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Original – A private bus for Google employees at the company's Sunnyvale campus.
Reason
Clear, beautiful picture of one of the shuttle buses which were the central issue in the protests.
Articles in which this image appears
Google bus protests, Googleplex
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Land
Creator
Grendelkhan
  • Support as nominatorgrendel|khan 18:46, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the biggest question is whether the 2018 bus is substantially the same as the ones the protests were over, given the article describes a process of regulation and requirements for them that happened in response to the protests. My vote would depend on that. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 19:05, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • As I understand it, the bus fleets themselves didn't change significantly, only the rules they followed in arranging their stops in the city. The image, to me, reflects Rebecca Solnit's description: The luxury coach passengers ride for free and many take out their laptops and begin their work day on board; there is of course wifi. Most of them are gleaming white, with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us. grendel|khan 20:17, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I don't think a picture of a bus is the best picture of a protest, even if the protest is about buses. Mattximus (talk) 03:48, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - lacks context. Like Mattximus, I'm not seeing how this bus is connected with Google or a protest. Do you know what make of bus this is? This image would illustrate that quite effectively. MER-C 11:51, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mattximus and MER-C: What do you think of its use in Googleplex? I think I'll at least Weak support on the basis of that usage. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 12:48, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]