Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Doon School, India

The Doon School, India[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Mar 2012 at 15:45:13 (UTC)

Reason

A good quality, sharp image of a prominent school in India. Not many sharp/good-quality images emerge from India, much less of Indian schools.
Its main subject is in focus.
A photograph has appropriate lighting to maximize visible detail
It significantly adds value to the article.

Articles in which this image appears: The Doon School, Dehradun
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator: RickTyers

Support as nominator --RickTyers (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support The image is wonderful and, seriously, this is probably the first good school image to emerge from India! :: Merlaysamuel :: Merlaysamuel : Chat 15:58, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice image. Mussolinispas (talk) 16:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like the contrast and overall texture. Nice use of lighting. Anony1212 (talk) 16:03, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (3x edit conflict) Unfortunately it doesn't meet the resolution requirements for FP. One of the criteria is that photographs should be a minimum of 1,000 px in either width or height, and this is 600 px wide. The building is hidden by all those trees, and having the photo taken in the shade means the lower half of the photo is just too dark, while the upper half is too bright, and not right either. Matthewedwards : Chat 16:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment there's some intriguing voting going on here. Matthewedwards : Chat 16:07, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Well, what can I say...it's my school :) Love the picture.

Question for Matthewedwards- Isn't limiting the size of the image to 1000px for featured eligibility limiting, in turn, the possibilities of so many wonderful, beautiful pictures out there? If it's really a good image why should 600px matter? Please forgive me if i'm wrong. Only expressing what i thought is a discrepancy in the nominating system. Because there are many good/sharp images which are not 1000px+! And do correct me if I'm wrong...thanks! DoscoinDoon (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Comment Thank you all for your comments. I am sorry to learn Matt that this can't meet the resolution requirements but what's intriguing about the comments? Is my photo not good? RickTyers (talk) 16:27, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. It's always suspicious when a technically inferior picture is supported by a lot of ~~"unknown"~~ users new to FPC. As the picture clearly doesn't meet the FPC criteria I suggest speedy closure. O.J. (talk) 17:26, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Do I also fall into the category of "unknown" users as you put it... I only supported the image as I've been heavily editing the Doon School page these days. I don't mind for a speedy-closure if this doesn't meet the requirements. I didn't really understand what you meant by 'unknown' users...thanks! Merlaysamuel : Chat 17:39, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - I meant nothing personal with my comment. As the creator is a Wikipedian it might be possible to obtain a full resolution version which then could be nominated. O.J. (talk) 21:21, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Close doesn't meet minimum size requirements, and as for the size requirements 1000 px is far to small imho, with digital cameras these days it should be far higher, but that is still currently the minimum from the last round of voting on rules.. *sigh* — raeky t 21:15, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Close Per above concerns. Also, why did three users (which are relatively "new" accounts) all make support comments within minutes of each other? Something weird is going on. Dusty777 (talk) 01:01, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:52, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Clear failure. Nominator notified. Makeemlighter (talk) 01:52, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]