Template:Did you know nominations/Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville

Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville

 * ... that Commander de Fréminville (pictured) was not only a keen explorer, zoologist and archeologist, but also an overt cross-dresser who authored a book exhalting female clothes?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Columbicola extinctus

Created by Rama (talk). Self nominated at 13:34, 17 April 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Recent, long enough, no copyvio detected. I have to AGF on the citation for the hook, since a) I suck at French, and b) the firewall on this PC won't allow me to view the text of the source - from what I can see, though, it looks legit. The hook itself is interesting and eye-catching, and meets the length requirements.
 * I've got some slight concerns over the image in the article - it seems a little unlikely that a Wikipedia editor could have painted a portrait of a person who died in 1848, so I think the licensing may need looking at (it's more likely to be public domain). The file is on Commons, though, so this should be addressed there. Until that's sorted out, the image shouldn't really be in the article.
 * No QPQ review? If you've done fewer than five DYKs then it's not obligatory (although it's nice if you do!), but you should pop a note up there to point this out. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  11:53, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thank you for the input.
 * I have wondered about the image myself, and actually asked the uploader, but he hasn't answered yet. However, I have noticed that the portrait on Commons is a colour version of the portrait that features at the beginning of the Mémoires du chevalier de Fréminville . I assume that the uploader has a different edition of the book in which the portrait is in colour.
 * Eugène Herpin died in 1942, so his works have just come into the Public Domain. It is plausible that he painted the portrait himself, though not absolutely certain.
 * Thank you for reminding me QPQ reviews, I'll look into it and egularise my position. Cheers! Rama (talk) 16:16, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Please resolve the image issue within the next few days. Otherwise we will have to delist this nomination, which would be a pity. —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  07:45, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You appreciation is very kind. Yes, this nommination had somehow slipped out of my mind. My question to Even75, the contributor of the image, has been unanswered, so the safest approch is probably to drop the image altogether. This would change the nommination into
 * ... that Commander de Fréminville was not only a keen explorer, zoologist and archeologist, but also an overt cross-dresser who authored a book exhalting female clothes?
 * without an image. Should I remove the image from the article as well to be on the safe side? Cheers! Rama (talk) 11:15, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * According to DYK policy, all images in the article should adhere to the policy. If you drop the image from both the hook and the article, I guess this article is ready. —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  12:25, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, done. THank you and cheers! Rama (talk) 14:01, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

As promised!  —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  20:56, 5 May 2013 (UTC)