Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/President Barack Obama

Barack Obama[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Dec 2015 at 15:35:59 (UTC)

Reason: High quality, high EV - clear view and good composition, highly used, lead image of Barack Obama. A different pic of Obama was featured before, but was delisted.
Articles in which this image appears: Barack Obama, President of the United States and many more
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Support as nominator – Tomer T (talk) 15:35, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – This user opposes all official portraits of sitting politicians (or currently active would-be politicians), whoever they may be. Sca (talk) 18:32, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - cos it's rather good. Hafspajen (talk) 12:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 17:53, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I don't mind official portraits. Sure they are not creative and rather boring, but they show the individual very clearly and so is perfect for an encyclopaedia. Mattximus (talk) 23:39, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fine for an article such as this one, but not for a Main Page fixture, where they look like free advertising. Sca (talk) 14:55, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I'd admit official portraits like this are often too generic requiring certain postures and facial expressions, like on campaign billboards. Better composition would be, for instance, where Obama gives an emotional speech, visits the people, etc. Brandmeister^talk 13:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Photo quality seems all right to me, no matter what one might think about this still sitting politician. --Tremonist (talk) 13:16, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My opposition has nothing to do with what I may think about President Obama. It has to do with the fact that, like all such photos, this is an official portrait taken by someone working for the subject, and therefore may be considered free political advertising.

A candid news-type shot would be a different matter, as Brandmeister notes. Sca (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose He looks off center, which ruins the photograph for me. Sorry. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:11, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Too much Obama. Josh Milburn (talk) 02:28, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]