Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Fabian Ware/archive1

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Sir Fabian Ware (17 June 1869 – 28 April 1949) was a British journalist and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He travelled to the Transvaal Colony where he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later he became editor of The Morning Post. He expanded the paper but was forced to retire in 1911. When the First World War started, Ware was appointed commander of a mobile ambulance unit and began marking and recording the graves of those killed. In 1916, the Department of Graves Registration and Enquiries was created with Ware at its head. On 21 May 1917 the IWGC was founded; Ware served as its vice-chairman. He ended the war as a major-general, having been mentioned in despatches twice. Post-war, Ware was heavily involved in the IWGC's function. When the Second World War broke out, he continued to serve as vice-chairman of the IWGC and was re-appointed director-general of Graves Registration and Enquiries. (Full article...)

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Hi Eddie891 and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:01, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Gog, and thanks for writing this up. I’ll take a good look at it when I get back from work tonight, just a quick note that the image you use is not in the article and likely not verifiably pd- the article uses a fair use version. With that said, I’m now honing in on a portrait of him, that might be usable in this context. In fact I plan to upload it later tonight. I’ll keep you in the loop. Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:18, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Gog the Mild, here are our options (as captioned by the wonderful Andrew Featherston, my new pen-pal over the past few months and head archivist of the CWGC. Let me know what you think is the best here and if it will fork in this context, and I can add it to our article as well. Unfortunately, I don't think any has enough detail to replace the fair use image completely... Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:54, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

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  Terlincthun The Queen at the Graves - Ware is standing next to the Queen
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  Forceville - Ware is directly behind King George V
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  Louvencourt - Ware is walking next to King George V
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  Ypres Town Cemetery - Ware is on extreme left of photo, looking at the camera

The only one which shows Ware clearly is that with the Queen. IMO, for the small image at TFA we need to crop in. Do you like either of these?

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Gog the Mild (talk) 11:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Gog the Mild, for TFA I'd prefer crop 2 because it's less tall, but I really don't know much more than that. Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:23, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Eddie891, Looks good to me. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)