Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran)

Reason: High res and great quality, and our political leader FPs are greatly lacking. Let's grab this GFDL-licensed image and make it an FP. This has huge EV as a great image of the Supreme Leader and former President of one of the most interesting countries in the world.
Articles this image appears in: Iran, President of Iran, Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, Azerbaijani people, Lists of Azeris, Ethnic minorities in Iran
Creator: Iranian Foundation of Holy Defence Values, Archives and Publications (unspecified)

Support as nominator --—Ceran^{(dream / discover)} 00:11, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support After looking at ridiculously high-rez macros of insects, I want more detail and zoom on the face. But do we really need to count his hairs? The Iranian flag in the background makes for great enc and a balanced composition. Clothing is also a plus. No noise, grain, color splotches, etc., and reasonably well-focused.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:29, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Ridiculous amount of jpeg artifacts, 130kb wont cut it. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 00:32, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I don't see any jpeg artifacts. Can you please clarify? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 02:13, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - They're visible around his turban and his glasses. Thegreenj 02:28, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
comment: I've asked spikebrennan if he could try and remove them, as he is good with "people pictures" as I like to call them. —Ceran^{(dream / discover)} 02:55, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've never edited an image in my life. I think you've mistaken me for User:Durova or something. For what it's worth, I don't know whether it's really possible to remove JPG artifacts, per se-- they're the result of image compression, so what you would want to do is find the source image if it exists. Someone who is actually competent at image editing (i.e., not me) can chime in and correct me. Spikebrennan (talk) 19:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support as HereToHelp Muhammad(talk) 08:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, this is only a mediocre portrait... most portraits from the Senate are better than this... and I don't think it's particularly rate. gren グレン 14:48, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Image is far too compressed. Fixing the JPEG artifacting would only be possible by blurring or downsampling the entire picture, in which case the resolution would be too low I'm afraid. Kaldari (talk) 19:27, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Query - I'm concerned a bit. I don't honestly think this picture can be replaced so easily. Can we let it have sometime to possibly get extra feedback? —Ceran ♦ (talk) 23:57, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you think that there is a significant chance of a higher-quality picture being produced if this nom were suspended? I honestly don't see any reason for this nomination to be prolonged; if a better photo pops up in the future, you can always start a renomination. Thegreenj 21:28, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well, the point I was trying to make was that it was close to irreplaceable, since Iran is becoming so reclusive. —Ceran ♦ (talk) 22:37, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:38, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]