Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kamal Abbas (Cropped)

Kamal Abbas

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Feb 2012 at 17:58:16 (UTC)

Reason: A high resolution, very good quality, freely licensed photograph of Kamal Abbas, arguably one of the most important figures of the Egyptian labor movement and a prominent labor rights activist during Hosni Mubarak's reign.
Articles in which this image appears: Kamal Abbas
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Hossam el-Hamalawy - Modified/Uploaded by Jbarta

Support as nominator --The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 17:58, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Mohamed ElGohary (talk) 18:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note: A previous nomination of an uncropped version of this image was closed with no consensus. Jujutacular (talk) 19:03, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Ahmad E Shahin (talk) 20:05, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Marrante (talk) 20:56, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great photo, better than the un-cropped version. Like the grayscale too. - Al Ameer son (talk) 21:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per reflections on glasses and fact that the image would have higher EV if it were in colour. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This has been rather widely canvassed on about fifteen user pages, eg [1], [2], ... , [3], ... , [4]. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Per Crisco. O.J. (talk) 01:33, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose reduced EV in BW. Please do not canvas. --99of9 (talk) 05:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The canvassing is worse than I thought. Only the supporters from the Commons nomination were approached (on Commons): [5][6][7][8]. In that vote there was also evidence of unusual vote stacking. --99of9 (talk) 06:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Trivial shot, canvassing. Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:12, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Alvesgaspar Clegs (talk) 09:39, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would a FP delegate please close this candidate. There is no possible way to have a fair and balanced discussion about this picture and it's EV with canvasing to this degree. I am appalled. --Guerillero | My Talk 06:12, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Speedy close Guerillero makes an excellent point. Clegs (talk) 09:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Closed due to evidence of canvassing. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Additional comment: I considered commenting that this should be left to run its course and canvassed votes discounted, but discounting every new user's vote on the suspicion that they may have been canvassed through unseen means, seemed the wrong thing to do, so it might be better to speedy close this without prejudice, not least because some people are now opposing because of the canvassing rather than giving consideration to the picture's merits. I do, therefore, recommend that this not be re-run in the near future as we may end up in the same situation again. I hope that those who canvassed will consider in earnest that FPC is not a popularity contest, but an objectivity-driven attempt to elect images of particularly high quality and encyclopaedic value. As we all try to uphold the highest standards in avoiding cultural bias (*looks around*), the possibility exists that this would have been promoted in the absence of canvassing. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:47, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]