Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/John Philip Sousa

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Apr 2011 at 03:41:36 (UTC)

 
Original - John Philip Sousa was an American composer famous for his marching music
Reason
High Ev as lead image. It is has been restored very good
Articles in which this image appears
John Philip Sousa, Music of Washington, D.C., List of Sinfonians
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment?
Creator
E. Chickering
  • Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 03:41, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The 'restoration' has removed some type of studs from his hat and replaced them with 'bulletholes'. I'm 50/50 about the removal of the author's sig & date at the bottom, but removing those studs is definitely both a negative and a no-no. Could possibly do with some further scratch removal too. --jjron (talk) 12:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I consider this an irresponsible retouching, and I'm tempted to revert it--an edit this major should be in a new file, not uploaded over the existing file. As jjron says, the studs have simply been removed, and I can't imagine why. Also, instead of repairing the background, the editor has simply blurred the whole thing, which creates a bokeh-style look that is not appropriate for the period. I see no particular reason to remove the signature. Chick Bowen 21:15, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I've restored the original file and have uploaded the edit separately. I've changed the nominated image name so that it links to the edit. Maedin\talk 19:20, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --J Milburn (talk) 10:59, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]