Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bart King

Reason: This is an image of American cricketer John Barton King. He is arguably the best cricketer in this country's history and his article is nearing the point of Featured Status (finishing up last Peer Review before FAC). The image is high resolution, but the photograph was a little on the old side. Mr Hensley found the previously lost photograph in a book at the CC Morris Library and scanned it for me to add to Wikipedia. It is a unique picture of fairly good quality. This was taken during King's prime around the turn of the last century. Fcb981 seconded my proposal at a peer review and provided a cleaned-up edit of the image.
Articles this image appears in: Bart King and History of United States cricket
Creator: This image was scanned at the CC Morris Cricket Library by Paul Hensley and e-mailed to me for the purpose of uploading to Wikipedia.

Support as nominator — Eva ^bd 21:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This picture should be further cleaned up (if it has already been cleaned up). Particularily the big white defect in the lower left and the scratches in the top left. -Midnight Rider 23:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The cleaned-up edit can be found here. The points you raise have been addressed by Fcb981.--Eva ^bd 01:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Bart King was a great player and is very interesting and unusual in being one of the few major American cricketers. As so many Wikipedians may be unaware of the role the USA played in early cricket I think this would be an excellent choice. Eva has done a huge amount of excellent work on this topic and this deserves recognition as well. Nick mallory 02:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What has any of this to do with the picture? ~ trialsanderrors 19:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice story about the rare find, but the quality of the scan is still very poor. Also, what's with the discolorization? Oddly enough in the edit half the picture turns brown while the other half stays black-and-white. ~ trialsanderrors 19:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Another poor scan of a quality image, ~~looks like it was photographed behind glass~~ Just checked, and it wasn't scanned at all, but photographed, so the white corner is a reflection in glass. Really pushing the 'historical relevance' mitigation a bit too far, I think. mikaul^talk 23:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I can see where this is headed. I'll go back to the CC Morris Library and see if I can get a proper scan of the image. In the meantime, can I close this candidacy somehow? Thank you all for your valuable input.--Eva ^bd 00:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose What's up with the funky colorization? Also, there must be a better scan somewhere. Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 19:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]