Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gondi women, India

Women in Gondi village, Umaria district, M.P., India.

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Sep 2010 at 12:56:55 (UTC)

Original - Women during a public meeting in Gondi village, Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Reason: Good quality picture of tribal people.
Articles in which this image appears: Gondi people, Adivasi
FP category for this image: People/Traditional
Creator: Yann (talk)

Support as nominator --Yann (talk) 12:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Very few people visit Adivasi villages, and it is difficult to take pictures of women, as they rarely appear in public. Yann (talk) 13:02, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Has a National Geographic look to it. It ought to be an interesting subject for the middle of the bell curve of our I.P. readers visiting en.Wikipedia. I pulled this one out, edited it, and found that, for me, it looks much, much improved when brighter. But I support as-is too. Greg L (talk) 16:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You don't think the DOF is too shallow in this? --I'ḏ♥One 17:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - With all three in sharp focus, I suppose the subject would be “three ladies waiting.” As is, it could be regarded as “a lady waiting.” The sharp focus on just her makes her the only central subject; the two behind her establish that she is part of a group without unduly distracting from her. It is, after all, her engaging expression that sets her far apart from the others. I don’t mind it this way. BTW, for those with Macs, a super-quick way to explore what this looks like brighter is to click the image, click the link to go to the actual image (you don’t have to zoom), drag it to the desktop, and double-click it. In Preview, select Tools>Adjust Color…>Exposure. Drag the exposure until the histogram looks like a straight slope pointing at the 255 origin. I think it looks much improved. Greg L (talk) 19:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment She has great teeth. Gut Monk (talk) 21:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, a good, slightly nontraditional portrait (because there are other people in the background). Chick Bowen 02:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm probably missing something here, but... Isn't this just three women having a chat? J Milburn (talk) 18:08, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- No, this picture was taken during a meeting about land rights organised by Ekta Parishad. Yann (talk) 19:27, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Frankly, that's irrelevant if it isn't a meaningful part of the article. As it stands, how do you see this image's EV? Cowtowner (talk) 19:38, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - The land rights are the main grievance of the Adivasi people. They are denied the property of the land on which they live since ages, but some progress is being made due to Ekta Parishad activities. So this picture is also related to an event which has a major impact on their lives. Yann (talk) 07:51, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Alright, but it's still just showing three women sat around doing nothing, as far as I can see. This is coming across as more of a Commons FP than a WP one, for me. J Milburn (talk) 10:57, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Fair enough, but it isn't used in that kind of capacity within the article. Also, smiling doesn't typically convey grievances. I just don't see there being sufficient EV here, so I'm going to oppose for now. Cowtowner (talk) 14:55, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Smiling doesn't typically convey grievances: this is really a meaningless comment. The speaker was making jokes about the government policies. And if I would submit a picture of angry people, I would be told that the mood of the picture is bad. Yann (talk) 21:40, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        You're ignoring the crux of the issue: nothing about the grievances, meeting or her jokes are involved in the article. Therefore, none of that is encyclopedic. Cowtowner (talk) 22:08, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- If it's just used to show what the Gondi people look like, it wouldn't really need to be more than that. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:04, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per Greg. It does have a National Geographic feel. Gut Monk (talk) 04:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Greg and Makeemlighter. --Avenue (talk) 13:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - interesting and of very high quality. Cowtowner makes a good point, but I think her clothes and appearance has enough educational value for me to support this. Cordially, Clementina talk 08:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Sorry; it's a really nice image, I just don't really see the point. Would we have a featured picture of some women attending a parish council meeting in Scottish people? Of course not. J Milburn (talk) 23:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Women in tribal village, Umaria district, India.jpg --I'ḏ ♥One 14:10, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]