Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Golden Gate Bridge

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Jun 2012 at 06:24:21 (UTC)

Golden Gate Bridge at night

Reason: I wouldn't say this is an obvious delist, but I'm taking this opportunity, on the 75th anniversary of the bridge's opening, to nominate this image for delisting as I just don't think the quality is very good. Interestingly, the same was said during its nomination seven years ago, but its technically challenging nature seemed to override that. I imagine standards have gone up since then, and having seen other photos of the Golden Gate Bridge taken during less-the-ideal lighting times (e.g. before dawn) this doesn't seem to meet the expectations for a featured picture. Maybe the best night photo we have, but I feel this is quite distant from the best we can do and its difficulty shouldn't outweigh its quality deficiencies.
Articles this image appears in: Golden Gate Bridge
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ggb by night.jpg
Nominator: -- tariqabjotu

Delist — -- tariqabjotu 06:24, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Blown highlights + chromatic aberration + marginal size and quality = Delist. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 20:10, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's not awful. D&R if a better version gets uploaded. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. This is damn near identical to the non-featured (and would-not-be-featured) day-time lead image in the article, I guess they're taken from a standard vantage point, yet I'd say the lead image has higher EV (bridge structure is far clearer, etc); probably why it's the lead. Sure this one is a decent and pretty picture, as many pics of the GGB are, but not FP in my view. This is now buried well down in the article. I guess you could argue it's good EV for the bridge at night, but even then lights are really strong, especially at the far end of the bridge where they totally dominate the picture. Seems the Commons delist of this on quality grounds was pretty conclusive a couple of years back. --jjron (talk) 13:41, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. Nice, but hardly featured picture material. I don't think it's the worst picture in our galleries, but this is a highly, highly photographed landmark. We can expect better. J Milburn (talk) 20:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per nom, Jjron, and others. --Avenue (talk) 10:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:13, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]