Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Darwin
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- Reason
- Okay. First of all, a version of this with lower pixel size, but far more detail exists: File:Charles Darwin by Elliott & Fry, 1874.png. It's restored well, but the Library of Congress version is degraded, and that's... basically a fundamental obstacle.
- It's also questionably dated: Harvard says 1874, this says c. 1880. This is kind of a problem when one of the big draws of it was having a date nearer certain books' publication. It was put in Rotogravure as an example. There's no source for it being a rotogravure. It has contrast issues: His face and hair blend into the background, and that's not really an issue in the original. I think we can have multiple FPs of Darwin. Having a frontal portrait, an early portrait - there's many valuable options. However, they need to be the best copy of the image we have at the minimum, and that's not what we have now.
- Articles this image appears in
- None, though that's my doing.
- Previous nomination/s
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Darwin
- Nominator
- Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP!
- Delist — Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 08:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Delist Charlesjsharp (talk) 20:48, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
- Delist — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:02, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
- Delist --Janke | Talk 17:40, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Delisted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
- While the discussion is bellow qourum, this unused image can't retain its featured picture status and is delisted. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC)