Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons

Original - Villagers fleeing gunfire in a camp for internally displaced persons during the 2008 Nord-Kivu war

Reason: Very powerful picture illustrating just what displacement really means. A bit grainy at full-size but it's about four times the minimum size so downsampling could eliminate this. Imperfect composition, but I think this is mitigated because we so rarely get decent imagery from Africa, especially war-torn parts of Africa.
Articles this image appears in: Internally displaced person, 2008 Nord-Kivu war
Creator: Julien Harneis, who just graciously relicensed many of his images, leading to the flood here... :)

Support as nominator --Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Though powerful, it's really grainy, and I'm not sure downsampling would fix that. It's also a soft image, and there's a person cut off on the right side. There's also some blown highlights on the yellow jug. Spencer^T♦^C 01:18, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: I agree with the above, there are some problems with the picture, it looks like a cheap camera was used as the film quality is fairly bad, also the picture does not really tell the story behind it, the only thing we have to go on is the caption, they could be going to the market for all we know. – Jerry^teps 10:10, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Very valuable image, and the graininess does not bother me. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:48, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose This was not taken with a cheap camera, nor was it film, but unfortunately I don't think the lighting and composition are up to FP standards. Good addition to the article. Fletcher (talk) 15:07, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, maybe "cheap" wasn't the word I should of used, what I meant was that it doesn't look like it was made with very high quality film. – Jerry^teps 12:04, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support It's ridiculour to carp about the finer points of picture quality with such important subject matter. The quality is quite adequate for the purpose - e.g. look at that kid with US tanks on his T-shirt.
Oppose Too grainy. Clegs (talk) 17:29, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent for illustrating an article's description. Also, the graininess is only noticeable if you're zooming in past 2000x2000. Desktop-width looks fine for me. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 09:34, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose The graininess doesn't bother me too much given the content, but the composition isn't FP quality; taking a step further toward the right would at least have put the two women in the centre side-by-side rather than on top of each other. Time3000 (talk) 16:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted . --John254 03:19, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]