Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Galtür - Tschafein - Lawinenschutzmauer 01.jpg

File:Galtür - Tschafein - Lawinenschutzmauer 01.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects
•  Info All by me. -- Basotxerri (talk) 10:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I was thinking about nominating this or not. I finally do, my reasons are: colours, lighting, clouds, the old church and that the wall really gives the impression of protecting the hamlet from avalanches. BTW, I'm not sure if this is categorised better by Objects or by Places/Architecture. Currently, it's an Object to me. --Basotxerri (talk) 10:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basotxerri (talk) 10:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support PumpkinSky talk 18:33, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:59, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - Good nomination, very striking object. Are these stone avalanche-protection structures common in the Alps? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:15, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment Normally avalanche-protection in the Alps (at least in Tyrol which is what I know) is made by huge metal grids mounted on the upper parts of the mountains (like this one, or see the horizontal lines on the hillside here). However, the Paznaun valley is a quite high valley with steep side walls where people have been living with avalanches for many hundreds (or thousands) of years, so they are very aware of the danger. These images are taken in a hamlet of Galtür. Galtür is at 1500 m altitude and was buried in 1999 by an enormous avalanche (see en:1999 Galtür avalanche), many of the constructions were made after this disaster, although some of them are older (as obviously this one). However, Galtür is the only site where I've seen these giant stone walls. --Basotxerri (talk) 19:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:53, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Maybe if it was just the wall I'd like it enough to support, but as it is I find the background distracting. Daniel Case (talk) 04:33, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment Hi Daniel, aesthetically you're absolutely right but in this case, the wall is protecting the houses and I think they must be there for understanding the scene. Thanks for your opinion! --Basotxerri (talk) 09:07, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 21:35, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 09:59, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Albertus teolog (talk) 21:37, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Llez (talk) 06:42, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 12:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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