Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gandhi spinning.jpg

File:Gandhi spinning.jpg, not featured

Voting period ends on 2 Oct 2009 at 11:08:02 (UTC)
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•  Info created by an unknown photographer - uploaded by Yann - nominated by JovanCormac
•  Info An engaging portrait showing Gandhi in one of his iconic poses: Using a spinning wheel to make yarn. Despite the image's relatively low quality (which is easily explained by the lack of good photographic equipment available during the 1920s in the Indian countryside), this is probably the best portrait of Gandhi we have, and an important historical and political document.
•  Support As nominator. -- JovanCormac 11:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Of course. ;o) Yann (talk) 11:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but I don't know why should I support. Poor quality. Maybe VI? —kallerna™ 14:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose The quality is a huge counter-argument for me. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 21:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support IMO some credit should be given for the old and unique images.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:29, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Poor quality -- Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (talk) 08:23, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I am also thinking VI but not FP, the quality is really bad. /Daniel78 (talk) 19:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment It surprises me that so many people oppose this based on quality when it's such a historic image. When File:Waldenburg1945edit.jpg was promoted (which was taken 20 years after the candidate), it didn't seem to matter either as its quality is far worse yet. -- JovanCormac 20:47, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
  • I don't agree. IMO the level of detail and the resolution of that picture is much better than of this one. The picture of Ghandi looks like a scan of a print. Even in the 1920s I guess photography has been more sophisticated. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 21:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- MartinD (talk) 10:18, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Econt (talk) 02:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Quality. --Karel (talk) 19:39, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 5 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 22:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)