Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Carta Marina

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[edit] Carta Marina

Reason

Stitching on this is very poor.

Nominator

Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs)

• Delist — Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: Not sure who to notify on this one, so I put a note on the image talk page [1] Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 18:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
• "The map is divided in 3×3 sheets with the dimension 55x40 cm (height×width), each made from a separate woodcut block. The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus himself into the Italian and German language. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map." - in other words, that's pretty much representative of the reality. Adam Cuerden ^talk 01:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

If you look at the bottom of the image, the border between the first and second blocks shows a blue background on the first block and none on the second block. This suggests that the lining up of images does not represent reality, and brings up concern that the blue background in the middle of the image also doesn't have to show. Enuja (talk) 02:20, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

You may well be right. Though that a University would do such a bad job as this version implies if it was avoidable is frankly a little shocking. Could we contact them and ask about it? Adam Cuerden ^talk 16:26, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I went to the website, which has each panel separated, each of which has an extra margin, and tried a stitch of my own on the first two panels. The new stitch is completely consistent with the actual printed work but you can see there are no (non-original) alignment errors now (though probably could match the colors better). Doing the full image this way will require 12 such stitches, many of which will be more complicated than this simple AB stitch, and I don't think I will have the time to re-do the entire map. But it does show that the stitching really could be improved from the images of the individual panels given on the website. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 17:10, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. If they were initially split apart then the stitch doesn't have to be perfect, or even good. This could be FP with a half inch gap between the pieces. --ffroth 20:17, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep- top enc. This was unanimously supported just a year ago. Note that the coloring of the ice in panels 8 and 9 don't match - brown in 8, blue in 9. Could do wit some lightening/contrast boost, though. --Janke | Talk 21:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Kept MER-C 04:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)