Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Reinel compass rose.svg

Compass rose of Pedro Reinel

Original - replica of the wind-rose in Pedro Reinel's nautical chart of c. 1504 (see here). It is the first known to clearly depict the fleur-de-lys. The practise was adopted in other nautical charts and survived till today

Reason

high quality depiction of an historical wind-rose, adding significant value to the articles

Articles this image appears in

Pedro Reinel, Compass rose, Fleur-de-lis

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:31, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose No real wow factor and IMO a close up photo of the rose in the chart would have been more valuable as an illustration. Furthermore this svg doesn't seem particularly true to the original (in particular the fleur-de-lys is quite different at the base). --Abdominator (talk) 03:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose agree with above. A close up of the actual rose would be better. --Leivick (talk) 20:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose - It is possible to that SVGifying too far, and this is one such case, I fear, though I must compliment Alvesgaspar on the high-quality of his SVG. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:51, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 08:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)