Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Nov 2015 at 09:37:55 (UTC)

**Original** – A photograph of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at age 40.

Reason: Here's one of those famous portrait images that ends up being reproduced over the years; the person in question is one, Nikola Tesla, whom I have the utmost respect and admiration for. This particular photograph has been used in various mediums for quotes from the scientist or for images of Tesla and his inventions. While this is not at the minimum size for FPC I'd ask for a degree of leniency here as Tesla is dead and we can't reproduce the photo without him. I've searched and found larger images on Google, but none just of him like this. Having said that, if someone finds a larger image like this one as an alt then I'd be all for support that one.
Articles in which this image appears: History of electromagnetic theory Invention of radio Nikola Tesla Serbia Serbian American Serbs There, Far Away War of Currents Yugoslav American
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: Unknown, sadly

Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 09:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Seems to be a scan from a book rather than an original, but, in any case, the sourcing strikes me as inadequate for FP purposes. Josh Milburn (talk) 11:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @J Milburn: for the sake of clarification, may I assume that by sourcing you mean the person who actually took the photo and the date, or were you referring to something else? Sourcing I may be able to figure out, but if its technical in nature then it would be beyond my capability to address. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:44, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes- original photographer/publication would be valuable, but, in addition, as this is a scan from a book (correct me if I'm wrong) it'd be good to identify the book. I think my oppose would stand, though. I've certainly got no objection to featuring a version of this photo in principle, but this version is not FP-worthy. (There also seems to be a moderate amount of undocumented modification.) Josh Milburn (talk) 11:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Small, scanning and/or compression artifacts, way too contrasty. --Janke | Talk 15:51, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It seems frequently FPCs below minimum size are asked to be accepted because they cannot be reproduced due to the subject of the photo being dead or no longer existing. In fact it is the digitisation of the original photo that is being put forward, not the photo itself. As long as the original still exists I see no reason low resolution should be accepted any more than it would be in a scan of a painting for example. Wolftick (talk) 16:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per others. Too little contrast at hair. --Tremonist (talk) 15:30, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
[1] is pretty good. Would need a restoration, but it avoids the contrast issues. More staged of a pose, but..... Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:20, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I think a variant of that one is already featured at Commons, but I'm too lazy to check. Josh Milburn (talk) 13:46, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per others – Jobas (talk) 23:55, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:38, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]