Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Houses Of Parliment

Houses of Parliament

The Houses of Parliament, seen across Westminster Bridge.

I nominated this as I think it satisfies all the criteria of a featured picture. As a daytime picture, I think it is nicer, as the Houses of Parliament are not thoroughly illuminated at night. It also includes a few other London icons (e.g. the red double-decker bus). I think that the current featured picture of the Houses of Parliament is not as pleasing as this one. It appears in the following articles (not an exhaustive list):

• Clock tower
• London
• Palace of Westminster
• Parliament
• Parliament of the United Kingdom
• United Kingdom
• Westminster System
• Nominate and support. - Cfslattery1 20:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• support. great pic--Childzy _talk ^contribs 21:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Sorry, I didn't notice that minor tilt when I uploaded it - Adrian Pingstone 21:49, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose Blurry.Nnfolz 05:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose The image is blurry, but otherwise acceptable.--James 10:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• support. Certainly among the world's most impressive parliment buildings; and, because of its relative high age, a viable symbol for modern democracy. Also, a decent, if not spectacular image. --Philopedia 15:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I thought FP images were supposed to be spectacular? I asked on FPC talk page if my image had a chance of making it or not, and they said probably not because it just didn't have that WOW facotr. Hbdragon88 20:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose Two problems: Major tilting and blurring and it just isn't spectacular. Political mind 22:04, 4 July 2024 UTC [refresh]
• Oppose Tilted and distracting. Cab02 13:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose A more illustrative picture could be easily taken. The bridge cuts off the building and half of the picture is the Thames. Can't we have one that is "straight on" or taken from the air (prehaps from the London eye)? Due to the ease with which a better pic could be taken, this should not be featured. Witty lama 13:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per others - tilting Hbdragon88 19:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose The colours do not seem very saturated and an image taken on a clearer (less hazey) day would be far more appealing in my opinion. --Newton2 22:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted Raven4x4x 04:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)