Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nell Mercer

Nell Mercer[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Jul 2019 at 07:13:36 (UTC)

Reason: A fine image of a fairly interesting suffragette, albeit one who really needs an article expansion. It's probably worth pointing out that fade-out at the bottom was a very 1910s-1920s style thing.
Articles in which this image appears: Nell Mercer
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Unknown, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 07:13, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice portrait. --Yann (talk) 10:54, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak~~ Support - doesn't technically meet the resolution criteria, but I'll look the other way. MER-C 11:21, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- You are right, though I don't think we're missing any actual detail. The film grain likely limits it enough that this is around the maximum actual resolution. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 11:45, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Good point. MER-C 14:04, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support – Resolution aside (it's a century-old photo), support for a face with character – but 'weak' due to blurring of bottom of frame, and because her target article is a stub. Good EV, tho. – Sca (talk) 14:01, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi 00:36, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support – weak article per Sca. Bammesk (talk) 01:27, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Resolution can be improved with a higher-quality scan of the original, I suppose, but this is sufficient. Per nominator, the blurring at the bottom is a feature, I suppose — as well as illustrating the subject of the portrait, this image illustrates a now-largely-forgotten aspect of artistic photography of the period. Nyttend (talk) 23:30, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I really like the picture, but I do wonder about the EV of a picture of her aged 16-7. Josh Milburn (talk) 12:52, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@J Milburn: Double checking the LoC, I see that 1910 should have been 1910s. Oops. That's kind of a big difference. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 13:58, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak support. That does make a difference! Josh Milburn (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 18:44, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Nell Mercer 1910-20.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]