Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rep. Francis B. Spinola

Rep. Francis B. Spinola[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Jun 2014 at 21:15:28 (UTC)

Reason: High quality, high EV. The article originally had a very small and poor quality version of this nominated engraved portrait by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In addition to serving in the United States House of Representatives, Spinola also held local district, city, and state elected positions, and was commissioned as an officer in a New York Army regiment during the Civil War. Appointed brigadier general of Volunteers, he recruited the Spinola brigade.
Articles in which this image appears: Francis B. Spinola, Spinola brigade
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political (or possibly military)
Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Restoration by Godot13

Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 21:15, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but Preemptively oppose the inevitable attempt to crop the caption. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Adam, you can throw your weight around all you like, but I think it's pretty obvious to anyone who looks at the article that the current crop is not appropriate. Yes, the original publication included the caption. Some photos also contain watermarks or in-image credits- in most cases, for our purposes, it's going to be best to remove them. This image gains its EV from being a portrait, not from being an example in the article Portraits with captions or Engravings of US politicians. J Milburn (talk) 23:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Perhaps the image should be a portrait in the body of the article and not the infobox? Respectfully, it doesn't really make sense to crop out part of the BEP's work to fit into a smaller box. Some BEP engraved portraits do not have name captions, perhaps they are more suitable (though often quite difficult to identify without supporting notes/references). I'm not sure the cropping has any effect on EV (other than to potentially reduce it since the image is no longer a faithful representation of the original). Or, perhaps there needs to be a never-ending list article of BEP engravings of US politicians (though it would be somewhat boring...) Just my thoughts.--Godot13 (talk) 23:34, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Attractive image and a good scan. Prefer not cropping. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - on a second glance it is a good picture. Hafspajen (talk) 00:27, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per others. J e e 10:02, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:SPINOLA, Francis B (BEP engraved portrait).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]