Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Chicago Half Marathon

Chicago Half Marathon edit

 
Original - Chicago Half Marathon occurs on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side.
 
Edit 1 - Cropped and cloned the distracting poles out of the sky.
Reason
This is a high quality image with high EV, although not high in any one article, it has useful contributory EV in many places.
Articles this image appears in
Chicago Half Marathon
Half marathon
Chicago
Hyde Park, Chicago
Lake Shore Drive
South Side (Chicago)
Kenwood, Chicago
Ari Burton (??)
Creator
self (TonyTheTiger)
  • Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:23, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Support Edit 1 not a bad photograph, couple flaws though (light posts are very distracting and the people going the other way is confusing also probably not the sharpest image) that would be forgivable if there was EV, but there is virtually no EV for any of the above articles. Is this a regular race? If there was an article about this race I'd change my mind. — raekyT 14:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • I could crop out the lightposts on the left. This race is considered a tuneup race for the Chicago Marathon, occuring about a month in advance. I believe it is one of the world's premier half marathons. As for the stragglers still in the first half of the course on the left, That is part of the natural composition of this image. I don't think any half marathons are really considered notable enough to have their own articles.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:10, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Does it have a name and could you write an article on just this race alone? If this picture had it's own article I could see it having enough EV to get passed at VPC. Without it's own article it has almost no EV on any of those articles you have it in now. Something to consider. I like the view of the skyline in the background. — raekyT 21:48, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • To add, if you cropped off the left light poles and successfully was able to clone the lights out of the sky on the left (shouldn't be too hard the sky is fairly monotone around them) then that would greatly improve the picture. — raekyT 21:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Jujutacular talk 14:03, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]