Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Toni Morrison

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Oct 2019 at 03:41:45 (UTC)

Original – Toni Morrison in 1998

Reason: Good portrait of Toni Morrison
Articles in which this image appears: Toni Morrison +4
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator: John Mathew Smith

Support as nominator – --- Coffeeandcrumbs 03:41, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - lacks detail, heavily compressed. MER-C 15:16, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I kind of prefer the original crop. This is awfully tight. What about File:Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye author portrait).jpg, though, which seems a very easy sell? Albeit one that might need a new scan. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7% of all FPs} 01:52, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I have reverted the color photo to the pre-crop version. The photo was cropped for ITN, a few weeks ago upon her death. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 18:17, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - I can Support it now. Though I really wish ITN wouldn't crop images for everyone just so they could not have to upload a new file for themselves. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7% of all FPs} 21:09, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support -- Poydoo (talk) 12:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I think the direct-flash lighting is unnecessarily unflattering. The Bluest Eye portrait Adam C suggests seems like a better choice to me. Or there are several much higher quality but unfree more-recent shots of her visible on a Google image search, if we could somehow acquire the rights to one of those. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:39, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per David. Geoffroi 22:52, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:14, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]