Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph

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Original – Chief Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) of the Nez Perce in 1903

Reason: A high-quality photogravure which I think has vastly improved his page.
Articles in which this image appears: Chief Joseph (and a few it was just addded to)
FP category for this image: Given the Nez Perce War, probably Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military? Could also argue for political or nobility.
Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis, restored by Adam Cuerden. Yes, I'm on one of my deep dives.

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 11:20, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Detailed capture of Chief Joseph, probably showing his features better than some other period pics, such as this one (featured in Battle of the Clearwater). Now leads target bio infobox. A hero to Native Americans. – Sca (talk) 14:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aye. Think the 1874 pic has some justification for the events in 1874. The old lead image, though, was a photograph of a drawing - or at minimum, a photo so extremely retouched by Victorians to be indistinguishable from one^[1] - which is surely the worst possibility Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 18:08, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Book: Merril Beal: I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War (1963). – Sca (talk) 15:13, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 19:09, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 09:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca, MER-C, Yann, and Charlesjsharp: Made a few additional fixes to the light spot in the upper left: It varies between copies of this, and the copy from the Smithsonian is on the most visible side. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 17:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:35, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Moonreach (talk) 19:24, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I would side with Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political; Joseph led his people for decades before and after the war. blameless 03:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair point. Political, then. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 13:51, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ That's apparently a thing. Something about reproducing photos of photos of photos and adding details back in. More common with daguerrotypes, where there isn't an easy way to reproduce them.

[1] That's apparently a thing. Something about reproducing photos of photos of photos and adding details back in. More common with daguerrotypes, where there isn't an easy way to reproduce them.

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