Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:The First Telegraph.jpg

First Telegraph





 * Reason:Important historical technical document
 * Articles this image appears in:Electrical telegraph, Telegraphy, American Morse code
 * Creator:Samuel F. B. Morse (1844)


 * Support as nominator &mdash; Spikebrennan 22:11, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
 * comment - kinda neat at full size, but the thumb is pretty pathetic... Don't know if anything can be done about that. Would support if we can get a zoomed in scrolling version. Debivort 04:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Pop in some wiki code and you're set. Jumping   cheese  06:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * How's this? It can be modified/adjusted easily enough. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2007-06-28 18:38Z
 * Or use the template, but either is fine. Oh...and Support. Very encyclopedic and historical pic. Great quality for such an old subject.  Jumping   cheese  03:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - It's shocking how beautiful the penmanship on the "indited" message is. Morse must have been going s ... l ... o ... w.  --TotoBaggins 13:45, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * You can see what look like rough versions (in pencil maybe) underneath the fancy lettering. It looks like the first draft wasn't as pretty. Debivort 20:25, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Support --Fir0002 02:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong support. Historic, encyclopedic and good quality.--Svetovid 15:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Excellent, very historic. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2007-06-28 18:38Z
 * Support, I like it. 8thstar 18:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose - wonderful encyclopaedic value, but awful technical quality. Full of JPG artifacts, and it would be nice if it was a little higher res vertically. E9   T4   A8  . I've also expanded the div containing the image above, but I've used a relative measure (percent not pixels, vector not absolute) to specify its width so it scales for those running at higher and lower resolutions. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 18:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong support. The paper wasn't straight when it was originally photographed, so I'd say it's accurately preserved here. Stitching is very well done if you look at the top/bottom edges.-DMCer 07:15, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Supoort - The historical importance of the image outweighs the technical issues in my opinion. Supaluminal 03:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 08:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)