Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Reason

One could argue some things about composition, but this is probably the best known image of her, to the point of being used as the book cover of her recent biography. I think that says something. There's also... maybe five to six images of her that exist, most much worse. That's the trouble with scientists whose achievements are only recognised later. Also, going back to that book cover: I did a better restoration than they did. (No offense intended, but you can see scratches and other damage clearly if you zoom in on the cover; damage I fixed.).

Articles in which this image appears

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator –
  FPs. 02:25, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply
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• Support – very nice nom and restoration. Bammesk (talk) 03:55, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Really awkward composition - could it be straightened up a bit? --Janke | Talk 09:20, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Not without cropping. As I said, there's very few images of her, and this is probably the widest used by quite a bit.

  FPs. 09:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply

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  Of course. But is her right hand really necessary, and the empty space on her left? And is there some unnecessary space above her head? Cropped, it would still meet minimum size... --Janke | Talk 17:16, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  If you want to try, feel free to make an Alt, but I'm not really getting much I'd consider unambiguously better, and, given the preference for full images at FPC, I think you need unambiguous.

  FPs. 18:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply

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• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:44, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. MER-C 16:46, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 14:50, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 07:46, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – Yann (talk) 20:33, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]