Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Agbogbloshie

Agbogbloshie[edit]

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**Original** – Ghanaians in Agbogbloshie, suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations.

Reason: Decent quality and very high EV - important and uncommon topic
Articles in which this image appears: Agbogbloshie, Computer recycling, Data erasure, Electronic waste
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban
Creator: Marlenenapoli

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 18:36, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Neutral I would love to see this topic featured, but this image does not portray it properly. This just happens to show some computer waste, but it otherwise looks like a regular junkyard. There are car parts (doors, tires) and household waste (desk, probably also a refrigerator) present as well and the computer parts make roughly only half of the image. Also, the colorful shed attracts too much attention in an rather dark picture. --Ebertakis (talk) 20:32, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- I find the reasons for opposition in the comment above to be inappropriate. Life on the edge of a garbage heap is not just about recycling computers. This shows how computers are recycled in one situation. It shows how people live and work, in this situation. The topic is not "computer recycling". That is merely one aspect of what is shown here. Amandajm (talk) 03:02, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- The place is notable because it is "known as a destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste" according to the first sentence of its article. The picture is also used in Computer recycling, Data erasure and Electronic waste. This is why I assumed that the EV lies in "computer recycling" and I thought the picture does a poor job showing this. Thousands of communities around the world are near garbage heaps, and their issues deserve attention, but I didn't get that message because I was looking in the picture for the computers. If the topic is the living conditions then the other picture in the article is much more powerful. Anyway, I switched to neutral because I'm new here, but this is how I saw things. --Ebertakis (talk) 22:52, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 19:09, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]