Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

 * Reason:Yesterday an editor sent a friendly reminder that next month is the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. So it would be good to have a featured picture to run for the main page.  Restored version of File:Darwin unrestored.jpg.
 * Articles this image appears in:Charles Darwin, Rotogravure, Darwin from Insectivorous plants to Worms
 * Creator:Elliott & Fry

--Noodle snacks (talk) 06:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator -- Durova Charge! 00:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't suppose a good quality version of this portrait is available anywhere? It is the one I seem to associate with Darwin, and prefer in general. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * This was the best quality original I was able to locate. Unfortunately the British archives aren't as Internet-friendly as their American counterparts.  Durova Charge! 02:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. It does what a good portrait should, and in this restored version it's the best Darwin photo available on the internet from a technical and printability standpoint.  (I've replaced an inferior version of the same photo in Elliott & Fry with this one.)--ragesoss (talk) 02:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support I agree with the above; it's good from technical and informational standards.    Sophus Bie  (talk) 14:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Unfortunately these Darwin photos are strangely hard to source. Certainly this is not my favourite either, in fact I probably prefer the one that failed this nomination a few months back, but support nonetheless. As I said then, we can delist and replace if we get a better one. --jjron (talk) 11:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW, assuming this is promoted, I second fast-tracking it as POTD for 12 Feb, or alternatively it could be used for 24 November, the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species. --jjron (talk) 16:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per above Noodle snacks (talk) 13:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support for its EV, despite being against his theories --Muhammad (talk) 16:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment LoL. -- kallerna 22:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Nothing wrong with that...some of his theories were WAY out there (and got much less publicity).
 * Support  Spencer T♦C 15:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as a really nice portrait with a high quality that's not available on most of the portraits available to us, showing his eyes and expression well at a late stage in his life. . . dave souza, talk 21:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Support His face has incredible character in this photograph. Pastor Theo (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)