Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Audubon's Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Delist and Replace: Audubon's Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Jul 2013 at 18:43:06 (UTC)

Reason: This image is an altered version of the original plate published in Audubon's Birds of America in 1827; while whoever enhanced the image did a good enough job, the original scan is of a far higher resolution, while the other does not meet the size criteria, and, even more significantly, the original scan has the original captioning, an integral part of the engraving, while the enhanced version does not. The initial and unaltered scan contains original caption information about the plate number, the name of the bird, and the specification of which bird is male and which is female, a problem that came up the last time this image was featured. This is not just another 19th-century lithograph of a bird, it is part of one of the most essential publications in the history of natural studies, and the original captioning is utterly essential to the value of the image. It is dishonest to remove it. This image is not only serving as a representation of the Ivory-bill (a role which it is indispensable in), but is also a record of one the most famous and expensive rare books in history; see: List of most expensive books. When this is replaced we will change the image in all the articles it is present in, and we can hopefully use this as a starting point to feature as a series the rest of the priceless prints from Audubon's Birds of America. See the gallery of all the images here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mturtle/The_Birds_of_America
Articles this image appears in: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, John James Audubon, List of most expensive books, The Birds of America
Previous nomination/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Ivory-Billed_Woodpecker
Nominator: Indefatigable2 (talk)

Delist and Replace — Indefatigable2 (talk) 18:43, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support D&R per stated reasons. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 22:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support Good reason for D&R on this one, however, I must insist that replacing the current because "it does not meet the size criteria" be removed as a valid reason for D&R to get any Support from me. When the criteria was changed, it was agreed that current FP's were exempt from the change. Dusty777 02:33, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I think it's a valid reason (or, at least, valid to mention) if you're simultaneously providing one that does meet the size criteria, provided quality is otherwise the same. Let's not get too caught up about the exact phrasing of something that simply amounts to "the replacement has significantly better resolution". Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:06, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:17, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:53, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough support for d&r of the image. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:53, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]