Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:NYCSub ExpJoint.jpg

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Image:NYCSub ExpJoint.jpg - not featured

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Subway track joint on Williamsburg Bridge

  •  Info created by Dschwen - uploaded by Dschwen - nominated by flamurai – flamurai 02:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support My nomination and support for this image is as much for its informational merits as its artistic merits. Make sure you read the description before voting. – flamurai 02:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I didnt get it. What is the picture about and where can I see whatever there is to see? I also find the perspective very confusing. Maybe I´m a noob, but a good informative foto must be that good that even a noob can get some infos out of the picture. -- Simonizer 13:58, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Too many elements, confusing. --Tomascastelazo 15:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I believe we have to assume the good faith of all nominations. That is why I have retained my vote, waiting for some insight about the relevance of this picture (both aesthetically and in substance) or for someone who can explain it to me. Alvesgaspar 15:15, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • What would make you even imply this is a bad faith nomination?! Maybe because it's not a landscape or nature shot...? – flamurai 17:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Let me say again: I made that comment and did not use my vote because I am convinced this is a good faith nomination. But I failed, till now, to understand the beauty and/or the relevance of the picture as a FP. I understand how an expansion joint works but I don't see anything extraordinary is this illustration Alvesgaspar 21:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Alvesgaspar - You can see the shape of the rails, they are wedge type, one endng in a sharp point, that so whe they expand and contract, they do so in basically the same axis, so the contraction and expansion occurrs in a sliding action between joining rails thus retaining a straight line, otherwise, a buckling of the rails would occur, or a gap in case of contraction. --Tomascastelazo 17:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - useful photo, as per uploader. Railway lines expand when they get hot; if no expansion space is provided, they then buckle. The photo shows sliding contacts between two rails to allow for expansion without buckling. - MPF 16:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I can see why he nominated it, but I think a better angle can be shown. (straight on, no tilt) --Digon3 17:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Subject fills only a small part of the picture. Bad perspective and snow is distracting norro 19:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support very special case. Of course you have to think for some minutes to understand it. If you're not interested enough you might never understand. But for this subject the perspective is perfect: It's the way you would see it when standing in front of it. Subject exposure is perfect and the snow explains the cold (not distracting). I also like the artistic value. Colours are nice and you can loose yourself in the image because there is no horizon or scale. Given this subject any other picture will either be too technical or too artsy. --Ikiwaner 20:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose -- Simple subjects require great photos. This has too many distracting features. Snowwayout 23:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral a helpful and interesting photo. But composition-wise it is a bit too distracting...maybe another angle might help --AngMoKio 07:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per above Alvesgaspar 09:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Same as above. --Thisisbossi 00:38, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I was surprised to see this pic nominated here. Commons isn't as much about encyclopedic value as en:FPC. Anyways, I noticed this expansion joint for the first time on the GWB in NYC and took the pic out of curiosity. There was no way to get a better angle, and to my knowledge there was no picture of this contraption anywhere on wikimedia servers. It would loose context with tighter cropping and I feel it depicts the subject reasonably well. But quite honestly I don't think it deserves/needs to be a featured picture. --Dschwen 10:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Lestat 22:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
 3 support, 2 neutral, 8 oppose >> not featured Alvesgaspar 09:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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