Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Frauke Heiligenstadt (Martin Rulsch) 2.jpg

File:Frauke Heiligenstadt (Martin Rulsch) 2.jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by DerHexer - uploaded by DerHexer - nominated by DerHexer. This is a portrait of Frauke Heiligenstadt who is not only a politician of the CDU party in Lower Saxony, Germany, and a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony but also the current Minister of Culture in Lower Saxony. For me, this portrait is exceptional for its notability of the politician and the lack of mistakes that can arise when you don't have enough time to prepare a notable politician for a photo shooting. Thanks for participating in this vote. —DerHexer (Talk) 00:44, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support We need more portraits of this quality. Yann (talk) 06:39, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Neutral A technically well done portrayal, but nothing special (light, expression, motive). I guess this one could be a better candidate for German FPC where the encyclopedic / documentary value is of greater importance. --Tuxyso (talk) 12:38, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Neutral Same opinion (again !) as Tuxyso's. Very high quality, yes, but lack of international notoriety, I'm sorry. No enough extra lower-saxonic "wow", I'd say...--Jebulon (talk) 17:08, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Michael Barera (talk) 19:46, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose, 2 neutral → not featured. /Leitoxx 02:18, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

It's really sad that candidatures fail due to insufficient participation! I can live with opposes quite well, but that's really disappointing and demotivating. —DerHexer (Talk) 11:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

DerHexer, in such as case it is no problem to nominate this file again (later). But from my experience I can say that insufficient participation is also a statement. Keep on high-quality contributing - it is nothing against you. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:11, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

@Tuxyso: Insufficient participation is an omnipresent, virulent problem of COM:FPC and should be approached as soon as possible. As I said, I would have preferred even more neutral or opposing votes which note a possible lack of international notoriety (although I emphasized the opposite in my nomination statement). But that only emphasizes the lack or participation in COM:FPC. Maybe we should consider inviting more people in participating in these votes, e.g. with SiteNotices, WatchlistNotices, etc. Commons has hundreds of great photographers who are able to judge images properly. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:24, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

@DerHexer: : I do not think that there is a general participation problem. Look at the current FPCs. The participation problem with your photo is that one cannot really criticise it (due to the high quality) but it is also very "normal" and less spectacular thus it does not draw the attention of reviewers.

Add: It is not fair, but also the motive matters a lot. I guess File:Manuela Schwesig 2.jpg would receive much more attention. You can imagine why :)