Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Mark Harmon 1 edit1.jpg

Mark Harmon
Voting period ends on 10 Aug 2010 at 02:25:54 (UTC)
 * Reason:There are a few issues with this, as I see it. First and foremost is the greyscale- there is no reason for this to be greyscale. There has been significant opposition to noms which are greyscale for no reason (for instance, this is a recent example where a colour image was acquired). Obviously, greyscale is appropriate for historical images, or shots from certain pieces of equipment, but I do not see why it is appropriate here. Secondly, this is pretty low resolution, (vertically, it is 1000px exactly, and horizontally, even less). This does not mean it's against our guidelines, but I do think it means that it needs a real "umph" that this doesn't have. FP-quality portraits and high quality, OTRS'd images are not as unusual as they once were- I'm fairly certain that this would not pass today. As such, I don't see why it should remain a featured picture.
 * Articles this image appears in:Mark Harmon
 * Previous nomination/s:Featured picture candidates/Mark Harmon
 * Nominator: J Milburn (talk)


 * Delist &mdash; J Milburn (talk) 02:25, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Going to have to oppose, first my background in photography tells me this is an extremely well executed portrait. The black & white, although not standard makes it pop more. I'm also partial to black & white when done right, and here I feel it's done right. Yes it's unfortunately right at the cusp of our minimum requirements, and thats unfortunate, but I'm ok with it. And finally, this is GIBBS! we can't delist GIBBS! I'm sure he has a rule # for that. — raeky  T  02:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Exactly per raeky. IMO, the picture still fulfills the requirements for FP-status: It is “eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article.” Very eye-catching. Greg L (talk) 05:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I considered nominating for this a while ago, but changed my mind more or less per Raeky. I think this is one of the better portraits we have in our gallery of highly notable celebrity figures. It is on par with our George Clooney image which was recently passed. I don't see much utility for colour in it: the aforementioned highway image was not nearly as dramatic in BW, and colour may well distract from Harmon himself. Cowtowner (talk) 21:35, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn, I think I really misjudged this. I can see where people are coming from here. Still not wild about the black and white, but yeah, I'm starting to agree. J Milburn (talk) 14:51, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 02:23, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Nomination withdrawn. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:23, 1 August 2010 (UTC)