Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Amarnath

Amarnath

Original - The ice-lingam, symbol of the Hindu god Shiva, at Amarnath temple, located 12,760 ft above sea-level. The ice-lingam is accessible only for a month, when an annual pilgrimage or yatra is organised by the State Government during the month of July and August.

Reason

IMO, The image is encyclopaedic because 1. The shrine (lingam) is accessible only for a month every year 2. The pilgrimage to Amarnath is 42 km track on foot, through mountaineous terrain. Not many people are going to do that for a photo for wikimedia. 3. In recent years, the lingam is melting quickly due to global warming see Amarnath_temple#2007_melting_controversy. Also the image is fairly big, complying to Featured pic (>1000 pixels) resolution.

Articles this image appears in

Amarnath temple

Creator

Gktambe alias Gangadhar Tambe

• Support as nominator --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I believe there is another file at commons. Place {{db|reason}} and use the file at commons.

• No, I think now that it's a VPC, we need a en:wiki page for keeping the VPC template, etc. Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:53, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• • I think it's ok now. Fletcher (talk) 04:40, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

It's OK to delete the image on en wikipedia just as VPC File:Swami Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg was deleted recently. Just add {{VPC|Amarnath}} again to the image description page after deletion of the image itself. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I see that's done now. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 13:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Fletcher (talk) 04:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom Intothewoods29 (talk) 22:52, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 01:02, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Lord Amarnath.jpg --Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)