The high-quality image (5,464 × 3,640 pixels) passed a
Commons Featured Picture vote 13 to 1. It also has high encyclopedic value in relation to one of the most famous tornadoes in the last decade. A reverse image search shows the image is used by various media outlets and even
Penn State University. One media outlet used the image two years after the tornado (
[1]), proving the high-encyclopedic value of it.
Being used two years later by a RS I think means it is not ephemeral. I respect your opinion and !vote, but I think it lacks any backing. The image is used on four pages, including the town’s article which was leveled by the tornado & the article featured on Wikipedia’s ITN. You aren’t required to reply at all, but I would love to hear some additional backing for why you consider a photograph with 2-year usage from an event to be a short-lived news photograph and why usage on the four articles does not give it much EV? The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)19:25, 10 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Urban weather damage, at least in developed countries, is nearly always ephemeral. Are you saying that this section of Mayfield still looks like this? (BTW, this user is a former Ky. resident.) --
Sca (
talk)
14:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply
So your argument is based on whether the town still looks like it instead of something like whether it has a
lasting historical impact? This ain’t notability for an article, but it seems weird that your reasoning is ignoring lasting historical usage and going with more or less “eh, developed nation had damage, just a media cycle” style of reasoning. The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)14:19, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose – I think it's too visually noisy to read well at the size featured pictures are displayed. Granted, this is a photograph of something that's inherently messy, but the destruction is so complete that I can't really reconstruct the tornado's path. The only intact structures are far away in the background.
Moonreach (
talk)
15:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply
The high-quality image (5,464 × 3,640 pixels) passed a
Commons Featured Picture vote 13 to 1. It also has high encyclopedic value in relation to one of the most famous tornadoes in the last decade. A reverse image search shows the image is used by various media outlets and even
Penn State University. One media outlet used the image two years after the tornado (
[1]), proving the high-encyclopedic value of it.
Being used two years later by a RS I think means it is not ephemeral. I respect your opinion and !vote, but I think it lacks any backing. The image is used on four pages, including the town’s article which was leveled by the tornado & the article featured on Wikipedia’s ITN. You aren’t required to reply at all, but I would love to hear some additional backing for why you consider a photograph with 2-year usage from an event to be a short-lived news photograph and why usage on the four articles does not give it much EV? The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)19:25, 10 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Urban weather damage, at least in developed countries, is nearly always ephemeral. Are you saying that this section of Mayfield still looks like this? (BTW, this user is a former Ky. resident.) --
Sca (
talk)
14:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply
So your argument is based on whether the town still looks like it instead of something like whether it has a
lasting historical impact? This ain’t notability for an article, but it seems weird that your reasoning is ignoring lasting historical usage and going with more or less “eh, developed nation had damage, just a media cycle” style of reasoning. The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)14:19, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose – I think it's too visually noisy to read well at the size featured pictures are displayed. Granted, this is a photograph of something that's inherently messy, but the destruction is so complete that I can't really reconstruct the tornado's path. The only intact structures are far away in the background.
Moonreach (
talk)
15:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)reply