Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hiram Wesley Evans

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Original – Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Hiram Wesley Evans in Washington, D.C. on 8 August 1925

Edit – Cropped to focus on the subject

Reason: High quality and resolution, illustrative of both the main subject and his position in the KKK
Articles in which this image appears: Hiram Wesley Evans, Grand Wizard
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: National Photo Company, restored by Crisco 1492

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:02, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm gunna make a very unpopular move, against pretty much everything WP stands for, and oppose due to the subject. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Considering we promoted this image of lynching (very graphic, so it'll never be on the front page), I don't think this is a criteria. I agree that we should not look like we are supporting the KKK, but we are also an encyclopedia. The Klan is, unfortunately, something we cover. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think the image also should not be on the main page if it gets promoted (like lynching and some other). Brandmeister t 19:06, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose both on composition grounds. The background is too distracting. Essentially its a snapshot taken in 1925. Old yes, but a snapshot is still a snapshot. Clegs (talk) 11:04, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose both. Sorry, but I don't see this as a very compelling photograph, with a strange severity in the focus contrast between the subject and the rather busy background (and the crop only calls more attention to that severity), nor does it have particular historical value, since it doesn't illustrate anything in particular happening. In defense of Adam above, I think the comparison to the lynching picture is not very apt; that picture shows an example of an event that played a huge role in American history; this one is just a guy in a costume. Chick Bowen 22:51, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]