Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rob Roy

Rob Roy

Original - Rob Roy in the Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, the frontispiece to an 1886 edition of Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy. Created by the Dalziel Brothers.

Not for voting - unrestored image, showing all the staining I had to carefully levels-adjust away in several hundred little selections (though perhaps not so much at thumbnail size).

Reason

A couple reasons. First, it's a great engraving for Sir Walter Scott's novel, which was unillustrated before. It also adds value to our page on the engravers, the Dalziel Brothers, who are highly notable, but lacked a really high-res illustration. Sir Walter Scott was probably the most popular and important novelist - in English at least - of the early 19th century, with the possible exception of Jane Austen, who didn't come anywhere near his popularity at the time, but grew on people.

Articles this image appears in

Rob Roy (novel), Dalziel Brothers, Glasgow Cathedral (the last is arguable EV, but there were no images of the interior in the article, so I thought, why not)

Creator

Dalziel Brothers

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support Good restoration and enc. in Bob Roy. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 20:50, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Durova^Charge! 03:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose All I can see is the back of a few heads and the silhouette of the preacher. It really doesn't tell me anything about the characters or novel much. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support: I think this is an excellent illustration, and it gives a sense of the adventure in Scott's novel. Kudos to Adam for his restoration. Maedin\^talk 07:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per Noodle snacks. Lycaon (talk) 23:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

No consensus MER-C 03:55, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Back to the FPC page, needs further discussion -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

• Since it's been reopened, allow me to explain the scene: This happens about 2/3rds of the way through the book, which is full of intrigue and conspiracy. We see Francis Osbaldistone in 3/4, but, as can be guessed from the quote, Francis will not actually meet Rob Roy for a while yet, so showing his face would make this a much poorer illustration of the scene. This scene captures the mood of the book up until the last third very well, and shows a pivotal scene, which leads to several of the subplots being wrapped up, and sends Francis, after an exciting scene at the jail, fleeing to the highlands to meet up with the rebels. I fail to see an accurate drawing of an important scene in the book as unencyclopedic. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:25, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Mind you, not that I expect it has the slightest chance of a fair run after the circus that this page was turned into. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment - Relisting this picture was a mild and civilized way of dealing with a gross closing mistake. After this agressive striking action, the question is: shall we continue with the poll or just promote the picture, as it should have been done before? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:55, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
• Stop the presses. Invalid strikethroughs performed without permission or notification. Prejudicial and tainted relisting with thorough disregard for reviewers and established procedure. Durova^Charge! 20:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Striking objection; thank you for the restorations. Durova^Charge! 23:07, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per Noodle Snacks. --jjron (talk) 03:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per Noodle Snacks. Makeemlighter (talk) 06:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per Makeemligher per Jjron per Lycaon per Noodle snacks. wadester16 | Talk→ 01:07, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

• Support per nom. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 13:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I withdraw the nomination - I suspect the reactions to the relisting are pretty much knee-jerk, as I said, I doubted it had any chance of a fair shake after what this nom went through. Archiving.