Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kalākaua

Kalākaua
Voting period ends on 15 Jul 2010 at 15:31:04 (UTC)
 * Reason:Photo, showing the last Hawaiian monarch in the official attire with good resolution
 * Articles in which this image appears:Kalākaua, Hawaii and many others
 * FP category for this image:People
 * Creator: Uncredited, kept in the Hawai'i State Archives


 * Support as nominator -- Twilight chill t   15:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: The EV is clear; this has a real chance. However, the image is scratched, dirty and noisy. It would really benefit from some restoration. J Milburn (talk) 15:40, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * So far I have little time for restoration. Could someone else please? Twilight chill  t   16:49, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment The contrast and brightness is so far off, it isn’t close to being ready for consideration. And these things are very easy to fix. I’m just gonna fix it and replace this one with the new one. I’ll keep a copy of the old one just in case someone has a coronary. Greg L (talk) 18:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Done. Only the contrast, range, and brightness. Optimized for well-adjusted monitors. I didn’t horse around with dust & scratches. Let’s see what others think of this picture’s potential before anyone addresses that. Greg L (talk) 18:08, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a good start, but I don't feel it's quite enough, yet. It just needs some of the dust and scratches cleaning out. J Milburn (talk) 23:49, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Let’s see if we can get one or two more editors who think this is FP material if the dust & scratches are fixed. It took me only 7 minutes to fix the contrast and brightness, re-upload the image, and come here and post that I did so. Dust & scratches typically takes much longer—for me, anyway. I’ll volunteer if no one else steps up to the plate first. Greg L (talk) 02:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Considering it is a historical shot I think the scratches and the dust while not strictly necessary do not entirely degrade from the piece and it has very high EV. I would not object to it being suspended for restoration though. Cat-five - talk 04:53, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support That took only 25 minutes to digitally clean the image of dust. Plus 15 minutes horsing around on Commons because the template-based content generator didn’t work for me for some reason. Greg L (talk) 05:22, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Template-based content generator? Gut Monk (talk) 16:56, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * On Commons, one is stepped through a process where you are eventually taken to a template that makes the violet-colored (“Description”, “Date” biz). One is supposed to fill in some blanks with one’s username, etc. I probably wasn’t careful and accidentally made two fields into a single, nonsense thing the template couldn’t parse. Instead of getting nice tabular colored fields, I had a data-ralph that looked like this. Greg L (talk) 04:15, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * For whatever reason I always find those Commons templates incredibly too long-winded and restrictive, so bypass them to do it manually in a fraction of the time. --jjron (talk) 17:24, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support cleaned. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:35, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support although I was the one who uploaded from the Hawaii archives last week. And looking at the original original, its contrast was not so bad. So something I did in my upload must have made it worse. Maybe my monitor was badly adjusted. Why not just put the dust cleared version into the old name, so the articles pick that one up? Anyone who wants the old media can still get back the older version. Right now the articles are using the dusty variant. But to be clear, he was not the last monarch; that was Queen Lili'uokalani, his sister. He was the last ruling King. W Nowicki (talk) 18:41, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * After this FPC is finished, we can do as you propose and upgrade the original. Greg L (talk) 02:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, forgot that, but the caption is correct anyway, that's more important. Twilight chill  t   21:59, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, and the diacritic is corect in the caption too (long "a"). Looks like someone changed all the references to add the "dust" suffix to the articles? Is that the usual policy? Anyway, maybe this will motivate someone to improve the article too, it needs some work. W Nowicki (talk) 21:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

-- Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 15:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)