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OriginalDidgeridoo street player in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Reason
High EV and good quality
Articles in which this image appears
Didgeridoo
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
Noel Feans
  • Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 18:28, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Hmmm, I'm not sure what to say about this one. The photo itself is actually very good (albeit a little overly contrasty), but for a traditional Aboriginal Australian instrument, it doesn't really 'fit' as one of the lead images in the article. It's not just that the player is Spanish rather than Aboriginal, but also because the instrument itself looks like a cheap, touristy didgeridoo. I guess it could illustrate the way the instrument has transcended traditional use (as it has), but I think I'd prefer a more traditional setting for a featured picture of it. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose This is a indigenous Australian instrument, and as such an image like that would be INFINITELY better EV than, to be very politically incorrect, a dirty hippy in Spain would be. So I'd oppose on EV grounds. — raekyt 07:56, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • On the fence I agree with Diliff; while technically this photo is good, the EV of a white guy playing a didgeridoo in Spain seems limited (though it's certainly not without value). The appropriation of Indigenous Australian culture by non-Indigenous people is a perennial hot issue, though at least in this case its unlikely that the Spanish guy was taking business from an Indigenous Australian didgeridoo player! Nick-D (talk) 09:58, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article would need to talk about something like that, which it doesn't, just mention that some very off-the-beaten-path music types use it... It's not traditional, looks like a cheap $30 one you can buy online, and a white Spanish guy playing it... It's far from ideal to illustrate the article. — raekyt 10:57, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment At present it sits in a section called "Names & etymology" where it doesn't support the text at all.--Melburnian (talk) 12:53, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Julia\talk 11:35, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]