Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandow

A New Sandow Pose (VIII) edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2015 at 05:45:11 (UTC)

Original – Eugen Sandow, as published in Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture.

Reason: Is saying "I found it hilarious, then did research and found out it's actually rather important" acceptable? Eugen Sandow founded the bodybuilding movement, and, to quote the BBC: "Ladies would pay a surcharge to attend private viewings backstage, where they were encouraged to fondle his muscles. But it is also believed he had a gay following. Rumours circulated that he was a bisexual philanderer, but shortly after his death his widow and daughters started a huge bonfire, burning anything that related to his personal life." And I'll just link this without comment: [1]

That said, none of this makes me find this any less hilarious.
Articles in which this image appears: Eugen Sandow
FP category for this image: If bodybuilding's a sport, even before it was competitive, Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Sport. Otherwise Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Others
Creator: D. Bernard & Co, Melbourne; restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - gosh, Adam. That was a joke. Anyway, support. Hafspajen (talk) 05:51, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- - T H - ^{the fury of nature} _{given flesh} 08:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - About time we had some topless men. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{Try Tarzan ....File:Poster - Tarzan the Fearless 01.jpg - File:Tarzan of the Apes 1918.JPG smiley Hafspajen (talk) 12:50, 17 February 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

Sadly, too many JPG artefacts. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Think about perhaps moving it up in the article (to the bottom of the early life section), it seems a bit randomly placed at the bottom.--Godot13 (talk) 09:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I put it next to the list of his publications as a sample; I wouldn't object to moving it, but I like the current mix of images. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:"A New Sandow Pose (VIII)", Eugen Sandow Wellcome L0035270 - restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:30, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]