This is an image of American cricketer John Barton King. He is arguably the best cricketer in this country's history and his article is nearing the point of Featured Status (finishing up last Peer Review before FAC). The image is high resultion, but the photograph was a little on the old side. It is a unique picture of fairly good quality. With a couple edits for minor things, I think it could be a Featured Picture of a man that has been dead for more than 40 years (so there is no chance of getting any more pics out of him. This was taken during his prime in the early 1900s. Thanks so much.
- Nominate and support. - Eva bd 05:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Comments:
- Historical pictures are make very good FP's. if this is one of the only pictures of the man, I see no reason to not nominate it. -Fcb981 05:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comment. I'm fairly uninvolved in FPCs, so I'm not too sure about the requirements and things. This image can be found in various other places at low resolution, but The folks at the CC Morris Cricket Library just found the original in a book and get a high resolution image for me. I think this is as good as it's ever going to get and it's almost one hundred years old now. It's in pretty good shape with just a few dust spots and stuff.--Eva bd 15:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me. make sure you include that information in your nom if you put it up for FP (which you should do). good luck -Fcb981 15:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- You haven't put this version in the article, yet. That's an important first step before nominating the picture. Also, I think the different tones in the picture will kill it, as while this is a historic picture, it isn't a historic moment (it's the person, not this particular swing, that the picture is communicating). The damage on the other, lower quality scans looks to be different, as well, making me wonder if the different tones are not damage to the actual photograph, and if a better high resolution version could be found. Enuja 02:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- This has now been put up for consideration at FPC. You can find the subpage here. Thanks!--Eva bd 12:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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