Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson (2009)[edit]

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Original – "Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks as host of the Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Monday, July 20, 2009 in Washington."
Reason
A high resolution portrait which shows the subject in his element as an educator.
Articles in which this image appears
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physicist
FP category for this image
People/science and engineering
Creator
Bill Ingalls
  • Support as nominator --JJARichardson (talk) 17:47, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Sure! This is a good photo, and he's certainly been moving up there into the ranks of the most prominent scientist-educators of late. When you're taking on Sagan's old role, you've proven yourself. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:53, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Is there a photo of him not gesturing? His hand is bothering me a bit.--Theparties (talk) 05:00, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose There's nothing remarkable about this photo and to make matters worse, this person isn't even important in his department of studies according to the wikiprojects that are interested in him. Khazar (talk) 23:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:53, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]