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Jeannette Pickering Rankin

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Original – Jeannette Pickering Rankin
Reason
A very high-quality image, with loads of detail, of literally the first American congresswoman. Before the 19th amendment passed. She literally said that she wished to be remembered as the only woman who voted for women's suffrage.
Articles in which this image appears
Jeannette Rankin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Bain News Service, restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 20:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Pretty decent for 1917. Did you consider a tighter crop, or is the environment important to the overall theme? Sca (talk) 14:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Sca: I mean, you could crop at the top... but only width really matters on Wikipedia.... you could crop it in towards her on the sides, but you'd lose her legs and knees, or make her uncentred... I think, if we're not using it in galleries or lists, this is a nice, natural-looking crop, and it would be less so if it were tighter. And it's a rather nice, relaxed pose, which you tend not to get so much at the time. And if we're talking about reuse off Wikipedia, the wider focus makes it a lot easier to crop to fit arbitrary dimensions in a layout. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 15:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You're the restoration artist. My brutal journalist's instinct would be to get rid of some of the indistinct jumble at the top, but ... either/or. I do appreciate these historic portraits of women and 'others' – ha! Sca (talk) 15:39, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Other thing to consider is that we have {{css image crop}} - or whatever it is - so we can make arbitrary crops anyway. Admittedly, the top bit had text notes on it before this, so it's probably not as meaningful. But then, File:Jeannette_Rankin_LCCN2014704010.tif - an alternate photograph of the same pose exists, so... who knows, really? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 15:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca: Honestly, it was a realisation about mid-2016: I looked at my featured pictures, and noticed how overwhelmingly white and male they were, and, well... you know. It's in my power to do something about that. And if it means my list is heavily biased to women and people of colour for a while, I'm fine with that. Hell, given I was on wikibreak for most of 2017 and 2018, I've barely started. For comparison, for the 48 FPs of 2015, I had five women, and two people of colour. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 17:21, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I find portraits of certain Native Americans captivating. Faces of character. (Recommended reading: I Will Fight No More Forever, the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.) – Sca (talk) 18:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jeannette Rankin, Bain News Service, facing front.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:45, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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