Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mounted samurai

Samurai archer on horseback

Original - A mounted samurai with bow and arrows.

Alt 1 - Reduced red-tint, less contrast on paper

Reason: An illustration (c. 1878) of a samurai archer on horseback.
Articles this image appears in: Yabusame
Creator: Unknown

Support as nominator --Xavexgoem (talk) 03:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Who's the author? I can't vote on something that I can't give credit to. Zoo Fari 03:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually plenty of featured pictures have unknown/anonymous authorship. Author attribution is not an FPC requirement. Durova^Charge! 03:46, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question What is it depicting? A warrior from an earlier (i.e. not 19th century) time? Or someone taking part in sport archery? Narayanese (talk) 07:29, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- This was made after the Meiji Restoration. It's unlikely that this is a drawing of an "actual" samurai, or a recollection of what they used to look like. Likely, this is an illustration of an intentionally anachronistic samurai in an event. So probably more sporty than samurai-y (per se) Xavexgoem (talk) 21:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - That makes me doubt it fits at the current place in the article, which is a section about sport/ritual. The section "The decline and revival of the bow" seems like a better place. Narayanese (talk) 14:14, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Just to pile on... has the contrast and/or saturation been boosted here? It also seems a little on the pink side to me. mikaul^talk 11:35, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Alt 1 fixed the red-tint; the picture was fairly saturated to begin with; Alt 1 also fixes the overly saturated paper. Xavexgoem (talk) 21:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support GerardM (talk) 08:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but I would like to hear an answers to above questions also. M.K. (talk) 15:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not sure why Xavexgoem hasn't answered by now, but as his coach on this restoration a few comments may be appropriate. To the best of my knowledge neither the contrast nor the saturation was boosted. In fact, the saturation was selectively reduced on the background paper. This needs an upload of the unrestored version for comparison. Authorship was uncredited in the original bibliographic notes and needs to be noted as unknown in the upload. Regarding the depiction, this was created shortly after the Meiji restoration during a transitional period in Japanese history. Durova^Charge! 16:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Request suspension - there are a few kinks to work out, yet. And this is my first FPC nom, so I'm not entirely familiar with the entire process, so a lot of things are missing. Xavexgoem (talk) 07:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)Relist Xavexgoem (talk) 21:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, strongly prefer original: colours seem dull in the alternative Nice work. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:20, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sasata (talk) 06:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Without additional info about the period this samurai is supposed to be dressed as, etc (see concerns above), I don't think the EV is there. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support edit EV seems a little tentative (one article)so weak support, and prefer non-pink backgoround.Terri G (talk) 13:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Needs further input as to which version and enc. MER-C 02:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for the same reason as Calliopejen1. Narayanese (talk) 04:26, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not enough info on this image to give it EV for FP status. ~ ωαdεstεr16_{♣kiss me}^{i'm Irish♣} 03:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 07:21, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]