Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gare du Nord

Gare du Nord

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Mar 2020 at 01:25:54 (UTC)

Original – The interior of Gare du Nord (North Station) taken from the balcony level (per file description)

Alternate – trimmed right side for symmetry (CSS image crop)

Reason: A major railway station in Paris, the busiest railway station in Europe by number of passengers. Lead image and detailed. I added a cropped version, an alternate, it balances the right side.
Articles in which this image appears: Gare du Nord
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
Creator: Diliff

Support as nominator – prefer Alt. Bammesk (talk) 01:25, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either, prefer crop. I think symmetry is more important than the extra image content on the edge. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either - excellent quality. Curious: What camera & lens did you use, Diliff? (It's not in the exif...) --Janke | Talk 09:35, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Janke. Sorry, only just noticed this now that the FPC passed! It's not in the exif because it's a stitched image, and stitching strips those details. It was a Canon 5D Mk iii and I think a 24mm lens (multiple frames though, so you can't draw any conclusions from the lens). Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:41, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What's going on at the bottom of the photo about a quarter of the way along? There's a strange dark blob and faint white and grey shadows. It might also be courteous to blur the faces of the couple just to the right above and the guy bending over by the ticket machine in the centre in case they are in witness protection, having an affair or trying to leaving Paris covertly to run a bar in Casablanca - also France gives rights to individuals over their images. Yomangani ^talk 14:29, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like a puddle of water. MER-C 19:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I can blur the faces and upload a new file, if needed. My understanding on "rights of individuals" is: no one is recognizable, there isn't enough detail, and the details are generic and common. I am pinging @Colin: who has more experience with these things, hopefully he can correct me if I am wrong. I don't know what the dark blob is. There is someone moving to its right. Maybe that has something to do with it. Bammesk (talk) 01:18, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I could certainly recognise the three people I pointed out if I knew them. I think MER-C might be right about the blob - it could be part of a sign/screen/lamp reflected in a puddle. Yomangani ^talk 08:58, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yomangani, the relevant guidance is at Commons:Country specific consent requirements: France and more general guidelines at Commons:Photographs of identifiable people. Remember though that the legal "guidance" on Commons is just the opinion of random wiki editors, and if in any doubt, follow any sources, etc. It looks like a photo of a large public area that happens to have some identifiable individuals in it is quite ok in France. Remember that few of us go about blurring our holiday photos of the Eiffel tower with all those pesky tourists in the way, before uploading to Facebook, Flickr, Instagram. There are probably billions of photos on the internet with scenes like this. It would be more of a problem if someone took a photo that focused on an individual. Also most personality rights issues aren't a concern of Commons/Wikipedia since they are more focused on using someone's image for advertising or promotion. You could stick a "Personality rights" template on it if worried, but that's not generally used for scenes like this. Btw, alternations such as blurring, unless required on Commons by policy/law, should be uploaded as a different filename, and they generally do reduce the value of an image. -- Colin°^Talk 09:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was only really suggesting it as a courtesy - putting myself in their shoes, I wouldn't like to see myself in a picture that might be on the main page. I don't think blurring faces in this image would reduce the value any - there is already lots of motion blur on various people moving about on the platforms. Yomangani ^talk 10:11, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support any. MER-C 19:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either Geoffroi 05:24, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support either — DreamSparrow ^Chat 08:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Gare Du Nord Interior, Paris, France - Diliff (cropped).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:46, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is a rough consensus that the alt should be promoted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:46, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust: you promoted the original, not the alt (you gave the star to the original). Should I create a crop? I mean a separate file, not an overwrite. Bammesk (talk) 22:32, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bammesk Ooops. I totally missed that it was a CSS image crop. If you make the cropped image, I will amend the closure. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:24, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust: I am working on it, I made a mistake. I will ping you after it is done properly. (after the en-WP redundant file is deleted). Bammesk (talk) 18:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Armbrust: Done here, and thanks. Bammesk (talk) 00:38, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:26, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]