Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Percygraingercrop.jpg

Percy Grainger

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Apr 2023 at 00:36:39 (UTC)

Original – Grainger, c. 1915 to 1920

Reason

Just restored this, it's used on a number of important articles (including Grainger himself). Hope to get it to FP!

Articles in which this image appears

Percy Grainger, British folk revival, Smile (The Beach Boys album), Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away, Colonial Song

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Uploaded by Calliopejen1

• Support as nominator – MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 00:36, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

I like the image a lot, but I can't help but think that the original crop is better. More personality to it. (Ideally, we'd want the original tiff on Commons as well, but that's a documentation issue.) Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 02:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

• I don't think we should crop archive images. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:29, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

  Restoring the original (from a cracked glass negative) would be quite a chore, but doable... Anyone? Janke | Talk 11:58, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

  • @Janke, Charlesjsharp, and Adam Cuerden: Here's a hypothetical that cuts the writing on the border and some of the negative space in the image, still showing the rest of his body. I could try this one if you like it, but I'll have to renominate it in when I finish it. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 20:08, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

    I'd rather have his legs. It's a compelling pose, in my opinion. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600^th FP!} 22:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

• Like Adam, I prefer the uncropped version. I could live with MyCat's compromise crop, but I can't support the head shot. Any crop that cuts out the copy of Finck's Grieg and His Music that Grainger is holding in this portrait is, for me at least, a non-starter. The book is not just a decoration; it's there for a reason. Choliamb (talk) 01:01, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

  After communicating with Adam via talk page, we've arranged that he will fix the major crack and unalignment and then pass it to me to finish the tiny details. I'm closing this nomination since it's a different file. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:29, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:09, 20 April 2023 (UTC)