Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890). Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man, famous for his 1876 victory over Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He also participated in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show (Photograph by D. F. Barry, 1885).

edit of the original archive file, see comment

Reason

Good scan of famous portrait of famous 19th century Sioux chief. (What a shame that we don't have a better scan of this even more famous photo of his Apache cotemporary).

Articles this image appears in

Sitting Bull, Sioux, List of people from South Dakota

Creator

D. F. Barry

• Support as nominator — Spikebrennan 02:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I also support the alternative image. Spikebrennan 19:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

• Weak Oppose great picture, but the caption needs some work. I would suggest using WP:CAPS as a guide. :) Z1720 06:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Conditional support Please improve the caption. However, the image itself is acceptable. I would also support some dust removal.--HereToHelp 14:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I looked at the nominated photo at 100% and saw artifacts from digital sharpening, and also saw extreme contrast. I decided to look at the original archived file and compare, and I believe the edits performed on the nominated image degrades the image quality. So I have uploaded my own edit. I have removed a few dust spots and made very, very minor adjustments to levels and sharpening. Also, I have left the original frame in because it is part of the history of the physical image (note the nom is cropped). -Andrew c ^[talk] 17:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support 2I really like Andrew c's change. I think that adding the frame adds something to the enc value and makes the whole image cooler. Zakolantern 17:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, in this case, the frame does actually improve the image. Maybe not the white outer edge though, which is not part of the subject... vlad§inger ^tlk 03:28, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

• Support 2, encyclopedic and acceptable quality. Also per Z1720 a better caption is required.--snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 00:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• See edited caption (which can be used on whichever version, if any, passes FP status). Spikebrennan 14:04, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support 2 Per above. ^8thstar 23:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Sitting Bull - edit2.jpg MER-C 03:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)