Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/James Hetfield

James Hetfield with Metallica

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Oct 2020 at 20:52:07 (UTC)

Reason: On the upside, it's an excellent photo, especially for the year. Downside, though, is it's usage is on the weaker end of acceptable.
Articles in which this image appears: James Hetfield
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: DallasFletcher

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 20:52, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - "Life is ours, we live it our way". DreamSparrow ^Chat 13:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~ Oppose – Gimmicky pyrotechnics. – Sca (talk) 13:28, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Sca: Well, it is a Metal concert... Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 19:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• From Criterion No. 1: "...has no highly distracting or obstructing elements."

• Target article doesn't mention the 2004 Ottawa performance outside the photo caption, so I don't see how this 16-year-old pic "adds significant encyclopedic value to [the] article."

• Hetfield isn't readily recognizable in the pic.

– Sca (talk) 22:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My view is that this is a picture of him performing. Pyrotechnics are a regular part of metal concerts, and so it does a good job of showing a typical dramatic moment of such a concert. Just like you ideally wouldn't illustrate a theatrical show by showing actors having a commonplace conversation from it, you'd choose a dramatic moment where there's a lot of action and reaction, you wouldn't try to show "metal musician performing" with a simply-lit sing-into-microphone moment. There's other photographs that cover him not mid-dramatic-performance. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 08:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support - degree of difficulty is higher than it seems because of the requirement for access. MER-C 18:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? – Sca (talk) 22:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, sorry. It's an exciting picture, but I'm not convinced that encyclopedic value is added to the article. Josh Milburn (talk) 14:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, performer is not the main subject here. --Janke | Talk 09:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good photo of a heavy metal musician at work. I'm honestly baffled by the oppose votes above - this is what big ticket heavy metal performances look like, so there's heaps of EV. Nick-D (talk) 09:38, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:31, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]