Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dürer's Rhinoceros

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Jul 2014 at 13:05:43 (UTC)

Reason: Iconic image illustrating a Featured Article
Articles in which this image appears: Dürer's Rhinoceros
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
Creator: Albrecht Dürer, uploaded by Scewing

Support as nominator – Coat of Many Colours (talk) 13:05, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Conditional~~ support - This is a very nice scan, and I can accept the (horrid! monstrous! scandalous!) cutting of the border which happened sometime in this copy's past (clearly wasn't the uploader). However, owing to technical limitations (JPGs are sharpened when thumbnailed, PNGs aren't) I think that a JPG version of this file should be used and promoted. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, best category is probably Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others, as this has its EV from its use in an article on an artwork. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:25, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I'll go back to the original Christie's file and see what that does by way of cropping. I can upload a JPG, but is that allowed or should I be creating a new file? Perhaps you could let me know. Of course you're right about the category, and I changed that. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 13:32, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's not a digital crop. Take a look at the borders (at full size; the white edges are not visible at thumb); they aren't straight, as they would be with a digital crop. It's clear that the paper was cut by someone, at some point in time, but I doubt we'd ever find out. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:36, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's right. I've now downloaded a slightly higher resolution picture and saved it as a JPG. Let me know what to do with it. I think overwriting is safe? When you use these special scripts they give you a PNG file to begin with (and the original uploader only opted for the medium resolution vrsion for some reason). In fact I'll just go ahead and do it. Let me know if you want me to undo and do something else. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 13:44, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I can't overwrite a different file type. I'll do a fresh upload and link here accordingly (and relink the FA file, which should be OK since it's a better file). But I can't do this right now, perhaps this evening, because I like to write up a fair Commons description and it takes a while. I'll let you know when it's up. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 14:05, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm uploading now (saved with the least compression of course). Just moving veryyyyyyyyyyy slowly. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:23, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And done. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:29, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Thanks for that. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 18:33, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support: pity about its toenails being cropped out and AD's monogram being poorly printed/damaged. I looked at the Christies original. I doubt if we'll get a better image than this one. Amandajm (talk) 08:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose: I think that promoting such a bad crop is poor precedent. And it's not like it's a particularly high-resolution scan beyond that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:39, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's been cropped just inside the bottom border. None of the rhino itself has been lost. Compare British Museum image here. I do rather agree with you. It's a great pity it was cropped like that. I've added Christie's lot description to the Commons file describing the crop. The British Museum image unfortunately isn't available as an anonymous bequest image, not unless anyone here fancies fancies commissioning new photography, a snip at £60 (can't help sorry, planning on bringing home a Bacon tomorrow and may be a bit short for the month, prolly I'll have to sell Google or something).

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:06, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]