Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Metal Slinky

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Original – Metal slinky

Reason: This is a Commons FP of the Slinky toy that's currently used prominently at the Slinky article. It demonstrates the Slinky's nature as a pre-compressed spring, its ability to sit with both ends on the floor, and its typical appearance at rest. This was nominated for FP 13½ years ago (see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spiral), but it failed because it wasn't then in a high-EV use and because some voters thought it wasn't a particularly appealing image. It now has a use with high EV, and images with anything less than high quality can't become FPs on Commons, I think we need not worry about concerns that its general quality is poor.
Articles in which this image appears: Slinky, Richard T. James, Betty James, National Toy Hall of Fame, Christmas in the post-war United States
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Roger McLassus 1951

Support as nominator – Nyttend (talk) 23:27, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi 11:15, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – EV? Meh. – Sca (talk) 13:10, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – there is no wow factor in this particular photo, looks boring. May be a more interesting composition? showing it spanning 2 elevations, or a colorful slinky, or etc. Bammesk (talk) 16:13, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I do think a metal slinky is a good thing to photograph, but the angle (kind of looking down oddly) and the extreme vignetting of the background that... I don't think this is FP. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 06:20, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:55, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:55, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]