Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Glenn McGrath

Glenn McGrath[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 May 2012 at 08:14:11 (UTC)

Reason: We have lots of FPs of baseballers, but I don't believe we have any cricketers - I think this can help start to redress the balance. This is a well composed and engaging image with high technical standards of one of the world's best cricketers (now retired), giving it high EV. Amongst other things, McGrath holds the world record for the highest number of Test wickets by a fast bowler, and also holds the overall record for the most wickets in the One Day Cricket World Cup. As pictured here, he is now Chairman of the Board and an ambassador for the McGrath Foundation, a charity he founded with his deceased first wife Jane, and which is now Australia's most recognised breast cancer support and education charity. If promoted I'd propose it be used as a POTD lead in to National Breast Cancer Awareness Month or on Pink Ribbon Day.
Articles in which this image appears: Glenn McGrath
McGrath Foundation
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Sport
Creator: jjron

Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 08:14, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Seems to have been eccessively denoised. Clegs (^{engage in rational discourse}) 09:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, I have to agree, the image quality is not what I would expect... Is this significantly cropped from a larger image? Ðiliff «» (Talk) 20:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - It is close to a one-to-one crop from a bigger image taking out some extraneous surrounding detail. Did some NR of the background where it was showing up on the dark trees, but the subject was masked out, so hasn't had noise reduction applied to him at all, and the bokeh is genuine if you're questioning that (the trees in the background are about 30m away, so it gives a different appearance to the fake backgrounds in studio shots which is what you may be comparing it to). I think detail is pretty good. --jjron (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - The detail is reasonably good for a 1:1 crop, but not really good enough for a featured picture IMO. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:19, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Good composition but image quality is sub-par. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:19, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - Seems a little soft, just a little. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:43, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - McGrath throughout his cricketing career has been known for his unerring accuracy and a 195cm tall lean athletic figure. He took his retirement not so long ago in 2007, but this image depicts him transformed into a fat old grandfather. Sanyambahga (talk) 08:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't disagree with your oppose, but your reasoning seems to be that he doesn't look like he did when he was an elite sportsman five years ago... This isn't supposed to be a historic photo at his peak, it's contemporary. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- Better quality necessary. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 03:13, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Great to have a portrait like this. Please would you consider adding the commons:Template:consent with relevant parameters? --99of9 (talk) 07:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 10:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]