Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thomas Jefferson Signature

Thomas Jefferson Signature

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Original – Thomas Jefferson’s signature on a check, twice, both as payee and payor. Jefferson wrote this check to himself during the last month of his two-term presidency. Cut-cancelled twice, not affecting the signatures.

Reason: Good EV, high quality example of Thomas Jefferson’s signature on a check.
Articles in which this image appears: Thomas Jefferson
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: (Image by Godot13)
From the National Numismatic Collection, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution.

Support as nominator --Godot13 (talk) 15:51, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Might also be useful in Cheque if a good place can be found for it. — raeky t 04:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion, it has been added.--Godot13 (talk) 04:18, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Why did he write a cheque to himself? Nick-D (talk) 11:07, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ask him? lol — raeky t 12:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - In the days before ATMs, this was one method of withdrawing cash from your bank account.--Godot13 (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Or to transfer money from one bank account to another. J Kadavoor J e e 16:02, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - That, or he was emptying the white house coffers before leaving office :p --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:06, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:06, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support :) J Kadavoor J e e 05:12, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice. Not sure I like its random placement on the TJ article, but it almost works better in the cheque article. I'm always a little weirded out at seeing handwriting from centuries past. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:14, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The placement was not entirely random: based on a Commons discussion, I wanted to display Jefferson's autographed signature underneath the infobox placement of the subject's facsimile signature. Thanks for the support. --Godot13 (talk) 04:53, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If someone could help (fix) the link in my comment above I would be grateful...--Godot13 (talk) 05:06, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. You have to put "commons" twice: once to get to the project, and once to get to the commons namespace on the project. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 10:57, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated.--Godot13 (talk) 18:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I find that it offers absolutely no EV to the Thomas Jefferson article, which already has a clean sig in the infobox, and in fact would advocate removing it as unnecessary. As to its usage in the article on checks, I see it as being a gallery piece, as it's stacked up in a column with other period checks, and is only on top because it's oldest. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:20, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful Oppose The historical value of the check is way higher then the EV... I mean, it's not like it was a unique aspect to Thomas J. only, and the article does already have a copy of his signature. Dusty777 01:55, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I have to agree with the above, the EV is pretty low. Rreagan007 (talk) 03:18, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:34, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

5/3 King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:34, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]