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James Hetfield with Metallica[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Oct 2020 at 20:52:07 (UTC)

Original – James Hetfield performing with Metallica in 2004
Reason
On the upside, it's an excellent photo, especially for the year. Downside, though, is it's usage is on the weaker end of acceptable.
Articles in which this image appears
James Hetfield
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
DallasFletcher
 • From Criterion No. 1: "...has no highly distracting or obstructing elements."
 • Target article doesn't mention the 2004 Ottawa performance outside the photo caption, so I don't see how this 16-year-old pic "adds significant encyclopedic value to [the] article."
 • Hetfield isn't readily recognizable in the pic.
– Sca (talk) 22:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
My view is that this is a picture of him performing. Pyrotechnics are a regular part of metal concerts, and so it does a good job of showing a typical dramatic moment of such a concert. Just like you ideally wouldn't illustrate a theatrical show by showing actors having a commonplace conversation from it, you'd choose a dramatic moment where there's a lot of action and reaction, you wouldn't try to show "metal musician performing" with a simply-lit sing-into-microphone moment. There's other photographs that cover him not mid-dramatic-performance. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - degree of difficulty is higher than it seems because of the requirement for access. MER-C 18:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Huh? – Sca (talk) 22:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, sorry. It's an exciting picture, but I'm not convinced that encyclopedic value is added to the article. Josh Milburn (talk) 14:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, performer is not the main subject here. --Janke | Talk 09:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good photo of a heavy metal musician at work. I'm honestly baffled by the oppose votes above - this is what big ticket heavy metal performances look like, so there's heaps of EV. Nick-D (talk) 09:38, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 12:31, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 00:20, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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