Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Coins of the United States Dollar

Coins of the United States Dollar[edit]

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Reason: The original is a high EV image used on several articles as the lead image through Template:Financial market participants. I also just added it as the lead image in the article Coins of the United States dollar which previously had no lead image. While this image has more bokeh than I prefer, I think it compensates with its high EV. The alt currently isn't used in articles but I think could be substituted in place of the original if people prefer that version.
Articles in which this image appears: Coins of the United States dollar, Template:Financial market participants, Algorithmic trading, Credit union, Financial intermediary, Financial market participants, Investor, Pension, and several others
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Elembis

Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 21:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Many coins aren't entirely visible, it would be better to put them separately in one row instead of stacking. However, given that the subject is easily reproducible, showing both obverses and reverses of each coin would be the best option in terms of EV (but I would support the former option as well). Brandmeister^talk 22:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that these are good photos of an assortment of US coins, and that it's both unnecessary and impossible to show the obverse and reverse of every United States coin in a single photo, remember that there have been a great many varieties and designs of coins throughout history. If someone wants to see photos of individual coins of many types then the article Coins of the United States dollar is a better resource than any individual photo is likely to be. For a single photo of an assortment of US coins, I think either of these photos can do the job. --Pine^✉ 22:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I mean those in current circulation. Showing all US coins that have been ever minted is naturally almost impossible. Brandmeister^talk 00:16, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The coins in current circulation will change over time, so I think showing a reasonably diverse assortment is sufficient, as these photos do. --Pine^✉ 00:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: For a FP of relatively simple design, such as this, I expect the technical details to be especially good. Unfortunately, only about a third of the picture is in focus. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:15, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the bokeh effect in the original may have been intentional. How do you feel about the alt? --Pine^✉ 02:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I could see a bit, but not 2/3rds of the image, when the point is to provide a sampling of coins. As for the alt: No dimes, no nickels. (Which is another issue with the original, by the way: only quarter is deep in the blur). I don't see these as sufficiently illustrative, I fear. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:18, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I don't think the usage has very much EV - outside of the use that was added today to Coins of the U.S. dollar, everything's just an infobox usage, which doesn't add any EV. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:39, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Looking at the article of which this is the lead, the main thing needed beyond the photographs of individual coins is one that clearly shows their respective, relative sizes. Neither of these does so: the original makes it look like dimes are the same size as nickels through forced perspective, and the alt only contains two denominations. As for the always-tricky ratio between EV and aesthetics, in this case, since these are such readily available objects, it seems reasonable to demand both, and neither of these images seems very well composed to me. Interesting subject to think about, though. Chick Bowen 06:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
On the EV issue for the stacked coins, I'd be interested to see an arrangement where the size of the stacks conveyed useful information—perhaps showing a dollar's worth of each denomination (and of course showing more than just two denominations). Granted, it would be difficult to arrange in such a way that all of the coins' faces were in focus. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:22, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]