Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Elvis-Meets-Nixon

Elvis-Meets-Nixon

Entertainer Elvis Presley meets U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office on December 21, 1970.

Well-known historical photo of two of the greatest recording artists of the 20th century.

Creator

Ollie Atkins (White House photographer; yes it's PD).

Nominated by

Spikebrennan (talk) 14:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• Oppose: I believe it is a credible source but it is not enough to be deemable featurable. kdm85
  • This is peer review, not FPC. Noodle snacks (talk) 23:33, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• This strikes me as an interesting 'news' photo, but I can see little EV to be honest. I don't think it's a good enough photo of either of them to be featured in isolation, which means it would have to be featured for the meeting. But what was the purpose of the meeting? Did the meeting lead to a change in Nixon's policies? Did it revolutionise Elvis' music? It seems to me like a general interest photo, but not anything significant beyond that, and I would therefore feel not really meeting the FPC aims of high EV. --jjron (talk) 13:27, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
  • There's actually a remarkable story beyond the meeting that was photographed, and that story is the subject of a film that has its own WP article. The photo is also, apparently, the most-requested image in the National Archives. It's also featured on the Turkish wikipedia. Spikebrennan (talk) 16:11, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Seconder

• Nominated at FPC by Spikebrennan. --jjron (talk) 13:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)