Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandow returns

Sandow returns!
Voting period ends on 12 Mar 2015  at 17:55:26 (UTC)
 * Reason:I was looking over the rearranged article after the Eugen Sandow photograph passed, and saw this. Colours looked slightly off, so I jumped through and had a look. It turned out to be small and made from an early Library of Congress scan, and those could have poor colour fidelity, so I was willing to leave it be...

...Except that it also turned out that the LoC had since made a good version available, and it wasn't too big of a task to fix it. Useful to have an advertising poster. Adds some information to the article - he toured, he was popular, he did the act advertised, he was promoted by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. - in a simple, attractive way.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Eugen Sandow, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (the latter just now, replacing a deleted image)
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Entertainment
 * Creator:Strobridge Lithographic Co.; restoration by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:55, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Sandow's club. Hafspajen (talk) 15:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support  --Jobas (talk) 01:06, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Excellent work on the restoration; good EV. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 20:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose. No doubt a good restoration, but I don't find the image itself to be special enough to be featured. The resolution is okay, but sharpness is fairly poor. We have much better posters. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  21:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That's more a critique of the original lithograph, done on the cheap, though: A lot of these ephemeral posters look about like this, but I don't think there's a better one for the Ziegfeld promotion of the Trocadero club, or for this phase of Sandow's career. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:56, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Oh, what the heck. I saw the same problems Diliff pointed out (hence my late !vote), but what can I say... I've got a soft spot for corniness. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 'Corniness meaning: Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental ?Hafspajen (talk) 11:24, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Cf hokey, cheesy. Sca (talk) 15:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality Hafspajen (talk) 13:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 18:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)