Wiki143:Featured picture candidates/Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

File:Darwin restored2.jpg

Original - Rotogravure portrait of Charles Darwin, c. 1880.

Reason

Yesterday an editor sent a friendly reminder that next month is the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. So it would be good to have a featured picture to run for the main page. Restored version of File:Darwin unrestored.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Charles Darwin, Rotogravure, Darwin from Insectivorous plants to Worms

Creator

Elliott & Fry

• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 00:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I don't suppose a good quality version of this portrait is available anywhere? It is the one I seem to associate with Darwin, and prefer in general. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
  • This was the best quality original I was able to locate. Unfortunately the British archives aren't as Internet-friendly as their American counterparts. Durova^Charge! 02:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. It does what a good portrait should, and in this restored version it's the best Darwin photo available on the internet from a technical and printability standpoint. (I've replaced an inferior version of the same photo in Elliott & Fry with this one.)--ragesoss (talk) 02:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support I agree with the above; it's good from technical and informational standards. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 14:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Unfortunately these Darwin photos are strangely hard to source. Certainly this is not my favourite either, in fact I probably prefer the one that failed this nomination a few months back, but support nonetheless. As I said then, we can delist and replace if we get a better one. --jjron (talk) 11:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
  • BTW, assuming this is promoted, I second fast-tracking it as POTD for 12 Feb, or alternatively it could be used for 24 November, the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species. --jjron (talk) 16:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support per above Noodle snacks (talk) 13:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support for its EV, despite being against his theories --Muhammad(talk) 16:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment LoL. --kallerna 22:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Nothing wrong with that...some of his theories were WAY out there (and got much less publicity).
• Support Spencer^T♦C 15:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support as a really nice portrait with a high quality that's not available on most of the portraits available to us, showing his eyes and expression well at a late stage in his life. . . dave souza, talk 21:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support His face has incredible character in this photograph. Pastor Theo (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Darwin restored2.jpg --Noodle snacks (talk) 06:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)