Oppose. It's a lovely photograph, but are there really no extant telephone boxes that don't have obvious graffiti etched into their windows? (Perhaps one could argue that graffiti is a real and representative part of the urban environment, but could we at least choose an image where the graffiti doesn't obstruct our view of the telephone itself?) As a minor niggle, the reflection of the shrub in the lower left makes it appear that there is a hedge inside the booth (or perhaps, misleadingly, that the rear wall of the booth is windowed). One wonders if there isn't a better subject available at, for instance,
File:Red Public Phone Boxes - Covent Garden, London, England - July 10, 2012 .JPG or
File:K6 Goathland.JPG.
TenOfAllTrades(
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02:52, 26 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Weak support - apologies if you're British, TenOfAllTrades, but the answer to is "are there really no extant telephone boxes that don't have obvious graffiti etched into their windows? " is almost certainly "no". There aren't many traditional red boxes left and they attract vandalism more than moths. There are niggles but none to my mind incompatible with FP. Grandiose(
me,
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contribs) 13:23, 27 August 2013 (UTC)reply
On the graffiti point, the question was somewhat rhetorical—both of the images I linked to in my comment appear to contain one or more graffiti-free boxes: the three background boxes in the Covent Garden image, and the sole box in the Goathland image. These are not difficult locations to access, and I found these boxes just by looking at a couple of the other images from our
red telephone box article. Poking around the web a bit, one finds images like
this one. (Again, it has the 'distracting reflection' niggle, but it's clean). Or
this one. Or pehaps
this one. Photos of telephone boxes aren't like photos of wildlife; we aren't confined to rare instances and fleeting sightings. We can and should expect the highest quality, and we can afford to be picky.
TenOfAllTrades(
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14:01, 27 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Support It's a very nice image. I particularly like the background. The vandalism is unfortunate, but not a deal breaker in my opinion. If a better image is found at some point, it can replace this one.
Rreagan007 (
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03:25, 2 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose - Easy to shoot a better example of this. It's not difficult to do so and although they do attract vandalism, it certainly isn't impossible to find one that is clean.
JFitch(talk)00:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC)reply