Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ford Strikers Riot

Ford Strikers Riot

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Original – Members of the United Auto Workers beat a "strike breaker" during a picket-line protest at the Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Reason: 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Articles in which this image appears: Ford Strikers Riot, Pulitzer Prize for Photography, 1942 Pulitzer Prize, Milton Brooks, etc.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Milton Brooks

Support as nominator I found a copy large enough for FPC. Quality is so-so, but this is a Pulitzer Prize winner. – Yann (talk) 23:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:31, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I cleaned more scratches and spots. Yann (talk) 14:23, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is a bit JPEG-artifacty. A lot of the blurriness is from that Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:14, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Conditional~~ Support, ~~once the original crop is restored~~ – It's an action shot, with expected motion blur, and it's a historic photo. I suspect a higher quality scan wouldn't be much different, so it's a 'Support' for me. Good lead image in the riot article, and it's a Pulitzer winner. Bammesk (talk) 02:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yann: your last upload on March 31 needs to be fixed. On the center of the image, on the back of the man being hit, there is a long horizontal 'cloned trace'. The previous uploads don't have that. Bammesk (talk) 01:38, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OOPS. Fixed. Thanks for noticing. Yann (talk) 19:24, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yann: I think the uncropped version is much better. The crop just made the composition more busy. Also, it's the uncropped version that won the Pulitzer, so we shouldn't change it. Bammesk (talk) 15:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I changed my vote to conditional support. I am open to cropping historic photos, but I don't think we should change the composition (the crop) of an award winning photograph. Bammesk (talk) 00:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bammesk: I think it is the opposite. I followed Toohool with this crop (3rd version), who said as upload summary: "re-cropped to the portion that was printed in 1941 - cropped portions could still be under copyright". And my crop is actually a few pixels larger, avoiding cutting the man at left. Yann (talk) 07:25, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yann, Ok thanks. I changed to full support. Bammesk (talk) 01:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Tells the story fairly well, but question whether it meets Criterion No. 3, even tho it's 1942. Wartime strikes presumably were widely covered. (Perhaps Ford Strikers Riot should be the first target?) – Sca (talk) 14:20, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Bammesk. (I do however see what looks to me like a fairly obvious scratch on the extended right arm of the young man at left. It's not too conspicuous, but as usual with these things, once you see it you can't unsee it.) Choliamb (talk) 13:40, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, done. Yann (talk) 16:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 23:53, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ford Strikers Riot.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]