Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Didgeridoo

Didgeridoo player edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Dec 2012 at 18:28:37 (UTC)

Original – Didgeridoo street player in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Reason: High EV and good quality
Articles in which this image appears: Didgeridoo
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Noel Feans

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 18:28, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Hmmm, I'm not sure what to say about this one. The photo itself is actually very good (albeit a little overly contrasty), but for a traditional Aboriginal Australian instrument, it doesn't really 'fit' as one of the lead images in the article. It's not just that the player is Spanish rather than Aboriginal, but also because the instrument itself looks like a cheap, touristy didgeridoo. I guess it could illustrate the way the instrument has transcended traditional use (as it has), but I think I'd prefer a more traditional setting for a featured picture of it. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is a indigenous Australian instrument, and as such an image like that would be INFINITELY better EV than, to be very politically incorrect, a dirty hippy in Spain would be. So I'd oppose on EV grounds. — raeky t 07:56, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
On the fence I agree with Diliff; while technically this photo is good, the EV of a white guy playing a didgeridoo in Spain seems limited (though it's certainly not without value). The appropriation of Indigenous Australian culture by non-Indigenous people is a perennial hot issue, though at least in this case its unlikely that the Spanish guy was taking business from an Indigenous Australian didgeridoo player! Nick-D (talk) 09:58, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The article would need to talk about something like that, which it doesn't, just mention that some very off-the-beaten-path music types use it... It's not traditional, looks like a cheap $30 one you can buy online, and a white Spanish guy playing it... It's far from ideal to illustrate the article. — raeky t 10:57, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment At present it sits in a section called "Names & etymology" where it doesn't support the text at all.--Melburnian (talk) 12:53, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Julia\^talk 11:35, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]