Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Darwin
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- Reason
- Yesterday an editor sent a friendly reminder that next month is the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. So it would be good to have a featured picture to run for the main page. Restored version of File:Darwin unrestored.jpg.
- Articles this image appears in
- Charles Darwin, Rotogravure, Darwin from Insectivorous plants to Worms
- Creator
- Elliott & Fry
- Support as nominator --DurovaCharge! 00:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment I don't suppose a good quality version of this portrait is available anywhere? It is the one I seem to associate with Darwin, and prefer in general. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
- This was the best quality original I was able to locate. Unfortunately the British archives aren't as Internet-friendly as their American counterparts. DurovaCharge! 02:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support. It does what a good portrait should, and in this restored version it's the best Darwin photo available on the internet from a technical and printability standpoint. (I've replaced an inferior version of the same photo in Elliott & Fry with this one.)--ragesoss (talk) 02:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support I agree with the above; it's good from technical and informational standards. Sophus Bie (talk) 14:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support. Unfortunately these Darwin photos are strangely hard to source. Certainly this is not my favourite either, in fact I probably prefer the one that failed this nomination a few months back, but support nonetheless. As I said then, we can delist and replace if we get a better one. --jjron (talk) 11:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- BTW, assuming this is promoted, I second fast-tracking it as POTD for 12 Feb, or alternatively it could be used for 24 November, the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species. --jjron (talk) 16:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support per above Noodle snacks (talk) 13:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support for its EV, despite being against his theories --Muhammad(talk) 16:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment LoL. --kallerna 22:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Nothing wrong with that...some of his theories were WAY out there (and got much less publicity).
- Comment LoL. --kallerna 22:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support SpencerT♦C 15:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support as a really nice portrait with a high quality that's not available on most of the portraits available to us, showing his eyes and expression well at a late stage in his life. . . dave souza, talk 21:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
- Support His face has incredible character in this photograph. Pastor Theo (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Promoted Image:Darwin restored2.jpg --Noodle snacks (talk) 06:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)