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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 13 Apr 2021 at 09:47:55 (UTC)
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- Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Objects/Sculptures#Monuments_and_memorials
Info "Hear the screams, cries and howls as Rachel mourns her children but refuses to comfort herself in sorrow because they are gone". Resurrection? Many children continue to be 'lost' in today's shadows! Created, uploaded, nominated by Scotch Mist -- SM:!) (talk) 09:47, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Support -- SM:!) (talk) 09:47, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Oppose I'm sorry, I would really like to support, but this is kind of small and doesn't seem very sharp for FP. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Comment @Ikan Kekek: Thanks for your review - this is a small plaque high on the wall of the arched entrance-way leading to Zamość Cathedral so photographic conditions were far from ideal but important and powerful messages can still sometimes be conveyed by relatively small stark images and IMHO such 'attributes' should also be considered in assessing FPs! --SM:!) (talk) 12:03, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I want to remind you of the description of a Featured Picture: "This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images." Not "this is a not-very-sharp picture of an emotionally moving but stationary object". And the fact that it didn't look that good even when you downsampled it - which you're not supposed to do in an FP nomination (OK, maybe Diliff did it, but his files were very large and fantastic, not reduced to this kind of size) - and that it looks awful at full size (sorry, that's just the truth) really doesn't give you pause in trying to argue that it's somehow one of the best photos on the site? I'm really sorry, I know this post seems harsh, but I'd like you to consider more carefully what you nominate and really choose your best photos, because I believe you are capable of shooting FPs. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:18, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment @Ikan Kekek: There are many beautiful high quality images in the Monuments and Memorials Gallery but there are not many photos that provoke much thinking about those who are being commemorated which IMHO is what the “finest images” of memorials should accomplish. Understand that others do not share my opinion and that my relatively crude photo of this small plaque does not meet your own high standard for an FP. However, I nominated this image because not only did it pass as a QI but in my mind it strongly provoked thoughts of the many children who suffered and died during WWII (as well as thoughts of the many children who are still today starving and dying around the world). Perhaps, as evidenced through reviews of recent images I have nominated of Mary, I simply have to accept that FP is not an appropriate forum for aspects beyond pretty pictures with good technical attributes to be appreciated, even when the main subject of the image under review is a religious sculpture that I would suggest was probably created from inspiring thoughts in the mind of the artist\sculptor. --SM:!) (talk) 08:08, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment FP is about everything, certainly including a photo being moving, but a certain level of technical excellence is demanded for a photo of a stationary object. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:34, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I've reverted the downscaling. @Scotch Mist: Please see COM:OVERWRITE; if you wish a downscaled version, create it as separate file. --A.Savin 12:52, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose not very sharp Buidhe (talk) 17:45, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination --SM:!) (talk) 18:42, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
