would draw more attention to this fascinating article and David's gallery.  This is the first time I have nominated a picture.
 * Articles in which this image appears:New South China Mall
 * Creator:David290


 * Support as nominator --Milowent (talk) 06:14, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral. It has fairly poor image quality but it's a significant subject and not a scene you see every day (although given the size of it, this is just the tip of the iceberg). I've uploaded a perspective corrected version of it but I'm not sure if I can support it because of the image quality. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  13:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Quality-wise, the photo is poor. It also does not illustrate the "eerie"-ness that the nominator refers to. It is difficult to see that this mall is in fact "empty" in any respect.-- mcshadypl T C  21:25, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Well, things aren't looking good for my nomination.  I am not a photo expert so I can't argue much with your opinions on that.  You visual types, though, would probably enjoy the PBS documentary short made about the mall, it conveys the eerie nature of the huge empty space quite well.  Cheers.--Milowent (talk) 22:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * In my view the field of view needs to be wider. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose -- quality is low, even when the image is downsized considerably. Composition and lighting could be better. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 11:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure of the procedure, but I happy to withdraw the nomination at this point. I'll come back wiser next time.  Cheers.--Milowent (talk) 14:55, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose per myself and above. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:31, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 00:23, 22 February 2010 (UTC)