Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dubai Construction Workers

Dubai construction workers

Reason: Great encyclopedic and historical value, good quality picture.
Articles this image appears in: Human rights in the United Arab Emirates Human rights in Dubai
Creator: Piotr Zarobkiewicz

Support as nominator --Piotr Zarobkiewicz (talk) 20:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It doesn't substantially contribute to the articles linked above, and reveals nothing about the subject of human rights in Dubai. It isn't even included in the article Human rights in Dubai. The picture does not reveal much about what being a construction work involves, or what they are constructing. They occupy a very small part of the picture, and some of their faces are either blurred or obscured. Everything else is at a weird angle, and the rope is distracting. Two distracting reflections of the photographer are visible on the left of the picture. The workers' obvious interest in the photographer ruins the documentary value of the picture. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per comment above. Remains to be said this is a quality image, I like it, cool self-portrait too ;) just not a good illustration of the activities and concepts its supposed to represent here. --mikaul^talk 22:21, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, it's a great view. It would be nice to see some shots looking out over the parapet. I suppose that it might even be possible to crop this image (and perhaps change the perspective too) in order to turn the view into something that had a lot of encyclopedic value. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Backdrop with Burj Dubai is fantastic, but the fact that the workers are just sitting around in a posed position takes a lot away from its potential EV. I would have preferred to see them actually doing some construction work in this picture. Also, that rope is VERY distracting. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 03:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. MER-C 08:07, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per above. Also at full res view everything appears stretched sideways (unless they all have very wide faces). Gazhiley (talk) 08:39, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn I see all the issues, can't do much about it. I added however a version with corrected perspective and cropped (as per NotFromUtrecht ). Piotr Zarobkiewicz 09:45, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a shame about all the opposes, because it's a great image and I don't want to take anything away from it. I think the basic problem is that it is much better photojournalistic, editorial sort of image than it is encyclopaedic. It's unfortunately the sort of photo you're more likely to see in National Geographic than Encyclopaedia Britannica. As such, it has limited EV but I'm still glad to have viewed it. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:44, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I like this image (not the so called "corrected" perspective version, that is... ...yuck!). It tells a story, and the foreground complements the cvast city scape with the gigantic Burj Daubai in the bg. Also I disagree about the rope being distracting. --Dschwen 16:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - Withdrawn by nominator --jjron (talk) 06:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]