Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Socially Distanced Homeless Encampment

Socially Distanced Homeless Encampment

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Original – From COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area: "A "safe sleeping village" at San Francisco's Civic Center organized tents into an evenly spaced grid as a safer alternative to the city's usual homeless encampments."

Reason

Good EV for the pandemic (even if it has to compete with a lot of other good-EV pictures on both pages it's on). Aesthetically interesting, contextually illustrative (of the concept of social distancing), and historically important. I'm nominating it under "Other" for a category because it doesn't fit neatly into any of the others. "People" comes closest, since this is a human thing, but there aren't that many people in the focus area of the image, so I'm stumped. Moonreach (talk) 14:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Articles in which this image appears

COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area

FP category for this image

Other

Creator

Christopher Michel on Flickr, uploaded to Commons by Tm

• Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 14:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – Interesting concept but poor execution. I really doubt the EV because this is a very wide aerial shot that very poorly depicts the social distancing. From this angle, it is nothing more than a courtyard with equally distant rectangles. The shadow on the lower half and the structures on the sides are distracting too. Regretful oppose but good concept. Any other angle resolving those points I raised have my support. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

  There are two other pictures from the same set. I'd be happy to support either if other people think they have merit, but I don't think the composition of either one is quite as impactful. Moonreach (talk) 16:56, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

  Nope. Sadly, they are worse. As Sca said, the EV is almost nil for any of them and doesn't give any information to the general reader. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 17:04, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose, per above. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:19, 7 July 2024 (UTC)