Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Balisto

Balisto edit

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Original – Four flavors of Balisto bars, a type of wholemeal biscuit bar snack manufactured by Mars, consisting of a digestive biscuit centre and a variety of milky cream toppings, and coated in milk chocolate.

Reason: Useful product photography of a chocolate bar I've never tried. Please note that the packaging is so simple that it doesn't pass the threshold of originality in the US, and thus can be freely licensed.
Articles in which this image appears: Balisto
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Food and drink
Creator: Superbass

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:08, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose Limited EV as the chocolate bars themselves aren't shown and the covers are partially obscured. Still, I want to try them. Brandmeister^talk 06:56, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't buy the "so simple" justification; think of the poor designer having their work dissed thus, and if it is truly so simple that it doesn't pass the threshold of originality, we aren't getting much EV out of it; I agree with Brandmeister that we really need to see the biscuits; or preferably eat them. Belle (talk) 09:48, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I don't think the designer's work is being dissed, it's just a technical delineation about what can and can't be copyrighted. But yes, seeing the wrapper isn't enough for me either, It would be much more useful to see what's inside. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:44, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I bet they spent ages agonising over whether to join the i to the s. Belle (talk) 11:03, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They had one group of marketing consultants analyzing the i-to-s juncture, and another on the t-and-o situation. The latter were paid more cuz their decision was final. Sca (talk) 13:54, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Sorry, but it this a commercial break in Wikipedia? --Tremonist (talk) 12:11, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Nope, considering I've never had the bar in my life (having not even been to Europe). I just thought that these packaged examples have greater EV than an open one because, in the long run, one chocolate bar is going to look a lot like another. Unless we split it in half. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - I was just kidding, Chris. --Tremonist (talk) 13:36, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - My humor is, admittedly, quite dry (i.e. so was I) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:50, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - I was thinking a bar broken open (so you can see the inside) poking out of an opened wrapper would be perfect; then you could see everything relevant; of course it would be best if there was a woman in a comfy sweater curled up on a sofa delicately nibbling on the corner and smiling coquettishly while pushing a crumb into her mouth with a perfectly manicured finger; that's how we always eat chocolate. Belle (talk) 13:44, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - I dare say you want to be the model, Belle? Seriously though, if I had the chance I'd probably do it like that. I might do a shot like this for ordinary Pocky if I ever manage to get through the rest of the images from my last shoot. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:50, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - In the absence of any boring factual information about Belle, I always imagined her as a kind of Nigella Lawson (a British cooking show celebrity renown for her sensual talk about food, as parodied in this video! Oh, warning, NSFW.) - and that description by Belle above only reinforces it! ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 15:06, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        :-O Belle (talk) 15:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Sorry Belle, maybe it was a bit much for the sterile confines of FPC... ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 15:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw - Alright, very little chance of a consensus for promotion happening here. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]