Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wernher von Braun
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![](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wernher_von_Braun.jpg/250px-Wernher_von_Braun.jpg)
![](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Wernher_von_Braun_1960.jpg/152px-Wernher_von_Braun_1960.jpg)
![](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg/220px-S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg)
- Reason
- This is an illustrative portrait from May 1964 of an immensely important 20th century scientist. The models behind him are of the Saturn rockets.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Wernher von Braun, Jack Parsons (rocket engineer), Space Race
- FP category for this image
- People/Science and engineering
- Creator
- NASA
- Support as nominator – JJARichardson (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment — Focus not very sharp and colors have that faded Polaroid look. I suspect there are better likenesses of von Braun available, such as the apparently official portrait (albeit B&W), below right. Sca (talk) 21:56, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment I belive in 1960 colour photos were quite rare. Hafspajen (talk) 22:16, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose - Highlights are blown. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:23, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment I have added 'Alternative' to the other portrait for those who prefer it. JJARichardson (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Support alt.— It's a big enough file and at least it clearly shows a face with character. (Both photos dated 1960.) Sca (talk) 15:25, 12 January 2015 (UTC)- Oppose alt: There is something terribly off about that photo. There's a halo around him; I think it may be the historical equivalent of photoshopped. I'd far rather have some authentically-blown highlights from a period when such was considered a bit artistic. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:41, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support alt. Alborzagros (talk) 10:26, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose alt This is obviously fake and looks very strange. Perhaps useful to illustrate early retouching, but as a portrait not acceptable to me. --DXR (talk) 12:44, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment — To be honest, I don't really like either one.
Sca (talk) 18:57, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: I have added a third option which is featured on the Commons. JJARichardson (talk) 20:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- The third option is already featured here! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose first two but Support the third - The first picture has an annoying halo and the second picture is aesthetically displeasing. The third is the best of them, since it shows von Braun's chief accomplishment - rockets -DUCK404 a (talk) 04:46, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose all I can't support scientist-as-hero type photos of someone who was involved in some of the very worst aspects of the Nazi slave labour program (of which Wernher von Braun#Slave labor only scratches the surface): they fundamentally violate NPOV. Nick-D (talk) 10:27, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)