Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Taipei Skyline

Taipei Skyline

Hi Resolution, excellent detail, and beautifully captured. Well-mixed natural and urban elements; Mountain and Sky in background, Fauna and terrain in foreground, breathtaking skyline focus.

• Nominate and Support Soakologist 16:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose, I'm afraid. I think I would like it higher resolution, so that we could look into the city more, and I'm not keen on the photo credit in the bottom corner, or on the other photographer on the right hand side. --BillC 19:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. I feel the same way. It is quite a pleasing view, but the copyright information spoils it a little and it would certainly benefit from a higher resolution copy. The lights look a bit squashed and undefined. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. The other photographers are very distracting. And I would also like a bigger resolution. --Enano275 20:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak oppose per concerns above. I'm almost willing to support it anyway -- really dramatic shot. bcasterline t 20:34, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. I really like the angle, lighting, and the city view. It would be nice to get rid of the copyright info as well.
  sikander 21:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
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  • NOTICE: Creator contacted for permission to touch up and to remove copyright info from photo. For future votes, consider photo without copyright in corner and without photographers in foreground.Soakologist 20:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Opppose rather too small. Also very noticeable stitch marks in the clouds. chowells 21:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Wow what a view! Conditional support however that we can either clone or crop out the photographer's name. Great clarity/colors --Fir0002 www 04:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support for cloned out version --Fir0002 www 12:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Neutral for now, though that's a stunning view! I will support if the photographer can give us a larger version without the ©. That said, I'm guessing this must be one of the most photographed views in SE Asia (there's another photographer at it even in this shot) and if we can't get this one fixed, we might find another. ~ Veledan • Talk 07:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak oppose. A couple of points:
  • I thought we were against cloning out of people/defects/watermarks
  • Resolution is disappointing for a panorama - we should get the original from the creator
  • The clouds are particularly blurry and stitchy
  • There is too much foreground for my taste, for this to be a good city panorama photo. Nice for your office wall, not so good from an encyclopaedic point of view.
  • Copyright status a little uncertain...who created the image, and are they the same person who uploaded it and use the "I am the creator of this image" GFDL tag?
  • Colours etc of image are generally pretty. Stevage 16:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. I would love to support, but the "photo credit" in the lower right spoils the image entirely. I can't support it with that there. (I am assuming, of course, that the uploader and taker are the same person.) —
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  Note Soakologist - we should pretend it doesn't exist. Stevage 07:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  Okay, Conditional Support as long as the photo credit is actually removed. —

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• Support (Conditional) based on someone fixing up that credit info. The overall photo is stunning, the sky is just brilliant. One area of the clouds could do with the stitching fixed up a bit more. Those other photographers don't concern me, I don't think they detract from the image. The 'streetlight' just in front of them is actually more off-putting. --jjron 09:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose - All sorts of cloning/stitching issues in the foreground, most notably the plants and the other photographer. --Cyde Weys 21:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]