Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Paris Périphérique by night

Paris' Périphérique by night

Paris' Périphérique by night at Porte d'Italie (Paris is on the left side of the picture). The Périphérique was built in the early 1970s on the empty space left abandoned after the destruction of the defense wall of Paris in the 1920s, and completed on April 25, 1973. It is the generally-accepted boundary between the city proper (approx. 2 million inhabitants) and the suburbs (more than 9 million inhabitants), as it is situated along Paris's administrative limit (excluding the Paris heliport and the outlying woods of Boulogne and Vincennes).

Reason

It's a really stunning picture, and it also does a good job at highlighting the sheer volume of traffic that passes along the Peripherique.

Articles this image appears in

Périphérique (Paris)

Creator

Marc Planard

• Support as nominator — saxsux 11:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Lower half of the picture could be cropped, and the highlights are a bit over the top. --Dschwen 11:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Sorry, but this pic is nowhere near sharp enough for FP - Adrian Pingstone 15:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Not very interesting. ^8thstar 02:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose, cool to look at but isn't very encyclopedic and I disagree with that statement that "it also does a good job at highlighting the sheer volume of traffic that passes along the Peripherique" - I can't tell how much traffic there is at all. User:Veesicle 03:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Technical issues (sharpness, colour) and also not overly interesting or enthrawling --Newton2 12:59, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose My new desktop background perhaps :) but I have to Oppose per Dschwen. Ishaana 16:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)