Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 23, 2016

Image

I suggest not to show the image of Handel old together with the sentence "youthful composer George Frideric Handel (pictured). I understand that we can't use the youthful image because it's not certain it shows Handel. We could

• rephrase the sentence
• show an image of the opera house instead, better the interior (which is not yet in the article, possibly for a similar reason).
• show the title page of the libretto of Almira which shows the style of the time even if you can't read it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
  • Pinging Chris. - Dank (push to talk) 08:52, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
    • We run images of people outside a certain period frequently. It is much better to run an image of an older Handel than it is to run one which we can't be sure is of him. Worse comes to worse, we can add "pictured at age xx" to the caption. Neither the opera house nor the libretto is particularly pertinent as an image to the subject at hand. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:56, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I think you misunderstood me. I am not against showing old Handel, but if we do we should not say "youthful composer George Frideric Handel (pictured), - as misleading. I made two suggestions for images that I feel are more relevant to the article, - it's not his biography, after all. Perhaps compare the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 16, 2016. But if you just change the wording, I will be happier. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:30, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Even though this is in part a question of wording, I'll sit this one out, since it largely involves the image. - Dank (push to talk) 13:10, 7 August 2016 (UTC)