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A spectacular sunset in Bangkok, showing the skytrain and modern skyline down Thanon Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, taken from the corner of Thanon Silom, with the Empire Tower and the Chong Nonsi BTS Station at the left side.
Reason
While the image has a striking appearance due to the dramatic sunset, its technical quality no longer meets the minimum requirement for Featured Picture status since it has very small dimensions and has some image noise. It is not even 1 megapixel. Such a picture should be replaceable with a photo taken from the same vantage point during a similar sunset using more modern equipment. The encyclopedic value is also diminished because in the almost ten years since this picture's promotion, new tall buildings have been constructed that would be visible from this location today, such as the W Bangkok. As such, it represents a very outdated view of the rapidly developing city.
Articles this image appears in
Bangkok, Emergence, Golden hour (photography), List of national capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia, List of neighbourhoods in Bangkok, Urban ecosystem; Empire Tower, Bangkok (a crop thereof); Robot Building (a crop thereof).
Previous nomination/s
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bangkok skytrain sunset.jpg (A delist for this image was suggested in Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Auditorio de Tenerife although it was not actually nominated for delisting)
Nominator
dllu (t,c)
  • Delistdllu (t,c) 22:56, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I think the only legitimate reason for delisting above would be the outdated skyline. I don't think there's any significant noise in the photo (it was taken at ISO400 and is downsampled, which minimises visible noise anyway), and we've already agreed that with recent increases in minimum resolution required, we aren't going to apply it retrospectively to existing FPs. But otherwise fair enough, I've never had the opinion that a FP should be for life. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist. I do not feel that such a small picture of something so large is appropriate. Regardless of minimum sizes and so on, this is too small for a picture of a skyline. J Milburn (talk) 19:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • I can easily upload a 6 megapixel version of it (perhaps slightly less as it might be cropped), but I think it was a bit motion blurred as I took the photo stretched out of a window to get this view. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 11:37, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pretty sure those guidelines didn't exist in that form at the time of upload, but yeah no reason not to upload at max res these days. I've uploaded the original 6MP image over the top of it. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 22:22, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]