Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Himba lady

Himba lady

Original - The Himba are a pastoral ethnic group living in northern Namibia, and breed cattle and goats. Himba women are famous for covering themselves with a mixture of butter fat, ochre, and herbs to protect themselves from the sun. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. Women braid each others hair and cover it in their ochre mixture.

Reason: Himba are an ethnic group in northern Namibia. They consists of about 20,000 to 50,000 people. It is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
Articles this image appears in: Himba
Creator: Yves Picq

Support as nominator Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. Good shot, but it seems like something they'd feature on commons, not here. It's just not very encyclopedic :D\=< (talk) 07:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Placing in hide box, see Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Nude_images :D\=< (talk) 09:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removing from hide box, people on talk (and me) don't think it's necessary to hide this. Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to composition. The partially-hidden kid messes up the composition. It would be better if both people were clearly visible, or if this were a solo portrait. Also, she looks like she's walking out of the portrait. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Samsara (FA • FP) 15:37, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose due to composition. Kaldari (talk) 17:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per other opposes. -- Grandpafootsoldier (talk) 02:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose without bias against the subject matter, but rather on photographic merit. The subject's face is mostly in shadow and the lighting and composition could be better. Durova^Charge! 23:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]