Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Law

Gavel

Reason

It sharp, well composed, no distractions, is encyclopedic and illustrates itself well

Proposed caption

A gavel is a small ceremonial mallet commonly made of hardwood. It is typically fashioned with a handle and often struck against a sound block to enhance its sound qualities. It is used by presiding officers; notably American Judges, chairmen and auctioneers to call for attention or to punctuate rulings or proclamations

Articles this image appears in

gavel, jurisprudence

Creator

AQMD

• Support as nominator Hadseys 15:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Question could we get a real photo of this, rather than a render? Debivort 17:09, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I'd prefer more of a side view than a top-down view-- this top-down perspective makes it look like the thing that the gavel bangs on is part of the gavel itself. Spikebrennan 17:36, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Per Debivort's point, and also because it's a rather boring picture of a common object. Maybe if it was composed well in a courtroom or something. Puddyglum 17:52, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support A good picture of a common object--Phoenix 15 22:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Extremely boring picture of an uninteresting object at a weird angle. Not Featured Picture material. TheOtherSiguy 00:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. We've had a few images like this recently--computer-generated images of objects that could just as easily be photographed. I think what would sway people to support would be a subject that either shows off the rendering process particularly well, or, for whatever reason, is actually better shown in a rendered rather than photographed image, such as this one, or one that could not be photographed, like this one. But there's not likely to be support for images that are merely skillfully rendered. Chick Bowen 03:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Unintresting Govigov 15:19, 6 October 2007 (UTC) govigov

Not promoted MER-C 03:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)