Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Summer Glau

Summer Glau edit

Original - Summer Glau at a 2005 fan convention for the film Serenity.

Reason: A tasteful portrait of this beautiful and talented actress. It's way too small to be a featured picture, but a good contribution to the encyclopedia, I'd say. Also keep in mind that free content pictures of stars are harder to get, and often look like snapshots. Has been in the article for many months.
Articles this image appears in: Summer Glau
Creator: RavenU on Flickr.com

Support as nominator --Fletcher (talk) 03:36, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments: Part of the hair cut out. That's a problem. A better image is possible as Summer Glau is alive. There are 8 other images on commons. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 05:13, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You and Ed 17 are right, the hair is cut off, and also the arms are framed pretty tight. I would respond that showing a little more of her hair (or arms) is not going to add much value from an encyclopedic point of view. And fairly often portrait photos are framed tight like this, to emphasize the subject and avoid clutter that can appear in the frame outside of the studio.

You are entitled to your judgment as to whether the framing works or not. But I note we have a few "cut off" Featured pics (head, side, sides) where it was believed the tight crop did not hurt the image too much.

Also, Valued Pictures have to be used here on English Wikipedia and do not require the same technical quality as FPs. Those pictures on Commons aren't eligible except for one other that is used in the article, but it looks like she's smiling for the camera in that one and it doesn't look as natural. I note four of those pictures on Commons are also cut off at the hair. But if there is consensus that this one works better I could suggest it as an alternate, as it's also been in the article long enough. Fletcher (talk) 01:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - hair is cut out, and to me, this just isn't that good of a picture... —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 18:25, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Valued pictures are those which illustrate articles well. The minor technical faults are what prevents it from being a FP. It is acceptable if VP have minor flaws Muhammad(talk) 05:49, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus --Intothewoods29 (talk) 18:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]