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Irfan Kolothum Thodi[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Jul 2013 at 18:42:18 (UTC)

Original – Portrait of 22 year old racewalker Irfan Thodi, who set the Indian national record at the London 2012 Olympics for the 20 km walk.
Reason
Nicely done, high resolution (meets size requirements) portrait photograph of the athlete.
Articles in which this image appears
Irfan Kolothum Thodi
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Sport
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator --– Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 18:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Yes, good image. --WingtipvorteX PTT ∅ 22:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose License. — raekyt 23:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • Note: Per Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria and Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags this is not a valid !vote --Fir0002 00:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Criteria #4... And you should probably read WP:Speedy #F3 if you want to refer to Wikipedia's policy on GFDL 1.2-only images. — raekyt 02:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • We recently featured File:Male impala profile.jpg in April, which is licensed under GFDL 1.2. Anyway, regarding this image, should I contact him and see if he'd be willing to license the image under a CC license? Or update it to 1.3? I don't understand GFDL, I've always kind of just ignored it as a huge hassle to deal with when it comes to images. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 02:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
          • I've left a note on his talk page. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 02:29, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
            • That will be a waste of time, lol. He uses this license to specifically restrict commercial use of his images, and very VERY much opposed the attempt to ban promotion of images with this license last time around. Currently Commons is considering banning this license, just as Wikipedia did a long time ago ( commons:Commons:Requests_for_comment/AppropriatelyLicensed ) Regardless of recent promotions or not, I don't think we should be promoting and putting on our front page images that would be speedy deleted if it was uploaded locally for it's license choice. — raekyt 02:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
              • Well, I don't know the guy and maybe he'll have a change of heart if he wants his images to be, in the end, used freely. Kind of baffles me that someone would upload images to Commons and still restrict it with loophole licenses, but maybe bringing it to his attention (again or not) will force a final decision on his part. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 02:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
                • Well he surprised the crap out of me by actually adding a free license, now add it to all your images Muhammad. :P — raekyt 12:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support It's a nice piece of work. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – BNK(talk) 02:08, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I'm not a fan of attempting to ban the license in the slightest, but, regardless of that issue, this is an excellent portrait. I can't call myself a fan of the sport, but he's clearly a significant athlete in his particular field. (I gave the article a quick clean, too.) J Milburn (talk) 13:13, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Another good job. Mydreamsparrow (talk) 14:17, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Irfan Kolothum Thodi 2013.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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