Oppose. This may be a valuable and unique image (and the child in me is telling me that it's an AWESOME image), but it is very small and low quality. This is the sort of image that the
valued pictures project should have been recognising, but wasn't. I strongly suspect that a larger version of the image does or could exist- this particular version looks to have been scanned from a book or something, rather than reproduced from original prints. Larger versions have been dug up in the past- a small reproduction of an aged photograph was replaced with a far larger version after the small version was delisted (see
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bison Skull Pile). However, if this genuinely is the largest possible image, I'm still not certain I'm convinced- the quality is just too low, short of extremely mitigating circumstances (if, for instance, historians knew of the project only because of this photo, or something). I'd also want to see far stronger sourcing information- who originally took this? When? Was it published? The current source link is dead, and so that provides no information, even if you can read Slovakian.
J Milburn (
talk)
19:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. This may be a valuable and unique image (and the child in me is telling me that it's an AWESOME image), but it is very small and low quality. This is the sort of image that the
valued pictures project should have been recognising, but wasn't. I strongly suspect that a larger version of the image does or could exist- this particular version looks to have been scanned from a book or something, rather than reproduced from original prints. Larger versions have been dug up in the past- a small reproduction of an aged photograph was replaced with a far larger version after the small version was delisted (see
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bison Skull Pile). However, if this genuinely is the largest possible image, I'm still not certain I'm convinced- the quality is just too low, short of extremely mitigating circumstances (if, for instance, historians knew of the project only because of this photo, or something). I'd also want to see far stronger sourcing information- who originally took this? When? Was it published? The current source link is dead, and so that provides no information, even if you can read Slovakian.
J Milburn (
talk)
19:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)reply