Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Leeedit.jpg

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Delist: Leeedit.jpg

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Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Reason
Compared even with other Civil War era photographs, this image appears to have a number of issues both in terms of brightness and in focus. There are several other images of Lee around, and I have to think that if a restorer of Adam Cuerden's caliber were to work on one, we'd be able to turn this from a delist to a delist and replace
Articles this image appears in
Military of the Confederate States of America, List of United States Military Academy alumni, and Confederate States of America
Previous nomination/s
Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Robert_E._Lee
Nominator
Wha?
  • The low resolution is due to the scan of the image not the source material itself. Mattximus (talk) 21:18, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • This image isn't just a little bit off, it's bad. It was either bad when it was taken, bad when it was developed, or did not age well before being digitized, but the issues are too severe for the "but this is really old" clause. There are plenty of civil-war era images that are fundamentally sound, to which that clause can be considered. This isn't one of them.
    Wha? 02:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Delisted --Armbrust The Homunculus 23:32, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]