Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/wernher
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Dec 2024 at 03:15:09 (UTC)
- Reason
- High quality portrait, fitting background for person so important in spaceflight history
- Articles in which this image appears
- Wernher von Braun, Space Race
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
- Creator
- NASA
- Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 03:15, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – Govt. publicity shot. Weak colors. – Sca (talk) 15:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose – The source of the image is not an issue, but this is not the image used as lead, so EV is low. The crop is too small for FP. Yann (talk) 18:08, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Now is lead photo Wcamp9 (talk) 02:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose This photo has good EV as a depiction of how Wernher von Braun was seen at this time (a heroic type of technocrat) but very poor EV for how he is now seen (an amoral Nazi slave master who the US government cynically adopted). Nick-D (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- That makes sense, but when you look at Guerrillero Heroico you can say the same since it is a photo used as a communist protest and they are almost synonymous with each other. That is a featured pic though. Wcamp9 (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not very familiar with Che and the histography around him, but that's an incredibly famous photo and has strong EV in its own right. I don't think that this photo would have EV in its own right. Nick-D (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- This is not a comment on Nick-D's argument, which I'm still thinking about, but just noting that Guerrillero Heroico has its own long and well-cited article, so the image is quite valuable as a cultural artifact and artwork (or work of notable propaganda if you prefer) regardless of its value as a portrait. It is definitely not "almost synonymous" with von Braun's official NASA portrait. Finally I might note, along the lines of what Nick-D is saying, that a restored version of this uncomfortable photo would be quite useful. blameless 03:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- That makes sense, but when you look at Guerrillero Heroico you can say the same since it is a photo used as a communist protest and they are almost synonymous with each other. That is a featured pic though. Wcamp9 (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – For the record, this was nominated previously at This link. Bammesk (talk) 15:40, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:36, 9 December 2024 (UTC)