Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Wounded Knee aftermath3.jpg

Wounded Knee Massacre aftermath

Reason: Nominating for delisting and replacement with a new final edit. Good news regarding this image: after the Library of Congress confirmed the discovery of human remains in the foreground (from last year's restoration) the Montréal Museum of Fine Art incorporated the update into official program notes for an exhibit about historic photography.
Articles this image appears in: Wounded Knee Massacre
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wounded Knee aftermath
Nominator: Durova⁴¹²

Delist and replace — Durova⁴¹² 23:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and replace. The replacement shows more detail. --Avenue (talk) 03:52, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Where? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - See caption notes for the proposed replacement. Durova⁴¹² 22:33, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Yes, I read those, and I can identify no tangible improvement from one version to the next. I don't get any more detail on the bodies, the dark vertical band is spurious, and frankly, the snow is not the subject of the picture. The main impression I'm left with is that your proposed replacement has a grey cast, and the grain in the sky has been brought out = made worse. My personal opinion is that this is a lost cause - dark bodies on dark background, and if you think about it for a moment, this circumstance has actually become part of the history of the picture. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:35, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually this restoration rediscovered those bodies: the Library of Congress staff hadn't been aware there were human remains in the photograph. This restoration caused them to update their records, and afterward the find was incorporated into the official program notes for an exhibit of historic photography at the Montréal Museum of Fine Art. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-16/News and notes and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-07/News and notes. Durova⁴¹² 15:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and replace — GerardM (talk) 05:55, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and replace. A simple procedural change. Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:53, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delist and replace --George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:03, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced with File:Wounded Knee aftermath5.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]