Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Winston Churchill

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[edit] Winston Churchill

Reason
A historic, unique and public domain photograph of Sir Winston Churchill.
Proposed caption
Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can). (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings.
Articles this image appears in
Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Military history of Egypt during World War II, Bow tie, Prime Ministers of Queen Elizabeth II, List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Leaders of the Conservative Party, Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon etc.
Creator
J. Russell & Sons
  • Support as nominator Chris.B • talk 16:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Oppose - Focus seems a little soft. Kaldari 17:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Not the best technically, but given that this is a portrait of an important historical figure, I'd say its good enough given that it can't be reproduced --Hadseys (talk • contribs) 20:21, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Great historical picture SRauz 22:12, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Support per nom--Mbz1 23:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak oppose sorry - just not sharp enough for me. de Bivort 04:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Very blurry, even in thumbnail. Come on, there must have been literally thousands of good images taken of Churchill, there has to be better quality available than this. --jjron 07:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Oppose I'm sure a better shot of him can be found for a FP. --Sharkface217 22:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Just too blurry for such a photographed figure --ffroth 03:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment He may have been photographed a myriad of times, but finding a PD photo of him isn't as easy as it sounds. -- Chris.B • talk 14:44, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Exactly, look at Princess Diana, most photographed woman ever, and we don't have a featured picture of her, though we should have --Hadseys (talk • contribs) 07:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment "Needing" an FP of someone is not an excuse to promote an inferior image; the image is either good enough or it isn't. Matt Deres 04:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
      • But images depicting historical and unique events may be exempt from some quality concerns. -- Chris.B • talk 07:24, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose grainy H92110 18:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose Quality is too poor - historic value doesn't give it entire immunity IMO --Fir0002 08:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 08:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)