Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandow

A New Sandow Pose (VIII)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2015 at 05:45:11 (UTC)

Original – Eugen Sandow, as published in Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture.

Reason

Is saying "I found it hilarious, then did research and found out it's actually rather important" acceptable? Eugen Sandow founded the bodybuilding movement, and, to quote the BBC: "Ladies would pay a surcharge to attend private viewings backstage, where they were encouraged to fondle his muscles. But it is also believed he had a gay following. Rumours circulated that he was a bisexual philanderer, but shortly after his death his widow and daughters started a huge bonfire, burning anything that related to his personal life." And I'll just link this without comment: [1]

That said, none of this makes me find this any less hilarious.

Articles in which this image appears

Eugen Sandow

FP category for this image

If bodybuilding's a sport, even before it was competitive, Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Sport. Otherwise Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Others

Creator

D. Bernard & Co, Melbourne; restoration by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - gosh, Adam. That was a joke. Anyway, support. Hafspajen (talk) 05:51, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support --  - T H - ^{the fury of nature} _{given flesh} 08:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - About time we had some topless men. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

• ^{Try Tarzan ....File:Poster - Tarzan the Fearless 01.jpg - File:Tarzan of the Apes 1918.JPG smiley Hafspajen (talk) 12:50, 17 February 2015 (UTC)}

• Sadly, too many JPG artefacts. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Think about perhaps moving it up in the article (to the bottom of the early life section), it seems a bit randomly placed at the bottom.--Godot13 (talk) 09:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I put it next to the list of his publications as a sample; I wouldn't object to moving it, but I like the current mix of images. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:"A New Sandow Pose (VIII)", Eugen Sandow Wellcome L0035270 - restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:30, 27 February 2015 (UTC)