Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/2021 Mayfield tornado damage

2021 Mayfield tornado damage[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Mar 2024 at 18:20:23 (UTC)

Reason: The high-quality image (5,464 × 3,640 pixels) passed a Commons Featured Picture vote 13 to 1. It also has high encyclopedic value in relation to one of the most famous tornadoes in the last decade. A reverse image search shows the image is used by various media outlets and even Penn State University. One media outlet used the image two years after the tornado ([1]), proving the high-encyclopedic value of it.
Articles in which this image appears: List:

FP category for this image: History/USA History
Creator: State Farm Insurance

Support as nominator – The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 18:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to support this, but I'm pretty sure the tornado didn't cause the perspective distortion. MER-C 11:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Ephemeral news-type photo; scant EV. – Sca (talk) 15:11, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Being used two years later by a RS I think means it is not ephemeral. I respect your opinion and !vote, but I think it lacks any backing. The image is used on four pages, including the town’s article which was leveled by the tornado & the article featured on Wikipedia’s ITN. You aren’t required to reply at all, but I would love to hear some additional backing for why you consider a photograph with 2-year usage from an event to be a short-lived news photograph and why usage on the four articles does not give it much EV? The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 19:25, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca, I think you should've done some research before posting your oppose vote. This was a major, once in a lifetime event with long lasting effects. 🐱FatCat96🐱 Chat with Cat 20:43, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Urban weather damage, at least in developed countries, is nearly always ephemeral. Are you saying that this section of Mayfield still looks like this? (BTW, this user is a former Ky. resident.) -- Sca (talk) 14:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So your argument is based on whether the town still looks like it instead of something like whether it has a lasting historical impact? This ain’t notability for an article, but it seems weird that your reasoning is ignoring lasting historical usage and going with more or less “eh, developed nation had damage, just a media cycle” style of reasoning. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 14:19, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quite clear, no doubt, somehow. -- Sca (talk) 16:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very strong support – Major event with a long lasting effect, definitely not ephemeral. Very high EV in all the articles. 🐱FatCat96🐱 Chat with Cat 20:37, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 00:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – I think it's too visually noisy to read well at the size featured pictures are displayed. Granted, this is a photograph of something that's inherently messy, but the destruction is so complete that I can't really reconstruct the tornado's path. The only intact structures are far away in the background. Moonreach (talk) 15:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 07:02, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Petar Milošević (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 20:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Mayfield KY State Farm CRU -23.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:34, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]