Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg

Original - The Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, accompanying Bill and Melinda Gates on their visit to the Opera in 2009

Edit 1

Reason: A strong illustration of the subject. The hair and shoulders are just slightly overexposed, but for an outdoor shot in direct sunlight this is pretty good. It's fairly candid and apparently unposed. Works well as the lead illustration in Jens Stoltenberg, obvious value in Norway and List of heads of government of Norway as well.
Articles this image appears in: Jens Stoltenberg, Norway, List of heads of government of Norway.
Creator: User:Kjetil_r

Support as nominator --Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Image page needs work for en:FPC - it's all in Norwegian (?), complete with a link to the Norwegian article. FWIW it doesn't appear that no:wiki is even using this image. --jjron (talk) 05:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for pointing that out, I failed to even notice that the description was in Norwegian, but I've placed an English language description on the file page as well. Norsk Bokmal isn't using the image, but their Wikipedia page is shorter than the English one, so there isn't really room, short of replacing the lead image. The Norsk Nynorsk page is even shorter again. Mostlyharmless (talk) 07:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, I wondered about how short their article on their PM was - as you say not much room, but then again our article doesn't use their taxobox image at all either (whose image page caption is only in English!). I'm not sure how active Norwegian Wikipedia is, but given that it's not a particularly popular language outside Norway, I guess it's only drawing on a fairly small pool of contributors. --jjron (talk) 12:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Well, Wikipedia in Bokmål is the 13th biggest Wikipedia (despite Norwegian being a relatively minor language) - why the article on JS is so short I really don't know ;) That aside, I don't suppose inclusion in other language projects is really relevant for en:FPC (it would have been for Valued Image at Commons). Not being familiar with the FP-standards at this project I will not give any opinion on whether or not this image should be Featured here. Best regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 16:49, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - You're right - it's not relevant at all. The only reason I saw it was because that's where the image page linked and commented because I thought it was interesting. --jjron (talk) 04:18, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Not relevant, but someone has expanded the article in Norwegian :) Positive, if unintended, sideeffect of this nomination perhaps... Finn Rindahl (talk) 13:02, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nominator.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Important subject, good shot. Seemed a bit contrasty and the color balance slightly off. Tried edit 1. Durova³³¹ 04:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Thanks Durova. That edit is an improvement over the original. The contrast was just a little (but not overly, in my opinion) on the high side. Mostlyharmless (talk) 04:36, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Upon being prompted to vote, I have decided that the picture is simply bad. Aside from the light balance, no one wants to be known by a picture of himself flinching in bright light. Sorry but the face is just a major turn off. Something better has to be out there. Nezzadar ☎ 17:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]