Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harrisburg, Illinois Skyline

Harrisburg, Illinois


Reason High quality, 40x zoom, sharp interesting view of the Harrisburg, Illinois business district, taken from the Harrisburg Levee. This is the best location to shoot the downtown area and really captures the extent of flood risks to the city.



Reason High quality view of Main Street in 1910 in Harrisburg, Illinois. Harrisburg was the leading bituminous coal mining distribution hub of the American Midwest between 1900 and 1937. West Side of the Harrisburg Square. Only one building in this picture remains.

Articles in which this image appears Harrisburg, Illinois

Creator Ruhe1986 photographer is unknown.


 * Support as nominator --Ruhe1986 (talk) 09:58, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Pretty heavy blurring (not sure what's caused that) and it's really not clear what I am looking at. This isn't really a "skyline" shot. J Milburn (talk) 10:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per J Milburn, plus "modern" picture too dark, very scruffy composition (mast cut off, parts of trees obscuring photograph etc. Plus no way of knowing if the two photographs are of the same bit of Illinois as photographs are taken from diff places. Also with older picture would be useful to know WHICH building still remains and link it to the modern picture for EV. And if the building isn't in the modern picture why mention it? Gazhiley (talk) 12:30, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Creator The second picture is on Main Street viewed south from Locust. Yes, they are the same town. The second street that crosses main in the picture from the camera is Poplar St. That's the highway in the first picture. Would you like a map? Try Google streetview. The only picture remaining in the photograph is the building on the corner of Poplar and Main. The others have been razed due to a lack of a main street preservation district.Ruhe1986 (talk) 20:20, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your update - but if they are not of the same street what's the significance of them being nom'd together? My first assumtion when I see this nom is that this is a "before and after" style picture... Surely each picture would be best off in its own nom if they are unconnected other than being the same city? My other comments still stand too so I'll continue my oppose... Gazhiley (talk) 12:08, 19 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Can you annotate it on Commons? If the "Add a note" button does not appear there, you need to enable JavaScript. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 17:10, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 03:31, 24 April 2010 (UTC)