Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Atari E.T. Dig

Atari E.T. Dig- Alamogordo, New Mexico[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2023 at 15:36:58 (UTC)

Reason: High quality picture of a pretty historic "archeological" find. Definitely EV as it's featured in many articles relating to video game history.
Articles in which this image appears: Atari video game burial, Video game crash of 1983, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game), History of video games, List of commercial failures in video games +3
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: taylorhatmaker

Support as nominator – Howard🌽33 15:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is literally trash. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:04, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah? That’s the point. The articles are supposed to about the burial of the Atari games. That’s why the picture is encyclopaedic in my opinion. Howard🌽33 14:37, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Per Andrew. Crude image with IMO zero EV. – Sca (talk) 15:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that it is trash, is the purpose. Because it is displaying the Atari video game burial. This is trash, yes, but it is notable trash. Howard🌽33 18:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
IMO, little visual interest. -- Sca (talk) 15:13, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support The Atari video game crash of the 80s is kind of a thing of legend in the history of video gaming, and the burying of unsold E.T. games - They made more than there were Atari consoles sold, I believe - was a longstanding urban legend that was proven real by digging up trash like this. Highly notable! "Trash" from this dig is literally in the Smithsonian now. I know I'm probably one of the older contributors here, but still... Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 23:30, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – per Adam. Also, I think the nom image would make a better infobox image in the primary article. Bammesk (talk) 04:30, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I remember nominating another picture of the burial excavation years ago and this is a significant moment in video game history. To dismiss it as trash misses the point of a moment in time that was part of the video game crash of 1983. What once was believed to be a myth turned out to be real and for that reason alone is absolutely high EV. GamerPro64 05:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support even though I hate video games. I grew up in the pinball era, when playing an arcade game meant the manipulation of real physical objects in a beautifully designed and carefully engineered physical space, rather than moving tiny pixels around on a flat screen. The rapid growth of arcade video games completely destroyed the pinball arcades that I loved as a kid, and the few home video games I tried seemed to me a stupid and pointless waste of time, as they still do today. But you don't have to be interested in video games to consider the Alamagordo Atari excavation a fascinating story and well worth the coverage it received in the national press. Most archaeology is the study of other people's trash, and I see very high EV here. – Choliamb (talk) 15:27, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per what others have said. While yes, it is quite literally trash, trash can be significant, and when an event as important to the video game industry as this is represented by said trash, I don't think there is any reason why this shouldn't be a featured picture. NegativeMP1 23:06, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per others. Yann (talk) 23:01, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Atari E.T. Dig- Alamogordo, New Mexico (14036097792).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]