Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Reason
- Historic significance
- Articles this image appears in
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Creator
- Yoichi R. Okamoto
- Support as nominator CPacker (talk) 06:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- Weak oppose Unquestioned encyclopedic value, but poor composition. MLK is in profile and LBJ looks like he's shrinking away. History and names aside, it looks like the caption would be When will this man stop talking so I can get some aspirin? Very much worth a place in an article, but not the best choice for Wikipedia's main page. And I'm sorry to say that, because it'd be great to feature an image of these two men. This one isn't it. DurovaCharge! 18:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose per Durova. It would be great to see MLK and LBJ featured pic but this one isn't it. I wonder of LBJ's thoughts at the time this photograph was taken. Looking at his face in the full-size I bet it was something like Come on, Negro, give me a break. Fine, I'll give ya more rights but ya'll be votin' for me, ok?. - Darwinek (talk) 18:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose I actually like the composition; their relative postures and expressions speak volumes about the racial situation as it was then, but the picture is much too grainy, bordering on B&W posterization. LBJ's face is worst hit. Matt Deres (talk) 23:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose per Matt Deres. I, too, love the composition and expressions, but the quality isn't high enough. See this book [1] (which, unfortunately, isn't cited on the LBJ article) for a detailed exploration of their relationship. Also, Durova, our featured pictures exist for more than just Picture of the Day; i.e. we can promote images which will never go on the main page. If a higher quality image shows up, I'll change this vote to support. - Enuja (talk) 18:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Not promoted . --John254 02:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)