Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bhadrakali

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Original – The Hindu goddess Bhadrakali worshipped by the Hindu trinity of male gods, c. 1660-70 [[Bashohli ]] painting

Reason: It illustrates the Bashohli style of painting and the iconography of goddess Bhadrakali. FP at Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Bhadrakali, Bashohli
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Google art project, retouched by me

Support as nominator --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:50, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral - Not really seeing much EV here, although the image is quite nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I see no EV... --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 22:14, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support.As per the Hindu mythology The trinity of Gods represent the creation, maintenance and destruction of life. The God on left in the trinity, called Brahma, represents the creation, the God in the middle, called Vishnu, represents maintenance and the other one, called Shiva, represents destruction. They are considered to be supreme. They are worshiping her as the demon she killed, called Mahishasura, cannot be killed by them, the men and other Gods. Goddess Bhadrakali, also one of the forms of Goddess Durga, is known to be irate and once she is angry she unleashes a terror which can't be faced even by the trinity of Gods and she can only be pacified by worshiping her. I think it illustrates that very nicely. BNK(talk) 07:17, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Issue is, this is not shown by the use of the image in the articles. Hence why I'm neutral here. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:19, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are entitled to your opinion. I supported because I have some knowledge of Hindu mythology and using that I deduced the above statement from the picture. Anyway lets see what others think about it. --BNK(talk) 12:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have some (not much) knowledge of Hinduism, but that's not the point we're judging on. The criteria state "Adds significant encyclopedic value to an article and helps readers to understand an article." In one article it's used in a gallery, which does not add any EV. In the other it's one of a line of images, none of which indicate a specific aspect of the goddess. If Redtigerxyz were to improve the usage of this file I'd be happy to vote support. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support This seems pretty typical of how one goes about illustrating articles on a goddess. The subject is notable, this provides a useful historic view of how she is traditionally depicted, and fits into a notable tradition. For these sorts of articles - and, in particular, for Hindu gods, which can have several different aspects with very different traditional depictions - there's plenty of EV for several historical images to be potentially featurable, and this is the first and most prominent image for this aspect of her. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Just wish the image was used a bit better in the article... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rreagan007 (talk) 16:47, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:09, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]