Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates/Autofellatio

First removal

{*sigh*} We don't always get what we want. User:Markalexander100 removed this nomination from Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates (as noted below); and here is my response on User talk:Markalexander100:

My friend, I do not want to be impolite, but I think it is only right to explain to you in short words that I'm upset with you. I understand you do not like my nomination; that is your right. You removed my nomination; you may or may not have the right to do this thing; I think you do not, but it is, at least, a gray area. You might have found some technical grounds to perform the action, but you did not.

You performed this edit [1] with edit summary: rm bad-faith nomination. You will notice I stated in the text of my nomination: I sincerely believe this photo represents the very best this project has to offer. and Perhaps no other photo we have is as deserving of the honor of FP..

What do you not understand about that?

My nomination may be in bad taste; it may offend your religious faith or your moral sensibilities; it may shock your wife or get you fired from your job; it may, perhaps, get all of us arrested by the FBI; but in absolutely no way do I fail to stand behind it.

Maybe you just don't understand what "bad faith" means. You might read Bad faith and Wikipedia:Assume good faith. Don't forget to check out the talk pages, too. If you'd like the short explanation, "bad faith" is when somebody is lying about his reasons for doing something.

For instance, it is Saturday night, and my (purely hypothetical) teenage boy asks me for the keys to the car. "Dad", he says, "I just thought it was getting dirty, so I thought I'd take it to the car wash." Foolishly, I give over the keys. Six hours later, the tow truck brings the car back home, with smashed-in fender. Indeed, the car is clean -- my boy did wash it -- but then he spent the next five hours driving around town with his friends, chasing fast cars, faster girls, and drinking white lightning. His request to borrow the car for the purpose of washing it was made in bad faith.

Now that you understand clearly, I hope, the nature of your error, I'm sure you will not repeat it. Thank You! Have a nice day. — Xiong 熊 talk * 14:05, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

RM thumb

File:Autofellatio-thumb.jpg

Not an impossible act.
(© RudeBox Media, Inc.)

FPC process guidelines state:

How to add your nomination ... Copy the following content into the new blank subpage...[[ Image: Example.jpg |thumb| Caption goes here ]]...

Of course, this fails, as the image in question has been blocked from display inline. I substituted a thumbnail created especially for the purpose, with appropriate caption.

[2] Pharos removed the thumb with edit sum: as FPC (unlike the Autofellatio article) is not generally about autofellatio, I think an inline link is more appropriate

Of course, that justification is very poor. FPC isn't "about" birds or berries; it's about images; and obviously, nobody ought dare form an opinion about an image without seeing it. However, I'm willing to compromise, and I've allowed the removal. — Xiong 熊 talk * 14:39, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

Second removal

Nohat rm the {{FPC}} tag with edit sum: remove bogus {{FPC} [3].

This is offensively illegal; I properly nominated the image, and now it shall run its course, pass or fail. After the 2-day comment period, the respected user may choose to vote against FP status for this image -- and that is the extent of his privilege. — Xiong 熊 talk * 14:49, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

Your claims that this is a good faith nomination are transparently duplicitous. This image never has and never will have support to make it a featured picture and you know it. Nominating it to be a featured picture is just being controversial for the sake of controversy. There is no need for troublemakers like you to troll Wikipedia. Please spare us your pious grandiloquence and get back to making productive contributions to Wikipedia. Nohat 23:03, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I removed the tag is because at the time, there was no corresponding entry on the FPC page. No entry on FPC page = bogus tag. Nohat 23:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]