Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Javier Solana

Javier Solana

Reason: Scraped off of COM:FPC where voting is at 9/0/0.
Proposed caption: Javier Solana Madariaga (born July 14 1942 in Madrid, Spain) is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU). He was named Secretary General of the 10 permanent member Western European Union in November, 1999. (plagerised from his article)
Articles this image appears in: European Union, Javier Solana, Reform Treaty
Creator: א

Support as nominator MER-C 13:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. I'm a sucker for people FPs. Lots of detail. minor grain at full rez, but oversized to begin with. Debivort 14:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per above. It is indeed oversized; it's probably close to actual size.--Here T oHelp 17:40, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent, and more People FPs are needed. The noise is a non-issue given the very fine resolution. — brighterorange (talk) 18:25, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent picture, looks like straight out of a good newspaper. – sgeureka ^t•c 19:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Hand is distractingly out of focus -- Logan Williams 03:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Just a guy with a fist. ^8thstar 03:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'd like to see more people FPs as well, but a featured picture should be the kind of shot that makes you want to know more about the subject, whether it's clicking on the link to read the article or just examining the shot at full resolution. This is just some guy speaking at a conference. Matt Deres 12:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice picture, and i think a shot "in action" like this one is more interesting than the official ones where people stay still and make a big fake smile. Ksempac 21:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Although the subject is cut off (one of his hairs, that you can actually see, is sticking strait up out of the frame!), I love it! Yes, the fist is out of focus, but I think that actually gives the image more depth (and it's not like we need to encyclopedically illustrate what a human hand looks like; it's his face that's the illustrative part). The resolution is very high, so yeah, there's a tiny bit of grain or whatever, but it's a very good shot that certainly illustrates the article about him. Enuja (talk) 02:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, another excellent go-out-and-get-it image from a Wikipedian. Captures the man in a candid moment. My only quibble would be the composition -- I think it would look better with about 7-8% of the left margin trimmed off. --Dhartung | Talk 07:43, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Both. Love the composition. Eidt 1 was well done. NauticaShad e s 20:05, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - great photo, just what we're after. Stevage 03:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose A good photo, but not exceptional. It doesn't make me want to click it or to find out more about the subject. Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 03:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Fist horribly out of focus, central subject off centre and frankly not that interesting. Centy – reply• contribs – 11:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great composition, and it seems focused fine to me. Puddyglum 16:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like it - focus seems right to me and the expression of the subject paired with this great background makes this a winner for me. Wwcsig 22:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Edit 1. Nice shot - complaining about the OOF fist is a bit silly IMO --Fir0002 12:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- The edit is pretty good, but the NR seems a little clumsy around the fist. thegreen J Are you green? 20:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with the "Just a guy with a fist" comment. If we make every high-res well composed, non-grainy, well lit portrait become a FP then FP will be booked through 2025. I know lots of people with government jobs who have fists and good pictures. Buphoff 07:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, we have very little People FPs. NauticaShad e s 01:27, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Profoundly oppose Its just a reasonably well taken shot of an utterly unremarkable subject. Its someone unimportant doing something uninteresting. Unless you are related to the subject I can't imagine anyone feeling compelled to look twice at this photo. I really hope this isn't where the featured picture category is heading. Meniscus 04:27, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The subject has an article about them. That makes them remarkable for our purposes. Period. Debivort 15:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ahem, unimportant? -Wutschwlllm 13:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support original, weak oppose edit The picture's great, but the NR around the fist just isn't quite right. thegreen J Are you green? 21:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, prefer original per thegreen J--ragesoss 02:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support for Edit 1; the reduction of noise in the image is successful, and at full size...uh, that's pretty big...anyway, the focus is there, no questions over that. A good picture, in my opinion. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 06:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 per above. --Shark face 217 01:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose after the fact. I was surprised to see this as a featured picture on Wikipedia's front page. As noted by Meniscus and others above, it is a picture of some guy, and is quite unremarkable. Tempshill (talk) 07:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Javier Solana (2007).JPG --Hadseys 18:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]