Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/King John

King John

 * Reason:A very high resolution scan of an A3 engraving. Plus, you know, Shakespeare =) It's a very big, detailed image, and so may not thumbnail at 250px ideally, but it has the quality and detail there.

Anyway, I think this is a great image, and I think it probably meets the desired resolution.
 * Articles this image appears in:King John. Could probably go into others.
 * Creator:Let's call it The Illustrated London News: It's otherwise completely uncredited, with no artist mentioned in the description, nor any obvious signature (from past experience, I've learned that they can be surprisingly well hidden sometimes, so I'm not going to say no signature until some other people have looked).


 * Support as nominator --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 17:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Very nice but jesus it's big.  The real thing is making my 10MB connection reminiscent of dialup and is too large to be useful to view.  The .png gives this "Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters or image file with more than 12.5 million pixels".  I think we really need a smaller version if someone is able to make one satisfactorily.
 * Support - despite the size issues I like the image, it would be good in other articles also - looking to put in Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - due to its' historical illustration.
 * Question also- do large images such as this knacker the server in processing thumbnails? |→ Spaully₪† 21:37, 8 April 2009 (GMT)
 * I've implemented a couple solutions: I lowered the quality slider on the JPEG slightly, shaving off 18 meg, and also uploaded a slightly smaller alternative version (linked from the image description page). This engraving just doesn't compress very well under JPEG, but I've done what I could. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 18:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That makes it easier to view, and I see what you mean about compression as there is a slight difference at full zoom. This ties in with the FP size discussion on the talk page, it would be an ideal picture for there to be several size options.  Thanks for the consideration. |→ Spaully₪† 14:27, 10 April 2009 (GMT)
 * I'd love to have an automated viewer added to all such pages for different sizes. It would make things a lot easier. As for the Drury Lane Theatre - I was eyeing that article, but the layout's a bit messy already, and I didn't want to risk making things worse or overruling the regulars by swapping images around. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support ~75 megapixels is pretty massive! Noodle snacks (talk) 13:54, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support GerardM (talk) 19:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 02:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)