Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Your Motherland Will Never Forget

Your Motherland Will Never Forget edit

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Original – "Your Motherland Will Never Forget" by Joseph Simpson, from Canada in Khaki

Reason: A fine example of WWI Canadian patriotic art from an otherwise unrepresented artist
Articles in which this image appears: Joseph Simpson (artist), Canada in Khaki
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/WWI
Creator: Joseph Simpson, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:49, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:54, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thought of nominating this myself, at that time rotationally restored. Brandmeister^talk 09:15, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:34, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - There are scans of etchings around ([1][2]) that I feel would have greater EV for the artist than a relatively poor quality print, and the magazine I feel is well (and better) served by H. Piffard - The Thin Red Line limiting EV in that regard. While the quality of the restoration is admirable the size of the original scan is fairly marginal and the quality of the image is not very clear (again comparing with H. Piffard - The Thin Red Line). - Wolftick (talk) 17:48, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In some ways, I like this one better than The Thin Red Line, but aesthetics are a personal call. This may have to do with the difficulty in getting happy with the restorations - The Thin Red Line felt more difficult, and took a lot of experimentation to get the colours right, because the scan was tinted fairly strongly (as such things go) towards yellow. This one felt like a smoother birth. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, a rather nice depiction of the Canadian Red Ensign, though the shield looks a little odd compared to our Wikipedia depictions; but then, it's pre-standardization. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:46, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I felt The Thin Red Line had good EV for Remembrance poppy, an additional aspect this lacks. Also the digital compression artefacts especially in the background (thanks to the BL for that. 761kB for a 5.4MP file... Really...) are pretty obvious and bothersome to me, although your mileage may vary. - Wolftick (talk) 18:01, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Wolftick: I'd mind that more if it wasn't a halftone image, with pretty much no possibility of getting the original. EVERY copy of this will have a little graininess. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]