Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Umhlanga

Umhlanga, Eswatini[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Aug 2019 at 06:21:40 (UTC)

Reason: I think this serves a purpose separate to the identification of the people in it (though the centremost one is Sikhanyiso Dlamini): It does an excellent job at showing the garb and pomp of Umhlanga
Articles in which this image appears: Umhlanga (ceremony), Swazi people, Sikhanyiso Dlamini
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle seems best.
Creator: Amada44

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 06:21, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Has that 'snapshot' feel about it. The cut-off breast on the LHS isn't good. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:49, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Sorry Adam, but running a crowd pic without IDs serves little purpose in terms of EV. (An exception might be crowd pix illustrating major news events. But even the most widely known photo from the 1970 Kent State shooting carried IDs.) – Sca (talk) 14:18, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: That's hardly true. Festivals generally don't have everyone identified. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 16:23, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to contradict again, but my professional experience is otherwise. If you really want to know I can tell you about a local illustrated magazine I once helped edit. Sca (talk) 20:11, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

PS: As an ed. I'd be reluctant to run a photo whose point of focus seems to be the subject's exposed right breast. No prude here, but it seems inappropriate. Sca (talk) 20:15, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - jumbled, unfocused composition. MER-C 14:28, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – I am all for featuring au naturale but this is just not FP material. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 00:55, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support (but please crop that LHS nipple out per Charles). I'm going to go against the grain here - I think it has EV and we constantly fail to promote photojournalistic or documentary images of the human world. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:37, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:19, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]