Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marken

Marken, the Netherlands

**Original** - Marken is a peninsula in the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands, located in the municipality Waterland in the province North Holland. It is a former island, which nowadays is connected to the mainland by a causeway. Visible in this panaroma are the community of Grote Werf with the village of Marken in the background. Marken is famous for its green wooden houses and it is a major tourist attraction.

Reason: Quality+EV
Articles this image appears in: Marken and Tourism in the Netherlands
Creator: Massimo Catarinella

Support as nominator --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 16:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose EV seems a bit low, and while picture is high quality, it is a big picture with very little focus. _Nezzadar_☎_ 16:39, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the EV low? It is a postcard shot of a famous tourist attraction. This would be the same as stating that a shot of the Big Ben would have a low EV. Also, what do you mean by that last phrase about the focus? --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 16:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I meant by that that the bottom half of the picture is grass and nothing but grass. I was trying to be polite about it. Also, there is a big difference between Big Ben and a few houses and a cow or three. Your picture is one of at least three on both pages, and offers little to the page Tourism in the Netherlands. Therefore it only has EV on Marken. I say that makes it rather low. Sorry. _Nezzadar_☎_ 18:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Millions come from around the world annually to see 'these few houses and this typical Dutch landscape'. Truckloads of Americans and Japanese are dropped off there to take pictures. The difference between the Big Ben and Marken isn't that big if you know this (although there still is a difference but you catch my drift hopefully). The fact that you haven't heard of it, isn't a valet reason imo to oppose. It is also mentioned in the article Tourism in the Netherlands explicitly so it definitely belongs there. The landscape is a critical part of the site so cutting out the grass would only diminish its EV. It's the same of taking a picture of the Empire State Building and cutting out the rest of Manhattan. I could make a crop of only the houses if you would like me to. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 20:42, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support 00:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC) (vote by GerardM)
Weak support - Very good detail and resolution, but I think it should have more EV. - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 00:26, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. On the basis of a Google image search this shot seems very typical of Marken, showing its wooden houses and green farmland. It doesn't seem to have much else, apart from quaint villagers and a small tourist industry. I wonder if a slightly tighter crop of the grass would improve it as an image though.Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:03, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I couldn't have said it any better ;). That's exactly what Marken is like. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 17:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I should clarify my wondering out loud; I think the image is fine as it is, and a crop may or may not improve it. I tend towards leaving as is. Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. It's a well composed and interesting scene, and I agree that it's representative of Dutch farmland. I'm not sure that it's uniquely Dutch though, but it doesn't have to be to have good EV. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:34, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Fantastic image: I've looked at it three or four times now, and have spotted something new each time! The quality is excellent, which means the most encyclopedically-interesting subjects -- the buildings in the background -- can be seen in detail. A crop would remove a lot of the valuable contextual detail. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 08:04, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:GroteWerfMarkenNederland.jpg --Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 213 FCs served} 10:04, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]