Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:1 Wild Turkey.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Apr 2015 at 09:15:08 (UTC)

Reason: Beautiful Audubon colour engraving of the world's most fabulous fowl. Oh, that haughty posture—makes me hungry!
Articles in which this image appears: John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Turkey (bird)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: John James Audubon

Support as nominator – Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 09:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gorgeous... but is it just me, or are the margins a bit tight? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:04, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was done purposely to provide maximal turkey. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 11:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps, but I doubt the original engraving had the lower land right up to the margins. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the top left-hand corner there is some text that looks like it should say "No 1", but most of the "N" is chopped off. 109.153.225.26 (talk) 14:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Print techniques can differ from edition to edition, depending on how they use the paper and the plate. However the rest is 7,787 × 11,601 pixels and magnifique. Hafspajen (talk) 15:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt that what we see is the true left edge of the print. Possibly the print has been cut out of a book, and the "No. 1" text disappeared into the spine. The left-hand edge is odd. At first it looks ragged, and I thought it was the actual cut edge, but looking more closely it seems to have been cropped in a series of slightly stepped exact straight lines, as if done in multiple stages in an image editor for some reason. I'm not saying it's a big deal; it's just puzzling. 109.152.147.122 (talk) 18:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am now officially announcing a big secret: the World is a Mystery- Hafspajen (talk) 18:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - most of the engraving's he made are tight in the The Birds of America. Hafspajen (talk) 11:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - That is one impressive and personable turkey. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 12:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Amazing! - National Names 2000 (talk) 12:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Really nice image. ^{Last fall I saw two wild turkeys walk side-by-side down a sidewalk in town, right near me. They were about four feet tall, and they just ignored me and kept walking.} - CorinneSD (talk) 19:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The source file for this image has a damaged left margin which was cropped off leaving no margin at all on the bottom left with slivers missing in two places. The "restoration" has left visible areas of off-color cloning as well. Is this image rare enough to overlook these problem?--Godot13 (talk) 08:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Godot's findings. That should be fixable by revisiting the source image. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:18, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Agreed. We can do better than this. It's also poorly documented - no uploading of the original scan, for example. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:49, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is definitely worth. Yes, Godot13 Crisco 1492 - Adam Cuerden - the image is an extremly high qualty drawing - and is rare enough to be worth the energy put into, it is the very first image in the utterly notable book The Birds of America, an illustration made of the utterly notable artist John James Audubon, one of his finest images. I imagine Curly Turkey wouldn't have anything against sharing the nomination with anyne who puts the energy into that restoration ... (category should probably be illustration, though). Hafspajen (talk) 19:49, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose ...in its current state. Hafs, I agree with you about the EV/importance of the image. Sadly (I suspect) we are looking at (source image) the end result of what happened when someone decided to break up one of the books without taking proper care. Instead of taking the book apart at the binding, they may have cut out the plates. If the left margin can be properly restored (along with some light cleaning of more prominent spots), I will support it.--Godot13 (talk) 21:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Adam said he can try. Later. But if they are taken from a book, than it can be difficult to get a good scan. Maybe suspend? Hafspajen (talk) 23:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

' Comment' - Here is the original. I think that under the circumstances I do understand why it was uploaded like it was uploaded. The N you were remarking about is gone on the original, it is damaged and not visible. But the rest is fine. Sometimes I sincerely have difficulties understanding this kind of perfectionism. Hafspajen (talk) 23:58, 28 March 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Because we actually have people who can fix thaat much better than this is? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:18, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with Adam on this. A missing part of a letter is fixable. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the paper is missing too... that the letter was on. Hafspajen (talk) 02:07, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:17, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is only a 62.5% support for promotion, which isn't enough for the image to become featured. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:17, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]