Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alaska Purchase

Alaska Purchase
Voting period ends on 10 Jul 2013 at 12:22:33 (UTC)
 * Reason:Highly significant document, high resolution, quality scan, well-used
 * Articles in which this image appears:Alaska Purchase, History of Alaska, Russian America, 1867
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/History/USA History
 * Creator:Signed by Edouard de Stoeckl and William H. Seward (if I'm not mistaken), scan by US Government


 * Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The Strongest Support --g. balaxaZe ႫႨႼႤႰႠ 12:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Tomer T (talk) 14:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Nice scan of an important document in U.S. history. Indefatigable2 (talk) 16:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * question Why is it trapezoid?Geni (talk) 19:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak support Nice. Sort of had the same thought as Geni, but I'm not sure what the circumstances are. Unrelated to my vote, wouldn't mind if redlinks in description would be corrected (not exactly sure they're needed either). – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 20:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I feel the 'trapezoid' impression may be due to some natural curling of the document. Indefatigable2 (talk) 20:30, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * That was my impression as well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW: Links removed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Trapezoidal is generally due to either A. uneven shrinkage as paper dries out or B. not lying flat, since noone will press a one-of-a-kind ancient document down just to make it flatter. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment Is the back side of the document available? Brandmeistertalk  10:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Not in the sources I've seen (I went to the Archive's website [what a mess] and didn't find anything either) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Good scan of historical document. -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  23:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 12:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)