Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/White House

White House south façade

Original - South façade of the White House, the executive mansion of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Featured at commons

Reason

Quality image of the best-known face of the White House, including the south fountain. It definitely does not meet FP and was taken with a cheap digital camera, but its use over WP is astonishing as a higher quality version has not yet replaced it.

Articles this image appears in

White House, Washington, D.C., List of museums in Washington, D.C., a recent DYK, and Template:White House, which is used in dozens of articles relating to the White House Complex

Creator

wadester16

• Support as nominator --ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 01:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I have added the version featured at commons. Muhammad(talk) 07:50, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Support In my opinion, the left side of the original is unnecessarily obscured. Also, in the version from the commons, the White House itself is to small as compared to the rest of the photo to be used effectively in an article. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 21:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment How sure are you about "unnecessarily"? I actually have a picture of the WH taken in December and the leaves were still on those trees on either side of the portico, the view still obscured. I agree with your point about the Commons version, and also, it has to be used in the article. Fletcher (talk) 02:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
    • You're right. I had done quick search on Google and I thought I had come up with an image where the trees looked leafless, but I can't seem to find it now, so I must have been seeing things. In that case, I'm going to change my vote. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 14:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support I'll support this one; it's a pretty well used image, and after looking at the Commons gallery it seems like it could be difficult to get a recent photo without those trees blocking the view (perhaps that's intentional). Fletcher (talk) 03:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support per all the comments above. Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:57, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG --Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)