Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Katherine Johnson, 1983

Katherine Johnson edit

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Original – Katherine Johnson, mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were vital to the success of NASA's early crewed spacecraft flights, including the Apollo program.

Reason: Quite a nice image, immaculately preserved - I added this to my queue, then took it off because I couldn't find a speck. Lead image of the article on her.
Articles in which this image appears: Katherine Johnson + 4 or so
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 21:17, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – we have a FP of her, hands on at work at: File:Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966.jpg thanks to you Adam. Why have a second one? Bammesk (talk) 00:45, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- They show different things and have different purposes. Why encourage mediocrity in the Second image? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 01:17, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Support, there is enough of a difference in the depictions, and the EV and the historic subject matter helps as well in this case. Bammesk (talk) 16:42, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Seems to check all the boxes. Love those glasses! Kaldari (talk) 17:52, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - It almost seems like she's ready to say something, love that expression and gaze. Shearonink (talk) 17:14, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Andrei (talk) 18:59, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Katherine Johnson 1983.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:18, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]