Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/H.M.S. Pinafore (2)

H.M.S. Pinafore

Original - H.M.S. Pinafore was the fourth collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, and proved spectacularly successful on both sides of the Atlantic. However, American copyright law of the time did not respect British copyright, and most of the productions in America - probably including the one here advertised - were unauthorised and gave no income to the creators. In order to attempt to gain American copyright on their next opera, The Pirates of Penzance, the entire company was taken to New York City in order to stage its official première.

Reason

Easily the best illustration we have for H.M.S. Pinafore, the current WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan featured article drive. There are no other featured images of H.M.S. Pinafore. Improved & restored. The somewhat less restored image is an FP on commons, where they hate engravings, so I figure it has a good chance here. =)

Articles this image appears in

H.M.S. Pinafore

Creator

A.S. Seer's

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
• Question aren't images preferred not to be in png? Would there be any way of converting this to jpeg? Clegs (talk) 21:42, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Why on earth would we want to change from a lossless medium to a lossy one? Anyway, JPG only really works for photographs. I find for engravings it messes things up. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
    • It's a matter of convinience. When you go to jpeg, you normally trade a marginal amount of detail for a significantly smaller file size, and low-compression jpeg artifacts are practically invisible in textures, which is why the format lends itself to photographs. For pictures like this, which are detailed, but not really textured, jpeg artifacts are more easily visible and the difference in file sizes is smaller, so PNG is better. But for something like this, which is well textured, jpeg might be an alternative to a 7MB download. Thegreenj 21:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I think PNG should be fine for this type of image. Kaldari (talk) 23:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Intothewoods29 (talk) 23:05, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Per my reasons in the previous nomination. NauticaShades 13:30, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support A fine restoration. A discussion over formats really ought to be segregated from consideration of whether this should be featured. Durova^Charge! 02:43, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:HMSPinafore2.png MER-C 09:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)