Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/El Capitan

El Capitan

 * Reason:An amusing, cartoonish poster from its original run, which gives a good flavour of what the production would have been like. Eye-catching and interesting. The original image, pre-restoration, can be seen at File:John_Phillip_Sousa_-_De_Wolf_Hopper_-_El_Capitan_unrestored.png - given the aspect ratios, I think that I'd best just link.
 * Articles this image appears in:El Capitan (operetta), DeWolf Hopper. (John Phillip Sousa used a different image already, and I decided to leave it to the editors there what to do)
 * Creator:Metropolitan Job Print, 222 West 26th St., New York, NY.


 * Support either as nominator --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 19:40, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Submitted an alternate version. Recusing from reviewing.  Durova Charge! 23:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I much prefer the colour balance of the alternative, but I noticed that the lettering (particularly on the top right corner but also patches elsewhere) seems a bit faded in parts and that doesn't seem to be the case on the original. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 00:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Luckily, that's very easy to fix. I've gone ahead and done it, and just uploaded over Durova's, as it's a minor and very localised change. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 00:28, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support original - Both are FP quality, but there's something (I don't know) about the first one that's more appealing. X clamation point  02:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Alternate 1, Oppose original. It looks much better with the colors corrected. Kaldari (talk) 00:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Technically it's pretty good (perhaps a little lower res than other's you've submitted but not materially so) but I just don't see much EV in a poster for an opera. If this was illustrating some aspect of Poster I'd support. I'd like to have seen a shot of the actual production in full swing - perhaps something from the upcoming 2009 production --Fir0002 10:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support alt1. Good quality, I like the second one better.  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 02:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support either: great quality and I think it has good ev. That guy looks scary!   Mae din \talk 19:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose per Fir. I just don't think the EV is high enough. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ...But it's from the original production? Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 01:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah I know but still... a poster is just a piece of advertisment and does not, IMO, illustrate the subject at all. As mentioned above I would much prefer to see a photo of the 2009 production in action --Fir0002 23:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 02:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Alternate 1. Per nom. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 08:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)