Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ravish Armenia Full Length Movie

Ravished Armenia Full Length Film
Voting period ends on 29 Oct 2014  at 19:27:16 (UTC)


 * Reason:The quality may not be perfect since it's a movie of about 100 years old but it is exceptionally high in terms of EV. Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, is an American film based on the autobiographical book Ravished Armenia by Aurora Mardiganian, who also played the lead role in the film. The movie has been digitally remastered and provides a historical pretext to the Armenian Genocide and of the movie itself. This is a full length movie and is of great historical significance. Also, it appears the the movie is of better quality when played directly from commons. If there's a way we can align it with commons that'll be great.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Ravished Armenia (film), Armenian Genocide
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
 * Creator:American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief


 * Support as nominator – Étienne Dolet (talk) 19:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -- Marinka van Dam (talk) 22:08, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Vote from sock puppet violating a block has been removed. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:32, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - I believe Archive.org has a higher resolution version of this film. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:42, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I think it's the best format available. There are other formats available, however we need to keep in mind the 100 mb limit in Wikimedia Commons. Unless you can a good idea on picking out a better quality version. I'd love to here it. Étienne Dolet (talk) 04:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * There have been ways around the 100mb limit for more than two years. The current limit is 1 gig, if you're using batched uploads. I've nominated several files of more than 100mb already. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:19, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Looking at this, I don't see how this can be PD. The captions are clearly not original to the film, and the score can't be either. The first two minutes is an explanatory crawl clearly written for the 2009 restoration. All of these can be copyrighted by the restorationist. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I disagree and this topic discussion must take place at commons. Étienne Dolet (talk) 01:01, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I never said it shouldn't, but the voters here have the right to know that there may be copyright issues. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose as a likely (though inadvertent) copyright violation. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:30, 29 October 2014 (UTC)