Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hoover sm.jpg

Hoover Dam Panorama[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Aug 2012 at 17:28:01 (UTC)

Reason: Excellent clarity, exposure and represents the subject well. Nominated 2x before by other readers. View image full size to appreciate it's details.
Articles in which this image appears: Hoover Dam
FP category for this image: Dams In Nevada
Creator: Kuczora

Support as nominator --Jimerb (talk) 17:28, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support. Clarity and exposure are superb. EV is lacking a little, this is not only not the main image, it is way down in the article. Image composition is good but not great, the terrain in the right foreground is distracting, not enough to oppose FP status however. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 21:24, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the EV, it's the best image showing the lake, and as the result it may be worth going in Lake Mead as well. Theres only one other image on the Hoover Dam page that illustrates the lake in low-water as it currently is, and this is definitely the best of the two. For it's position it's probably good that it's further down, since it's a large panorama. It should probably be moved up into the Environmental impact section and the other image in that section removed, is my two cents on the placement. It could also be used more widely to illustrate articles like Drought and/or Drought in the United States. — raeky t 17:01, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I evaluated EV based on the stated articles in which this image appeared. If the image was included in the other articles and the FPC info updated, I would reconsider my vote on that. As far as illustrating drought, to me it is not obvious that the picture illustrates it. I am by no means an expert water-reservoir engineer, but then again, neither are most of our readers. Perhaps if you showed an image of both the lake at full capacity and the nom, it would better illustrate it. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For example, I look at File:Drought.jpg and the first thing I think is drought. That is a nice image by the way, will have to nominate that one for FP. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 20:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

TBH that image just makes me think dry dirt, not drought. Drought to me is swaths of dead fields, trees, extremely low water in lakes, rivers, reservoir. Maybe this should be taken to the talk page for those articles, see what the editors there think, this is hardly the place to build consensus for inclusion in another article. ;-) — raeky t 02:59, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely something for the respective talk pages, on that I agree. Lots of ways to illustrate drought, and they will be very varied depending on our personal experiences with drought. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 16:11, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 17:09, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As a thought here, if you would to try and increase the image's EV, you may wish to consider adding it to one of the pages covering the 2010–2012 Southern United States drought. Your image shows not only the Hoover Dam, but the water level below the dam, which is clearly a good many feet below normal judging from the water marks on either side of the lake. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]