Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kinner Kailash range and Kalpa - Wikipedia

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Reason

Majestic view of the Kinnaur Kailash range of the Greater Himalaya, and the town of Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh at dawn. Rare picture on commons showing a panaroma of the whole range.

Articles in which this image appears

Kalpa, Kinnaur district

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes

Creator

Anubhav Agarwal

• Support as nominator – UnpetitproleX (talk) 04:37, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Given the lighting, a little graininess is expected, and it's a stunning photo. Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.8% of all FPs} 16:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  ‘’’Comment’’’ I only recently became aware of the nominator when they appeared on the Talk:Delhi page politely but insistently preferring what I thought were certain types of pictures of Delhi in the info box. They argued their points reasonably well but I had the sense that they preferred pictures where the poverty, the littered streets, the crowds, the filth were not visible. India ‘’is’’ a poor country. As someone who has been editing the FA India for nearly 16 years, where we generally prefer FPs, but ones that have encyclopedic information over vanilla prettiness of the long view, I would like to suggest that these pictures not be cut extra slack because South Asia is under represented in Featured Pictures.

  You may also view other India-related FPs on my user talk page. I am not here vote, and I understand that FPC like FAC has its rules, but am concerned that the featured pictures be representative, that the nominator not appear at the India page tomorrow making the case that these pretty Himalayan or panoramic pictures are better representatives of India as a result of being featured than the more realistic ones, whether featured or not that are in place.

  You must know there are editors such as Yann or Muhammad Mahdi Karim who have taken beautiful and encyclopedic pictures. Summing up standards here should not be lowered because South Asia is underrepresented or that a nominator (not necessarily the nominator of this picture) has seemingly boned up on Wikipedia rules and are prepared to argue their point. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:51, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • So your point, if I understand correctly, is that the pictures be judged by FP standards, right? I fully agree with you, and in none of my nominations have I argued that standards be lowered for my nominations due to underrepresentation or any other reason. You can look at all of my nominations to confirm (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the current). I do know Yann and Karim, or for that matter also Tagooty, Satdeep, Subrajyoti and others, all of whose works I admire. I wish to one day emulate it and possibly have FPs of my own.

  Also, It’s getting a bit absurd now. Stalking my contributions and then reverting them, now coming here on FPC, assuming motivations and making accusations based on that. What’s next? This obsessive policing bordering on harassment is not appreciated. And I would highly recommend using FPC talk page for discussions unrelated to the nominations. UnpetitproleX (talk) 11:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I’m not following you from page to page. You yourself mentioned the FPC submissions and came here to your work. My concern is genuine. Yann’s submissions don’t veer away from poor people or the disregarded such as tribals. We have his pictures on the India page for that reason. We had his picture of children eating puri and kheer in school on the India page for years; we still have his pictures in politics and sports, of girls playing hopscotch; they expose the reality, not cover it. It is the same with Karim he finds beauty in many forms and sizes from the three-striped squirrels to the Lucknow imambara. In your instance, though, from my brief experience with what you prefer in pictures, there seems to be a bias away from the nitty gritty reality to the broad vistas in which details can’t be seen.

  I’m not suggesting there is anything wrong with your pictures; they have their place; but if other editors are giving easier passes to these pictures because the region is underrepresented, then they should be aware that generally unrepresentative pictures, which such pictures become in large numbers, don’t make a region better represented. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:30, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]