Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Passing By the Earth, He Xuntian's handwriting (1999).jpg/2

File:Passing By the Earth, He Xuntian's handwriting (1999).jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media
•  Info created by Ytbr - uploaded by Ytbr - nominated by Ytbr -- Ytbr (talk) 07:11, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ytbr (talk) 07:11, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - I was wondering what the significance of this was. w:He Xuntian says "He Xuntian (simplified Chinese: 何训田; traditional Chinese: 何訓田; pinyin: Hé Xùntián；born in 1952 in Suining, Sichuan) is a modern Chinese composer, creator of a new musical language and also a music composition professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music." OK. So he's notable. However, there is nothing very visually interesting about his handwriting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:09, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The floating effect from the shadowing is interesting, but not quite wowing from an FP standpoint. INeverCry 02:48, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Is that shadowing or just writing on the other side of the paper showing through? If that's all it is, I want to oppose twice... INeverCry 07:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose My oppose here is purely technical, the photo is in low res and the colors are in the paper have that 'rainbow effect' a mix between CA and posterization. However, this kind of calligraphy where the word themselves form an impression of the sentiment of the poem in the text is a very subtle art form, totally lost on most Westerners. The words may indeed be on both sides of the paper, since this is a technique sometimes used in Chinese art to either get the impression of shadows or to show two sides of an object or a poem. As a work of art and if you read the poem, I find it fascinating! w.carter-Talk 09:44, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - Any shapes in the writing that are metaphoric and refer to the meanings of the words would need to be explained. Even a Chinese-language explanation could be roughly translated via Google Translate, but without any explanation, those of us who can't read the calligraphy have to fall back on whether the shapes per se are sufficiently interesting for us to want to feature the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:52, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

• Dear Ikan, of course I realize this. I only wanted to express what I saw as the merits of the pic as well as its flaws when I 'Opposed' to it. I mean, we are supposed to leave a clear report of why we object to pictures, as you so often point out to those who just leave their "o". But I assumed it was allowed to also express what we thought was good with a pic when we oppose, even if it is only a personal point of view or something that others may not understand. w.carter-Talk 10:03, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

• I'm sorry you thought I was contradicting or arguing with you. I was simply expressing another thought that your post prompted me to have. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:51, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

• No problemo! --w.carter-Talk 12:28, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose per INC. Daniel Case (talk) 00:14, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 11:46, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:10, 7 August 2016 (UTC)