Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:First colored senator and reps.jpg
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- Reason
- It shows an interesting part of U.S. History that has been all but forgotten.
- Articles in which this image appears
- African Americans in the United States Congress
- List of African-American Republicans
- History of the United States Republican Party
- List of African-American officeholders during the Reconstruction
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/USA_History seems the best target.
- Creator
- Currier and Ives, restoration Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:13, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- Support Very historic, it's in good detail for
pencila lithograph, I don't mind featuring this nor putting my name on it. ---Saw1998 (talk) 14:30, 28 November 2012 (UTC)- Technically, it's a lithograph. Lithographs create shading by a semi-random process of etching stone with acid: the longer acid is on the stone, the more and deeper pits form. When you're done etching it, the pits hold ink, which can be transferred to paper. The efffect does look a little like pencil sketching, but pencil sketching gets that look from paper grain, whereas lithographs come down to the grain of the rock. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:23, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- My mistake. ---Saw1998 (talk) 00:13, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Technically, it's a lithograph. Lithographs create shading by a semi-random process of etching stone with acid: the longer acid is on the stone, the more and deeper pits form. When you're done etching it, the pits hold ink, which can be transferred to paper. The efffect does look a little like pencil sketching, but pencil sketching gets that look from paper grain, whereas lithographs come down to the grain of the rock. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:23, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- Conditional Support So long as the license on File:First colored senator and reps.png matches the license on this image (i.e. getting rid of the share-alike clause), and and probably a PNG of this restoration version (looks like paper was whitened more) is uploaded over the linked image and proper links in the images to indicate the PNG->JPEG versions. Coming out of retirement? — raekyt 05:36, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Somewhat. Anyway, the PNG is fixed. Well, insofar as it can be fixed when Wikipedia can make TIFF support from scratch, but can't make the most popular lossless format work for large sizes, despite apparently having had working fixes for some time. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:24, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Question - why have you retitled this for the nomination? Yomanganitalk 00:52, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- There's Senates outside of the United States. While it's obvious in context that it's referring to the United States, for FPC, it's helpful to internationalise it a little, to give context.Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:04, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- If that's what you were after, the subtitle makes it clear. Using the British English spelling of "colour" isn't appropriate for this image. Yomanganitalk 01:17, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'm British. It's how I spell things. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- If that's what you were after, the subtitle makes it clear. Using the British English spelling of "colour" isn't appropriate for this image. Yomanganitalk 01:17, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- There's Senates outside of the United States. While it's obvious in context that it's referring to the United States, for FPC, it's helpful to internationalise it a little, to give context.Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:04, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- Support: clear EV, seems as good a representation as any. Why the fuss over the name of the nomination? It's just to give an idea of the subject matter. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 20:17, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
- Support Tomer T (talk) 10:11, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- Support Very good EV. Cat-fivetc ---- 05:36, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Promoted File:First Colored Senator and Representatives.jpg --Julia\talk 19:09, 8 December 2012 (UTC)