Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Surb Karapet Monastery

Surb Karapet Monastery
Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2015  at 01:56:46 (UTC)
 * Reason:High resolution photo of an important destroyed monastery.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Surb Karapet Monastery
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Vartan A. Hampikian (retouched by User:MjolnirPants)


 * Support as nominator – Ե րևանցի  talk  01:56, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comments First of all, odd thumbnailer bug: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Surb_Karapet_Monastery_Hampikian_LoC.png/1270px-Surb_Karapet_Monastery_Hampikian_LoC.png - I was going to ask what had happened to the image, then I saw: nothing, the thumbnailer just added lines. Secondly, while uploading as PNG is a really good idea, another bug with Wikipedia's thumbnailing means a JPEG should also be uploaded, for better thumbnails. As for the image itself: it's a nice find, but I'm a little uncomfortable throwing out so much, but I can see that as reasonable... but we should probably cut some sky as well to balance it out, particularly given the white something lowering into the picture on the right. I think the copyright checks out: Photograph had to be taken before the 1915 destruction of the monastery... But I would like an explanation of that "no known restrictions on publication" the LoC puts up. Was it also published before 1923, or was it simply not renewed? Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Jobas (talk) 16:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 02:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)