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File:Gostra malta.jpg[edit]
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Info A contestant of a Maltese Gostra game falls off the greasy pole.- Info created by Jonathan borg - uploaded by Jonathan borg - nominated by PalauanLibertarian -- PalauanLibertarian (talk) 01:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Support -- PalauanLibertarian (talk) 01:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Comment Totally insufficient description, must be improved.
Oppose Disturbing foreground object covering the person.--Peulle (talk) 07:59, 5 June 2023 (UTC)- Info @Peulle, Ikan Kekek: Relevant info added according to the file's use in en:Greasy pole. --El Grafo (talk) 10:06, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. PalauanLibertarian (talk) 12:01, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose per Peulle. --SHB2000 (talk) 12:24, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose Cluttered + blurry background-- Basile Morin (talk) 01:14, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support With the description, I find this a compelling and almost surreal photo. Why is a blurred background a problem? It's not the subject but helps set the scene. We have featured photos before in which the background is blurred but with recognizable outlines and the subject is a bird. So why is this one unacceptable? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:52, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support per Ikan. A sharp background would be disastrous for such a photo – only because the background is properly out of focus the subject becomes recognizable. And at the same time the soft background adds atmosphere to the photo and shows that we are in Malta. --Aristeas (talk) 07:50, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support per Ikan and Aristeas. -- Radomianin (talk) 12:52, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose I can agree with Peulle that the church on the background is taking wiever's attention from the person. Mostly this is because person is backgrounded by shady side of a church. Changing angle a bit to place person on a projection of church facade would be FP with no objections. Sorry. Красный wanna talk? 13:30, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Agree the guy is in the shadow, and in front of a shadowy side of the building. As a consequence it's really the last element one notices when looking at this image, after the flags, the beam, and the blurry eye-catching facade. This man is supposed to be central, unfortunately we just see his back, behind the beam, dark, and like camouflaged -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Weak oppose Interesting subject, but the salience isn't good IMO. It took too long to work out what I was looking at. Maybe if the falling man was in front of the pole so we could see his face, or he wasn't in such deep shadow, or the church in the background wasn't so bright, it could work. BigDom (talk) 14:28, 6 June 2023 (UTC)- Support IMHO, it’s a FP due to the WOW factor. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 23:38, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination ⍨PLib🗣️ 00:33, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
