Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sulfur extraction

Sulfur extraction

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Original – Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

Reason: high quality image with EV
Articles in which this image appears: sulfur
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: John Vachon for the US government, restored by Yann

Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 23:17, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, high quality, VERY high resolution, excellent restoration work by Yann. — Cirt (talk) 00:28, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Question It says nearly exhausted, but the sulphur seems to stretch as far as the eye can see, if the colours are correct. So there seems to be a mismatch here - if the caption can state that it's nearly exhausted, this should be visible in the picture. Samsara 09:22, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Samsara: I thought it means "extracted" here, like exhaust. Can any expert explain? Regards, Yann (talk) 09:59, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - The caption mentions the vat as being nearly exhausted. Maybe it's referring to the container part of the machinery? --Paul_012 (talk) 16:14, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 12:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – It's important to note that this photo was taken in 1943. While technically first-class for that period, it inevitably is shy on detail. Further, I can't see the EV unless it was being used to illustrate the history of sulfur (preferred spelling) extraction – but it doesn't appear in the article's sketchy history section. (That appears to be a steam shovel or steam-powered dragline in the distance – something that hasn't been used for 60 to 70 years.) Sca (talk) 16:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Sca: I don't really understand why you oppose, and more importantly, what you propose to improve its EV. Regards, Yann (talk) 20:42, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Yann, but I have no ideas re improving its EV. My point was that the relevance of this 72-year-old photo would be mainly to the history of sulfur mining, which is not how it's used in the target article (in which I added the date to the caption). Sca (talk) 21:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:35, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think the colors are too wrong: too yellowish? --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:48, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think so. I imported a new version with a better white balance, but it doesn't change the yellow color. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:55, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]