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OriginalWright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, 1905.
Alternate – a more balanced set. (withdrawn by nominator)
Reason
Image of well-known inventors.
Articles in which this image appears
Wright brothers, Wright brothers patent war, +3 others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
photographers: Orville and Wilbur Wright, [1], [2]
source: Library of Congress, [3]
restoration: Scewing, Bammesk
  • Support as nominatorand Support ALT. Bammesk (talk) 02:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question - Who was the original photographer for these works? Also, I think the photographer missed the focus in the Wilbur Wright image. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Per above, also, IMO, too different to form a set. --Janke | Talk 12:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply - Fixed attribution. Added an alternate set. Wilber Wright image is soft, but a better portrait is unlikely and the encyclopedic value is high. Excluding scientists and NASA crew, we have very few engineers. These two are prominent. Bammesk (talk) 01:22, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • With all due respect to Janke, looking at [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] softness is not a sufficient criteria for opposing historic images. Wilber image is in par with many others, when viewed at the same magnification. Even if it wasn't, softness is not an overriding criteria. As far as the two images being "too different to form a set", after rethinking it, this is an encyclopedia, not a magazine or a photo book. There is no editorial luxury here to redo historic images, so I am withdrawing the "alternate set". The two images are a set in as much as the two subjects are a set. As far as any display related issues, Template CSS image crop allays that. Bammesk (talk) 05:45, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:35, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]