Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Himba lady

Himba lady

Original - The Himba are a pastoral ethnic group living in northern Namibia, and breed cattle and goats. Himba women are famous for covering themselves with a mixture of butter fat, ochre, and herbs to protect themselves from the sun. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. Women braid each others hair and cover it in their ochre mixture.

Reason

Himba are an ethnic group in northern Namibia. They consists of about 20,000 to 50,000 people. It is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.

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Himba

Creator

Yves Picq

• Support as nominator Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral. Good shot, but it seems like something they'd feature on commons, not here. It's just not very encyclopedic :D\=< (talk) 07:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Placing in hide box, see Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Nude_images :D\=< (talk) 09:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• Removing from hide box, people on talk (and me) don't think it's necessary to hide this. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose due to composition. The partially-hidden kid messes up the composition. It would be better if both people were clearly visible, or if this were a solo portrait. Also, she looks like she's walking out of the portrait. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Samsara (FA • FP) 15:37, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose due to composition. Kaldari (talk) 17:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per other opposes. -- Grandpafootsoldier (talk) 02:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose without bias against the subject matter, but rather on photographic merit. The subject's face is mostly in shadow and the lighting and composition could be better. Durova^Charge! 23:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)