Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Joe Biden official portrait crop.jpg

Reason: High quality. Public domain. Comparable to featured picture of Jimmy Wales.
Articles this image appears in: Joe Biden, United States Cabinet, United States presidential election, 2008
Creator: Andrew Cutraro, White House photographer.

Support as nominator --Jakeb (talk) 16:40, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Why's the background so white? It looks a little strange (on a loosely related note, his teeth are also alarmingly white). J Milburn (talk) 17:57, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Other pictures show that the guy just has nice teeth, it seems. Jakeb (talk) 18:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I imagine that the background is white by design and I don't find it to be distracting. Also, Biden really does just have nice teeth. Cowtowner 20:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Oppose The white background is a bit odd, and makes it look like Biden is floating in the air or something. Nick-D (talk) 06:03, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice image, yes, the background may be odd, but doesn't interfere with the pic. Pmlineditor^Talk 12:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't mind the white background but the flags. If there is going to be a white background then you can edit those flags out. It is not that having the US flag there is a mistake or that having a blurred object in second plane of a white background picture is wrong it is that in this case those blurred flags look wrong. You can easily remove them. Also his left jacket's flap is blurred and there is no reason for having that blurred in this kind of picture. That blurring is a mistake in this case. The teeth are OK. In the full size picture you can see detail and the light yellow tones of well kept teeth. But the picture is not quite good in general. I'm sorry. Franklin.vp 14:28, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. As per Franklin, I don't think this has the composition. If we compare this to other portrait FPCs, it doesn't quite stand up. Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - odd composition.--Avala (talk) 22:22, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Where is the background? Also per Mostlyharmless -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 17:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the white background was a horrible idea. Cacophony (talk) 02:04, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]