Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Albert Harris - Coconut shy B

 
A traditional coconut shy, established in 1936 by Mrs E. Harris, is still being run by her son today.
 
True vertical and horizantals are in green. lines that should be such are pink. measures of the deviations apear in pink. Average tilt is about 3.6 degrees. that isn't minor.
Reason
Poor composition. no sence of size of tent and location. Distracting lights, blown red in places. subject blends in with background. Tilted to the right. Not particularly ENC.
Nominator
Fcb981
  • Strong DelistFcb981 14:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist I remember perfectly when it was nominated. The support was so overwhelming I was afraid to oppose. I think it's now the time for it to go. The resolution is not very high also. --23:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep high quality, size of the tent is easily inferable based on the person there. tilt is admittedly hard to assess. The rest of the technical problems are minor. Debivort 00:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Virtually all of User:Bagginz's contributions consist of voting Keep in delist nominations. --YFB ¿ 03:40, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Film at 11. --Bagginz 15:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC) [reply]
  • Strong Keep. Still falls within the FPC guidelines and is still one of the great FPC's from awhile ago. Cat-five - talk 02:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keepDelist - It's not an especially good illustration of a coconut shy (not bad to illustrate fairground stalls in general though), but I find Fcb's complaints about tilt and tent size pretty bizarre - there's no proper reference to measure the tilt and it's quite likely the tent isn't even put up straight. If we were going to delist every image where you couldn't see what was behind the camera then we'd be restricted to 360º panoramas. I also agree with trialsanderrors about the lightbulbs - to expose this so that the lightbulbs weren't blown, you'd have to either use HDR to make one of the most unrealistic-looking images ever, or have nice unblown lightbulbs floating in a sea of almost-black. People seem to throw around blown highlights with no understanding of basic photographic principles. --YFB ¿ 03:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - Because I don't think there was at the time any serious error of judgement in promoting the picture, which is IMO the only valid reason for delisting. Alvesgaspar 12:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Delist - The colours and general composition is quite ugly. There is little encyclopaedic value as the coconuts can hardly been seen. Also why are parts of the tent cut off? It's not up to the standard of some of our Features pictures. Centy 13:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. This a a great, unique, moody picture that technically meets the requirements; it wouldn't pass FPC today, but I don't see a compelling reason to delist it.--ragesoss 21:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep, this is a great scene that I am not fully sure how we could replicate it... but I'm not 100% sure it's the best for the article. gren グレン 04:16, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - a wonderful picture, and illustrates fun fair well. (Changed my vote now that I see it isn't just being used to illustrate "coconut shy," which it does an admittedly lousy job at.) Calliopejen1 08:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist Ignoring the question of whether the verticals are accurate or not, this isn't a good illustration of a coconut shy. The subject of the photo is clearly the man, and the coconuts themselves are partially obscured and hidden in a sea of distracting "other stuff." -- Moondigger 14:30, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Also, the red channel is blown in several areas -- I'm not referring to the lightbulbs, either.
  • Delist Is it just me or is the white balance severely off? Not used in any articles and after looking at it for a few minutes I still have no idea what the tent is about or what the man is supposed to do. Tilt is not a major problem as the tent may not be straight in the first place, but otherwise it's not of great quality. --antilivedT | C | G 05:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

11.5 Keep, 9 Delist, 1 Neutral, 1 Chuckle, 0 Consensus → Kept --YFB ¿ 18:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]