Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Golden Spike

Delist and Replace: Golden Spike

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Jul 2015 at 06:17:20 (UTC)

Delist The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. At center left, Samuel S. Montague, Central Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right).

High-res image. 4500+ px wide, restored.

Reason

Higher resolution version is available now, although its still below the 1500px mandate I am asking for a degree of consideration here, as this was a momentous historical moment for the U.S. which marked the completion of what had been up till that time the largest engineering project ever undertaken.

Articles this image appears in

There's like 40 articles that use one of these two images on the English Wikipedia alone, take a look at the images themselves to see where its used.

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/GoldenSpikev3.jpg

Nominator

TomStar81 (Talk)

• Delist — TomStar81 (Talk) 22:10, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
• Comment W*e can do much better. Have a look at http://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/1062118 and zoom in. Got a download copy of it (found a link) give me a couple days. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:34, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

• In that case I would definitely move to suspend the nomination pending restoration of the image. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:31, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

• Progress continues. Might be able to finish tonight. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:49, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

• Restoration done: Delist, replace with high-res. It's done! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:17, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• Delist and replace Now that's an impressive replacement for a worthy image! TomStar81 (Talk) 06:24, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• D&R — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:03, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• Delist and replace – Yann (talk) 11:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• Delist and replace This is a classic, glad we now have a hi-res version! – --Janke | Talk 17:48, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• D & R --Godot13 (talk) 19:13, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• Delist and replace (but can we have the sepia tones made black and white please? Don't pretend you don't love that, Mr Cuerden; you live for those requests; put that photobombing squirrel in the foreground too.) Belle (talk) 00:55, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Replaced with File:East and West Shaking hands at the laying of last rail Union Pacific Railroad - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:02, 11 July 2015 (UTC)