Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini

 * Reason:Best portrait of Houdini "at work" in Wikipedia. 992 px tall, which is just a hair under the requirements.  There's some schmutz on the image, but this is a scan of an 1899 image.
 * Articles this image appears in:Harry Houdini, Escapology, Hungarian American
 * Creator:Uploader: en:User:IMeowbot 2006-05-02 02:21:00. Date 1899 ca.

MER-C 07:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator &mdash; Spikebrennan 03:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * oppose obvious jpeg compression artifacts ... and size. Debivort 04:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * comment yes the nominated image is very poor quality, bad compression artifacts, as a courtesy I uploaded a better version from the Library of Congress but it is flipped, maybe that is the correct orientation, difficult to tell. Still the resolution is not much better, but it's not suffering from compression artifacts. Bleh999 07:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Most of the results of a GIS for "houdini" show his part on the left side of his head, so I believe the LOC version is the correct orientation. --TotoBaggins 18:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Good for the Houdini article, but I see no point in featuring it. --Dschwen 11:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Either this image or the rolled-up-sleeve version is the most famous depiction of Houdini, but either way, we need a higher-quality version. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2007-07-03 14:15Z