User:AndyTheGrump/CrapCropClub

The crap crop club - work in progress

A perfect demonstration of how obsession and incompetence can overcome aesthetics. Can anyone find portraits anywhere but Wikipedia that are cropped like this? With the top of the head barely inside, and the remaining borders determined by whatever is mandated by an arbitrary aspect ratio some random contributor wants to impose for consistency?

See [1] for context.

See [2] for where to find them. No idea how many of these there are.

File:Chris Jones, Arkansas gubernatorial candidate (cropped).jpg

Just a pointless 1% crop.

File:Sarah Sanders (49290685006) (3x4a).jpg

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Cropping was legitimate, but not like this.

File:Asa Hutchinson crop (3x4b).jpg

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Why? Just why? We know why. Because infobox images must be 4x3, and the subjects must fit the box. Barely...

File:Mike Ross Official (cropped 2) (3x4b).jpg

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Missed the top of his head by the thickness of a credit card.

File:MikeBeebe2009 (3x4a).JPG

Crop:

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Squeeze the man into the box...

File:Mike Huckabee August 2002 (3x4a).jpg

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For a change, we don't squeeze the guy. Inflate him instead, into a blur...

File:Jim Guy Tucker (3x4a).jpg

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The universe is 3/4 as wide as it is high. Because Wikipedia says so...

File:Sheffield Nelson 2011 (cropped) (3x4a).jpg

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Meh. Maybe an improvement, but not because arbitrary ratios are a good idea.

File:Bill clinton 1987 (3x4a).jpg

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I'm sure there were people that would have liked to squeeze Bill into a box, even back in '87...

File:Frank D. White 1995 (3x4a).jpg

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Cropped with all the aesthetic discrimination of a potato-peeling machine...

File:Quentin Palfrey (3x4a).jpg

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Yes, cropping the original is good. But not like this. Give the poor man a little headroom...