Commons:Valued image candidates/Broadway tower edit.jpg

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Broadway tower edit.jpg

declined
Image
Nominated by Matthew Proctor (talk) on 2010-05-20 07:55 (UTC)
Scope Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Follies (architecture)
Used in Global usage
Review
(criteria)
Two things are bothering me:
  1. The image looks very artificial, nearly like painted. If we chose this object, I'd prefer File:Broadway-tower-cotswolds-modf.jpg, which looks more real, and shows the landscape in which and for which the object was built.
  2. The tower was used to carry a beacon, and it was used as workshop and dwelling. So it isn't a folly in the pure sense.
Therefore I  Oppose. --Ikar.us (talk) 09:15, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
en:Broadway Tower is a tiny castle, built just to see if a beacon from that hill could be seen from a rich lady's house or not. If that's not a folly, I don't know what is.
As to the image's artificiality, are you saying it's over composed? I guess I can't really argue with that. The image you propose is indeed perhaps more suitable, as it gives a better sense of scale. --Matthew Proctor (talk) 02:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I had a too narrow definition of folly in mind. Thought of facades without rooms or accessible storeys behind them. But I see that I was wrong. Keep up oppose for the second reason. --Ikar.us (talk) 10:35, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Result: 0 support, 1 oppose =>
declined. Lycaon (talk) 08:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
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