Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nighthawks

Nighthawks
Voting period ends on 4 Aug 2014  at 18:45:57 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality scan of a painting with high EV.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Nighthawks (most EV), Night in paintings (Western art), Visual art of the United States, +5 others
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Edward Hopper


 * Support as nominator – Armbrust The Homunculus 18:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -- Coat of Many Colours (talk) 19:04, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Very nice scan. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:05, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not a "scan" is it? It's a digital image and the file description just gives the source as "email". I don't think that's very satisfactory. It does look like the museum image (realistically it's certainly the museum image because it's virtually impossible to copy colour values with such fidelity), though not immediately apparent its rights managed high resolution version, which is still larger. Nevertheless it's most likely a reduced version of it. No copyright issues in the US, but indeed contractual issues which uploaders of these images ought to be aware of, especially as it would be routine to add a digital signature to the image identifying the purchaser. I mean I have dozens and dozens of such images from the British Museum, but I wouldn't dream of uploading them to Wikipedia, though I do occasionally their publicly available images. Not sure if Wikipedia has any liability in such cases. I think it probably must have if it's knowingly hosting these images. That would seem plausible to me. As of course would presumably the admins overseeing the forum here. I do think there should be a policy about sources here. They should be transparent. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 11:42, 26 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Support on AGF basis that the email source is authentic. However, here, here, here and here the painting looks less greenish. Brandmeistertalk  12:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support A classic. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Mdann 52   talk to me!  10:19, 5 August 2014 (UTC)