Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes
Voting period ends on 4 Oct 2010 at 03:59:17 (UTC)
 * Reason:Very good quality image of him. Taken by famous photographer Mathew Brady
 * Articles in which this image appears:Rutherford B. Hayes, List of Governors of Ohio, Electoral Commission (United States), List of American Civil War generals, 1876 Republican National Convention
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Political
 * Creator:Mathew Brady


 * Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 03:59, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Great quality photograph. Meets all criteria. - Darwinek (talk) 11:59, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support with questions on FPC standards. Reagan is dead and his official portrait is featured. Obama is alive and his official portrait was shot down but is a Valued pic, while we feature this far lower quality, far less-well lit picture simply because it's "real". If we're going to feature this lets just get it over with and feature all 38 dead presidential portraits (43 unique presidents by not counting Cleveland twice, minus Carter/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama). High quality photographs that perfectly display the subject are, in my opinion, of featured quality regardless of being staged or not. And if they're dead (like Reagan) you can't make the "but we could get a better quality 'real' photo" that seems to have been made with Obama. Staxringold talkcontribs 16:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This is an edit, if that means anything to you.  upstate NYer  00:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Just a side note: There are only 38 presidents who have taken a picture the other have paintings(even thought i know you dont mean picture). Just something to know. Spongie555 (talk) 02:27, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a superior photograph to the Obama official portrait. The Obama picture cuts off his shoulder in an awkward way (in order to give more prominence to the flag, which might add to the picture's political value but not its aesthetic or historical value); this one is better composed.  This is why we consider individual photographs separately, rather than in batches.  Support. Chick Bowen 22:56, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Seems to be about as good as can be expected for its age. High EV.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:37, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I'll support too.  upstate NYer  01:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 08:53, 4 October 2010 (UTC)