Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/American Gothic

American Gothic D&R
Voting period ends on 12 Jan 2013 at 19:18:30 (UTC)
 * Reason:Delist & Replace: Significantly higher quality version sourced through Google Art Project.
 * Articles this image appears in:MANY
 * Previous nomination/s:Featured picture candidates/American Gothic
 * Nominator: — raeky  t


 * D&R &mdash; — raeky  t  19:18, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Google art version is significantly darker and yellower. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:16, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's also cropped a little tighter at the bottom. Chick Bowen 04:45, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I donno, I think the tiny loss of a bit of the bottom from a crop is more than made up for by the 2.6x more resolution. My understanding is that the Google Art project is an attempt to fairly faithfully represent these artworks, and it's probably a better representation than the older and what looks to be overly whitebalanced version that the old FP is. The women's collar looks like it's completely blown out. From seeing this panting in person I kinda think the Google Art version is a better representation. Also the version on the museum's website clearly shows the Google Art color scheme (although it MAY be the exact same image..) On the other hand photographs of it on Flickr seem to be more white then the yellowish on the museum's website. My opinion is that the museum's color scheme for it is probably enough authority to trust that they're representing it best they can, and we shouldn't except more. The old FP though is really low quality in comparison to this one, so either it's a replace or straight up delist imho. — raeky  t  06:01, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, often colours of images of paintings on Flickr will be somewhat distorted because they're using auto WB and it tends to adjust towards blue on yellowish objects. If you compare Flickr photos of the Mona Lisa to the C2RMF version this is very clear (that doesn't stop people from constantly trying to retouch it be less yellow than it really is). In my experience Google's images tend to be more colour-accurate, at least the scans they do themselves, because they seem to have a controlled lighting setup. Dcoetzee 12:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep original. Have to say that I prefer the lighting/color in the original (as well as the crop). Not sure which is more accurate though. Kaldari (talk) 10:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * D&R I don't like the WB of the original (too blue). I think the Google version is an accurate reproduction. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:20, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * D&R. Per all above. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:06, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * D&R per nom. Brandmeistertalk  18:36, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * D&R Jujutacular (talk) 00:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

with File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:19, 12 January 2013 (UTC)