Commons:Valued image candidates/Karlsruhe Hofapotheke.jpg

Karlsruhe Hofapotheke.jpg

**declined**
Image
Nominated by	Ikar.us (talk) on 2010-09-07 00:22 (UTC)
Scope	Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Court Pharmacy building in Karlsruhe, Germany
Used in	Global usage
Reason	A well-known and well-preserved Art Nouveau building by Hermann Billing. -- Ikar.us (talk)
Review (criteria)	Comment I miss the ground floor with the pharmacy. Why is it cut off? Llez (talk) 05:34, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Because I don't own a sufficient wide-angle lens. --Ikar.us (talk) 09:13, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Try taking several picture and merge them into a panorama. If necessary, help is always at hand :-). Lycaon (talk) 13:35, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Thank you, but the facades have a pronounced 3D structure. I can't imagine how a stitched image could look natural. --Ikar.us (talk) 23:50, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Shop-windows, pedestrians and parked bicycles aren't very relevant anyway. I took the image because in Works of Hermann Billing an art nouveau building was requested. --Ikar.us (talk) 09:44, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Question Why did you chose "Court pharmacy" as scope, if the ground floor with the Court Pharmacy is cut off? Wouldn't be "Buildings of Hermann Billing, Kaiserstr. 201 in Karlsruhe" or something like that better? --Llez (talk) 12:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] The building is known by its name. You may argue that the name should be in German then. The court pharmacy isn't in the ground floor, it's in history. There's no court since 1918. The pharmacist who rents the shop today has just kept the historic name. And the pharmacy does and did extend to the first floor. The low intermediate storey behind the arch windows is the place where the drugs were being made and are stored today. What I really miss are the ornaments on the right side. I hope for a sunny sunday morning... --Ikar.us (talk) 12:57, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Hm, the golden cross is on this side, and should really be visible. --Ikar.us (talk) 17:04, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Oppose Ikar.us himself has expressed some reservations regarding criterion 3. Moreover, I would say that a building is really worth its own scope if it is rather well-known by itself. This one hasn't an article on its own on any Wikipedia, unless I'm wrong (of course it isn't an absolute proof, but a WP article can help to attest the notoriety of a building). This one is simply listed in the de:WP and fr:WP articles about Hermann Billing. As said in a previous review, a set about the different styles of works by Hermann Billing could be interesting. For a single VI, if the scope was "Works of Hermann Billing", the chosen building should be Jugendstil preferably, but also quite notable, shouldn't it? --Myrabella (talk) 20:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] And it should be preserved, what excludes the Baischstraße portal. [1] claims that Hofapotheke is the best-known building by him. --Ikar.us (talk) 21:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] In that case, it would be worth a WP article like de:Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and de:Kunsthalle Mannheim, two other works of Billing. A question: is it possible nowadays to take a photo like the picture with the caption "zeitgenössische Fotografie" in the page you've quoted? --Myrabella (talk) 21:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Like Image:Karlsruhe Hofapotheke ganz.jpg? I discarded it because the view angle on the facades is so flat that no details can be seen. [2] even managed to have sun on both facades - must have been near midsummer, with the morning sun in the north-east. He still has a shadow on the left and the tree on the right. --Ikar.us (talk) 22:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Info It'slisted since 2009-04 in de:Bedeutende Bauwerke des Jugendstils. --Ikar.us (talk) 23:41, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Thanks for the brand new article in de:WP :-) Your second image shows better that it is an "angle building", with different ornaments and windows on the facades, IMO. --Myrabella (talk) 23:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply] Scores: 1. Karlsruhe Hofapotheke.jpg: -1 <-- 2. Karlsruhe Hofapotheke ganz.jpg: +1 => File:Karlsruhe Hofapotheke.jpg: Declined. <-- File:Karlsruhe Hofapotheke ganz.jpg: Promoted. --Ikar.us (talk) 01:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]