Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/London bus and telephone box on Haymarket

London bus and telephone box on Haymarket[edit]

Reason: High quality photo showing two symbolic icons of London - the red bus and the red telephone box.
Articles this image appears in: London, Buses in London, London Buses, motion blur
Creator: E01

Support as nominator --118d (talk) 15:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Doesn't really illustrate a London bus at all, it's too motion blurred to see anything about the bus. It's a nice artistic effect, but not appropriate to illustrate the subject effectively. A somewhat better representation of a phone box, but higher quality photos of a phonebox would be easy to find. Also suffers from overdone digital noise removal, though the original image would obviously be very grainy, so unfortunately it won't really work either way. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) (The Game) 15:42, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - doesn't illustrate London Bus as we can't actually see a London bus, just a blur. Therefore EV is reduced and it fails criterion 5. Illustrates phone boxes though, and a little of London at night, and quite artistically pleasing. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 16:43, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I noticed this photo being added to London and reverted that edit because I felt the image to be overly stylistic rather than descriptive. Same argument fits here - it's not really a good descriptive photo of a London bus. Note, has been added to London Buses and Buses in London articles today as well, before this image was unused. Thanks/wangi (talk) 18:17, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment might get a better reception at Commons FPC where photographic style is more valued and specific encyclopedic use is less important. This might be useful at motion blur for variety, to replace one of the amusement park rides at that page. Durova^Charge! 19:18, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I've gone ahead and added to motion blur, where this is an excellent depiction of the concept. Mild suggestion to remove from other articles where it's less illustrative. Durova^Charge! 05:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - More artistic than encyclopedic, and the only thing thats actually useful on an encyclopedic level in that photo is the telephone box. The main subject (the bus) is much to blurred to be considered informative towards a London Bus. --MattWT 10:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. Clegs (talk) 15:27, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose/Comment. Try closing this nom and removing it from the articles on buses (because there's no EV in those articles (there is some EV for London)). Then put the picture on Motion blur and Telephone booth, because it would actually help there, especially on motion blur (even though they already have images, this higher quality image would be better at illustrating the point IMO). After you do that, you can try to renominate this for FPC, and you might have a chance. Hope that helps. :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 01:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . --John254 02:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]