Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Three saddhus at Kathmandu Durbar Square.jpg

Image:Three saddhus at Kathmandu Durbar Square.jpg, featured

•  Info created by Markus Koljonen (Dilaudid) - uploaded by Dilaudid - nominated by Econt (talk) 12:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Econt (talk) 12:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Lerdsuwa (talk) 15:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! --Karelj (talk) 19:14, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support very nice --AngMoKio (talk) 20:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer (talk) 20:59, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Jontts (talk) 09:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment I don't know exactly what they are practising but the three people seem to be much aware of the presence of the photographer and as a result, it looks very fake to me. Benh (talk) 22:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
  •  Comment In Kathmandu and the rest of Nepal, this is what saddhus do – they greet and bless people. –Dilaudid 09:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment These people are supposed to be detached from the world. I have seen them posing for more photographs then some other famous people. Muhammad 05:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
  •  Comment They might not be “true” saddhus who are supposed to abandon all their earthly fortune – notice the middle gentleman's watch... :) –Dilaudid 09:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Interesting, for the reasons written above. Vassil (talk) 12:00, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Simba123 (talk) 14:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC) Vote of blocked user struck. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Either it's an awesome authentic picture of the saddhus performing a special mudra to the photographer to either, I don't know, bless him, welcome him, etc. Or it's a turist trap and these are actors or bad saddhus. But in either case, it's not clear for me. Unless someone can convince me it's authentic, or adapts the description to reflect the touristic aspect of the scene, I will oppose. For technical aspect, I think the picture is very good. --S23678 (talk) 17:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
  •  Comment Thanks for your comment. I've now altered the description to better reflect the uncertainty as to the real backgrounds of the pictured gentlemen and the nature of their religious life, if any. –Dilaudid 21:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
    •  Support Great. --S23678 (talk) 21:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Those exotic strangers do not wow me. Crapload (talk) 21:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Almost forgot :) Wowed me then and still does. –Dilaudid 19:33, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Thermos (talk) 22:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support - I like the composition, the colors and the glasses on the right one. //moralist (talk) 19:35, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Mathias hu (talk) 15:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support wow --Sfu (talk) 20:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Richard Bartz (talk) 15:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Looks great. --Aktron (talk) 09:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 10:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

result: 16 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Simonizer (talk) 10:15, 12 July 2008 (UTC)