Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Avraham Avigdorov.jpg

Avraham Avigdorov[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Aug 2020 at 09:39:05 (UTC)

Reason: Good quality and EV, amazing photo capturing the facial expression and character. A moment before receiving the Hero of Israel award.
Articles in which this image appears: Avraham Avigdorov, Hero of Israel
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: David Eldan

Support as nominator – Andrei (talk) 09:39, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to awkward com+position, doesn't fulfill criterion #3. --Janke | Talk 11:55, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I guess not awkward composition would mean a standard staged portrait, and I think those are too repetitive. What is more, this seems to be the only known photo from that period. --Andrei (talk) 13:17, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Nyanardsan (talk) 12:05, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Per Janke. Odd pose. Backlighting. Jumbled background. (Also, target article is thin.) – Sca (talk) 13:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support I kind of like the odd composition. It suits his youth. Only other photo available is a similar but differently cropped image, [1] which might be preferable, though. It's snapshotty. but that's not always bad. EDIT: Conditional on the copyright issues Buidhe raises being worked out. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.4% of all FPs} 17:34, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per Adam really. This is a non-conventional photo and is technically flawed in several ways, but has a lot going for it. It captures the subject's youth, and provides suggestions about his frame of mind at the time - he comes across as both cocky and traumatised, which seems to be common for recipients of high-level war medals worldwide. Nick-D (talk) 23:42, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose per above. I think portraits make great FPs, but I'm not sure that this is among our best. Josh Milburn (talk) 07:47, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose for copyright reasons. The photo would have come out of copyright in Israel in 1999, meaning that it is covered by URAA and still copyright in the US. (t · c) buidhe 11:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That would be sufficient to block this nomination. Any reason URAA wouldn't apply?Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.4% of all FPs} 17:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good spot. If what you're saying is right (and I can't see any reason it wouldn't be) the image needs to be nominated for deletion at Commons. Josh Milburn (talk) 20:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:02, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]