Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/JFK motorcade
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[edit] JFK motorcade
- Reason
- Only free image found so far that depicts the motorcade moments prior to the JFK assassination. I feel that the encyclopedic value of this photograph far outweighs any concerns over its artistic merit or technical quality. Originally uploaded to the commons as Image:John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas.jpg. The original archival scan is now available at Image:John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas.png or in .tiff format at [1]. Current image processing software employed in MediaWiki prohibits posting a thumbnail of the original scan as it exceeds 12.5 megapixels. The crop is just a preliminary suggestion, I'd love to see some FPC regulars take a crack at cleaning up the scan.
- Articles this image appears in
- John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy assassination, several others
- Creator
- Copyright by Victor Hugo King. Mr. King has since placed the photograph in the public domain.LOC record
- Support as nominator --ˉˉanetode╦╩ 06:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Neutral Taken from a unique vantage point to all others I have seen of Kennedy's motorcade through Dallas. The quality of the original is quite poor though understandable for an image from that era. Capital photographer (talk) 06:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose After the Brandeis portrait, this is rather poorly restored. I'm willing to pardon composition and detail but the dust, speckles, etc. are inexcusable given the excellent restoration abilities of some Wikipedians.--HereToHelp (talk to me) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- I am not that confident in my restoration abilities :) I apologize as this nomination now appears to be a bit premature, since the cropped scan exhibits a number of fixable blemishes. I'd appreciate it if Durova, or any other FPC regular, take some time to see what could be done to improve the quality of this photo. Perhaps in the meantime it is best to move this nomination to a more appropriate forum, like WP:GL or WP:PPR. Nonetheless, I believe that this photo is a substantial asset of our free content community. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 08:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- Comment Although this image is about half as old as the Brandeis image, technical and circumstantial factors are quite different. The Brandeis image is a formal portrait taken under studio conditions, and that had extensive damage that took roughly 20 hours to restore. This is a snapshot taken on the day of President Kennedy's assassination, and the photographer has released it to the public domain. On a technical level these two images are not very comparable. I might be able to do something with the image file (no promises), but really suggest weighing the special historical nature of this photograph. Better portraits of Kennedy may be available, but would they carry such meaning? DurovaCharge! 07:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- Fair enough, but this image is still inferior to what it (not some other picture) could be. I will gladly revise my vote if a well-restored version is presented, and I won't judge how well is "well-restored" based on Brandeis.--HereToHelp (talk to me) 17:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- Temporarily withdrawn pending request at Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Images_to_improve#JFK_motorcade ˉˉanetode╦╩ 08:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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- Comment Please don't simply remove a nom from the FPC page. In a case like this where holding off for a bit might produce a better picture, the nomination can be moved to the suspended list. Removing the nom from the FPC page completely is just asking for it to go missing. Also, I was giving the cleanup a go myself and then thought I was going nuts when I couldn't find the nomination anywhere (here or on PPR, I wasn't 100% sure where I saw it). Matt Deres (talk) 14:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
