Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/US Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps.jpg

US Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Mar 2014 at 11:45:28 (UTC)

Reason: Great encyclopedic value. It will encourage readers to read the article, to read the fight against racism by this little girl...

The picture is below resolution requirement but thumbnail looks good, and full resolution is not so bad considering the time when it was taken.

Articles in which this image appears: Ruby Bridges, William Frantz Elementary School
FP category for this image: People
Creator: Uncredited DOJ photographer

Support as nominator --Godhulii 1985 (talk) 11:45, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This is way, way under the resolution requirement, and we haven't yet taken the steps that might justify waving it, like, for example, someone in America contacting the Marshalls, and trying, informally and/or through Freedom of Information Act request, to get a higher resolution copy. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:22, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Response Valid point Adam, there is no proof that no other higher resolution exist and there are ways to ask for higher resolution. Since I'm not familiar with american laws, so do not know how to ask for higher resolution. Should I delete this nomination? Thanks. Godhulii 1985 (talk) 20:34, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Even if we did get a larger version, I am not of the opinion that its historic value trumps that it just isn't a particularly well composed or compelling photograph. File:Wallace at University of Alabama edit2.jpg, which is already an FP, is a much better image of forced school desegregation, because the tension of situation is actually conveyed in the photograph. That photograph also is, from a compositional standpoint, suboptimal, but is much more compelling than this one. Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ Wha? 19:38, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Response Hi sven, we have several featured pic of neuschwanstein castle (and there'll be more in upcoming days), so it's my opinion that several photos from same theme can be judged. To me this pic is more compelling than that because here I see a little girl fighting instead of a grown up politician who is trying to win his white voter's heart. Godhulii 1985 (talk) 20:34, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - My core argument is "this is not a well composed image", not "we can only have one image of school desegregation". I mentioned the other one as an example of a picture that was visually compelling enough that the FP voters overlooked its compositional issues. Maybe if we got a higher resolution version, and could get a proper view of her face, it would be more compelling, but I am not willing to read into the body language as much as Crisco 1492 does below (because I don't want to impose my own preconceptions into the situation). As is, I oppose the current image. Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ Wha? 05:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - fair enough sven Godhulii 1985 (talk) 19:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on resolution only. Although in terms of composition this is not a very good photograph, let's not forget that there is power at seeing the age of the children being protested. Bridges was six years old at the time, perhaps not realizing just how much of an impact walking up and down those steps would have, seeing a bunch of supposedly rational people protesting their heads off, getting threatened by poison... although her expression is not clear at this resolution (at least not to me), her body language is expressing this fear... yet also the determination. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks ("She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her.") J e e 12:28, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Higher resolution images of this event exist - Wikipedia just doesn't have it. Find a free copy of the higher res image and then let's talk. smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 16:31, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Searched reverse-image-search in google images, couldn't find any. Help? Godhulii 1985 (talk) 19:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Much too small. Not every valuable picture is featurable, just as not every article on a worthy topic would pass at FAC today. J Milburn (talk) 17:30, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose very low resolution. A better one must exist, somewhere. Mattximus (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:45, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]