Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steven Spielberg/2
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- Reason
- high quality picture used as lead; famous personality
- Articles in which this image appears
- Steven Spielberg, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director, List of Phi Kappa Phi members, David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
- Creator
- Martin Kraft
- Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 17:49, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – Routine shot of famous person. Meh. – Sca (talk) 12:07, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Moonreach (talk) 15:25, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose This is a generic studio type portrait and gives no indication at all of why the subject is notable. As such, while it's a useful photo it's not of FP standard. Nick-D (talk) 11:28, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- I feel sometimes like there's a double-standard on photos of famous people. Old photos, especially those in black and white, never seem to face this particular challenge, even though their compositions are otherwise often similar. Moonreach (talk) 18:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- That's largely due to the relative rarity of photos before the modern era. Spielberg must have been photographed on film sets and at movie-related events on many thousands of occasions. Nick-D (talk) 22:36, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- While I don't doubt they exist, is it a fair comparison to make if none of them are free use? I went through all the photos in the Commons category "Steven Spielberg by year," and the only high-resolution one I found that sort of shows what he does for work is this. The fact that Spielberg is still alive and a better photo could be taken of him is technically true, but it's also hypothetical. Moonreach (talk) 14:51, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- That's largely due to the relative rarity of photos before the modern era. Spielberg must have been photographed on film sets and at movie-related events on many thousands of occasions. Nick-D (talk) 22:36, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- I feel sometimes like there's a double-standard on photos of famous people. Old photos, especially those in black and white, never seem to face this particular challenge, even though their compositions are otherwise often similar. Moonreach (talk) 18:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- The resolution is low 1,471 × 2,205 pixels for a 2023 photo, it borderline fails FP criterion #2. The camera has much higher resolution. Otherwise a nice portrait. I don't agree with the "indication of notability" argument. It would be a plus but it's not a requirement. Bammesk (talk) 02:26, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:23, 25 August 2024 (UTC)