Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2013 at 15:59:27 (UTC)

Reason

We already have as a featured picture the facsimile version, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Us_declaration_independence.jpg however, I felt it would be prudent to feature this high resolution scan of the actual document as well, provided by the

National Archives

. Perhaps we could place them together in a two-picture set.

Articles in which this image appears

Thomas Jefferson and religion, United States Declaration of Independence

FP category for this image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/USA_History

Creator

Scanned by the

National Archives

• Support as nominator --Indefatigable2 (talk) 15:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Holy mother of... support - Wow. Just... wow. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Happy Suppourth of July. By the way, previous nomination is here. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 09:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support May be faded an illegible, but the sheer EV of this document is much too great to not support. Dusty777 16:32, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose We already have a featured version (File:Us declaration independence.jpg). --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:09, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: That FP is not a scan of the original, but is the version most used in WP. We should D&R. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree on D&R. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 12:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Rethinking after reading Tomer's comments below. They do show different things. I removed my oppose vote. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 14:05, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose really hard to read anything, as opposed to the current FP. Tomer T (talk) 19:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Except, you know, this is the actual document as opposed to a facsimile version. That makes it have much more EV. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:41, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Well, I disagree. Seeing the texture of the document is really negligible to me compared with the ability to read the original handwriting. But actually, they both have high EV - of different kinds (this one shows the texture, current FP shows the handwriting). So I removed the oppose vote, and I disagree that only one pictrue should be featured. Tomer T (talk) 10:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Support For original historical documents, yay! — raekyt 22:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:USA declaration independence.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]