Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Planet Stories cover, 1940

Planet Stories cover, 1940

Voting period ends on 3 Nov 2024 at 20:57:30 (UTC)

Original – The cover of the Autumn 1940 issue of Planet Stories, a pulp magazine that ran from 1939 to 1955

Reason: No single cover can fully encapsulate pulp magazines, but this one has a lot of good stuff: A spaceman with a jetpack and a raygun carrying an improbably dressed woman, while in the background some kind of futuristic machine explodes. The scan quality is good, and captures the halftone printing dots, which are functionally the resolution limit of the source image. I did a light crop to remove a white line on the right side, but I don't want to get too crop-happy, since this is a time-worn physical object and has somewhat uneven edges because of it.
Articles in which this image appears: Pulp magazine, Ray Cummings, later added: Planet Stories
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations
Creator: Albert Drake, whose signature in the lower left corner unfortunately has the Fiction House roundel printed squarely over the top of it

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 20:57, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – EV? – Sca (talk) 12:55, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely agree that EV could be an issue. We have numerous FAs on pulp magazines, to use one that doesn't have an article to represent the genre would be problematic. Having an article on Planet Stories would ameliorate that concern. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:15, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Oops, we have an FA on Planet Stories. It would definitely do better here if were in that article. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:51, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will support if it's in the Planet Stories article. Has higher resolution than other images in that article. Bammesk (talk) 20:09, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Chris Woodrich, Bammesk - I've added it to Planet Stories. Moonreach (talk) 16:41, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - Unfortunately not stable. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I saw. I'll leave a message with that editor and see if there's another place in the article it can go. Moonreach (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I talked it over with them and put it in a different spot on the page that they suggested. I don't know if the article will prove stable or not, but it's back in for now, and it is stable on the other pages. Moonreach (talk) 19:37, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Alright, I see that Mike Christie and yourself discussed it at his talk page. Always happy to see consensus building. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I think that, with a consensus to keep the image in the article, the stability criterion should be fulfilled. Just as a note, my concern was not that an item should not represent its class; rather, I think that class representation would best be done by a work that is discussed in detail by an article on the class. In this case, Planet Stories was one of a list of publications from the peak of the genre's popularity, as opposed to (say) The Popular Magazine, which is discussed in detail. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 00:32, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Quite OK, but the resolution is just good enough. I also see one scratch which should be corrected (see the note on Commons). Surprisingly, this version seems not to be indexed on Tineye. Yann (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 16:52, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]