Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Usain Bolt at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Usain Bolt at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Dec 2012 at 18:45:22 (UTC)

Original – Usain Bolt after the Men's 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Reason: I believe that this image meets the FP criteria and should become featured.
Articles in which this image appears: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres (more than seven days), Usain Bolt
FP category for this image: People
Creator: Nick Webb

Support as nominator --Thine Antique Pen (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sad to cut off the feet and legs of someone who makes his living by them. Chick Bowen 23:46, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
oppose. He's not sprinting. Spikebrennan (talk) 05:49, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per EV issues cited above. --Pine^✉ 09:52, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Is this a warmup routine or a victory celebration? 75.41.109.190 (talk) 18:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Victory celebration, see "... Bolt after the ..." Thine Antique Pen (talk) 18:22, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

oppose. I agree with Spikebrennan. --@ツ KrIshnA^Talk2me 11:35, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for reasons above. Also, as far as I could determine from all discussions prior to the Olympics, we're not actually allowed to use any photos taken within the Olympic venues as per the ticket's 'conditions of entry' because the licence implies the ability to use the photos commercially, which LOCOG prohibits. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:55, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: See Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions/Archive/2012/August#Licences_on_Olympic_images. Rmhermen (talk) 17:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I don't think that discussion invalidates what I was saying above. Just because we could (in theory) use the image without breaking the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, it doesn't mean we couldn't be sued for using the image. I see this analogy as appropriate: If someone steals a bike and sell it to you, you're still liable as you're purchased stolen goods. Likewise, if we use an image that was distributed illegally by someone, we are potentially still implicated. Even if this isn't the case and we're not liable, I don't think we should happily re-use the images knowing that they are being distributed 'illegally'. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 18:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - We've long accepted photos taken in museums with similar restrictions. Why should the Olympics be any different? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      - I'm not sure.. have we? Usually museums have restrictions on photography using tripods (which they claim is a health and safety issue but which seems to target those who want to take professional quality images). Hmm, well I've looked at a few of the major British Museums' policies and indeed some of them do specifically prohibit commercial photography, and others simply ask for notification in advance. So I wonder on what basis (legal or otherwise) we accept images under licences which are at odds with the museum policies. Is it, as per above, a case where we can't be held responsible for breaches of the law that contributors make? Sounds morally ambiguous to me, even though I'm sympathetic to notion of the collections being fully available to the public. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 15:04, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This isn't even Bolt's signature celebration move (this is). Spencer^T♦C 03:36, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The photo shows the beginning of the move, but yes, not the pose. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't want to pile on so I won't frame this as an oppose but the above EV consideration of whether a featured picture of a runner has to show him running aside, I can't help but makes me think that the full potential of a picture of him is not being utilized, he's been cut off at the knees, both literally and idiomatically. Cat-five t c ---- 11:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:32, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]