Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Dome of Samadhi Mandir of Srila Prabhupada, Mayapur 07102013.jpg

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File:Dome of Samadhi Mandir of Srila Prabhupada, Mayapur 07102013.jpg, not featured[edit]

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There is a shot of the whole mosque but the crane ruins the photo. --Joydeep Talk 06:31, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And I've nominated the photo because I thought this is the best photo of the subject available on Commons. --Joydeep Talk 06:59, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That is exactly the purpose of the VI project !--Jebulon (talk) 19:22, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you are very much right. But I nominate pictures here for reviews (and not necessarily to become FP) that will help me taking better photos. I am not very good at taking architecture or landscape photos so I want to improve that. Reviews here will help me improve. --Joydeep Talk 09:13, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
So now professional or better learned photographers should join this page instead of us. --Joydeep Talk 13:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
If that was meant as sarcasm it failed. I don't care who provides the images so long as they are good. This isn't good. The composition is unbalanced, the lighting is flat, the colours in the sky are suspect, there is no attempt at creating something akin to symmetry, aspects of the subject are randomly cut off. I am not convinced the dissected bits of a wonderful piece of architecture have much chance of conveying wow. More directly, I am not wow'd by this subject. It is a snap shot of a dome. Saffron Blaze (talk) 14:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Now this is the comment (or a reason of oppose) I expect from a contributor like you (and I respect that), not the previous one. --Joydeep Talk 14:14, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think you have summarised exactly what is wrong with this nomination and those of some others. People are nominating images here that make it clear they do not respect the goals and ideals of this project. They use this project to further their own personal agenda, such as improving their photography or collecting awards. These things are welcomed by-products of one's participation here but they should not be the primary reason. Saffron Blaze (talk) 14:48, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Then my 300+ uploads are not valuable to the project. Then I must stop uploading today. Or I should think they are valuable to the project but not for this page. --Joydeep Talk 15:00, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • They may be valuable to the Commons and many other WMF projects, but it doesn't mean they deserve FP status and it doesn't mean you should subject us to reviewing all 300+ because you want to improve your photography. If you honestly believe some of them are FP worthy, and they meet the FPC guidelines, then by all means nominate them. Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:38, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
If you see my nominations you'll know I never nominate a lot of photos (I have been here for more than 2 years and may be nominated some 30 photos including mine and others). And by no means I wanted to nominate 300+ pictures. Some can be FP and some simply cannot but that does not mean "...about throwing a pot of spaghetti at the wall and hoping a noodle sticks." And about "improving their photography or collecting awards", I think if FPC,QIC,VIC pages were not available Commons would not have that much files uploaded that it has today. --Joydeep Talk 15:49, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Joydeep, Saffron is responding to your comment "But I nominate pictures here for reviews (and not necessarily to become FP)" and not to your track record, and some of the comments Saffron made are general rather than about you. If you didn't nominate this to become FP, why did you support? I don't think anyone here disagrees with you that these awards are motivating and nice to collect (Saffron's talk page is full of them). But a support-nomination at FP means one already believes the image is among the finest on Commons and is making a request to see if one's peers agree. As an aside, there is Commons:Photography critiques but it seems not really have taken off and no longer used. Perhaps there is merit in considering folding that project into this one (in order to take advantage of all the eyes here), where people can explicitly nominate their photographs simply for review but not for FP. Just an idea. -- Colin (talk) 18:17, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I know that Saffron is talking more about in general than this nomination and this is somewhat a by-product of the other discussion which is going on. He is talking about the betterment of this project. At the other discussion he said that we have 75% failure rate at COM:FPC. So pictures which are not FP-worthy are not promoting here. Does that mean we should curb nominations? Is less participation or less nomination help the project in long run? --Joydeep Talk 06:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the review. --Joydeep Talk 12:23, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /A.Savin 22:18, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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