Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buildings along Chicago River

Buildings along Chicago River

Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2010 at 21:09 (UTC)

Original - Westward view from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge of the Chicago River, which is the south border of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border of the Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center. Buildings such as Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center and Aqua are among the prominent structures depicted. On the right is the cleared land awaiting redevelopment as the Chicago Spire. This picture was taken on the day of the Bike The Drive event.

Reason: This image provides a quality depiction of the easternmost portion of the main branch of the Chicago River.
Articles in which this image appears: Chicago River
Lakeshore East
Near North Side, Chicago
Streeterville
Illinois Center
Chicago Loop
Chicago
Aqua (skyscraper)
Chicago Spire
Lake Shore Drive
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
Creator: User:Mindfrieze

Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:41, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support For now. I think this could really be a good addition to related articles, this might be your best nomination in a while. --I'ḏ ♥One 00:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A technically good image, but like other cityscape pictures you've nominated before it's vastly overused. Some of these articles have more pictures then text... — raeky T 01:22, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- As much as I try to make every WP:CHICAGO article possible a WP:GA, I am not able to expand every article in the project that has good pictures.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I understand, and you do a wonderful job expanding those articles, but would you consider removing it from Chicago Spire since it's only in a gallery and it doesn't show the site very well, or moving it out of the gallery as a replacement for File:ChicagoSpireFutureSite.jpg since it shows the location much better than that image. It's removal from Aqua (skyscraper) since it's only a small component and doesn't serve much purpose in way of showing it's location, and the picture it's self is about as much screen real estate as the entire readable prose on the page (see Wikipedia:Layout#Images). The remaining uses seem ok, Illinois Center I don't think it particularity illustrates that very well, but that article is lacking of images to begin with, probably should remove one of the two images though due to Wikipedia:Layout#Images imho. — raeky T 18:04, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Because of the good quality and interesting, wide-angle view. Although Howcheng will have to spread out Chicago-themed pictures on POTD just as he will have to with all our bug-related ones. Greg L (talk) 03:32, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I hate to be a prick, but the buildings are tilted (easy to fix usually), could we ask the author for frames or a restitch do you think? Noodle snacks (talk) 04:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment have to agree with the prick above ;) both sides do seem to tilt inwards. -- bydand•talk 06:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The author is not a WPian or WMian to my knowledge.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:40, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I could work from this file in hugin or GIMP and see what I can do.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - You or someone else could still contact him on Flickr and point him towards this thread and see if hes willing to (a) fix it himself or (b) upload the base images for one of us to fix it. — raeky T 14:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - I left him the following message "There is an interest in restitching your http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfrieze/3624597377/ at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Buildings_along_Chicago_River . Are you willing to restitch or make your originals available for restitching."--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        As the author of this photo, I was just too lazy originally to fix the obvious tilt after stitching it together, but since there is interest here for this picture, I'd be willing to process it again from scratch. I'll try to take a swing at it this weekend. Stay tuned.--Mindfrieze (talk) 18:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to slant - the building dead centre (no idea what it's called but its the famous one that silver looking) is leaning almost as much as the tower of Piza... And the bridge below is a little of straight too... Otherwise decent picture... Not sure what relevance this has to the Chicago Loop though - on first inspection anyway I cannot see any trains... Gazhiley (talk) 08:55, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Responses 1. Trump International Hotel and Tower. 2. Chicago Loop vs. The Loop (CTA).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:43, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Eh? what u talking about? I didn't ask any questions other than where's the trains in this picture? Gazhiley (talk) 18:14, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - The building dead center, silver looking. That's the Trump Hotel and tower. The reason that there's no trains in the picture is because the Chicago Loop is not The Loop of the El system. The Chicago Loop is a district of Chicago, which you would have worked out for yourself if you had bothered to read either article that Tony had given you. Matthewedwards : Chat 21:37, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 12:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support though your caption is a bit optimistic with re to the possibility of the spire being built. ;) --Golbez (talk) 13:27, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Lets wait for the restitch. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:34, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for now, perhaps this should be suspended? It'd be nice to see if a restitch could improve it a little. We may as well have as good an image as possible, there's no hurry. J Milburn (talk) 23:15, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suspension request yes please suspend. It seems clear it will pass with an adequate restitch and fail without.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:19, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended Makeemlighter (talk) 18:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The restitch has been saved over the original. Please resume or restart consideration.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:24, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:09, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. J Milburn (talk) 21:15, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support All the problems cleared. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 02:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. JFitch (talk) 11:32, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Because of the good quality and interesting, wide-angle view. Greg L (talk) 20:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Still Oppose Most buildings to right of main tower are still leaving - to the left this time though (can't remember which way they were before as old version removed from nom). buildings to left are fine though. gazhiley.co.uk 08:56, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Question I didn't have a problem with the original, I guess count me as still in support, but did you change the color? Seems less realistic. --I'ḏ♥One 12:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll see if they author will respond.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:12, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I left him messages on commons, on flickr and on his user talk here.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:18, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - I don't know anything about the color and have (as already noted) contacted the author.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:33, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- If I remember correctly, I adjusted the color levels to remove a very slight red tint and increased saturation slightly (in the 15% range.) I made these adjustments more for my preference than for consideration on wikimedia. --Mindfrieze (talk) 16:58, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I just can't get past the blown highlights on this one. I'm surprised no one has brought them up yet. The big bluish building on the left is particularly bad, the white building next to it is all white for 20 stories, and the building at the center is pretty bad too. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:29, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you know that Aqua is suppose to look like that? You have somewhat of a point on what I think is The Regatta--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I think I meant the one between Regatta and Aqua, if I have the names straight. Regatta is the deal-breaker for me, though. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:11, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 03:39, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Nice, but still some tilt on the right. The Regatta is the only one that seems to me to have clearly blown highlights, and I think it helps emphasize the curve there, so that's not why I'm opposing. --Avenue (talk) 11:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, striking panorama. Peter Karlsen (talk) 16:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think this has had its time now. I count 8 supports and 2.5 opposes for the new upload. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 17:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:20090524 Buildings along Chicago River line the south border of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center.jpg Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 17:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]