Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:16:35 (UTC)

Reason

Great picture, excellent lighting. (Hasn't met the one-week requirement yet, but as it obviously belongs where it is and I don't see any better daytime photo of the main building, it's not going to get replaced.)

Articles in which this image appears

Moscow State University

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Dmitry A. Mottl

• Support as nominator --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:16, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Almost had me standing up and singing "
  Soyuz nerushimiy respublykh svobodnykh ..." and packing to volunteer to go down to the kolkhoz and help with the harvest. Great perspective on the best-known example of Stalinist architecture, and you're right—we're not going to get a better one any time soon. Might want to consider a tighter crop, though. Daniel Case (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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  • Concur with comment regarding a crop.
    Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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    • I added a crop, though I'm not entirely convinced that it makes it better as it loses a bit of the dramatic wide-angle feeling with the clouds and such. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:50, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support crop I agree the first has a more interesting composition, but EV needs the crop. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support crop for en:WP; the dramatic version should be for Commons except the dang Russian FoP crap.
  Saffron Blaze (talk) 19:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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  • What's the Russian FoP crap? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 09:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • commons:COM:FOP#Russia. If you take a photograph of a building, it may not be free in some countries, in particular Russia. However, we ignore these restrictions here because we only care about US law, but Commons does care. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 13:31, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support--
  Tomcat (7) 20:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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• Support both. Jkadavoor (talk) 09:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support either, prefer original. I don't see why the crop has higher EV; architecture is contextual.
  Chick Bowen 23:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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• Support cropped version a better and more focused view of the building.
  talk|contribs 13:23, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Crop Per above. Dusty777 09:11, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • The above was added by User:Dusty777. Spencer^T♦C 06:45, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Moscow State University crop.jpg --Julia\^talk 18:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]