Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence

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Original – The signed copy of the Declaration. Now badly faded, because of poor preserving practices in the 19th century, is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Reason

We already have as a featured picture the facsimile version, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Us_declaration_independence.jpg however, I felt it would be prudent to feature this high resolution scan of the actual document as well, provided by the National Archives. Perhaps we could place them together in a two-picture set.

Articles in which this image appears

Historical document, Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and religion, United States Declaration of Independence

FP category for this image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/USA_History

Creator

Scanned by the National Archives

• Support as nominator --Indefatigable2 (talk) 15:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• Holy mother of... support - Wow. Just... wow. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Happy Suppourth of July. By the way, previous nomination is here. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 09:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support May be faded an illegible, but the sheer EV of this document is much too great to not support. Dusty777 16:32, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose We already have a featured version (File:Us declaration independence.jpg). --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:09, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: That FP is not a scan of the original, but is the version most used in WP. We should D&R. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Disagree on D&R. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 12:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

• Rethinking after reading Tomer's comments below. They do show different things. I removed my oppose vote. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 14:05, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose really hard to read anything, as opposed to the current FP. Tomer T (talk) 19:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

• Except, you know, this is the actual document as opposed to a facsimile version. That makes it have much more EV. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:41, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

• Well, I disagree. Seeing the texture of the document is really negligible to me compared with the ability to read the original handwriting. But actually, they both have high EV - of different kinds (this one shows the texture, current FP shows the handwriting). So I removed the oppose vote, and I disagree that only one pictrue should be featured. Tomer T (talk) 10:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

• Support For original historical documents, yay! — raekyt 22:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:USA declaration independence.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)