Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Long Beach, CA at night

Long Beach, CA at night

Reason: This is coming up for picture of the day, but at (1024x481, 104 KB) ~~it doesn't seem to fulfill our size requirements~~ is at the low end of our size requirements, but suffers from jpg artifacts (check the edges of the high rises) and lack of detail (close in on the promenade area). Detail of one of the problem areas added.

Nominator: trialsanderrors

Delist — trialsanderrors 20:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - 1) a beautiful image, 2) it does meet the requirements which say at least 1000px in height or width, 3) barely missing a current technical requirement (not that this image does) shouldn't be a sufficient reason to delist, i.m.o. Debivort 21:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. Note to self: doesn't hurt looking up the actual wording of the guideline once in a while. I adjusted the nomination accordingly. ~ trialsanderrors 21:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Size is never an enough reason for delisting. Unless it's very small. --Arad 22:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. Meets the requirements but IMO it's much, much too small for a panorama --⁪froth^{T C} 23:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Marginal on size, has compression artifacts. We can have higher standards for subjects which are easily accessible. —Dgies^t c 16:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Considering that this is a panorama, the size is too small in my opinion. -Wutschwlllm 16:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment The fact is, it meets size requirements. Saying it's too small, even for a panorama, shouldn't matter. Joe 23:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment The requirements are arbitrarily chosen and aren't set in stone; expectation for wikipedia's "very best" panoramas is much higher than for other images. --⁪froth^{T C} 02:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per Debivort --Fir0002 02:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This isn't a panorama, BTW. It's originally a 1024x768 image that has been cropped. See the source page for the original. howcheng {chat} 06:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Debivort brings up some nice points. Arjun 18:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep My Two Cents:-- I think delisting a photo from the past is like taking a gold medal from an athlete who won it in the 1936 Olympics because a modern athlete has performed better. Once you win an award, you should be able to keep it. -- Mactographer 12:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. Featured represents the best Wikipedia can offer, and that standard can (and should) increase over time. Considering delisting is giving the photo a frank judgement based on current standards, i.e. if it was nominated now, would it pass? I don't think it would. Trebor 19:04, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delist per Dgies. It's a nice image, but we can get a much better shot for this kind of place. Trebor 19:04, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kept Raven4x4x 02:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]