Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ice bucket challenge

Ice bucket challenge[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Sep 2014 at 08:05:49 (UTC)

Reason: Engaging photo of a participant in the ALS Ice bucket challenge. This picture appeared on the Main page DYK section. I also used this as the front page for the August 27th edition of the Signpost because of the Ice bucket challenge's high pageview ranking shown in the Signpost Traffic Report.
Articles in which this image appears: Ice bucket challenge
FP category for this image: We don't have a specific category for communications phenomena like internet memes. We could create a subcategory for this under Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle or put this in the Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other category. I'm open to suggestions.
Creator: Created by slgckgc on Flickr, uploaded by Mr. Granger

Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 08:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Meh Too generic. If this is were Bush, Obama or Jennifer Lopez with a wet shirt, then rather yes. Brandmeister^talk 09:00, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Well exposed, well timed, well framed. This challenge is mostly done by regular people, not just celebrities, and as such having them could be misrepresentative. My only issue is that the file is loading from left to right... what's causing that? Also, there appears to be a few hot pixels or something. Yellow. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- this isn't jumping out at me as a professional-quality photograph. I'm not keen on the framing, the focus on the lighting. Definitely a useful image for the article, but I don't think it's strong enough for FPC. J Milburn (talk) 19:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I don't think that any photo of a supposed ice bucket challenge is likely to have sufficient EV to be featurable. There are some subjects that need more than a photo to really have value. Obviously the photo it tells you that it involves a bucket of ice water poured over someone's head, but there's nothing about this image that differentiates it from any other outdoor activity involving pouring buckets of water on ones self or others. It doesn't explain anything at all about what the process involves, whereas a video much more clearly does. The ice bucket challenge, from the videos I've seen, is rather ritualistic (thank the nominator for nominating you, nominate three others, discuss ALS to some degree, etc) and the physical pouring of the bucket is just one part of the meme. As such, I think only a video would have the necessary explanation/EV for me. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 02:24, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Silly. Sca (talk) 22:31, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. For me, the wikimedia.org source picture here is for some strange reason displayed rotated through 90 degrees. In other places the image is correctly oriented. 109.147.185.178 (talk) 01:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think there is room for both, a video and a picture. --Muhammad(talk) 08:51, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]